In recent years, a correlation between mental and physical well-being has increasingly become accepted. An analysis of birthdays and death days of famous people could be used as further evidence in the study of this correlation. To use these data, we are supposing that being able to look forward to something betters a person’s mental state; and that a famous person would probably look forward to his or her birthday because of the resulting attention, affection, and so on. If a famous person is in poor health and dying, then perhaps anticipating his birthday would “cheer him up and therefore improve his health and possibly decrease the chance that he will die shortly before his birthday.” The data might therefore reveal that a famous person is less likely to die in the months before his or her birthday and more likely to die in the months afterward