BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on May 6.

Everyone born on May 6 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 George Clooney and Tony Blair.

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 6? 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 6.

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

1961
George Clooney
American director and actor
1953
Tony Blair
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1856
Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist and psychoanalyst
1937
Rubin Carter
American-Canadian boxer
1993
Naomi Scott
English actress and singer
2002
Cole Palmer
English footballer
1915
Orson Welles
American director and actor
1758
Maximilien Robespierre
French politician

On this day

What May 6 has seen.

1536Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Sapa Inca emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui's army began a ten-month siege of Cusco.
1757English poet Christopher Smart was admitted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement in mental asylums.
1801French Revolutionary Wars: The 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo was captured by the outmanned and outgunned.
1941American entertainer Bob Hope performed his first show with the United Service Organizations, beginning a 50-year involvement with them.
2023King Charles III and Queen Camilla were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.

The calendar

When May 6 falls.

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