From an email i received:
The Silent generation, people born before 1946.
The Baby Boomers, people born between 1946 and 1959 .
Generation X, people born between 1960 and 1979.
Generation Y, people born between 1980 and 1995 .
Why do we call the last one generation Y? I did not know, but a caricaturist explains it rather eloquently below:
