BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on November 6.

Everyone born on November 6 is a Scorpio — ruled by Pluto, remembers everything. The stone is topaz, the flower chrysanthemum, and the day is shared with Maria Shriver and Rebecca Romijn.

Scorpio, the Scorpion — an engraving
Sun sign
Scorpio ♏︎
the Scorpion · ruled by Pluto · remembers everything
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 6? 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

Scorpio, October 23 to November 21.

The Scorpion, ruled by Mars in the old books and Pluto in the newer ones, which tells you the tradition could not agree on how to handle it. A water sign, credited with intensity, loyalty that runs to the bone, and a stare. Its people are said to keep secrets well — their own and yours — and to forgive nothing and forget less. The books call it magnetic, from a safe distance.

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

Good company

Also born on November 6.

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

1955
Maria Shriver
American author and journalist
1972
Rebecca Romijn
American actress and model
1988
Emma Stone
American actress
1946
Sally Field
American actress
1661
Charles II of Spain
last Habsburg ruler of the Spanish Empire
1854
John Philip Sousa
American composer and bandleader
1494
Suleiman the Magnificent
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
1948
Glenn Frey
American singer-songwriter and guitarist

On this day

What November 6 has seen.

It is Gustavus Adolphus Day in Estonia, Finland, and Sweden.

1856The first story from the collection Scenes of Clerical Life by the English author George Eliot was submitted for publication.
1939As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of the Jagiellonian University (location pictured) in Kraków.
2012Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.

The calendar

When November 6 falls.

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