# Friday the 13th birthdays **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 13, 2001, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435 "2001-07-13T23:53:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435/1 "2001-07-13T23:53:23Z")
Who here was born on a Friday the 13th? Or has been born on a regular 13th and had their birthday fall on a Friday? I was **born** on Friday the 13th. July 13th, to be exact. Oh, look, it’s July and today is the 13th! What a coincidence! Happy birthday, me 🙂 [sub]Is there a smiley for patheticness?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435/2 "2001-07-13T23:56:43Z")
Happy Birthday, **Gr8Kat**! I was born on May 13, 1971, and my son was born on January 13, 1994. I’ve had my birthday on Friday the 13th lotsa times, so no triskadecaphobia for me! ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435/3 "2001-07-14T00:09:58Z")
Happy Birthday, **Kat**. Although I’m not born on a thirteenth, today is my roommate’s birthday too. ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435/4 "2001-07-14T00:58:47Z")
Happy Birthday! happy birthday! Enjoy the Oregon summer. pat ps: Patheticness?!? No way, that is the cleverest way I have seen anyone give themself a birthday thread! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435/5 "2001-07-14T01:40:54Z")
My daddy. 🙂 He was born June 13th. And did you know that in 1980, The Shining and Friday the 13th both came out, in June? His birthday. At least…I think that’s true. ---
**Author:** ![cykrider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@cykrider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cykrider)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435/6 "2001-07-14T05:22:56Z")
Happy Birthday!–Well, I’m an hour late here but it’s the thought that counts right? Anyways, I turned 1 on friday the 13th. ---
**Author:** ![TN\_hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435/7 "2001-07-14T06:33:48Z")
**Gr8Kat,** I love you more than ever! Not only did you mention me in the adoration thread, we share a birthday! I just turned 42. BTW, my _best_ birthday ever was when I turned 25 on a Friday the 13th, **full moon.** Yowza, what a night! ---
**Author:** ![Kaje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f04885/32.png) [@Kaje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaje)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435/8 "2001-07-14T10:33:55Z")
I was born on Friday the 13th too (August). Whenever I mention this to people they always respond “figures”…What’s that supposed to mean anyway? also, I think the second friday 13th bday I had, i was 7 or so and because of the day my mom decided to make it a halloweenish type party… I didn’t mind as it was another excuse to put on my favorite vampire costume. ---
**Author:** ![Mats\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8edcca/32.png) [@Mats\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mats_K)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435/9 "2001-07-14T11:39:07Z")
I FLEW on Friday the 13th, beat that 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kaje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f04885/32.png) [@Kaje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaje)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435/10 "2001-07-14T12:06:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mats K \* > \*\*I FLEW on Friday the 13th, beat that 😉 \*\* Though I’m not a mom and don’t plan to be (until that comprehensive sex-change operation goes ahead as planned), I don’t think flying on a plane on that day would even compare to trying to give birth to a baby. THankfully my mother wasn’t superstitious and said “begone” to me and my bad unborn self. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435/11 "2001-07-14T12:29:19Z")
My brother was born on Friday, July 13, 1951. Happy 50th, Jonathan! ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435/12 "2001-07-14T12:48:11Z")
I had my 13th birthday on Friday the 13th. We had a dinner party with 13 guests (all 12-14 yr old girls). My mom, sister, and sister’s boyfriend served as cook/servers. We had to order everything from the menu including the napkins and silverware, but everything had different (and somewhat gross) name. So you might order a plate of spaghetti and then only have a spoon with which to eat it. It was so much fun! Then a huge storm came along and knocked out the electricity. Couldn’t have been better timing. ---
**Author:** ![alibey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@alibey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alibey)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435/13 "2001-07-14T13:35:52Z")
I was born on OCt 13th 66, I found out a few years ago that the Navy was formed on Oct 13, 17something or other. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435/14 "2001-07-14T14:28:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoggie \* > \*\*My daddy. 🙂 He was born June 13th. And did you know that in 1980, The Shining and Friday the 13th both came out, in June? His birthday. At least…I think that’s true. \*\* Nope. “The Shining” came out on May 26, 1980. ---
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435/15 "2001-07-14T14:48:04Z")
I was born on Friday the 13th, too. March 13, 1959 to be exact. FWIW, according to Kenner (or whatever his toy company is) Ken – you know, Barbie’s boyfriend – was born on March 13 too, but a year or too later. Sure beats the actor who played Rerun, that chubby guy on “What’s Happening?” who was also born on the date. ---
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friday-the-13th-birthdays/72435/16 "2001-07-15T11:50:58Z")
My little brother (who is now 6’5", while I topped out at a measly 6’1") was born on Friday, March 13th, 1970. I always considered it _my_ bad luck.