Basic Trope: A character dies on the anniversary of the date on which they were born.
- Played Straight: Bob suffers a fatal accident on his birthday.
- Exaggerated: Bob was poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered on his birthday.
- Downplayed:
- Bob dies peacefully in his sleep on his birthday.
- Bob doesn't die on his actual birthday, but on a day very close to it.
- Something bad happens to Bob on his birthday, such as being badly injured, but he lives.
- Justified:
- Bob is based on a Real Life figure who actually died on the day he was born.
- The accident was related to his birthday celebration.
- Inverted:
- Bob is reincarnated on the day he dies.
- On Bob's birthday, everyone but him dies.
- Bob goes on a killing spree on his birthday.
- Subverted:
- Bob attempts to kill himself on his birthday, but he botches the job or is interrupted in the process of killing himself.
- Bob fakes his death on his birthday.
- Double Subverted:
- Bob tries to kill himself a second time and finally succeeds.
- In the process of faking his own death on his birthday, Bob is killed in an unintended accident.
- Parodied: Alice dyes her hair on her birthday.
- Zig-zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob enjoys his birthday and lives to see another day.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: Alice remarks that Bob dying on his birthday is weirdly ironic.
- Invoked: Alice doesn't want to wish Bob a Happy Birthday and hopes that he dies, instead.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Someone planned on killing Bob on his birthday, but Bob survived the murder attempt.
- Discussed: "I don't want to die on my birthday. That would be so terrible."
- Conversed: "What are the odds that I might die on my own birthday?"
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Implied: There are matching months and day numbers on the gravestone at Bob's funeral.
- Played for Laughs: Bob chokes to death on a piece of cake on his birthday.
- Played for Drama: Bob dies of a terminal illness on his birthday with loved ones gathered around his deathbed.
- Played for Horror: Bob is violently murdered by a Masked Slasher on his birthday.
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