BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on January 5.

Everyone born on January 5 is a Capricorn — ruled by Saturn, will outwork you, quietly. The stone is garnet, the flower carnation, and the day is shared with Suki Waterhouse and Hayao Miyazaki.

Capricorn, the Sea-Goat — an engraving
Sun sign
Capricorn ♑︎
the Sea-Goat · ruled by Saturn · will outwork you, quietly
Garnet, the birthstone for January — an engraving
Birthstone
Garnet
January
Carnation, the birth flower for January — an engraving
Birth flower
Carnation
& snowdrop

Your book

Born on January 5? Add the year.

Then it is a pop-up book: the sky the day you arrived, the No. 1 that week, the president, what a stamp cost, your life in weeks, and who was exactly your age when they did the thing they are known for — and at the end, a birthday poster of the day, engraved, to take home. One field. The date lives after the # in the link, which no server sees — nothing about you leaves your browser.

Making it for someone else? Send it as a pop-up birthday card.

The old books say

Capricorn, December 22 to January 19.

The Sea-Goat, ruled by Saturn, the taskmaster, and the books make it the sign of the long game — the climb, the plan, the thing built to last. An earth sign, credited with discipline, dry humour and an old head on young shoulders that grows into itself around forty. Its people are said to arrive late to their own success and stay. The tradition respects Capricorn the way one respects a well-kept ledger.

Astrology, reported rather than endorsed — the astronomy is the part of the book that is real.

Good company

Also born on January 5.

The names most looked up among everyone who shares the day — leaning on the ones who last.

1992
Suki Waterhouse
English actress and singer-songwriter
1941
Hayao Miyazaki
Japanese director and animator
1975
Bradley Cooper
American actor and producer
1931
Robert Duvall
American director and actor
1932
Umberto Eco
Italian novelist and philosopher
1946
Diane Keaton
American director and actress
1893
Paramahansa Yogananda
Indian-American philosopher and guru
1959
Clancy Brown
American actor

On this day

What January 5 has seen.

It is Twelfth Night (Western Christianity).

1675Franco-Dutch War: French troops defeated Austrian and Brandenburg forces at the Battle of Turckheim in Alsace.
1925Nellie Tayloe Ross was inaugurated as Governor of Wyoming, the first woman to serve as the governor of a U.S. state.
1991The embassy of the United States to Somalia was evacuated by helicopter airlift days after violence enveloped Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War.

The calendar

When January 5 falls.

A Monday in 2026, a Tuesday in 2027, a Wednesday in 2028, a Friday in 2029, and a Saturday in 2030.