BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on November 30.

Everyone born on November 30 is a Sagittarius — ruled by Jupiter, packed, gone, unreachable. The stone is topaz, the flower chrysanthemum, and the day is shared with Mark Twain and Winston Churchill.

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 30? 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 30.

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

1835
Mark Twain
American novelist and humorist
1874
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1937
Ridley Scott
English director and producer
1947
David Mamet
American playwright and director
1936
Abbie Hoffman
American activist and author
1874
Lucy Maud Montgomery
English-Canadian poet and author
1985
Kaley Cuoco
American actress
1960
Gary Lineker
English footballer and sportscaster

On this day

What November 30 has seen.

It is Saint Andrew's Day (Christianity).

1803An expedition led by Francisco Javier de Balmis departed A Coruña, Spain, with the aim of vaccinating millions in South America and Asia against smallpox.
1935A college football game between the SMU Mustangs and the TCU Horned Frogs became the first game in Texas to be broadcast nationally on radio.
1979The Wall, a rock opera and concept album by the English band Pink Floyd, was first released.
2005John Sentamu was enthroned as Archbishop of York, becoming the first black archbishop in the Church of England.

The calendar

When November 30 falls.

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