Presidential

HerrHerr · Post by **HerrHerr** » February 21st, 2007, 5:10 pm

Who shares a birthday with a U.S. president?

I share mine with Nixon. My sister w/ Clevland. My girlfriend with Truman.

George Washington February 22, 1732
John Adams October 30 1735
Thomas Jefferson April 13, 1743
James Madison March 16, 1751
James Monroe April 28th, 1758
John Quincy Adams July 11, 1767
Andrew Jackson March 15, 1767
Martin Van Buren December 5, 1782
William Henry Harrison February 9, 1773
John Tyler March 29, 1790
James K. Polk November 2, 1795
Zachary Taylor November 24, 1784
Millard Fillmore January 7, 1800
Franklin Pierce November 23, 1804
James Buchanan April 23, 1791
Abraham Lincoln February 12, 1809
Andrew Johnson December 29, 1808
Ulysses S. Grant April 27, 1822
Rutherford B. Hayes October 4, 1822
James A. Garfield November 19, 1831
Chester A. Arthur October 5, 1829
Grover Cleveland March 18, 1837
Benjamin Harrison August 20, 1833
William McKinley January 29, 1843
Theodore Roosevelt October 27, 1858
William Howard Taft September 15, 1857
Woodrow Wilson December 28, 1856
Warren G. Harding November 2, 1865
Calvin Coolidge July 4, 1872
Herbert Hoover August 10, 1874
Franklin D. Roosevelt January 30, 1882
Harry S Truman May 8, 1884
Dwight D. Eisenhower October 14, 1890
John Kennedy May 29, 1917
Lyndon B. Johnson August 27, 1908
Richard M. Nixon January 9, 1913
Gerald R. Ford July 14, 1913
Jimmy Carter October 1, 1924
Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911
George H. W. Bush June 12, 1924
William J. Clinton August 19, 1946
George W. Bush July 6, 1946

andrea · Post by **andrea** » February 21st, 2007, 5:43 pm

gerald ford, baby!!

although i really wish it was william howard taft.

sara farr · Post by **sara farr** » February 21st, 2007, 6:22 pm

Nope, but with a Feb. 2nd b-day I come close to several presidents, all of whom were ~~ Aquarians ~~ and born between January 20 and February 18.

William McKinley January 29, 1843
Franklin D. Roosevelt January 30, 1882
Ronald Reagan February 6, 1911
William Henry Harrison February 9, 1773
Abraham Lincoln February 12, 1809

P.S. Here's eHow.com's rules for HOW TO DATE AN AQUARIAN.

Aden · Post by **Aden** » February 21st, 2007, 7:59 pm

I just love that FDR was an Aquarius!!!

shando · Post by **shando** » February 21st, 2007, 9:41 pm

D'Alonzo and I share our birthday with Clinton!

Asaf · Post by **Asaf** » February 21st, 2007, 9:54 pm

I am one day after John Quincy Adams. But I do have the same exact birthday as two close improv friends of mine: Travis Ploeger and Rene Duquesnoy. And we also have CRAAAAZY names in common too. So there. I don't need no damn presidential parallels.

improvstitute · Post by **improvstitute** » February 21st, 2007, 11:18 pm

check it...

Ted Rutherford April 23, 1971
James Buchanan April 23 1791

CREEPY!!!

If only I had been named James Buchanan. Also, James K. Polk was a family friend. In fact, he gave 2 - 25 foot mirrors to my family after he was no longer Governor of Tennessee. They came out of the Governor's mansion. Tragically, they were lost in a fire, along with my grandfather's house, about 6 years ago. Insert sad trumpet sound here.

arclight · Post by **arclight** » February 21st, 2007, 11:20 pm

Kennedy.

Wesley · Post by **Wesley** » February 21st, 2007, 11:37 pm

Oddly enough, I share a birthday with three Presidents.

Birthday paradox:
In probability theory, the birthday paradox states that given a group of 23 (or more) randomly chosen people, the probability is more than 50% that at least two of them will have the same birthday. For 60 or more people, the probability is greater than 99%,

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » February 21st, 2007, 11:59 pm

Wesley wrote:Birthday paradox:
In probability theory, the birthday paradox states that given a group of 23 (or more) randomly chosen people, the probability is more than 50% that at least two of them will have the same birthday. For 60 or more people, the probability is greater than 99%,

I took probability, and was quite good at it, but damn if this still doesn't hurt my brain. Course...I've been drinking...

andrea · Post by **andrea** » February 22nd, 2007, 12:12 pm

this kind of reminds me of the general mathematical theory known as ramsey theory. (although i think the birthday problem can be solved without ramsey theory.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey_theory

the pigeon hole principle is a commonly known special case of ramsey theory.

mcnichol · Post by **mcnichol** » February 22nd, 2007, 12:58 pm

I'm a day off from Kennedy (I'm May 30, he's May 29).

Weirder (or more creepy) than the birthday paradox, is the number of presidents that are related to one another. check it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Un ... lationship

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » February 22nd, 2007, 1:01 pm

mcnichol wrote:Weirder (or more creepy) than the birthday paradox, is the number of presidents that are related to one another. check it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Un ... lationship

I wonder how much of that is just sheer probability. Like, would any 2 people whose families date back far enough in US history be related in some distant way?

From the article: Family trees, particularly those in a limited geographic area, tend to converge relative rapidly and many family trees going back ten generations or more will connect to more than one dozen U.S. Presidents, if all female ancestors and their descendants are traced.

Wesley · Post by **Wesley** » February 22nd, 2007, 1:45 pm

We're all related through Adam and Eve.

vine311 · Post by **vine311** » February 22nd, 2007, 2:09 pm

Adam and Eve were two plucky, young single-celled organisms with a dream. A dream to populate the world with dirty little sinners.