Linus Torvalds - You're getting old!
Date of birth: December 28th, 1969
You are 55 years, 6 months and 9 days old today.
You are 20,279 days old.
Or, to put that in perspective
Kate UptonAmerican model and actress10,944 days old today
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Linus TorvaldsPerson getting old20,279 days old today
Linus Torvalds is exactly the same age today as @KateUpton + @lordemusic
This changes every day! Come back tomorrow and see the next calculation.
The total number of candles on all your birthday cakes so far is 1,540.
Your heart has beaten approximately 2028084122 times in total.
You have taken approximately 443433889 breaths in total.
The moon has orbited the earth 742 times since you were born.
When you were born there were approximately 3,695,244,147 other people alive on Earth.
There are now about 8045120631 people alive.
You're so old that...
December 28th, 1969:
You were born
You were born
20,259 days
20,279 days
July 11th, 1914:
Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut with the Red Sox
Nearer to your birth date than today!
Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut with the Red Sox
Nearer to your birth date than today!
6th Jul 2025:
Today
Today
You're quite the traveller
383846007 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.
32662721102 miles
The distance you have travelled as the Earth revolves around the Sun.
250414195119 miles
The distance you have travelled as the Sun revolves around the center of our galaxy.
685917143152 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 not surprising you're starting to look a bit rusty.
In your past...
As an infant
5th Jan 1970
The first episode of All My Chidren is broadcast on ABC (you were 8 days old)
17th Apr 1970
Apollo 13 returns safely to earth after explosion cripples craft en-route to the Moon (you were 3 months old)
4th May 1970
8th May 1970
The Beatles release their 12th and final album, Let It Be. (you were 4 months old)
18th Sep 1970
Jimi Hendrix dies in London (you were 8 months old)
As a child
30th Mar 1971
The first Starbucks opened in Seattle, Washington (you were 1 year old)
30th Apr 1975
The Vietnam War ends with the fall of Saigon (you were 5 years old)
31st Oct 1975
"Bohemian Rhapsody", a song by the British rock band Queen is released (you were 5 years old)
17th Jul 1976
The 1976 Summer Olympics begin in Montreal, Canada (you were 6 years old)
14th Dec 1977
Saturday Night Fever, an American dance film directed by John Badham is released (you were 7 years old)
As a teenager
7th Jun 1984
American comedy movie Ghostbusters is released (you were 14 years old)
28th Jan 1986
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (you were 16 years old)
28th May 1987
18-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust lands a private plane on Red Square in Moscow (you were 17 years old)
17th Sep 1988
The opening of 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea (you were 18 years old)
24th Mar 1989
The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Alaska (you were 19 years old)
In your 20s
7th Aug 1991
The World Wide Web is announced to the public by Tim Berners-Lee (you were 21 years old)
1st Mar 1995
The first search engine service Yahoo! is founded (you were 25 years old)
5th Sep 1995
Backstreet Boys' first single " We've Got It Goin' On" is released (you were 25 years old)
5th Jul 1996
Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born (you were 26 years old)
31st Aug 1997
Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash (you were 27 years old)
In your 30s
15th Sep 2000
The 2000 Summer Olympics are held in Sydney, Australia (you were 30 years old)
1st Jan 2001
The dawn of the new millennium (you were 31 years old)
11th Sep 2001
9/11 terror attacks on NYC's World Trade Center and Pentagon (you were 31 years old)
13th Aug 2004
The 2004 Summer Olympics are held in Athens, Greece (you were 34 years old)
19th Apr 2005
Pope Benedict XVI succeeds Pope John Paul II, becoming the 265th pope (you were 35 years old)
In your 40s
12th Feb 2010
The 2010 Winter Olympics open in Canada (you were 40 years old)
11th Mar 2011
A 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hits the east of Japan (you were 41 years old)
29th Apr 2011
Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London (you were 41 years old)
2nd May 2011
Osama bin Laden killed by US military forces in Pakistan (you were 41 years old)
8th Jul 2011
The last Space Shuttle launch, Atlantis on flight STS-135 (you were 41 years old)
Milestones
You were 500 days old on 12th May 1971
You were 1,000 days old on 23rd Sep 1972
You were 2,000 days old on 20th Jun 1975
You were 5,000 days old on 6th Sep 1983
You were 10,000 days old on 15th May 1997
You were 15,000 days old on 22nd Jan 2011
You were 20,000 days old on 30th Sep 2024
You will be 25,000 days old on 9th Jun 2038
You will be 30,000 days old on 16th Feb 2052
You will be 35,000 days old on 25th Oct 2065
You will be 40,000 days old on 4th Jul 2079
Compared to others...
Out of 100,000 people born on the same day as you, approximately 89,317 are still living.
- People born on your birth date who still live.
- People born on your birth date who are dead.
Over 87% 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.