I was born on 14th Feb 1956.My wife was born 14th Feb 1963.What are the chances of us having the same birthday

Question

What are the chances of us having the same birthday and marrying?Is it any higher than any other people with different dates?

Answer 1

365 - 1

no

Unless you believe in astrology, in which case your birthdates may say something about your character and the likelihood of your getting married...

Answer 2

In pure theory the odds are of course 365 to 1 or 366 accounting for a leap year. However birth rates experience spikes and troughs as any midwife will tell you. One is at the end of September because nine months before was Christmas, and February to March is a busy time because people have been on summer holidays.
In fact in the UK the absolute (as opposed to theoretical) chance of two people sharing the same birthday is 23-1.

Answer 3

Thnk of it this way. There are only 365 days in a year, 366 on a leap year. So if u have 367 ppl it is garuanteed that at least two share a birthday.
Now if there are 300 million people in the US, a LOT of them have the same birthdays. The odds are that in a group of 23 people, about 50 percent of the time, two will share a birthday.

Answer 4

chances of two sharing birthday obviously 1 in 365. Or 1-(364/365) However if you were a muslim this could rise to almost 1 in 37, and if you were a superstud like me the probability would rise to 0.57 or over 50%!
How many wives do we have?
Oh and 2nd part, don't see why sharing a birthday would favour chances of meeting/relationship over say sharing job, interests, social habits etc

Answer 5

one in 365 obviously as there are 365 days in the year.

but the chances of you both having the same b'day and being married would be 2 * 365 = 730:1 (in the west)

Answer 6

It is always 365 to 1, whatever the date. 14th February is also an auspicious date:

On this day in history in 1779, died James Cook.
Captain Cook was a navigator and explorer who conducted three expeditions to the Pacific.

Cook was born in Marton, Yorkshire on 27th October 1728. His birthplace is now a museum in his honour. [Captain Cook birthplace Museum, Stewart Park, Marton, Middlesbrough, TS7 8AT] He was the son of a Scottish farm labourer and he spent his youth working on the farms where his father was employed. Aged 18, Cook was apprenticed to a ship owner at Whitby, where he learned basic navigation and nautical mathematics.

In 1752, Cook volunteered for the Royal Navy, as an able seaman, and rose to become master’s mate, then boatswain and at the age of 29, Cook was made master of HMS Pembroke. Cook saw action in the Seven Years War, and it was his charting of the St Lawrence River that assisted General Wolfe to capture Quebec.

At the age of 40, Cook was sent on an expedition of the Royal Society and given command of his own vessel, a coal-hauling bark, renamed with the grandiose title HMS Endeavour. The mission was to find the alleged southern continent Terra Australis, which theorists argued must exist to balance the land masses of the northern hemisphere. Cook discovered and charted New Zealand and, crossing the Tasman Sea, he came to the eastern shores of Australia, where he charted The Great Barrier Reef, now reckoned to be one of the greatest navigational hazards in the world.

After sailing home, Cook was presented to king George III, promoted to commander, and sent on an even more ambitious mission. He set sail on HMS Resolution to discover the western section of Terra Australis. Cook sailed beyond latitude 70 S and, although he discovered the Antarctic, New Caledonia and the Sandwich Islands, he could find no trace of the mythical continent Terra Australis. He concluded that the alleged continent did not exist and that the only significant land mass, existing entirely within the southern hemisphere was what is now known as Australia. On his return, Cook was elected a fellow of the Royal Society for his outstanding achievements.

Cook was sent out on a third voyage in an attempt to find a passage around what is now known as Canada. Cook discovered the coast of California but failed to find a navigable passage, as one did not exist. He returned to the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaiian Islands, where after a confrontation with the natives, he was struck down and killed. His body was buried by the natives and not eaten by cannibals as was once popularly supposed. Cook had made more discoveries than any other person in history and these findings changed the face of the globe. Cook’s bones were eventually returned by the natives for formal burial at sea.

Answer 7

The odds of you marrying someone with the same birthday are the same as the odds of me and my dog sharing the same birthday (which we do).

365:1

Answer 8

Odds are 1 in 365.

Answer 9

As you both have the same birthday & are married i'd say that the chances in your case are 100%

Answer 10

I'd say the chance of you and your wife having the same birthday is 100% - every year.