BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on May 13.

Everyone born on May 13 is a Taurus — ruled by Venus, immovable, and comfortable about it. The stone is emerald, the flower lily of the valley, and the day is shared with Samantha Morton and Robert Pattinson.

Taurus, the Bull — an engraving
Sun sign
Taurus ♉︎
the Bull · ruled by Venus · immovable, and comfortable about it
Emerald, the birthstone for May — an engraving
Birthstone
Emerald
May
Lily of the valley, the birth flower for May — an engraving
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
& hawthorn

Your book

Born on May 13? 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

Taurus, April 20 to May 20.

The Bull is ruled by Venus, and the books make it the sign of pleasure taken slowly — good food, good cloth, a chair that is exactly right. An earth sign, credited with patience, loyalty and a stubbornness so complete it stops looking like a fault and starts looking like a policy. Its people are said to be the ones you can lean on, provided you do not try to hurry them.

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

Good company

Also born on May 13.

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

1977
Samantha Morton
English director and actress
1986
Robert Pattinson
English actor
1993
Romelu Lukaku
Belgian footballer
1907
Daphne du Maurier
English novelist and playwright
1993
Morgan Wallen
American singer-songwriter
1950
Stevie Wonder
American singer-songwriter and pianist
1986
Lena Dunham
American director and actress
1922
Bea Arthur
American actress and singer

On this day

What May 13 has seen.

1110Baldwin I of Jerusalem captured Beirut from the Fatimid Caliphate with the help of a Genoese fleet.
1725Johann Sebastian Bach first performed the church cantata Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 183 in Leipzig, Germany.
1958The Australian adventurer Ben Carlin became the only person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 80,000 kilometres (50,000 miles) by land and sea.

The calendar

When May 13 falls.

A Wednesday in 2026, a Thursday in 2027, a Saturday in 2028, a Sunday in 2029, and a Monday in 2030.