Expert: Chris - 5/5/2004

Question
I would like to know the birthdays of all 6 Friends characters. Not the actors, but the characters. I already submitted this question once and you told me this is outside your expertise. I am not here to ask you the same question twice, but to suggest that you change your Expertise description on the site, because it specifically states this as an area you can answer, as quoted below:

"I can answer almost anything dealing with characters and plots... I'm pretty good with arbitrary character information. (Birthdays of the characters, etc.) I know very little about non-show stuff (Cast or Crew) however. "

Thank you.

Answer
Ross: His birthday has been stated as being October 18th in one episode in the 9th season, this was affirmed in an October episode in Season 2 in which the gang went to a Hootie and the Blowfish concert for Ross's birthday. However in one episode Ross states his birthday is in Decemeber, which offers a bit of a descrepancy... he says this to Gunther so I suppose he could just be... lying? At any rate, since the most common answer makes him born in October we will assume his birthday is October 18th. Based on his declaration in the first season of "Being 26 and divorced" and later reaffirmed in the 5th season of being "30 and divorced twice" Ross should now be 36. This should make his official birthday be: October 18, 1967

Monica: Monica's birthday has been referenced once and only once. In an early May episode Monica says she's 25 and 13 months, meaning she's turned 26 a month ago, in early April or late March, judging by how much she's estimating. This is the only time Monica's birthday is EVER mentioned. However her age is mentioned a couple of times. She turned 26 in 1995, and Ross turned 27 in 1994, making him about 2 years older than her. She should thus be 35 for the past month or so, making her birthday: Late March or Early April, 1969, as early as we can figure it.

Rachel: Her birthday is May 5th (Today, oddly enough... Happy Birthday, Rach) this has been stated and reaffirmed in plenty of episodes feauturing her birthday which take place around then. The only thing that hurts this is Rachel's one statement that she is an Aquarius (which would make her late January or early February) As for her age, her being... 30 in the episode in which she "turns 30" is a little off-putting, for the most part is appears as if she turns... 35 today. Her official birthday is thus: May 5, 1969.

Chandler: Chandler's birthday has been referenced once, very vaguely. Rachel has a surprise birthday party that is very early and Rachel, surprised, remarks "Chandler's birthday is even before mine." This makes Chandler's birthday probably roughly a month before Rachel's putting his birthday in April sometime. He was in Ross' class so if Ross was born on October 18, 1967; Chandler's birthday is thus: April, 1968.

Phoebe: Her birthday officially is February 16th which she tells Frank Jr. in one episode, the year is tricky. We have almost nothing to go by, except that she turned out to a be a year older than she thought she was. Also in an episode where Phoebe realizes she mugged Ross when he was roughly 12 years old, Phoebe seems to have been about two years older than him. Making her older than all of the gang and making her birthday (roughly): February 16, 1965

Joey: To be perfectly blunt. No clue. His birthday has never been referenced. His birth YEAR we do know, he's older than at least Chandler (and probably Ross by the same token), who we know to be about 36 now, Joey is also probably around 36 (or possibly 37) because he was 13 sometime in 1981 though, in that he was born in 1967 at some point and was 28 in Season 2. As near as I can tell his birthday is Early in 1967.

This makes the birthday timeline of the gang.

Phoebe: February 16, 1965
Joey: Early 1967
Ross: October 18, 1967
Chandler: April, 1968
Monica: Late March-Early April, 1969.
Rachel: May 5, 1969.