Order by date rather than year

Hi,
I am printing a report which pulls data from Oracle 8i through JSP.
My SQL query is:
String sql="SELECT first_name,last_name, to_char(birth_date,'MM/DD/YYYY') as smthng";
sql+=" FROM personnel";
sql+=" ORDER BY birth_date";
Now this query orders the results by year, then month and then day.
What I mean is If I have values(mm/dd/yyyy format):
06/20/1978, 06/15/2002, 06/01/1990
it will show them as:
06/20/1978,06/01/1990, 06/15/2002
What I need is this form(order by days only and not to worry about year)
06/01/1990,06/15/2002,06/20/1978
Any idea if I can do that without storing them into array and parsing them and then comparing.

I don't know if Oracle will let you sort by an alias but you might
try...
"ORDER BY smthng"

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