My friend recently met a girl who shares a birthday with him. He is not the romantic type, but he was definitely moved by this remarkable coincidence.
Assuming all birthdays are evenly distributed (are they?), and ignoring freaks born on February 29th, the probability that a person you meet will have the same birthday as you is 1/365, which is approximately .27%.
This is about twice as likely as getting dealt a full house in a five-card poker hand, which hardly qualifies as “fated”. If she had his initials, too, that would be another story.
