What year was Voldemort born?

Mon Jan 27 01:23:02 UTC 2003

No: HPFGUIDX 50714

I recently visited a website, which had a quiz about various 
characters in the Harry Potter books.  In the quiz about Voldemort, 
one of the questions was; 'what year was Voldemort born?"  The 
choices they gave were:

a. 1925
b. 1927
c. 1930

I think it's 1926.  Now, my math never was my best subject in school 
but here's how I came to my conclusion...

When Tom Riddle immortalized himself in that diary, he was 16.  In 
the Chamber of Secrets it's 50 after the diary was written and the 
Chamber of Secrets was last opened.  Harry's 12 in CoS which makes it 
1992 because Harry was born in 1980, right?  Now, go back 50 years 
and it's now 1942.  If you go back 16 years from that you have 1926!  
If my math is wrong or if I'm figuring this out incorrectly, please 
let me know... but I think the year that Voldy was born was 1926.

Harriet

P.S.  I'm not sure if I'm placing this in the right area -- I'm not 
sure how to do that.  If it's not in the right area, I apologize.