like this one from the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
cite the study's finding of October 5 as the date the most people (in the U.S., anyway) are born.
The 2001 report claims approximately 968,000 living Americans entered the world on that date. (The original web page announcing these results is no longer online, but we oh-so-cleverly queried the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and found it.)
So why October 5?
Just a random date?
Perhaps, but Anybirthday has a theory:
To be born on this date,
a baby would most likely have been conceived on New Year's Eve.
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October 5, 1987 Javier Villa Spanish racing driver
October 5, 1985 Nicola Roberts English singer (Girls Aloud)
October 5, 1984 Kenwyne Jones Trinidadian footballer
October 5, 1983 Nicky Hilton American heiress
October 5, 1981 Kelvin Tan Wei Lian Singaporean singer
October 5, 1980 Paul Thomas American bassist (Good Charlotte)
October 5, 1979 Curtis Sanford Canadian ice hockey player
October 5, 1979 Vincenzo Grella Australian soccer player
October 5, 1978 Shane Ryan Irish Gaelic footballer
October 5, 1978 Morgan Webb Canadian-born television presenter
October 5, 1978 James Valentine American musician (Maroon 5)
October 5, 1976 Song Seung-hun South Korean actor
October 5, 1976 Ramzan Kadyrov Chechen President
October 5, 1976 J. J. Yeley American race car driver
October 5, 1975 Bobo Baldé Guinean footballer
October 5, 1975 Parminder Nagra English actress
October 5, 1975 Kate Winslet English actress
October 5, 1974 Heather Headley Trinidadian singer
October 5, 1974 Colin Meloy American singer (The Decemberists)
October 5, 1972 Grant Hill American basketball player
October 5, 1972 Thomas Roberts American news anchor
October 5, 1970 Agnes Barley American artist
October 5, 1970 Josie Bissett American actress
October 5, 1970 South Park Mexican American rapper
October 5, 1967 Guy Pearce Anglo-Australian actor
October 5, 1966 Jan Verhaas Dutch snooker referee
October 5, 1965 Mario Lemieux Canadian ice hockey player
October 5, 1965 Patrick Roy Canadian ice hockey player
October 5, 1964 Keiji Fujiwara Japanese voice actor
October 5, 1964 Malik Saidullaev Chechen businessman
October 5, 1964 Warren E. Miller Maryland politician
October 5, 1963 Caron Keating Irish television personality
October 5, 1962 Michael Andretti American race car driver
October 5, 1961 Matthew Kauffman American journalist and George Polk Award winner
October 5, 1961 David Kirk New Zealand rugby union footballer
October 5, 1960 Daniel Baldwin American actor
October 5, 1958 André Kuipers Dutch astronaut
October 5, 1958 Bernie Mac American comedian
October 5, 1957 Mark Geragos American attorney
October 5, 1952 Clive Barker English writer
October 5, 1952 Duncan Regehr Canadian actor
October 5, 1951 Karen Allen American actress
October 5, 1951 Bob Geldof Irish singer (The Boomtown Rats) and activist
October 5, 1950 Edward P. Jones American writer
October 5, 1950 'Fast' Eddie Clarke English guitarist (Motörhead, Fastway)
October 5, 1950 Jeff Conaway American actor
October 5, 1949 Ralph Goodale Canadian politician
October 5, 1949 Bill James American baseball writer
October 5, 1949 B.W. Stevenson American singer
October 5, 1948 Tawl Ross American musician (P Funk)
October 5, 1948 Zoran Živkovic Serbian writer
October 5, 1947 Brian Johnson English singer (AC/DC)
October 5, 1946 Zahida Hina Pakistani columnist
October 5, 1946 Jean Perron Canadian ice hockey coach
October 5, 1945 Brian Connolly Scottish singer (Sweet)
October 5, 1943 Steve Miller American musician
October 5, 1942 Richard Street American singer (The Temptations)
October 5, 1941 Eduardo Duhalde President of Argentina
October 5, 1939 Marie Laforêt French singer and actress
October 5, 1939 Marie-Claire Blais French Canadian author and playwright
October 5, 1938 Teresa Heinz Kerry American philanthropist
October 5, 1937 Barry Switzer American football coach
October 5, 1936 Václav Havel President of the Czech Republic
October 5, 1934 Angelo Buono, Jr., American serial killer (d. 2002)
October 5, 1933 Diane Cilento Australian actress
October 5, 1932 Michael John Rogers English ornithologist
October 5, 1930 Anne Haddy Australian actress
October 5, 1930 Pavel Popovich Soviet cosmonaut
October 5, 1930 Reinhard Selten German economist, Nobel laureate
October 5, 1929 Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut
October 5, 1928 Louise Fitzhugh American author
October 5, 1926 Willi Unsoeld American climber
October 5, 1925 Gail Davis American actress
October 5, 1925 Bob Thaves American cartoonist
October 5, 1924 Bill Dana American actor
October 5, 1924 Barbara Kelly Canadian-born actress
October 5, 1923 Albert Guðmundsson Icelandic footballer
October 5, 1923 Glynis Johns British actress
October 5, 1922 José Froilán González Argentine race car driver
October 5, 1922 Bil Keane American cartoonist
October 5, 1922 Jock Stein Scottish footballer and manager
October 5, 1921 Bill Willis American football player
October 5, 1919 Donald Pleasence English actor
October 5, 1917 Allen Ludden American television game show host
October 5, 1913 Eugene Bennett Fluckey American Navy Submariner (d. 2007)
October 5, 1912 Fritz Fischer (medical doctor) Nazi war criminal
October 5, 1911 Flann O'Brien Irish humorist
October 5, 1908 Joshua Logan American film director and writer
October 5, 1907 Mrs. Miller American singer
October 5, 1905 Harriet E. MacGibbon American actress
October 5, 1904 John Hoyt American film and television actor
October 5, 1903 M. King Hubbert American geophysicist
October 5, 1902 Larry Fine American actor and comedian
October 5, 1902 Ray Kroc American fast food entrepreneur
October 5, 1901 John Alton American cinematographer
October 5, 1894 Bevil Rudd South African athlete
October 5, 1892 Remington Kellogg American naturalist
October 5, 1889 Teresa de la Parra Venezuelan writer
October 5, 1887 René Cassin French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October 5, 1882 Robert Goddard American rocket scientist
October 5, 1879 Francis Peyton Rous American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
October 5, 1878 Louise Dresser American actress
October 5, 1864 Louis Lumière French film pioneer
October 5, 1850 Sergey Muromtsev Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma
October 5, 1848 Guido von List German writer
October 5, 1829 Chester A. Arthur 21st President of the United States
October 5, 1824 Henry Chadwick English-born American baseball writer and statistician
October 5, 1820 David Wilber American politician
October 5, 1795 Alexander Keith Scottish-born Canadian brewer
October 5, 1792 Joseph Crosfield English soap and alkali manufacturer
October 5, 1781 Bernard Bolzano Czech mathematician and philosopher
October 5, 1717 Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux French mistress of King Louis XV of France
October 5, 1715 Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (d. 1789)
October 5, 1713 Denis Diderot French philosopher and encylopedist
October 5, 1712 Francesco Guardi Italian painter
October 5, 1703 Jonathan Edwards American minister
October 5, 1695 John Glas Scottish minister
October 5, 1658 Mary of Modena queen of James II of England
October 5, 1641 Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of King Louis XIV of France (d. 1707)
October 5, 1520 Alessandro Cardinal Farnese Italian cardinal
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October 5 in Portugal is known as "Implantation of the Republic"
October 5th in History
1989: The exiled Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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