Presidential Birthdays
The birthdates of the Presidents of the United States form an interesting study. The following is a list of all the Presidents (to the date of this writing) and their birthdays.
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George Washington
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February 22, 1732
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John Adams
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October 30 1735
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Thomas Jefferson
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April 13, 1743
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James Madison
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March 16, 1751
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James Monroe
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April 28th, 1758
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John Quincy Adams
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July 11, 1767
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Andrew Jackson
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March 15, 1767
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Martin Van Buren
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December 5, 1782
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William Henry Harrison
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February 9, 1773
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John Tyler
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March 29, 1790
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James K. Polk
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November 2, 1795
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Zachary Taylor
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November 24, 1784
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Millard Fillmore
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January 7, 1800
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Franklin Pierce
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November 23, 1804
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James Buchanan
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April 23, 1791
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Abraham Lincoln
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February 12, 1809
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Andrew Johnson
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December 29, 1808
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Ulysses S. Grant
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April 27, 1822
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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October 4, 1822
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James A. Garfield
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November 19, 1831
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Chester A. Arthur
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October 5, 1829
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Grover Cleveland
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March 18, 1837
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Benjamin Harrison
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August 20, 1833
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William McKinley
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January 29, 1843
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Theodore Roosevelt
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October 27, 1858
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William Howard Taft
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September 15, 1857
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Woodrow Wilson
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December 28, 1856
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Warren G. Harding
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November 2, 1865
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Calvin Coolidge
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July 4, 1872
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Herbert Hoover
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August 10, 1874
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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January 30, 1882
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Harry S Truman
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May 8, 1884
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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October 14, 1890
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John Kennedy
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May 29, 1917
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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August 27, 1908
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Richard M. Nixon
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January 9, 1913
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Gerald R. Ford
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July 14, 1913
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Jimmy Carter
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October 1, 1924
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Ronald Reagan
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February 6, 1911
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George H. W. Bush
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June 12, 1924
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William J. Clinton
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August 19, 1946
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George W. Bush
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July 6, 1946
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Barack Hussein Obama
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August 4, 1961
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President's Day is in February. However, only four presidents were born in this month. It just so happens that two of America's most prominent presidents were born in February, Washington and Lincoln. The two other presidents that share this birth month are Ronald Reagan and William Henry Harrison.
The month with the most presidential birthdays is October with six. The presidents born this month are John Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight David Eisenhower and Jimmy Carter. Interestingly enough, the second most popular month for presidential birthdays is November with five.
The most sparse month is a tie between June and September, each claiming only one president. June claims George H.W. Bush, and September has William Howard Taft.
Can we make anything from this skewed distribution of birthdays? Perhaps and perhaps not. 43 total presidents (44 if you count Cleveland twice, as many do, because of his separate terms of office) may not be a large enough sample to create a scientific conclusion regarding birth-months. Yet, we can say that the spring months, taken together, have a dearth of births. This could be because many of the early presidents had fathers who participated in historic events, which usually occurred in the summer months. This would mean these men were more likely to be absent from home at the crucial moment nine months before the spring season.
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