BIRTHDAY ATLAS

Birthday facts

Born on October 31.

Everyone born on October 31 is a Scorpio — ruled by Pluto, remembers everything. The stone is opal, the flower marigold, and the day is shared with Marcus Rashford and Michael Landon.

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 31? 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 31.

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

1997
Marcus Rashford
English footballer
1936
Michael Landon
American director and actor
1795
John Keats
English poet
1959
Neal Stephenson
American author
1887
Chiang Kai-shek
Chinese general and politician
1963
Rob Schneider
American actor and comedian
1632
Johannes Vermeer
Dutch painter
1963
Dermot Mulroney
American actor

On this day

What October 31 has seen.

It is Halloween.

475Romulus Augustulus took the throne as the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1517Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses onto the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, marking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.
1999Australian sailor Jesse Martin arrived in Melbourne, becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop, and unassisted.

The calendar

When October 31 falls.

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