BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on May 30.

Everyone born on May 30 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 Marie Fredriksson and Tom Morello.

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 30? 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 30.

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

1958
Marie Fredriksson
Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist
1964
Tom Morello
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971
Idina Menzel
American singer-songwriter and actress
1814
Mikhail Bakunin
Russian philosopher and theorist
1980
Steven Gerrard
English international footballer and manager
1955
Colm Tóibín
Irish novelist and poet
1931
Larry Silverstein
American real estate magnate
1997
Charlie Hall
American actor

On this day

What May 30 has seen.

It is Feast day of Saint Joan of Arc (Catholicism, Anglicanism).

1536Jane Seymour, a former lady-in-waiting, married King Henry VIII, becoming the queen consort of England.
1866Bedřich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride (cover of score pictured) premiered in Prague.
1959The Auckland Harbour Bridge officially opened, connecting the suburbs of Saint Marys Bay and Northcote in Auckland, New Zealand, across Waitematā Harbour.
2005American student Natalee Holloway disappeared on a high-school graduation trip to Aruba.

The calendar

When May 30 falls.

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