On which day of the week were you born?

Simple question. Public poll.

Tuesday for me. Strange, I never noticed I was full of grace…

I’m bonny and blythe and good and gay.

How does that thing go? What befalls a Thursday child?

Fair Face

Curiosity outdid patience. Here’s a version of the ditty from Nursery Rhymes lyrics, origins and history

I seem to remember reading somewhere that people born on a Thursday are more likely to answer polls.

Got to be working here!

Friday.
Loving and giving.
Hmmmmm…
Considering that my dear departed love and I ran a charity for more than a decade, I guess that is accurate.
ETA: Maybe I should have said immodest as well. :slight_smile:

I don’t remember. I was just a kid.

It was a Saturday morning at 6:37 AM.
As someone who is decidedly not a morning person, I like to say it was the first, and last time, I ever got up that early.

I’m sure it’s just as consequential as the astrological sign you were born under.

Tuesday. I studied dance for 10 years growing up and all through high school; I like to think I’m graceful.

Wednesday, full of woe. Sounds about right.

Wednesday. Pretty much dead on.

My youngest sister and I were both born on Sundays; and our parents named us partially after a line in the nursery rhyme ‘Monday’s Child’:

Monday’s child is fair of face
Tuesday’s child is full of grace,
Wednesday’s child is full of woe,
Thursday’s child has far to go,
Friday’s child is loving and giving,
Saturday’s child works hard for a living,
But the child born on the Sabbath Day,
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.

(No, we are not named Good and Gay - can you imagine? And amusingly we are both atheists.)

ETA: Haha, didn’t read the thread and see that this rhyme had already been mentioned several times!

Sunday, here. Bonny and blithe? Sure. Good? Sometimes. Gay? No.

Saturday.

Here’s a calculator for all of the normal people who have no idea :slight_smile:

Or here’s a way you can calculate it in your head, if you know what day of the week your birthday is on this year (or in some other year):

A given date advances X days through the cycle of the week between year A and year B, where X = (B-A) + (number of leap years - the number of February 29ths, actually - in between Year A and Year B).

For instance, Christmas 2011 fell on a Sunday. In 1971, Christmas was on a Saturday.

From 1971 to 2011 is 40 years, with 10 leap years. So Christmas moved 50 days around the week between 1971 and 2011. 49 =7x7, so the first 49 of those days move the date 7 times around the week and back to the same day as it started. The 50th day moves it 1 day forward. Flipping that around, that’s 1 day backward between 1971 and 2011, so Sunday in 2011 ==> Saturday in 1971.

Or today is January 13, 2012. It’s a Friday. What day of the week will January 13 fall on in 2042?

30 years + 8 leap years (why 8? I’ll get there) = 38 = 5*7 + 3. So Jan, 13 goes five times around the week, plus 3 more days, so it’ll be on a Monday in 2042.

Why 8 leap years? Because we have 7 leap years (2016, 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036, and 2040) in between, but we also count 2012 because what we’re really counting isn’t actually the leap year as a whole, but just the extra day on Feb. 29. And Feb. 29, 2012 is in the interval between Jan. 13, 2012 and Jan. 13, 2042. So we count it.

Note: this works only between March 1, 1900 and February 28, 2100. Outside of those dates, one must adjust for the lack of a February 29 in either of those years. If you want to know what day a date falls on in A.D. 2101, when war was beginning, don’t count 2100 among your leap years. Years ending in 00 are leap years only if the number of centuries is divisible by 4: 2000, 2400, 2800, etc.

As an alternative to the traditional rhyme, there’s the 1960s pop song “Saturday’s Child” performed by the Monkees. Here are the relevant parts:

Monday had a sad child
Always feeling low down,
Tuesday had a dream child
She’s always on the go

If you love a Wednesday
You’ll live your life apart now
And if you love a Thursday
She’s gonna break your heart

Friday likes the good life
She’ll take you for a ride now
And Sunday makes a good wife
But she wants to be a bride

Oddly, the song never states Saturday’s virtues, other than “she drives me wild” and she’s “got what it takes, babe. I can tell by the way she looks at me.”