BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on November 23.

Everyone born on November 23 is a Sagittarius — ruled by Jupiter, packed, gone, unreachable. The stone is topaz, the flower chrysanthemum, and the day is shared with Alf-Inge Haaland and Miley Cyrus.

Sagittarius, the Archer — an engraving
Sun sign
Sagittarius ♐︎
the Archer · ruled by Jupiter · packed, gone, unreachable
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 23? 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

Sagittarius, November 22 to December 21.

The Archer, half horse and aiming somewhere over the horizon; ruled by Jupiter, the planet of more. A fire sign, and the books credit it with optimism, honesty to a fault and a need to be elsewhere — the traveller, the student, the one with the ticket already booked. Its people are supposed to say the true thing before checking whether anyone wanted it said. The tradition forgives them, mostly.

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

Good company

Also born on November 23.

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

1972
Alf-Inge Haaland
Norwegian footballer
1992
Miley Cyrus
American singer-songwriter and actress
1926
Sathya Sai Baba
Indian philosopher and guru
1954
Bruce Hornsby
American singer-songwriter and pianist
1966
Vincent Cassel
French actor and producer
1962
Nicolás Maduro
Venezuelan union leader and politician
1960
Robin Roberts
American sportscaster and journalist
1955
Ludovico Einaudi
Italian composer and pianist

On this day

What November 23 has seen.

1635Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa: Soldiers from the Dutch East India Company (flag depicted) razed the village of Mattau, now part of modern-day Tainan, Taiwan.
1733African slaves in the Danish West Indies began an insurrection in one of the earliest and longest slave revolts in the Americas.
2007MS Explorer became the first cruise ship to sink in the Southern Ocean.

The calendar

When November 23 falls.

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