December 10th - sucky all round - always right at exam time, a great day for x-mas parties, impossible to get people together, etc.
When I was younger it would sort of bother me because it would get forgotten and then I would get belated gifts from sheepish people. Now it doesn’t bother me too much - I’m starting to get to the age where I’m not that keen to celebrate B-day’s anyway, so I don’t really mind if people aren’t available. 
Mine is December 1st (send cards!)
It usually gets lost between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I usually make a big deal out of it, so people should know that it is coming.
Mine is January 3rd. It’s always everyone’s first day back to work or school after New Years, everyone has just gotten their December bills for Christmas/New Years and has no cash to go out to celebrate and the weather isn’t even nice enough for a cookout. I still got the Christmas/Birthday combo presents. I can’t even claim to be a New Years baby.
Another April 20 here. My only complaint is that we share it with Hitler.
That and my last two birthdays were kind of sucky. But that has nothing to do with the date.
Mine is June 15th which is just about ideal all things considered. The only problems are that Father’s Day sometimes falls right on it (not so bad now that I am a father) and the birthdays in my family are clustered to a ridiculous extent in June and July. Other than that, it is hard to find fault with it. It is nicely spaced from other things, tends to have nice weather but it isn’t in the dead of summer.
Weird, my FiLs also.
I’m February 8th, which puts me at Valentine’s just close enough to suck. Husband’s is Jan. 18th, which is too close to the holidays. By the time my birthday rolls around everyone’s pretty much partied out and broke. And the weather sucks, usually. Although we had an 80 degree snap this year.
Mine is March 25, which is always part of my kids’ spring break, which is nice. We didn’t have such things when I was a kid, so it was a day like any other.
Children 1 and 2 are December 22nd. Being twins, they seem to get less of the, well it is Christmas thing than some others. We have a woman here at work born on Christmas. She got birthday gifts and Christmas gifts. She says the worst part is that no one wanted cake, and of course no parties on your birthday. Could be worse, I remember reading of a guy whose fell on the 26th. He got a box of cereal one Christmas.
Child #3 is November 23rd. When it lands on Thanksgiving it is hitting the jackpot as far as he is concerned. My dad’s and a nephew’s are the same week, they all like a Thanksgiving birthday. It is hard paying for 5 kids Christmases and 3 kids birthdays, though.
Child #4 was born on Father’s Day. Sounds nice and appropriate, but can be annoying for both of us. I did an adventure race on Father’s Day once, which was one day before his birthday. So, he got to spend his birthday driving across Colorado. He was not amused. They also never celebrate his birthday in school. Generally, I sacrifice Father’s Day for his birthday, which is no big deal
Child #5 is April 6. Other than the fact that he hits Easter every few decades, he is the only kid not born on a holiday. Seems to be pretty average as a birthdate…
You must have been channeling a PG rated version of Sam Kinison, for that’s the voice I heard as I read it.
Like Lightray, I’m an April Fool. In my experience, though, it hasn’t been all that bad as I don’t mind pranks (usually)… but the occasional joke gift is a touch annoying.
As it happens, my birthday is today.
It’s a pretty depressing time of year. It’s the week you go back to work after Thanksgiving, and it’s too soon to be looking forward to time off at Christmas. It’s gray and cold and usually rainy and the days are short and still getting shorter and spring is far, far away.
I’ve thought about doing like the Queen of England and celebrating it at a better time of year. But then, I don’t really do much to celebrate it so I guess it doesn’t matter.
My dad is another one on 4-20. He’s never been thrilled with that, especially having served in WWII.
Mrs. Slug gets the fourth of July.
My 9-18 birthday is pretty lame. Not sure that anything notable ever happened on that day.
May 2. It’s a good birthday. In primary and high school it was always a good signal that the end of the year was just around the corner. Through university, it was always the first chance that the high school group got to see each after coming back from another year. Now that that’s over, we’ll see what happens this year.
June 21st here. Damn near perfect birthday if you ask me. Longest day of the year, warm, spaced out almost exactly 6 months from christmas. The only bad part about it was in elementary school when all the other kids got to bring cupcakes to school on their birthday and I never did since my birthday never fell during the school year. After 5th grade it was a fantastic birthday to have though so I can’t complain.
Mine’s 25 May, which isn’t too much of a problem.
Anything in the run-up to Christmas may be “bad”. My father has his birthday on 21 December and his birthday always tends to get mixed up with Christmas.
Winter birthdays for children are a bit of a drawback too. My niece’s is on 17 August, which makes an outdoor party a bit of a gamble.
My mother’s was May 26, also. And yes, her birthdays were happy ones and celebrated by everyone. John Wayne was also born on a May 26, by the way.
Mine’s May 16, so I was almost my mom’s birthday present that year. Although I’m happier having my own day instead of having to share it. The only downside is Jim Henson and Sammy Davis, Jr. both died on a May 16.
You have my condolences - but my birthday, January 2nd is perhaps even worse. Not even a day’s breather after the excitement, expense and hangover of New Year’s Eve/Day. Plus, a few years ago, my grandad died on my birthday. Anyone beat this compounded misery?
Yikes, some rather grim birthdays here.
Mine is October 30. I was always young for my grade, but as a kid sort of enjoyed the many Halloween-themed birthdays I had, though it definitely got old (pun intended) after awhile.
My kid is January 7th. Kinda bad for reasons mentioned already. But, he’s spoiled rotten as an only child so it doesn’t matter too much to him yet.
I have a near-perfect birthday: June 2.
December 1, which is now World Aids Day, and is sometimes swallowed up by Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving part’s fine now, but when I was a kid trying to have birthday parties it often sucked b/c everyone would be away for the weekend.
It pales in comparison but the United States started bombing Afghanistan on my birthday in 2001.
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Me on All Saint’s Day. My brother on Thanksgiving. My sister on Easter. My father on May Day. My great grandmother on Christmas.My family dies like that. My Great-Nana on Christmas, my Nana on Easter, and my great aunt this past Thursday.