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 16 wins6–3

May 16 wins 6 rows to 3, leading on notable people and scientists. May 15 has more founders & entrepreneurs and combined reported wealth.

MetricMay 15May 16
Notable people5155 (wins)
Billionaires44
Founders & entrepreneurs13 (wins)10
Combined reported wealth$29.8B (wins)$7.8B
Scientists69 (wins)
Athletes78 (wins)
Actors & musicians1528 (wins)
Nobel laureates34 (wins)
People with dated milestones29 (wins)25
Countries represented2124 (wins)
Richest personNancy Walton Laurie · $15.6BKaren Johnson Boyd · $2.7B

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.