I’ve always been a fan of numbers for as long as I can remember. Later in my life I developed an obsession for pi as chronicled in my first blog post.. I also, due to my affinity for numbers found gematria appealing (more on this later).

Last night I happened upon the wikipedia page of Charles Evans Hughes III and noticed he was born on March 14, 1915 (3/14/15). This of course made me smile! What a find for a pi lover. I was then curious about who else was born on this day. After a failed google search, I decided to ask Chat GPT how to do this. After a few rounds of prompts I was given the following sample code for the Wikidata Query Service

SELECT ?person ?personLabel ?birthDate WHERE {
?person wdt:P31 wd:Q5; # Instance of human
wdt:P569 "1990-01-01T00:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime. # Birthdate
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}
LIMIT 100

I of course checked my date of birth first by replacing 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z with 1984-09-18. Not all the people found have a dedicated entry on Wikipedia but the query finds records for sources. I found out that Rico Strong and I share a birthday. I was not familiar with his work, I promise.
I then moved on to my primary query,

SELECT ?person ?personLabel ?birthDate WHERE {
?person wdt:P31 wd:Q5; # Instance of human
wdt:P569 "1915-03-14T00:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime. # Birthdate
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}
LIMIT 100

Now for a mildly interesting gematria finding. After noticing a few names, I found an entry where the personLabel was just the ID. This wikidata entry for this is linked here. I searched google for the Russian name listed Числов Александр Михайлович and found the Russian wiki page for the entry. After translating the page I found the anglicized name to be Aleksandr Mikhailovich Chistlov. I then went to the gematrinator website and plugged in the name.

Below is the Ordinal computation for the name Image

313!

The Ordinal cipher is the most basic cipher where a = 1, b = 2, c= 3….z = 26.

So close to being 314. It made me think of my off by one birth record number EA 313 for someone who developed a love for pi.