What year was I born if I'm 87?
1938 or 1939
Anyone who is 87 today, Friday, November 13, 2026, was born between Monday, November 14, 1938 and Monday, November 13, 1939. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- November 14, 1938
- Latest birth date
- November 13, 1939
- Birth years
- 1938 or 1939
- Age today
- 87
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Monday, November 13, 1939 turns 87 today. Someone born a day later, on Tuesday, November 14, 1939, is still 86 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 87 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Monday, November 14, 1938 and on or before Monday, November 13, 1939.
There is no 29 February in that window, so everyone who is 87 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 1938from November 14, 1938
- Born in 1939up to November 13, 1939