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What year was I born if I'm 76?

1949 or 1950

Anyone who is 76 today, Thursday, September 24, 2026, was born between Sunday, September 25, 1949 and Sunday, September 24, 1950. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.

Earliest birth date
September 25, 1949
Latest birth date
September 24, 1950
Birth years
1949 or 1950
Age today
76

Which year, exactly

Someone born on Sunday, September 24, 1950 turns 76 today. Someone born a day later, on Monday, September 25, 1950, is still 75 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 76 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Sunday, September 25, 1949 and on or before Sunday, September 24, 1950.

There is no 29 February in that window, so everyone who is 76 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

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