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 29 wins5–4

May 29 wins 5 rows to 4, leading on notable people and athletes. May 30 has more billionaires and founders & entrepreneurs.

MetricMay 29May 30
Notable people43 (wins)39
Billionaires02 (wins)
Founders & entrepreneurs45 (wins)
Combined reported wealth—$2.3B (wins)
Scientists48 (wins)
Athletes9 (wins)6
Actors & musicians18 (wins)15
Nobel laureates33
People with dated milestones25 (wins)23
Countries represented22 (wins)18
Richest person—Marissa Mayer · $1.3B

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.