“ There is some cross over of course but most people seem to think everyone born before 1990 was a Boomer.
They were not.”
Boomers are by definition the children of WWII fighters
The tail end is debatably 1959. Period.
The boomer generation is that born from 1946 to 1964.
War Babies begin in 1942 and go until late 1946; they are THE smallest generation ever and sometimes gets lumped in with the SILENT generation, which would be wrong to do; though they do share some of their attributes and circumstances.
Boomers begins in late 1946, or very early 1947 and go until 1967!
Gen X begins in 1967.
Gen X begins in 1967!
Tail end is 1963-64.