What year was I born if I'm 73?
1952 or 1953
Anyone who is 73 today, Friday, November 13, 2026, was born between Friday, November 14, 1952 and Friday, November 13, 1953. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- November 14, 1952
- Latest birth date
- November 13, 1953
- Birth years
- 1952 or 1953
- Age today
- 73
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Friday, November 13, 1953 turns 73 today. Someone born a day later, on Saturday, November 14, 1953, is still 72 until tomorrow. That is why “what year” has two answers rather than one, and why a birth date rather than a year is what settles it.
Read the other way round: to be exactly 73 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Friday, November 14, 1952 and on or before Friday, November 13, 1953.
There is no 29 February in that window, so everyone who is 73 today has had a birthday every year since they were born. Twenty-five of the hundred ages on this site do span a leap day; this is not one of them.
The two candidate years
- Born in 1952from November 14, 1952
- Born in 1953up to November 13, 1953