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 7 wins7–2

May 7 wins 7 rows to 2, leading on notable people and founders & entrepreneurs. May 8 has more actors & musicians and nobel laureates.

MetricMay 7May 8
Notable people49 (wins)39
Billionaires22
Founders & entrepreneurs11 (wins)7
Combined reported wealth$67.1B (wins)$4B
Scientists10 (wins)5
Athletes10 (wins)7
Actors & musicians1719 (wins)
Nobel laureates34 (wins)
People with dated milestones32 (wins)24
Countries represented24 (wins)16
Richest personMark Mateschitz · $45.8BTaha Mikati · $2.2B

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.