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 21 wins6–4

January 21 wins 6 rows to 4, leading on notable people and billionaires. January 20 has more scientists and nobel laureates.

MetricJanuary 20January 21
Notable people4348 (wins)
Billionaires14 (wins)
Founders & entrepreneurs811 (wins)
Combined reported wealth$3.1B$45.4B (wins)
Scientists9 (wins)7
Athletes411 (wins)
Actors & musicians1923 (wins)
Nobel laureates2 (wins)1
People with dated milestones28 (wins)21
Countries represented18 (wins)15
Richest personDavid Baszucki · $3.1BPaul Allen · $20.3B

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.