October 8th is an odd date. Since it's my birthday as well (long before 1990 tho...

tokenadult · on Aug 30, 2011

October 8th is actually in the top 100 of birthdates by frequency of births, according to the best data table I have seen on the subject.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/business/20leonhardt-table...

Of course February 29th is dead last in frequency. Most early October birthdays are above the median in frequency.

caf · on Aug 31, 2011

Note the group of high rankings from 8-Sep, tailing off in early October - all those NYE babies ;)

throw_away · on Aug 31, 2011

also interesting is looking at the next lowest frequency dates-- all of them are clustered around major holidays:

365 12 25

364 1 1

363 12 24

362 1 2

361 7 4

360 12 26

359 11 28

358 11 27

357 11 26

356 1 3

355 10 31

354 12 23

353 11 25

352 11 24

ganley · on Aug 31, 2011

Not sure if this is the (whole) reason, but obviously no one is going to have a scheduled induction or C-section on a holiday.

stonemetal · on Aug 31, 2011

These days it doesn't surprise me, it seems like doctors are willing to induce at the drop of the hat these days. So why not to keep their holiday clear.

xxpor · on Aug 30, 2011

Interesting probabilities on x random people sharing the same birthday:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

brass_cannon · on Aug 30, 2011

As another October 8th birthdate with the opposite impression of how many October kids there are, I had to look this up.

8.62% of all live births in the US during 2006 occurred during October [1]. No single month deviated significantly from it's expected percentage.

[1] http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode:55

phillmv · on Aug 30, 2011

I guess people be fuckin' all of the damn time.

mdda · on Aug 31, 2011

October 8th? It seems like a decent % of people share your birthday (me among them). Certainly feels like a weird to me. How many thousand people read a page (given that it has a moderate up-vote)?

huherto · on Aug 31, 2011

That was my dad's bd. His best friend was also born in the day.