BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on November 28.

Everyone born on November 28 is a Sagittarius — ruled by Jupiter, packed, gone, unreachable. The stone is topaz, the flower chrysanthemum, and the day is shared with Alan Ritchson and Ed Harris.

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 28? 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 28.

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

1982
Alan Ritchson
American actor and singer
1950
Ed Harris
American actor and producer
1757
William Blake
English poet and painter
1978
Aimee Garcia
American writer and actress
1820
Friedrich Engels
German-English philosopher and economist
1881
Stefan Zweig
Austrian playwright and author
1904
Nancy Mitford
English author and journalist
1984
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
American actress and producer

On this day

What November 28 has seen.

It is Bukovina Day in Romania.

1470Đại Việt emperor Lê Thánh Tông launched a military expedition against Champa, beginning the Champa–Đại Việt War.
1660Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists met at Gresham College in London to found a learned society, now known as the Royal Society (coat of arms pictured).
1811Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 premiered at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
1912At the All-Albanian Congress, the Assembly of Vlorë was constituted, which declared the independence of the Albanian Vilayet from the Ottoman Empire.
1925Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running radio broadcast in the United States, first aired on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee.

The calendar

When November 28 falls.

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