BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on June 11.

Everyone born on June 11 is a Gemini — ruled by Mercury, two opinions, both sincere. The stone is pearl, the flower rose, and the day is shared with Unai Simón and Hugh Laurie.

Gemini, the Twins — an engraving
Sun sign
Gemini ♊︎
the Twins · ruled by Mercury · two opinions, both sincere
Pearl, the birthstone for June — an engraving
Birthstone
Pearl
June
Rose, the birth flower for June — an engraving
Birth flower
Rose
& honeysuckle

Your book

Born on June 11? 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

Gemini, May 21 to June 20.

The Twins, ruled by Mercury, the messenger — and so the books give the sign to talkers, writers, the quick and the curious. An air sign, credited with wit and adaptability and blamed for changing its mind, which its people would call keeping up. Two of everything: two opinions, two projects, two friends who have never met. The tradition finds it charming and slightly exhausting, in that order.

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

Good company

Also born on June 11.

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

1997
Unai Simón
Spanish footballer
1959
Hugh Laurie
English actor and screenwriter
1969
Peter Dinklage
American actor and producer
1977
Ryan Dunn
American stunt performer
1986
Shia LaBeouf
American actor
1910
Jacques Cousteau
French biologist and inventor
1960
Mehmet Oz
American author and surgeon
1978
Joshua Jackson
Canadian-American actor

On this day

What June 11 has seen.

806Arab–Byzantine wars: The Abbasid army departed Raqqa in northern Syria to begin an invasion of Byzantine-controlled Asia Minor.
1775The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War, commenced in and around the port of Machias in what is now eastern Maine.
1920During their national convention in Chicago, Republican Party leaders gathered in negotiations at The Blackstone Hotel to select their presidential candidate, leading to the phrase "smoke-filled room".
2008Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.

The calendar

When June 11 falls.

A Thursday in 2026, a Friday in 2027, a Sunday in 2028, a Monday in 2029, and a Tuesday in 2030.