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

🏆 March 16 wins5–4

March 16 wins 5 rows to 4, leading on notable people and combined reported wealth. March 17 has more founders & entrepreneurs and athletes.

MetricMarch 16March 17
Notable people55 (wins)53
Billionaires22
Founders & entrepreneurs1113 (wins)
Combined reported wealth$9.4B (wins)$3.3B
Scientists19 (wins)5
Athletes712 (wins)
Actors & musicians1722 (wins)
Nobel laureates3 (wins)1
People with dated milestones29 (wins)26
Countries represented2329 (wins)
Richest personKeiichiro Takahara · $5.2BThomas Flohr · $2.3B

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.