What year was I born if I'm 97?
1928 or 1929
Anyone who is 97 today, Friday, November 13, 2026, was born between Wednesday, November 14, 1928 and Wednesday, November 13, 1929. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- November 14, 1928
- Latest birth date
- November 13, 1929
- Birth years
- 1928 or 1929
- Age today
- 97
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Wednesday, November 13, 1929 turns 97 today. Someone born a day later, on Thursday, November 14, 1929, is still 96 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 97 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Wednesday, November 14, 1928 and on or before Wednesday, November 13, 1929.
There is no 29 February in that window, so everyone who is 97 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 1928from November 14, 1928
- Born in 1929up to November 13, 1929