Live Poll: Saint Patrick's Day Babies

@urbanemovies​ #84 Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) won nine Academy Awards and was Oscar-nominated 45 times. Newman had a career spanning more than four decades and composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures.

@urbanemovies​ ,

Originally, I thought of only including people with Irish ancestry. I may still do that as a separate poll. Unfortunately, that leads to somewhat obscure people very quickly.

I prefer not to include John Wayne Gacy in this poll.

I replaced:

Joseph Cousins

with

35. Alfred Newman

@dan_dassow​

Just basic math, 364/365 is going to eliminate a lot of people fast. I thought it would hard to find 35 recognizable names in this case. I am amazed with DC's 100 y.o.a polls that I usually can find at least 50 names that I can recognize (from the top 100), but this is 3.5x harder.

@dan_dassow​ I wasn't advocating for JWG, just pointing him out. I too would prefer a list of people with worthy accomplishments and a sustained career combined with the randomness of being born on a particular day.

@urbanemovies​ ,

I plan to create a Leap Day Babies poll for Leap Day 2024 (29-February-2024). Assuming an even distribution of births throughout the year, there are only 1 in 1461 born on February 29th.

Birth Month Day of 02-29 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)

https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?birth_monthday=2-29

One of these days, I may test out the hypothesis that birthdays are evenly distributed throughout the year.

@dan_dassow​ I was curious. Some of the biggest names with 2/29 birthdays are #3. Dennis Farina, #8. Dinah Shore, #17. Ja Rule, #25. William A. Wellman, #27. Anthony Robbins, #32. Aileen Wuornos (explains a lot), #77. Jimmy Dorsey, #80. Dino A. De Laurentis (not that one, the grandson) and an equal number of third-tier names, you may or may not recognize, and then it gets real thin. There are lots of names without profile pictures too.

@dan_dassow​ I kinda wonder if somehow the Irish are cooking the books here. There seems to be a disproportionate number of Irish surnamed celebrities born on March 17th to me. I don't know if inducing labor is a thing for the Irish do, in order to be born on the date, but it seems suspect.

@urbanemovies​ ,

I can not claim any Irish ancestry, although my wife has a small amount of Irish ancestry. Hence, my daughters can claim to be Irish.

I've heard it said by many through the years that everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day.

@dan_dassow​ I've heard the same.

@urbanemovies​ ,

Thanks.