BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on May 25.

Everyone born on May 25 is a Gemini — ruled by Mercury, two opinions, both sincere. The stone is emerald, the flower lily of the valley, and the day is shared with Octavia Spencer and Alastair Campbell.

Gemini, the Twins — an engraving
Sun sign
Gemini ♊︎
the Twins · ruled by Mercury · two opinions, both sincere
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 25? 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

Gemini, May 21 to June 20.

The Twins, ruled by Mercury, the messenger — and so the books give the sign to talkers, writers, the quick and the curious. An air sign, credited with wit and adaptability and blamed for changing its mind, which its people would call keeping up. Two of everything: two opinions, two projects, two friends who have never met. The tradition finds it charming and slightly exhausting, in that order.

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

Good company

Also born on May 25.

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

1970
Octavia Spencer
American author and actress
1957
Alastair Campbell
English author and journalist
1803
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American poet and philosopher
1976
Cillian Murphy
Irish actor
1939
Ian McKellen
English actor
1969
Anne Heche
American actress
1887
Padre Pio
Italian priest and saint
1999
Ibrahima Konaté
French footballer

On this day

What May 25 has seen.

It is International Missing Children's Day.

1644Ming–Qing transition: Ming general Wu Sangui allowed the invading Manchu to cross the Great Wall of China, enabling them to capture Beijing and establish the Qing dynasty.
1816The poems Kubla Khan and Christabel by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge were published.
1961A fire broke out at a squatter settlement in Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore, rendering approximately 16,000 people homeless.
2011The final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated daytime talk show in U.S. television history, hosted by Oprah Winfrey, was broadcast.

The calendar

When May 25 falls.

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