Do You Know What Day You Were Born?
My 6-year-old daughter just asked me what day she was born.
Not what date. What day — of the week.
I didn’t know. And I didn’t know for myself. (Or my wife or son.)
Do you?
P.S. Turns out she was born on a Tuesday.
UPDATE: Commenter sharon notes that she knew the day of the week she was born, from the poem:
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 fair and wise and good and gay.
Now that sharon has mentioned it, I remember the fact that I was a Wednesday’s child. Which is about right: I’m pretty cranky.
Yes, I can tell you the day of the week all 3 of my children were born on, plus I actually do know the day of the week I was born on. The reason for the 3 kids is obvious; I gave birth to them so it was unforgettable for me. But the reason I know the day I was born on was because of the poem “Monday’s child is fair of face, Tuesday’s child is full of grace…” and I asked my mother which day I was born on.
Plus, you can look at an online calendar and see if your memory gets faulty. ๐
sharon (dfeb10) — 11/30/2006 @ 8:27 pmI was born on a sunday
krazy kagu (fc3721) — 11/30/2006 @ 8:32 pmI was born on Easter Sunday. My son was born on a Friday.
But I don’t know any others.
tommy (c08ff9) — 11/30/2006 @ 8:47 pmthere are calendar savants out there, you just give them a date and they’ll tell you what day it is. i’m sure it’s a simple enough algorith to learn if somebody cared enough.
assistant devil's advocate (29401e) — 11/30/2006 @ 9:10 pmwhoops, “algorithm”
assistant devil's advocate (29401e) — 11/30/2006 @ 9:10 pmWednesday, of course.
Allah (bab333) — 11/30/2006 @ 10:02 pmI just checked myself, my wife and my son; perfect correspondence with the poem. It figures that I was born on a Saturday.
RJN (e12f22) — 11/30/2006 @ 10:03 pmI was born on a Sunday. As was my wife. And daughter.
aunursa (7ee4ed) — 11/30/2006 @ 10:05 pmThursday. Guess I’ve got a long way to go. Wasn’t it enough to move from the Midwest to California once, from there to and from Mexico once, to and from Europe twice, to and from Chicago afterward, and finally to the other friggin’ coast?
I’m still born on Thursday, so I guess not.
Xrlq (1e3b05) — 11/30/2006 @ 10:24 pmSaturday.
Which pretty much proves that’s bull.
See-Dubya (90e77e) — 11/30/2006 @ 10:41 pmWednesday, it turns out. It’s something I’d never really thought about before.
Sean M. (db71f3) — 11/30/2006 @ 10:46 pmIn fact, I know the day and time. Saturday at 11PM. Mom was trying to have me on Memorial day, and missed it by that much.
CraigC (1465f4) — 11/30/2006 @ 10:50 pmFull of woe!? Damn, that sucks.
I always thought I was full of…well, you know.
Russell (a32796) — 12/1/2006 @ 12:51 amI too was born on a Thursday Xlrq. Maybe this just proves we have some “longevity”.
Rovin (317330) — 12/1/2006 @ 5:23 amFriday–which either means I’m with SeeDub and the poem’s bull, or else the fact that it was a Friday the 13th screwed with the poem’s karma.
Anwyn (4c21b1) — 12/1/2006 @ 6:00 amMonday. I think they may have lied to me about my birthday.
htom (412a17) — 12/1/2006 @ 6:18 amTuesday, but I have never been able to dance. If it means the other kind of grace, I was consecrated as a child.
nk (54c569) — 12/1/2006 @ 7:51 amI’m about as “full of woe” as any kid I know.
And I can rhyme.
Leviticus (3c2c59) — 12/1/2006 @ 9:13 amHere is a site that will show you the days of whatever year you are interested in….
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/
jimf (b5210d) — 12/1/2006 @ 9:25 amAnother one full of woe here; I never realized before that it was all my mother’s fault!
Dana (3e4784) — 12/1/2006 @ 10:01 amGiven the way the meaning of words has changed, does that mean that anyone born on Sunday reads Andrew Sullivan?
Dana (3e4784) — 12/1/2006 @ 10:03 amSunday…Mother’s Day in fact ๐
LordNazh (d282eb) — 12/1/2006 @ 11:00 amoh and I don’t read Andrew Sullivan but am a happy person nontheless
LordNazh (d282eb) — 12/1/2006 @ 11:00 amWell, I’ll be damned. I looked it up on the calendar, and it turns out that I was born on Thursday night. All these years Mom had it wrong. Or maybe I’m just a bad listener.
CraigC (1465f4) — 12/1/2006 @ 11:02 amFather’s Day Sunday.
Interesting note. Your birthday falls on your birth day of the week 6 years, 11 years, 17 years, 28 years, 34 years, 45 years, etc.
kimsch (127da6) — 12/1/2006 @ 1:52 pmor
11, 17, 28, 34, 45 after your birth. This has something to do with leap years.
Kimsch: what if you were born on February 29th?
Dana (e7aa47) — 12/1/2006 @ 5:28 pmThat’s a good one. I’m not sure. My sister married on February 29th…
2000 Feb 29th was a Tuesday, 2004 was a Sunday, 2008 will be a Friday, 2012 Wednesday, 2016 Monday, 2020 Saturday, 2024 Thursday, 2028 Tuesday again – so every 28 years your birth-day-of-the-week is the same if you are a leap baby.
and there was a mistake in my post above, the 11 shouldn’t be there in the first set of numbers…
kimsch (127da6) — 12/1/2006 @ 6:01 pmWell, duh. Sunday for me, silly!
Gleen Groonwald (08e1e8) — 12/1/2006 @ 9:35 pmKimsch: Years evenly divisible by 100 but not by 400 are not leap years; falls apart again for 2100. ๐
Dana (3e4784) — 12/2/2006 @ 5:06 am“Saturday’s child is bright and bonnie and gay” (45 years ago).
michael (223074) — 12/2/2006 @ 6:46 amSunday’s child…
I was going through my RSS feedreader (Bloglines – it ain’t perfect, but it suits me), and saw Patterico’s post about his daughter, who was inquiring on what day she was born. Thanks to one of his commenters, he reprinted…
CatHouse Chat (72c8fd) — 12/2/2006 @ 7:43 amDana, I won’t be alive then, so…
kimsch (127da6) — 12/2/2006 @ 7:46 pmMy parents often told me I was born on a Friday. It was trash day, and they didn’t get the trash out the night before.
From the Microsoft Excel help file:
Karl Lembke (ff486c) — 12/4/2006 @ 2:56 pm11/13/1984 Friday 13 11:53 hunter moon
Shadow (cb30bb) — 6/23/2007 @ 1:07 pmMy grandmother was born on Easter Sunday (3/31/1918)and her mother said it had a very special meaning for her. But she never actually never told me what it was other than it had a religious basis. Do you know? Thanks Rose
Rose Koneski (eee719) — 6/24/2007 @ 11:51 ami was born on a sunday on may 19 1991
sacha (743467) — 11/1/2007 @ 12:02 pmWhats really weird… I was born on a thursday and my First husband was born on a thursday and my children from that marriage was born on a thursday, makes ya wonder if families are born on the same day .
Dyan (7f100f) — 1/4/2008 @ 5:15 pmI WAS BORN ON GOOD FRIDAY
Quin (3d82ec) — 1/9/2008 @ 12:18 pmThat’s so cute.
Rebecca (0ec473) — 2/22/2008 @ 8:10 pmMy mom was talking about that poem so I decided to look it up.
I was born on Sunday.
๐
yay i was born on sunday!!!
chloe (f241c1) — 3/27/2008 @ 12:45 pmMy grand son was born on sunday 27th April 2008!!
Elly Lacroute (b44a07) — 6/12/2008 @ 2:15 pmmy name akua means i was born on wednesday so i dont have to refer to any calenda. that is the naming system of the akans on Ghana
akua (43863f) — 8/8/2008 @ 1:19 am