January 5th, 1057

Born on January 5th, 1057

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 353,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 676 days, exactly on March 26th, 2026, people who were born on January 5th, 1057 will be 354,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on January 5th?

January 5th, 1970

An earthquake registering Mw 7.1 struck Tonghai County in southern China, killing at least 10,000 people and eventually spurring the creation of the nation's largest earthquake monitoring system.

January 5th, 1953

Waiting for Godot by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, termed the "most significant English language play of the 20th century", premiered in Paris.

January 5th, 1949

In his State of the Union speech, U.S. president Harry S. Truman (pictured) announced: "Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal."

January 5th, 1941

Second World War: Australian and British troops defeated Italian forces in Bardia, Libya, the first battle of the war in which an Australian Army formation took part.

January 5th, 1925

Nellie Tayloe Ross was inaugurated as Governor of Wyoming, the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state.

January 5th, 1922

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton (pictured) died of a heart attack during his final expedition.

January 5th, 1919

The German Workers' Party, the precursor of the Nazi Party, was founded by Anton Drexler.

January 5th, 1757

King Louis XV survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who later became the last person in France to be executed by drawing and quartering.

January 5th, 1675

Franco-Dutch War: French troops defeated Austrian and Brandenburg forces at the Battle of Turckheim in Alsace.

January 5th, 1869

Te Kooti's War: After surviving a five-day siege in the pā at Ngātapa, Māori leader Te Kooti escaped from New Zealand's Armed Constabulary.

January 5th, 1896

Te Kooti's War: After surviving a five-day seige in the pā at Ngātapa, Māori leader Te Kooti escaped from New Zealand's Armed Constabulary.

January 5th, 2009

In Eng Foong Ho v Attorney-General, the Court of Appeal of Singapore held that equality before the law was satisfied by a "reasonable nexus" between state action and the object of the law.

January 5th, 2008

Mikheil Saakashvili was decisively re-elected as President of Georgia in "the first genuinely competitive presidential election" in the history of the country.

January 5th, 2007

The Taiwan High Speed Rail opened, connecting Taipei and Kaohsiung.

January 5th, 2005

The dwarf planet Eris was discovered by a team using images from the Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 5th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 5th?

91

Konrad Adenauer

German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU

*January 5th, 1876, Cologne †April 19th, 1967, Rhöndorf

49

Bradley Cooper

American actor

*January 5th, 1975, Philadelphia

44

Santiago Ventura

Spanish tennis player

*January 5th, 1980, Castelló de la Plana

24

Roxen

Romanian singer

*January 5th, 2000, Cluj-Napoca

51

Ella Harper

American circus performer

*January 5th, 1870, Sumner County †December 19th, 1921, Nashville

84

Umberto Eco

Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

*January 5th, 1932, Alessandria †February 19th, 2016, Milan

68

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

President of Germany since 2017

*January 5th, 1956, Detmold

83

Hayao Miyazaki

Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (1941-)

*January 5th, 1941, Bunkyo

38

Deepika Padukone

Indian Actress

*January 5th, 1986, Copenhagen

86

Juan Carlos I of Spain

King of Spain from 1975 to 2014

*January 5th, 1938, Rome

61

Ralf Loose

German association football player and manager

*January 5th, 1963, Dortmund

93

Robert Duvall

American actor and director

*January 5th, 1931, San Diego

80

Constanze Mozart

Austrian singer

*January 5th, 1762, Zell im Wiesental †March 6th, 1842, Salzburg

80

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

(1846-1926) German philosopher

*January 5th, 1846, Aurich †September 14th, 1926, Jena

76

Ted Lange

Actor, director, screenwriter

*January 5th, 1948, Oakland

50

Jacob Bernoulli

Swiss mathematician (1655-1705)

*January 5th, 1655, Basel †August 16th, 1705, Basel

55

Marilyn Manson

American musician (born 1969)

*January 5th, 1969, Canton

90

Jean-Pierre Aumont

French actor (1911–2001)

*January 5th, 1911, Paris †January 30th, 2001, Saint-Tropez

80

Gerd Siese

German association football player

*January 5th, 1944, Bielefeld

55

Shea Whigham

American actor

*January 5th, 1969, Tallahassee

73

Ferdinand von Roemer

German geologist (1818-1891)

*January 5th, 1818, Hildesheim †December 14th, 1891, Wrocław

40

Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen

German actress

*January 5th, 1984, Hamburg

57

Markus Söder

German politician (CSU), Minister President of Bavaria

*January 5th, 1967, Nuremberg

91

Fritz Holthoff

German politician (1915-2006)

*January 5th, 1915, Dortmund †September 18th, 2006, Duisburg

45

David Kopp

German road bicycle racer

*January 5th, 1979, Bonn

93

Walter Mondale

Vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981

*January 5th, 1928, Ceylon †April 19th, 2021, Minneapolis

80

Peter Rieger

German boxer

*January 5th, 1944, Nysa

46

Seanan McGuire

American writer

*January 5th, 1978, Martinez

57

J. H. Wyman

Canadian actor

*January 5th, 1967, Oakland

65

Jean-Baptiste Say

French economist and businessman (1767–1832)

*January 5th, 1767, Lyon †November 14th, 1832, former 2nd arrondissement of Paris

72

Uli Hoeneß

German football player and executive

*January 5th, 1952, Ulm

70

László Krasznahorkai

Hungarian novelist and screenwriter

*January 5th, 1954, Gyula

19

Brooke McIntosh

Figure skater

*January 5th, 2005, Toronto

78

Diane Keaton

American actress

*January 5th, 1946, Los Angeles

65

Clancy Brown

American actor born 1959

*January 5th, 1959, Urbana

62

Suzy Amis Cameron

American actress and model

*January 5th, 1962, Oklahoma City

51

Uday Chopra

Indian actor, film director and producer

*January 5th, 1973, Mumbai

36

Nikola Kalinić

Croatian association football player

*January 5th, 1988, Solin

69

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Swiss author and dramatist (1921-1990)

*January 5th, 1921, Konolfingen †December 14th, 1990, Neuchâtel

58

Alvin Ailey

African-American dancer, choreographer and activist

*January 5th, 1931, Rogers †December 1st, 1989, Manhattan

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1057 is a normal year and no leap year.

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