From what I've read late 70's are Gen Y (or millenial). Everything I've read about Gen Y has it starting in either 77 or 78 going through until early 90s. Yeah I think I was 13 when Kurt died... I still remember people having HUGE buttons with his face on it and stuff (mostly the older kids...)
It's actually interesting what they say about our generation. In one of my classes we were given a packet of stats and info that a research firm put together to present to various companies who would want to market their products to Gen Y and what they had to say about us was quite interesting. This website says it's 1981, but I found just as many that said it starts in 1977... none of these things are set in stone things anyway... the generation labels are basically created for marketing purposes....
Gen Y defined
Generation Y Defined
generation y :
born between 1981 and 1995, generation y members in America are more than 57 million strong. The y generation is the largest consumer group in the history of the U.S. Other names for gen y include Echo Boomers and the Millennium Generation.