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

🏆 January 15 wins7–2

January 15 wins 7 rows to 2, leading on notable people and founders & entrepreneurs. January 14 has more actors & musicians and people with dated milestones.

MetricJanuary 14January 15
Notable people5054 (wins)
Billionaires11
Founders & entrepreneurs68 (wins)
Combined reported wealth$3.6B$5.9B (wins)
Scientists510 (wins)
Athletes69 (wins)
Actors & musicians19 (wins)11
Nobel laureates26 (wins)
People with dated milestones30 (wins)28
Countries represented2130 (wins)
Richest personRamon S. Ang · $3.6BTsai Eng-meng · $5.9B

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.