BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on March 16.

Everyone born on March 16 is a Pisces — ruled by Neptune, somewhere else, mostly. The stone is aquamarine, the flower daffodil, and the day is shared with Mark Carney and Josh Johnson.

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 16? 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 16.

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

1965
Mark Carney
Prime Minister of Canada
1990
Josh Johnson
American writer and comedian
1751
James Madison
4th President of the United States
1977
Mónica Cruz
Spanish actress and dancer
1986
Alexandra Daddario
American actress
1996
Ivan Toney
English footballer
1961
Todd McFarlane
Canadian author and illustrator
1967
Lauren Graham
American actress and producer

On this day

What March 16 has seen.

1621Samoset, a member of the Abenaki tribe, walked into Plymouth Colony and greeted the Pilgrims in English.
1960African American civil rights activists in Savannah, Georgia, conducted a sit-in, commencing the Savannah Protest Movement.
2002Sofia Gubaidulina's Johannes-Ostern was premiered in Hamburg, together with her Johannes-Passion, by soloists, choirs and orchestras from the Mariinsky Theatre and the NDR.

The calendar

When March 16 falls.

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