BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on November 9.

Everyone born on November 9 is a Scorpio — ruled by Pluto, remembers everything. The stone is topaz, the flower chrysanthemum, and the day is shared with Edward VII and Hedy Lamarr.

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 9? 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 9.

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

1841
Edward VII
of the United Kingdom
1914
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American inventor and actress
1934
Carl Sagan
American astronomer and astrophysicist
1965
Ryan Murphy
American director and television writer
1972
Eric Dane
American actor
1877
Muhammad Iqbal
Pakistani philosopher and poet
1952
Sherrod Brown
American academic and politician
1936
Mikhail Tal
Latvian-Russian author and chess player

On this day

What November 9 has seen.

1822USS Alligator engaged three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba in one of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the United States.
1918The government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic adopted a tricolour national flag, which is again in use today, with slight modifications, by the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan.
1985At age 22, Garry Kasparov became the then-youngest World Chess Champion by defeating then-champion Anatoly Karpov.
2019The Alabama Crimson Tide and LSU Tigers football teams, both with undefeated records thus far that season, played in a "Game of the Century".

The calendar

When November 9 falls.

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