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

🏆 May 11 wins8–1

May 11 wins 8 rows to 1, leading on billionaires and combined reported wealth. May 12 has more notable people.

MetricMay 11May 12
Notable people4450 (wins)
Billionaires3 (wins)2
Founders & entrepreneurs88
Combined reported wealth$51.3B (wins)$12.8B
Scientists5 (wins)4
Athletes9 (wins)7
Actors & musicians20 (wins)19
Nobel laureates3 (wins)2
People with dated milestones24 (wins)23
Countries represented21 (wins)18
Richest personCyrus S. Poonawalla · $24.3BBernard Marcus · $10.3B

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.