Michael Palin - You're getting old!
Date of birth: May 5th, 1943
You are 80 years, 11 months and 24 days old today.
You are 29,580 days old.
Or, to put that in perspective
Nikolay Vladimirovich Davydenko Russian tennis player14,972 days old today
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Justine HeninBelgian retired professional tennis player14,608 days old today
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Michael PalinPerson getting old29,580 days old today
Michael Palin is exactly the same age today as Nikolay Vladimirovich Davydenko + @Justine_Henin
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 3,240.
Your heart has beaten approximately 2958055201 times in total.
You have taken approximately 630929054 breaths in total.
The moon has orbited the earth 1,083 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 7955224298 people alive.
You're so old that...
May 5th, 1943:
You were born
You were born
29,362 days
29,580 days
December 13th, 1862:
The Union Army suffers major defeat at the battle of Fredericksburg
Nearer to your birth date than today!
The Union Army suffers major defeat at the battle of Fredericksburg
Nearer to your birth date than today!
29th Apr 2024:
Today
Today
You're quite the traveller
559877480 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.
47641818908 miles
The distance you have travelled as the Earth revolves around the Sun.
365253944967 miles
The distance you have travelled as the Sun revolves around the center of our galaxy.
1000478197085 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)
3rd Oct 1951
New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the 9th inning (you were 8 years old)
As a teenager
26th Jul 1956
Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal (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)
6th Jan 1959
Fidel Castro arrives in Havana victorious (you were 15 years old)
17th Apr 1961
The abortive Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba starts (you were 17 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
30th Apr 1975
The Vietnam War ends with the fall of Saigon (you were 31 years old)
1st Apr 1976
Apple Inc. is founded in Cupertino, California by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (you were 32 years old)
25th May 1977
The original 'Star Wars' movie is released. (you were 34 years old)
8th Mar 1979
Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time (you were 35 years old)
20th Apr 1979
In your 40s
14th Jul 1983
Mario Bros., a platform game published and developed by Nintendo is released (you were 40 years old)
3rd Jul 1985
Back to the Future, American comic science fiction film is released (you were 42 years old)
28th Jan 1986
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (you were 42 years old)
17th Sep 1988
The opening of 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea (you were 45 years old)
3rd Oct 1990
East Germany and West Germany reunify into a single Germany (you were 47 years old)
In your 50s
1st Sep 1995
The DVD, an optical disc computer storage media format, is announced (you were 52 years old)
31st Aug 1997
Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash (you were 54 years old)
15th Sep 2000
The 2000 Summer Olympics are held in Sydney, Australia (you were 57 years old)
1st Jan 2001
The dawn of the new millennium (you were 57 years old)
11th Sep 2001
9/11 terror attacks on NYC's World Trade Center and Pentagon (you were 58 years old)
In your 60s
29th Aug 2005
Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing severe damage (you were 62 years old)
4th Nov 2008
Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States (you were 65 years old)
14th Apr 2010
Ash from Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland disrupts air traffic over Europe (you were 66 years old)
2nd May 2011
Osama bin Laden killed by US military forces in Pakistan (you were 67 years old)
8th Jul 2011
The last Space Shuttle launch, Atlantis on flight STS-135 (you were 68 years old)
In your 70s
7th Feb 2014
The XXII Olympic Games open in Sochi, Russia (you were 70 years old)
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)
12th Jun 2014
The 2014 FIFA World Cup opens in Brazil (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 will be 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 46,439 are still living.
- People born on your birth date who still live.
- People born on your birth date who are dead.
Over 96% of visitors to this site are younger than you! The average age of visitors is 34.
- People who are older than you.
- People who are younger than you.