What year was I born if I'm 96?
1929 or 1930
Anyone who is 96 today, Thursday, September 24, 2026, was born between Wednesday, September 25, 1929 and Wednesday, September 24, 1930. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- September 25, 1929
- Latest birth date
- September 24, 1930
- Birth years
- 1929 or 1930
- Age today
- 96
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Wednesday, September 24, 1930 turns 96 today. Someone born a day later, on Thursday, September 25, 1930, is still 95 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 96 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Wednesday, September 25, 1929 and on or before Wednesday, September 24, 1930.
There is no 29 February in that window, so everyone who is 96 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 1929from September 25, 1929
- Born in 1930up to September 24, 1930