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

🏆 September 30 wins6–2

September 30 wins 6 rows to 2, leading on billionaires and founders & entrepreneurs. September 29 has more people with dated milestones and countries represented.

MetricSeptember 29September 30
Notable people5050
Billionaires24 (wins)
Founders & entrepreneurs78 (wins)
Combined reported wealth$13.2B$128B (wins)
Scientists812 (wins)
Athletes79 (wins)
Actors & musicians1719 (wins)
Nobel laureates66
People with dated milestones30 (wins)27
Countries represented24 (wins)23
Richest personSilvio Berlusconi · $6.8BThomas Peterffy · $109B

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.