Group size forcing a shared birth month

Question

What is the smallest group size that guarantees at least two people in the group were born in the same calendar month?

Short answer

$13$ . There are $12$ months, so $12$ people could all differ, but by the pigeonhole principle a $13$ th person must repeat a month.

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