You said your birthday is 10 / 1 / 1985
which means you are 18 years old and about:
68 years 11 months younger than Walter Cronkite, age 87
65 years 4 months younger than Pope John Paul II, age 83
61 years 4 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 79
54 years 0 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 72
51 years 10 months younger than Larry King, age 70
45 years 8 months younger than Ted Koppel, age 63
42 years 3 months younger than Geraldo Rivera, age 60
39 years 3 months younger than George W. Bush, age 57
34 years 3 months younger than Jesse Ventura, age 52
29 years 11 months younger than Bill Gates, age 48
25 years 1 month younger than Cal Ripken Jr., age 43
19 years 3 months younger than Mike Tyson, age 37
15 years 2 months younger than Jennifer Lopez, age 33
9 years 9 months younger than Tiger Woods, age 28
3 years 3 months younger than Prince William, age 21



and that you were:
15 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
14 years old on the first day of Y2K
11 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
9 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
8 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
7 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
5 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
4 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
not yet 1 year old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded