BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on May 19.

Everyone born on May 19 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 Malcolm X and Jojo Siwa.

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 19? 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 19.

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

1925
Malcolm X
American activist and minister
2003
Jojo Siwa
American singer and actress
1744
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
German-born Queen to George III of the United Kingdom
1934
Ruskin Bond
Indian poet and author
1979
Andrea Pirlo
Italian footballer
1992
Lainey Wilson
American singer-songwriter
1948
Grace Jones
Jamaican-American singer-songwriter and actress
1979
Diego Forlán
Uruguayan footballer

On this day

What May 19 has seen.

It is Pontian Greek Genocide Remembrance Day in Greece (1919).

715Gregory II began his pontificate; his conflict with Byzantine emperor Leo III eventually led to the establishment of the temporal power of the pope.
1655Anglo-Spanish War: English forces invaded Jamaica, then administered by Spain as the Colony of Santiago, and captured it a week later.
1674John III Sobieski was elected by the szlachta as the monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1776American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison west of Montreal surrendered to British troops at the Battle of the Cedars.
1991Breakup of Yugoslavia: With the local Serb population boycotting the referendum, Croatians voted in favour of independence from Yugoslavia.
2015A corroded pipeline near Refugio State Beach, California, spilled 142,800 gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto the Gaviota Coast.

The calendar

When May 19 falls.

A Tuesday in 2026, a Wednesday in 2027, a Friday in 2028, a Saturday in 2029, and a Sunday in 2030.