Birthday battle

Your birthday vs theirs.

Pick any two dates. We count billionaires, founders, combined reported wealth, scientists, athletes, entertainers, Nobel laureates, countries and people with dated milestones, and hand out one point per row. For curiosity, not science.

First birthday
Second birthday

Result

🏆 December 18 wins7–3

December 18 wins 7 rows to 3, leading on notable people and billionaires. December 19 has more athletes and nobel laureates.

MetricDecember 18December 19
Notable people47 (wins)46
Billionaires4 (wins)1
Founders & entrepreneurs13 (wins)11
Combined reported wealth$25.2B (wins)$15.6B
Scientists8 (wins)5
Athletes411 (wins)
Actors & musicians24 (wins)17
Nobel laureates34 (wins)
People with dated milestones2428 (wins)
Countries represented18 (wins)17
Richest personAnn Walton Kroenke · $12.8BAbigail Johnson · $15.6B

How the score works

Ten rows, one point each, no weighting. Every number is the same one shown on the two date pages and comes from the sourced dataset: billionaires need a dated estimate of at least $1B from Forbes, Bloomberg, the Sunday Times Rich List, Hurun or a filing; wealth is the sum of low-bound estimates; the rest are counts of people by documented occupation, award, citizenship or dated milestone. A date with more people in our dataset naturally wins more rows, so the battle measures documented company, not destiny. Nothing here says anything about anyone born on either date. Methodology.