Some students are, of course, born on January 1...but probably not so many as have that date listed!  There are two reasons.  First, if we don't have a specific date, we list it as January 1 of the year we know.  But the fact is, we don't have a specific day for some of the students because birthdays aren’t nearly as important to East Africans as they are to us.  Many students don’t even know their actual birthday!