Like many calendars, it lists birthdays on various dates.
……shares June 5 with both Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes.
No, I didn\’t know that they shared a birthday.
Like many calendars, it lists birthdays on various dates.
……shares June 5 with both Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes.
No, I didn\’t know that they shared a birthday.
Wikipedia suggests Adam Smith is later in the new calendar.
Get 23 people in the same room and it’s odds on that at least two of them share a birthday.
They also share a birthday with me.
The 5 June, 1723 date is for Adam Smith’s baptism, not his birth.
Also, in 1752 the calendar changed, dropping 11 days in September to bring it into line with modern calendars.