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 20 wins7–3

May 20 wins 7 rows to 3, leading on notable people and billionaires. May 19 has more athletes and people with dated milestones.

MetricMay 19May 20
Notable people4345 (wins)
Billionaires14 (wins)
Founders & entrepreneurs1114 (wins)
Combined reported wealth$4.5B$48.6B (wins)
Scientists69 (wins)
Athletes9 (wins)7
Actors & musicians1318 (wins)
Nobel laureates15 (wins)
People with dated milestones27 (wins)26
Countries represented26 (wins)23
Richest personHerbert Fisk Johnson III · $4.5BDietrich Mateschitz · $27.4B

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.