BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on November 12.

Everyone born on November 12 is a Scorpio — ruled by Pluto, remembers everything. The stone is topaz, the flower chrysanthemum, and the day is shared with Anne Hathaway and Ryan Gosling.

Scorpio, the Scorpion — an engraving
Sun sign
Scorpio ♏︎
the Scorpion · ruled by Pluto · remembers everything
Topaz, the birthstone for November — an engraving
Birthstone
Topaz
November
Chrysanthemum, the birth flower for November — an engraving
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
& peony

Your book

Born on November 12? 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

Scorpio, October 23 to November 21.

The Scorpion, ruled by Mars in the old books and Pluto in the newer ones, which tells you the tradition could not agree on how to handle it. A water sign, credited with intensity, loyalty that runs to the bone, and a stare. Its people are said to keep secrets well — their own and yours — and to forgive nothing and forget less. The books call it magnetic, from a safe distance.

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

Good company

Also born on November 12.

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

1982
Anne Hathaway
American actress
1980
Ryan Gosling
Canadian actor and singer
1945
Neil Young
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1866
Sun Yat-sen
Chinese physician and politician
1929
Grace Kelly
American actress and later Princess Grace of Monaco
1962
Naomi Wolf
American author and journalist
1958
Megan Mullally
American actress and singer
1998
Jules Koundé
French footballer

On this day

What November 12 has seen.

1330Led by the voivode Basarab I, Wallachian forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the Battle of Posada.
1920The Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes signed the Treaty of Rapallo to establish national borders east of the Adriatic Sea.
1940World War II: Free French forces captured Gabon from Vichy France.

The calendar

When November 12 falls.

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