This thread raises the topic (and suggests someone start another thread):
My father was born in 1893. He was 66 when I was born. (I’m 52)
I noted in the other thread, my dad was born in 1898.
My father was born in 1900, so he just made it under the wire. My uncle (mother’s brother) was born in 1899, and I think always half-seriously resented my dad for being only a year younger, but from a different century.
Well, he’s in luck! The century didn’t start until 1901.
Source: 20th century - Wikipedia
The previous poster indicated that. The 1800s and the 1900s were most definitely different centuries, just not exactly the same as 19th century and 20th century, respectively.
The cool thing is you might have had your father born in one century, you born in the next, and your own child born in the third. That’s pretty cool.
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I know lots of people in this situation, though I’m not one myself. The youngest person I know with a 19th-century-born parent is an uncle, born in 1939 (his father b. 1867). The oldest of them was born in 1922, for whom it’s a bit less surprising.
Interesting - I never thought about that.
My brother’s son was born three days from what would have been his grandfather’s 100th birthday.
I filled out a form a few years ago that asked for my parents’ birthdates, but only provided two digits for the year. I got a reply that sarcastically asked if my father was only twelve years old. I answered no, if alive, he would be a hundred and twelve.
My father missed the mark by one day. He was born New Years day 1900. He was 57 when I was born.
Actually, you’d have to go back to my great-grandparents to get to the 19th century, and not even all of them. (I’m 30.)
Actually, he qualifies for the 19th century, being born in 1900. “19th century” and “1800s” are not conterminous. Close, but not quite, since the latter begins and ends a year earlier.
So, if I were born in 1960, I was born in the 1950s? Cool.
Nope. What year was exactly 1,960 years before 1960?
Everyone I know with parents born in the 19th century is old.
My maternal grandmother’s parents were both born in the 1890s, and my paternal grandpa’s dad was born in 1898.
A neighbour of mine died in 2000 aged 73, and his father was still alive, aged 100. He later died in 2002, aged 102.
A friend of mine will be 93 on the Fourth of July. She was born when her father was 50, which means he was born in 1871.