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 24 wins6–4

December 24 wins 6 rows to 4, leading on notable people and combined reported wealth. December 23 has more billionaires and founders & entrepreneurs.

MetricDecember 23December 24
Notable people3348 (wins)
Billionaires2 (wins)1
Founders & entrepreneurs12 (wins)10
Combined reported wealth$3.4B$5.4B (wins)
Scientists8 (wins)6
Athletes24 (wins)
Actors & musicians622 (wins)
Nobel laureates2 (wins)1
People with dated milestones1719 (wins)
Countries represented1924 (wins)
Richest personT. Denny Sanford · $2.4BStewart Resnick · $5.4B

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.