BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on October 30.

Everyone born on October 30 is a Scorpio — ruled by Pluto, remembers everything. The stone is opal, the flower marigold, and the day is shared with Diego Maradona and John Adams.

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 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

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 30.

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

1960
Diego Maradona
Argentinian footballer and coach
1735
John Adams
2nd President of the United States
1885
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic
1909
Homi J. Bhabha
Indian-French physicist
1935
Robert Caro
American author and journalist
1981
Ivanka Trump
American model and businesswoman
1939
Grace Slick
American singer-songwriter and model
1965
Gavin Rossdale
English singer-songwriter and guitarist

On this day

What October 30 has seen.

1888Lobengula, King of Matabeleland, granted the Rudd Concession to agents of Cecil Rhodes, leading to the creation of the British South Africa Company.
1960At the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Michael Woodruff performed the first successful kidney transplantation in the United Kingdom.
1965English model Jean Shrimpton wore a controversially short minidress to Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia – a pivotal moment of the introduction of the miniskirt to women's fashion.
2010American comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert hosted the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington, D.C.

The calendar

When October 30 falls.

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