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The ancients did not note the date of a person's birth nor observe birthdays. That is a modern tradition. (My own grandfather did not know the day of his birth).

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The Dover Shalom commentary (on Otzar Hatefillot, pages 906 and 910) mentions two opinions. One opinion is that Joseph was born on the first of Tammuz; the other opinion is that he was born on the twenty-seventh of Tammuz. The year, according to tradition, was 1561 BCE.

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