BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on May 29.

Everyone born on May 29 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 John F. Kennedy and Danny Elfman.

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 29? 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 29.

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

1917
John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States
1953
Danny Elfman
American singer-songwriter and actor
1959
Rupert Everett
English novelist and actor
1958
Annette Bening
American actress
1874
G. K. Chesterton
English poet and playwright
1975
Mel B
English singer-songwriter and actress
1974
Aaron McGruder
American author and cartoonist
1989
Riley Keough
American actress and model

On this day

What May 29 has seen.

It is Feast day of Saint Paul VI (Catholicism).

1176Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines: Troops of the Lombard League defeated forces of the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Legnano in present-day Italy.
1851Sojourner Truth delivered her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech at the Woman's Rights Convention in Akron.
1953The mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1999President Olusegun Obasanjo took office as Nigeria's first elected and civilian head of state after 16 years of military dictatorship.

The calendar

When May 29 falls.

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