BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on March 12.

Everyone born on March 12 is a Pisces — ruled by Neptune, somewhere else, mostly. The stone is aquamarine, the flower daffodil, and the day is shared with Jack Kerouac and Marlon Jackson.

Pisces, the Fish — an engraving
Sun sign
Pisces ♓︎
the Fish · ruled by Neptune · somewhere else, mostly
Aquamarine, the birthstone for March — an engraving
Birthstone
Aquamarine
March
Daffodil, the birth flower for March — an engraving
Birth flower
Daffodil
& jonquil

Your book

Born on March 12? 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

Pisces, February 19 to March 20.

The Fishes, two of them, swimming opposite ways — the books make the sign of the last sign, carrying a little of all the others. Ruled by Jupiter of old and Neptune since, a water sign, credited with imagination, empathy and a porous border between itself and everyone else. Its people are said to feel the room before they enter it. The tradition gives Pisces the artists and the dreamers, and asks them please to remember where they parked.

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

Good company

Also born on March 12.

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

1922
Jack Kerouac
American poet and author
1957
Marlon Jackson
American singer-songwriter and dancer
1970
Dave Eggers
American author and screenwriter
1969
Jake Tapper
American author and journalist
1948
James Taylor
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1960
Courtney B. Vance
American painter and actor
1946
Liza Minnelli
American actress and singer
1947
Mitt Romney
American businessman and politician

On this day

What March 12 has seen.

1088Odo of Châtillon was elected as the 159th pope of the Catholic Church.
1913At a ceremony at Kurrajong Hill, Lady Denman, wife of the governor-general Lord Denman, announced that the future capital of Australia would be called Canberra.
1940The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.

The calendar

When March 12 falls.

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