BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on October 27.

Everyone born on October 27 is a Scorpio — ruled by Pluto, remembers everything. The stone is opal, the flower marigold, and the day is shared with Sylvia Plath and Theodore Roosevelt.

Scorpio, the Scorpion — an engraving
Sun sign
Scorpio ♏︎
the Scorpion · ruled by Pluto · remembers everything
Opal, the birthstone for October — an engraving
Birthstone
Opal
October
Marigold, the birth flower for October — an engraving
Birth flower
Marigold
& cosmos

Your book

Born on October 27? 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 October 27.

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

1932
Sylvia Plath
American poet and novelist
1858
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States
1950
Fran Lebowitz
American author
1914
Dylan Thomas
Welsh poet and playwright
1922
Ruby Dee
American poet and actress
1942
Lee Greenwood
American singer-songwriter
1945
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Brazilian union leader and politician
1939
John Cleese
English actor and comedian

On this day

What October 27 has seen.

1775King George III expanded on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.
1942The Empire of Japan achieved a pyrrhic victory against the United States at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
1980The Chun Doo-hwan government arrested 153 people related to the Jogye Order, which is considered an abuse of state power.
2011Michael D. Higgins was elected President of Ireland with far more votes than any politician in the country's history.

The calendar

When October 27 falls.

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