Generation X
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Generation X, often shortened to Gen X, is the demographic cohort following the baby boomers and preceding millennials. Researchers and popular media often use the mid-1960s as its starting birth year
Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture popularized the term Generation X.
Western fertility rates, 1960–1980
Google co-founder Sergey Brin, speaking at a Web 2.0 conference
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was a landmark event in Generation X's formative years.
Silent Generation
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The Silent Generation, also known as the Traditionalist Generation or Builders Generation, is a demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the baby boomers. The generation is g
Generation X
…1980. By this definition and U.S. census data, there are 65.2 million Gen Xers in the United States as of 2019. Most Gen Xers are the children of the Silent Generation and older baby boomers, and many are the parents of millennials, Generation Z and older Generation Alpha. As children in the 1970s and 1980s, a time…
Child evacuees in Reading carrying gas masks which were issued to British civilians in 1938 during the Munich Crisis (1940)
Early television, an example of mid-20th century consumer goods
Houses adapted for elderly people in Omagh, Northern Ireland (2010)
46th U.S. president Joe Biden (2021–2025) is a member of the Silent Generation.