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Writing a bit of code that'll find the first valid ISO date should be easy enough, then we'll just need to find someone who was born that day…

29021960 appears starting at digit 713.

Wikipedia lists Khaled, Algerian raï musician; Richard Ramirez, American serial killer; Tony Robbins, American motivational speaker as being born on 29 February 1960.

Oddly searching for 29021960 doesn't return a result. But searching for 2902196 does and shows there's a zero after it.

ISO format is yyyymmdd, not ddmmyyyy. First recent ISO date in pi is 19530921 at the 417th decimal place. All Wikipedia has for that date is the birth of a musician and recording engineer called Andy Heermans.

The string 19850427 occurs at position 5,438,413

I'm at 1,251,501 if I exclude the century (19); otherwise, my DOB is not to be found.

I lose: The string 19880316 occurs at position 59,056,088

The string 31182 occurs at position 118,017 counting from the first digit after the decimal point. The 3. is not counted.

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