What is Javier Gerardo Milei's date and place of birth?
Executive summary
Javier Gerardo Milei was born on 22 October 1970, a date reported consistently across major reference sources [1] [2]. Sources agree he was born in the City of Buenos Aires, with several specifying the Palermo neighborhood; reporting varies between the general "Buenos Aires" and the more specific "Palermo, Buenos Aires" [2] [1].
1. Date of birth — a consistent fact
Multiple widely consulted biographical references list Milei’s birth date as 22 October 1970, including encyclopedic entries such as Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica, which state "22 October 1970" or "born October 22, 1970" [1] [2]; several tertiary biographical sites and databases repeat the identical date [3] [4].
2. Place of birth — Buenos Aires, with neighborhood-level detail
Primary public profiles and news biographies place Milei’s birth in Buenos Aires City [2] [5], while some sources and derived profiles give the more granular locale of Palermo, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, explicitly stating "Palermo, Buenos Aires" [1] [6]. Other summaries and encyclopedias use the broader "Buenos Aires" formulation without naming a neighborhood [2] [7].
3. Where sources converge and where they diverge
There is clear convergence on both the date—22 October 1970—and the city—Buenos Aires—but divergence appears only in the level of geographic specificity: multiple reputable sources supply the neighborhood Palermo [1] [8], whereas major reference texts sometimes omit neighborhood detail and cite only the city [2]. Fan-curated or user-generated wikis replicate the same date and city and occasionally add the Palermo detail, reflecting secondary copying rather than independent confirmation [9] [6].
4. Assessing reliability and why variations exist
Authoritative encyclopedias such as Britannica and major news outlets tend to report the city and date in succinct form—"born October 22, 1970, Buenos Aires"—which establishes a high-confidence baseline for both facts [2] [5], while crowd-sourced or derivative databases and biographical aggregators often amplify specificity by naming Palermo, likely drawn from local biographical material or prior profiles [1] [8]. The consistency of the date across independent reputable sources reduces the likelihood of error on that point; the minor place-of-birth variation is a matter of granularity rather than contradiction [2] [1].
5. Context and implications of these biographical details
Knowing Milei’s date and place of birth anchors timelines used by journalists and historians to track his education, career and political rise—details that appear alongside these basic facts in profiles that recount his upbringing in Buenos Aires neighborhoods like Villa Devoto and Palermo and his family background [2] [7]. While the exact neighborhood may matter to local biographers and commentators seeking texture about his early life, the essential, consistently reported facts are his birth on 22 October 1970 and his origin in the City of Buenos Aires [2] [1].
6. Bottom line
All consulted reference sources consistently report Javier Gerardo Milei’s birth date as 22 October 1970 and place his birth in Buenos Aires City; several reputable and derivative sources add the neighborhood Palermo as the specific locale within Buenos Aires [1] [2] [8]. If documentary primary records (civil registry) are required for absolute verification, those were not provided among the supplied materials and thus lie beyond the scope of this compilation of published references.