BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on November 24.

Everyone born on November 24 is a Sagittarius — ruled by Jupiter, packed, gone, unreachable. The stone is topaz, the flower chrysanthemum, and the day is shared with Arundhati Roy and Edward Stourton.

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 24? 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 24.

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

1961
Arundhati Roy
Indian writer and activist
1957
Edward Stourton
English author and journalist
1632
Baruch Spinoza
Dutch philosopher and scholar
1925
William F. Buckley Jr.
American author and publisher
1978
Katherine Heigl
American actress and producer
1888
Dale Carnegie
American author
1784
Zachary Taylor
12th President of the United States
1864
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French painter and illustrator

On this day

What November 24 has seen.

It is Feast day of the Vietnamese Martyrs (Catholicism).

1643Thirty Years' War: Holy Roman Empire, Bavarian and Spanish forces led by Franz von Mercy defeated the French army in Germany led by Marshal Josias von Rantzau at the Battle of Tuttlingen.
1918The Podgorica Assembly convened in Montenegro, with the intention of uniting with the Kingdom of Serbia.
1925The Eugene O'Neill Theatre opened on Broadway, New York, with a production of the musical Mayflowers.
1950The "Great Appalachian Storm", a large extratropical cyclone, struck the east coast of the United States before moving northeast.
2015A Russian Sukhoi attack aircraft was shot down by a Turkish fighter jet after the former allegedly strayed into Turkish airspace and ignored warnings to change course.

The calendar

When November 24 falls.

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