BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on May 14.

Everyone born on May 14 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 Robert Greene and Mark Zuckerberg.

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 14? 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 14.

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

1959
Robert Greene
American author and translator
1984
Mark Zuckerberg
American computer programmer and businessman
1944
George Lucas
American director and producer
1952
David Byrne
Scottish-American singer-songwriter and actor
1971
Sofia Coppola
American director and producer
1969
Cate Blanchett
Australian actress
1993
Miranda Cosgrove
American actress and singer
1952
Robert Zemeckis
American director and producer

On this day

What May 14 has seen.

It is Feast day of Saint Matthias (Catholicism).

1804Led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the Corps of Discovery left Camp Dubois near present-day Hartford, Illinois, to begin the first overland expedition to the West Coast of the United States and back.
1856Major Henry C. Wayne arrived in Indianola, Texas, with 34 camels to form the short-lived United States Camel Corps.
1868Boshin War: Troops of the Tokugawa shogunate withdrew from the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle and retreated north towards Nikkō and Aizu.
2008On the day of the UEFA Cup Final, violence erupted between football hooligan supporters of both teams and the Greater Manchester Police, resulting in 39 arrests and 39 injured officers.

The calendar

When May 14 falls.

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