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Oct 14, 2023 · This was a big jump from just seven years before, in 1940, when there were about 1,340,000 fewer births. Those born in 1947 are now 76 years old. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 2,083,434 Baby Boomers of 1947 were still alive in 2022. [ 2] This is slightly more than 56% of the people born in 1947.
- Tim O’Brien
- Deepak Chopra, M.D.
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Billy Joel
- Steve Wozniak
- Tommy Hilfiger
- Amy Tan
- Eve Ensler
- Julieanna Richardson
- Maria Shriver
“I can’t cop out by saying, ‘Well, I don’t know if I killed anybody.’ I was part of the war. I’m responsible. And so was all of America in the end.”
“My colleagues thought I was an embarrassment because I was talking about mind, body, spirit. So I was called a quack. I was called a fraud, which I initially resented, but then I got used to it.”
“Everything that I’ve gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation. I lived through it. I lived in it. I was of it.”
“Our parents’ generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work h...
“What Steve Jobs and I did—and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did—we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution.”
“I saw my future. I pictured it, but didn’t quite know how to get there. But I knew that I should never give up.”
“My mother didn’t teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.”
“I think about Marvin Gaye and ‘Sexual Healing.’ What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.”
“The turbulence of the 1960s set the ground for our generation to really soar. There’s no doubt that we are the beneficiaries of those who came before us. We are the affirmative action babies.”
“I was raised by a formidable woman. She always pushed me to be competitive in a man’s world. That’s maybe one of the attractions to journalism in the beginning. It was a male profession, and I was comfortable in that.”
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May 17, 2010 · In 1947, another 3.8 million babies were born; 3.9 million were born in 1952; and more than 4 million were born every year from 1954 until 1964, when the boom finally tapered off. By then, there...
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Oct 29, 2021 · In Britain, the boomer generation is known as “the bulge”. From 1944 to 1961, more than 65 million children were born in the United States. At the height of this baby boom, a child was born every seven seconds. Factors that contributed to the baby boom consisted of young couples who started families after putting off marriage during the War ...
Jul 31, 2014 · Timeline of a Generation. July 31, 2014. The years 1946 to 1964 define the post-war baby boomer generation, when the United States saw a spike in its birth rate. The American economy flourished...
Oct 4, 2018 · Award-winning photographer and filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (“The Black List,” “The Latino List” and “The Out List”) chose as his subjects boomers who reflect the depth, diversity and talent of their generation. Some of the men and women featured in “The Boomer List” are: 1946: Tim O’Brien, Vietnam veteran/author.
Oct 8, 2020 · For a long time, the baby boomers also held the title of America's largest generation, with a peak of nearly 79 million boomers in the U.S. in 1999 — that is, until their own children (a.k.a the ...
