BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on November 29.

Everyone born on November 29 is a Sagittarius — ruled by Jupiter, packed, gone, unreachable. The stone is topaz, the flower chrysanthemum, and the day is shared with Chadwick Boseman and C. S. Lewis.

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 29? 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 29.

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

1976
Chadwick Boseman
American playwright and actor
1898
C. S. Lewis
British novelist and poet
1905
Marcel Lefebvre
French-Swiss archbishop and theologian
1982
Gemma Chan
English actress
1942
Ann Dunham
American anthropologist and academic
1959
Rahm Emanuel
American businessman and politician
1977
Andy Beshear
American attorney and politician
1832
Louisa May Alcott
American novelist and poet

On this day

What November 29 has seen.

It is Liberation Day in Albania.

1854An estimated crowd of more than 10,000 demonstrators swore allegiance to the Eureka Flag as a symbol of defiance in advance of the Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat, Australia.
1890The National Diet of Japan, a bicameral legislature modelled after both the German Reichstag and the British Westminster system, first met in Tokyo.
1947The United Nations General Assembly voted to approve the Partition Plan for Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict in Mandatory Palestine by separating the territory into Jewish and Arab states.
1982Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, was released.
2007During their trial for the 2003 Oakwood mutiny, Philippine soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes mutinied and seized a conference room at The Peninsula Manila in Makati.

The calendar

When November 29 falls.

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