In the form to choose the year the list starts with 1892 and finish with 2012. I suppose that most of the people that use this are relatively young (<40?), so I think it would be better to offer the recent years fist.

Las month, there was a discussion about haw is the best way to ask about the birth date of a person [1]. I think that one of the more difficult part is that the year list is too long.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4099946