What year was I born if I'm 98?
1927 or 1928
Anyone who is 98 today, Friday, November 13, 2026, was born between Monday, November 14, 1927 and Tuesday, November 13, 1928. The boundary falls in the middle of the year, so the answer spans two of them.
- Earliest birth date
- November 14, 1927
- Latest birth date
- November 13, 1928
- Birth years
- 1927 or 1928
- Age today
- 98
Which year, exactly
Someone born on Tuesday, November 13, 1928 turns 98 today. Someone born a day later, on Wednesday, November 14, 1928, is still 97 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 98 today, a date of birth has to fall on or after Monday, November 14, 1927 and on or before Tuesday, November 13, 1928.
That window contains 29 February 1928, so some people who are 98 today were born on a date that only comes round every four years — 98 years old with 24 birthdays behind them rather than 98. The next 29 February is when they have another.
The two candidate years
- Born in 1927from November 14, 1927
- Born in 1928up to November 13, 1928