# Who was born on a holiday? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2001, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359 "2001-01-04T05:05:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/41 "2001-01-04T22:26:00Z")
July 4 here ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/42 "2001-01-04T22:32:18Z")
I was born on what was to become Yom Kippur in 1974 or 1976; I can’t remember. It’s irrelevent since I was born in 1969 and anyway, I’m not Jewish. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/43 "2001-01-04T22:59:23Z")
Valentine baby checking in. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/44 "2001-01-04T23:05:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spritle \* > \*\*I was born on Abe Lincoln’s B-day. My dad was born on the day of Paul Revere’s ride (April 18th)(not the year). > > Mrs. Spritle was born on the day the Hindenburg 'sploded (May 6th) (Not the year). Mrs. Spritle’s dad was born on New Year’s Day. > > All in all, wacky, but not that reasonable, 'specially if’n you stretch the definition of “holiday”. \*\* Hrumph. If we’re going to count those, then you have to count MY birthday as a holiday too. (Although you don’t get the day off.) I was born July 20, 1969. A few hours before Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon. A small step for a man… a big giant PUUUUUUSH for Mommy! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/45 "2001-01-04T23:08:46Z")
Personally: Flag Day (June 14, 1964). Our son was born on May 25, 1998: what was then Memorial Day. (And, boy will we remember that one!) Our daughter missed July 4th by just a few days (June 28, 1999) and my hubby missed Labor Day by just a few days (August 29, year censored). My oldest daughter missed Halloween by two days (October 29, 1994). So we either hit or just barely miss. ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/46 "2001-01-04T23:10:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dropzone \* > \*\*Has Dubya made his mom’s birthday a holiday yet? Cuz nothing else happened on a June 8th. \*\* Whadda ya mean, _nothing else_?? My neice was born on June 8th. 🙂 Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/47 "2001-01-04T23:14:35Z")
wring: So your birthday is the day _before_ mine & your SO’s? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/48 "2001-01-04T23:26:30Z")
Well, my birthday (October 29) is almost nothing special (we’ll get to that later). However: I have one nephew born on July 4 (lots of fireworks for sure) and another nephew born on Labor Day (his mother went into labor… ha ha). My father (not a veteran) was born on Veteran’s Day. My oldest son was born on a Jewish holiday (Sukkos). My wife’s birthday is December 12, which to many people is nothing, but to Frank Sinatra fans is a special day. My sister’s birthday is September 21, which is often the Equinox As for me, I was born on the 40th anniversary of the stock market crash of 1929. It’s also the day of Turkey’s national holiday. My birthday in the Hebrew calendar falls on the day that the Flood began. My grandfather was born April 12, 1912, just two days before the Titanic sank. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/49 "2001-01-04T23:38:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by thinksnow \* > …my birthday (and **Silver Fire** s) now falls on a day that is often Presidents Day. Yep, President’s Day. ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/50 "2001-01-04T23:44:01Z")
My mother went into labor on Labor Day, 1973. Technically, I was born the following day (Sept 4), but I do get a three day weekend most years for my birthday. 🙂 Rose ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2001, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/51 "2001-01-04T23:57:38Z")
**St. Jean Baptiste Day.** I think that still counts after you work out the exchange rate. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2001, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/52 "2001-01-05T02:03:13Z")
Guys the freakiest thing happened just now. When i opened up this thread. (I was listening to the album "The Immaculate Collection…), the song “Holiday” came on. And this is about people born on HOLIDAYS. Alright that’s more VVC than Holidayish. Btw, ain’t this an IMHO? Alright i’ll state when i was born. I was born 2 day after SK (and Carrie White), the same day as Bruce Springsteen, and the day before F. Scott Fitzgerald. (Not years, day.) Sigmud Freud and Robert Bloch died on my birthday. They should make the damned day a holiday just because of me. 🙂 Oh and i think its grandparents day. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/53 "2001-01-05T07:12:48Z")
There are an amazing number of Christmas birthdays. Does that suck as much as it seems it would? I’m glad to see another groundhog in here Hamlet. Walt Kelly, a famous cartoonist of a generation ago, loved Groundhogs’ Day, and it was he who proposed it be a national holiday. If that do-nothing congress would just get off their butts … Anyway, Zoggie, how do you figure this as IMHO topic? It seems way more mundane and pointless than subject to opinions. In fact, I’d challenge people to come up with anything more mundane and pointless than this thread, except I know from long experience that they would … and quite easily at that! ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/54 "2001-01-05T10:45:05Z")
Does Election Day (every few years) count? (11/2) ---
**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/55 "2001-01-05T10:55:09Z")
I was born on Veterans’ Day. One of them _real_ holidays that doesn’t wait for the closest convenient Monday or Friday to be celebrated. And now that I work for the local government, I get the day off too. One brother was born the day after Christmas. Another brother has his birthday on Thanksgiving every few years. Another brother was born on Winter Solstice, and a cousin was born on Summer Solstice. Another cousin born on St. Patrick’s day (and he looks like the Fighting Irishman mascot of Notre Dame too!) And my son’s birthday is sometimes President’s Day. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/56 "2001-01-05T13:23:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Persephone \* > \*\*wring: So your birthday is the day _before_ mine & your SO’s? 😃 \*\* nope, the ‘other’ fiscal year date (October) ---
**Author:** ![Melpomene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@Melpomene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melpomene)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2001, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/57 "2001-01-05T16:20:00Z")
I wasn’t born on a _holiday_ per se, but I was born on the same day as a highly significant historical event. 😃 I hope that counts! I hate giving away my age, but will do so for the sake of revealing this unique thing about myself of which I happen to be quite proud. Although, I never figured out exactly why I’m proud - I didn’t do anything to precipitate it! But I digress… I was born 2 hours to the minute, and only a few hundred miles away from the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. Neat, huh?! ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/58 "2001-01-08T16:58:06Z")
I was born on Mother’s Day, and have the same birthday as orion007. ---
**Author:** ![orion007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@orion007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orion007)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/59 "2001-01-08T18:20:53Z")
Cool 🙂 before now I never knew anyone with the same birthday as me. ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359/60 "2001-01-08T19:18:49Z")
I was born on George Washington’s Birthday (February 22). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-born-on-a-holiday/48359.md?page=4)