What year was I born if I'm 85?
1940 or 1941
Anyone who is 85 today, Friday, November 13, 2026, was born between Thursday, November 14, 1940 and Thursday, November 13, 1941. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- November 14, 1940
- Latest birth date
- November 13, 1941
- Birth years
- 1940 or 1941
- Age today
- 85
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Thursday, November 13, 1941 turns 85 today. Someone born a day later, on Friday, November 14, 1941, is still 84 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 85 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Thursday, November 14, 1940 and on or before Thursday, November 13, 1941.
There is no 29 February in that window, so everyone who is 85 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 1940from November 14, 1940
- Born in 1941up to November 13, 1941