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It's not actually known, for certain, what month, day, or year that Beethoven was born. His birthday has been assigned a sort of "agreed-upon" date by historians.
Actually the evidence of the date of birth is pretty strong and no one even questions the month.
" the registry of his baptism, in a Catholic service at the Parish of St. Regius on 17 December 1770, survives.[6] As children of that era were traditionally baptised the day after birth in the Catholic Rhine country, and it is known that Beethoven's family and his teacher Johann Albrechtsberger celebrated his birthday on 16 December, most scholars accept 16 December 1770 as Beethoven's date of birth."
I am going to go with his family would most certainly know.