BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on November 17.

Everyone born on November 17 is a Scorpio — ruled by Pluto, remembers everything. The stone is topaz, the flower chrysanthemum, and the day is shared with Linda Nosková and Martin Scorsese.

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 17? 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 17.

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

2004
Linda Nosková
Czech tennis player
1942
Martin Scorsese
American director and actor
1978
Rachel McAdams
Canadian actress
1960
RuPaul
American actor and singer
1916
Shelby Foote
American historian and author
1944
Lorne Michaels
Canadian-American screenwriter and producer
1966
Jeff Buckley
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1755
Louis XVIII
king of France

On this day

What November 17 has seen.

1592Sigismund III Vasa, who was already King of Poland, succeeded his father as King of Sweden.
1943World War II: Australian forces launched an assault on Sattelberg, New Guinea, against Japanese forces, initiating the Battle of Sattelberg.
1950The 14th Dalai Lama assumed full temporal power as ruler of Tibet at the age of 15.

The calendar

When November 17 falls.

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