Michael Palin - You're getting old!
Date of birth: May 5th, 1943
You are 82 years, 2 months and 7 days old today.
You are 30,019 days old.
Or, to put that in perspective
Duncan JamesEnglish singer16,124 days old today
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Olly MursEnglish singer and TV presenter13,895 days old today
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Michael PalinPerson getting old30,019 days old today
Michael Palin is exactly the same age today as @MrDuncanJames + @ollyofficial
This changes every day! Come back tomorrow and see the next calculation.
Your star sign is Taurus. Your birth stones are Emerald or Chrysoprase.
The total number of candles on all your birthday cakes so far is 3,403.
Your heart has beaten approximately 3001971127 times in total.
You have taken approximately 639780899 breaths in total.
The moon has orbited the earth 1,099 times since you were born.
When you were born there were approximately 2,375,035,302 other people alive on Earth.
There are now about 8046350958 people alive.
You're so old that...
May 5th, 1943:
You were born
You were born
30,011 days
30,019 days
March 4th, 1861:
Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president of the USA
Nearer to your birth date than today!
Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president of the USA
Nearer to your birth date than today!
12th Jul 2025:
Today
Today
You're quite the traveller
568188112 miles
How far you have travelled around the center of the Earth as it rotates.
Based on living in New York City, it varies by location.
48348997983 miles
The distance you have travelled as the Earth revolves around the Sun.
370675651203 miles
The distance you have travelled as the Sun revolves around the center of our galaxy.
1015328957643 miles
As our galaxy is moving relative to the rest of the universe,
this is how far you have travelled towards the Great Attractor.
With all those miles on your body, it's surprising you haven't completely fallen to bits by now.
In your past...
As an infant
5th Jul 1943
The Battle of Kursk, largest tank battle in history, begins (you were 2 months old)
27th Jan 1944
The Siege of Leningrad is lifted (you were 8 months old)
3rd Feb 1944
US troops capture the Marshall Islands (you were 8 months old)
15th Feb 1944
Monte Cassino monastery is destroyed by Allied bombing (you were 9 months old)
24th Mar 1944
76 Royal Air Force prisoners escape from Stalag Luft III (you were 10 months old)
As a child
6th Jun 1944
D-Day: Allied troops land in Normandy (you were 1 year old)
6th Aug 1945
The city of Hiroshima is destroyed by an atomic bomb (you were 2 years old)
9th Aug 1945
The city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb (you were 2 years old)
15th Aug 1945
VJ Day (End of hostilities in World War II) (you were 2 years old)
5th Jul 1948
The National Health Service launches in the UK (you were 5 years old)
As a teenager
13th Sep 1956
The hard disk drive is invented by IBM (you were 13 years old)
4th Oct 1957
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth (you were 14 years old)
20th Feb 1962
John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth (you were 18 years old)
9th Jul 1962
Andy Warhol premieres his Campbell's Soup Cans exhibit in Los Angeles (you were 19 years old)
14th Oct 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis begins after US spy planes spot Russian nuclear weapons in Cuba (you were 19 years old)
In your 20s
18th Mar 1965
Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov becomes the first person to walk in space (you were 21 years old)
9th Oct 1967
Guerrilla leader Che Guevara executed in Bolivia (you were 24 years old)
4th Apr 1968
Martin Luther King is shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee (you were 24 years old)
20th Jul 1969
Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step onto the Moon (you were 26 years old)
17th Apr 1970
Apollo 13 returns safely to earth after explosion cripples craft en-route to the Moon (you were 26 years old)
In your 30s
6th Oct 1973
Yom Kippur war begins with arab attacks on Israel (you were 30 years old)
29th Mar 1974
The Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang is discovered at Xi'an, China (you were 30 years old)
4th Apr 1975
Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft (you were 31 years old)
30th Apr 1975
The Vietnam War ends with the fall of Saigon (you were 31 years old)
31st Oct 1975
"Bohemian Rhapsody", a song by the British rock band Queen is released (you were 32 years old)
In your 40s
28th Jul 1984
The 1984 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California (you were 41 years old)
28th Jan 1986
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (you were 42 years old)
11th Aug 1988
Al-Qaeda is formed by Osama bin Laden (you were 45 years old)
20th Aug 1988
The Iran-Iraq war ends (you were 45 years old)
7th Aug 1991
The World Wide Web is announced to the public by Tim Berners-Lee (you were 48 years old)
In your 50s
6th Jul 1994
The movie "Forrest Gump", starring Tom Hanks, is released (you were 51 years old)
31st Aug 1997
Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash (you were 54 years old)
25th Jun 1998
Microsoft releases Windows 98 (you were 55 years old)
1st Jan 2001
The dawn of the new millennium (you were 57 years old)
15th Jan 2001
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, launches on the Internet (you were 57 years old)
In your 60s
6th May 2004
The last episode of the TV show Friends airs (you were 61 years old)
29th Aug 2005
Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing severe damage (you were 62 years old)
15th Jul 2006
Twitter is launched (you were 63 years old)
12th Feb 2010
The 2010 Winter Olympics open in Canada (you were 66 years old)
2nd May 2011
Osama bin Laden killed by US military forces in Pakistan (you were 67 years old)
In your 70s
7th Feb 2014
The XXII Olympic Games open in Sochi, Russia (you were 70 years old)
13th Feb 2014
8th Mar 2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears en-route to Beijing (you were 70 years old)
21st Mar 2014
Russia formally annexes Crimea (you were 70 years old)
1st Jun 2014
The you.regettingold.com website launches (you were 71 years old)
Milestones
You were 500 days old on 16th Sep 1944
You were 1,000 days old on 29th Jan 1946
You were 2,000 days old on 25th Oct 1948
You were 5,000 days old on 11th Jan 1957
You were 10,000 days old on 20th Sep 1970
You were 15,000 days old on 29th May 1984
You were 20,000 days old on 5th Feb 1998
You were 25,000 days old on 15th Oct 2011
You were 30,000 days old on 23rd Jun 2025
You will be 35,000 days old on 2nd Mar 2039
You will be 40,000 days old on 8th Nov 2052
Compared to others...
Out of 100,000 people born on the same day as you, approximately 42,612 are still living.
- People born on your birth date who still live.
- People born on your birth date who are dead.
Over 95% of visitors to this site are younger than you! The average age of visitors is 35.
- People who are older than you.
- People who are younger than you.