# Who was conceived in what year? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520 "2008-03-07T22:10:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/1 "2008-03-07T22:10:17Z")
Following on [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=458574) thread, does anybody know the occasion of their conception? Out of curiosity I calculated once that I was probably a first anniversary present (though I can’t say intentional. 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/2 "2008-03-07T22:25:33Z")
I’m guessing it was Halloween. It would explain any number of things and it works with the math. ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/3 "2008-03-07T22:30:47Z")
31st December 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/4 "2008-03-07T22:31:24Z")
My born on date is August 21, so I’m guessing Santa slipped Mrs. Claus a little supmin’-sumpin’ that year. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/5 "2008-03-07T22:32:59Z")
Sometime in the end of May 1954. I just like to know WHO else was there with my mother 😕 ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/6 "2008-03-07T22:43:01Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] My born on date is August 21, so I’m guessing Santa slipped Mrs. Claus a little supmin’-sumpin’ that year. [/QUOTE] Ignore that math. ---
**Author:** ![pprgrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f6c823/32.png) [@pprgrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pprgrl)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/7 "2008-03-07T22:45:38Z")
Probably the last days of '81, but no one is really sure. It could be the very beginning of '82, since I was born ten days past due, but my mother’s always been a little hazy about keeping track of such things… ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/8 "2008-03-07T22:49:37Z")
I’m pretty sure I was a St. Valentine’s Day fuck, or right thereabouts, based not on my birth date but on my due date. VD - Feb 14, my due date, Nov 10. (My birth date was Nov 26, but I was more than two weeks late; no \*way \*was I being a Scorpio!) My parents had been trying for several years to get pregnant due to my mother’s holey fallopian tubes though, so it might not have been precisely the wine and chocolates that did it. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/9 "2008-03-07T22:52:19Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] Ignore that math. [/QUOTE] Are you saying the TURKEY slipped your mom a little sumpin-sumpin? (I get a November conception date for you.) The [Conception calculator](http://www.baby2see.com/conception_calculator.html#ConceptionCalculator) makes this easy, but you have to give or take a day to account for leap years - it will only go back to 2002. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/10 "2008-03-07T22:56:40Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Are you saying the TURKEY slipped your mom a little sumpin-sumpin? [/QUOTE] C’Mon, think about it… the baster is sitting right there. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/11 "2008-03-07T23:09:35Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] The [Conception calculator](http://www.baby2see.com/conception_calculator.html#ConceptionCalculator) [/QUOTE] Handy. But kind of had an eyebrow-raising moment :dubious: at the aspiring Maury Povich guests depicted in the FAQs below the calculator. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rostfrei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@rostfrei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rostfrei)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/12 "2008-03-07T23:11:17Z")
I was conceived on Christmas Eve 1965. I know this may sound a bit creepy, but the reason I know is that my mom told me. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/13 "2008-03-07T23:24:45Z")
My mom apparently had no fertility problems. My sister was born approx 9 1/2 months after Mom & Dad married. They believed it was a good thing to space children 4 years apart and to have two of them. Also, the years 1942 - 1946 were not the best of times, with that war going on and all. I was born almost exactly 9 months after VJ day. (End of WWII, for the youngsters among you.) ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/14 "2008-03-07T23:48:40Z")
Being the second kid and born in late February, I think my mom got a little more than she bargained for on Mother’s Day. Way to go dad! ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/15 "2008-03-07T23:50:46Z")
Based on my birth date and my father’s love of classical music, the most plausible festive occasion of my conception is Beethoven’s birthday. Da-da-da-DUM! ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/16 "2008-03-08T00:00:39Z")
Late October 1974, maybe Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/17 "2008-03-08T00:03:31Z")
Late September 1977. Smack dab in the middle of the Jewish high holidays, actually. Not significant to us at all, mind you, so we’ll chalk it up to mundane and pointless. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/18 "2008-03-08T00:08:45Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Are you saying the TURKEY slipped your mom a little sumpin-sumpin? (I get a November conception date for you.) [/QUOTE] Well, once my error dawned on me, I suppose that’s what I was actually trying to _avoid_ saying. 🙂 (Sorry, Dad! I tried!) ---
**Author:** ![Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/19 "2008-03-08T00:09:01Z")
[QUOTE=cmyk] Being the second kid and born in late February, I think my mom got a little more than she bargained for on Mother’s Day. Way to go dad! [/QUOTE] End of February too, but I was kinda leaning towards Memorial Day! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520/20 "2008-03-08T00:11:34Z")
I think my parents were celebrating making the deadline for completing their taxes… and now as a result my birthday is a federal holiday. 😃 \*\*\* Ponder [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-conceived-in-what-year/440520.md?page=2)