January 15th, 1136

Born on January 15th, 1136

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 324,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 544 days, exactly on November 9th, 2025, people who were born on January 15th, 1136 will be 325,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on January 15th?

January 15th, 1970

The Republic of Biafra surrendered following a failed attempt at secession from Nigeria, ending the Nigerian Civil War.

January 15th, 2009

US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its climb out from New York City and made an emergency landing in the Hudson River (featured).

January 15th, 1975

Portugal and the nationalist factions UNITA, the MPLA and the FNLA signed the Alvor Agreement, ending the Angolan War of Independence.

January 15th, 1974

American serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as the "BTK killer", murdered his first four victims.

January 15th, 1967

The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I.

January 15th, 1962

The Derveni papyrus (fragment pictured), the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, was discovered in Macedonia in northern Greece.

January 15th, 1951

Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.

January 15th, 1947

The mutilated corpse of the Black Dahlia, a 22-year-old woman whose murder is one of the most famous unsolved crimes in the United States, was found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.

January 15th, 1943

The highest-capacity office building in the world, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense known as the Pentagon, was dedicated.

January 15th, 1937

Spanish Civil War: Nationalist and Republican forces both withdrew after suffering heavy losses at the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.

January 15th, 1934

At least 10,700 people died when an earthquake registering 8.0 Mw struck Nepal and the Indian state of Bihar.

January 15th, 1933

A teenage girl in Banneux, Belgium, reported the first of several Marian apparitions, now known as Our Lady of Banneux.

January 15th, 1919

A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, burst and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets , killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.

January 15th, 1910

Construction on the Buffalo Bill Dam on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming, then the tallest dam in the world, was completed.

January 15th, 1885

Wilson Bentley took the first known photograph of a snowflake by attaching a bellows camera to a microscope.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 15th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 15th?

28

Dove Cameron

American actress and singer

*January 15th, 1996, Bainbridge Island

39

Martin Luther King Jr.

American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)

*January 15th, 1929, Atlanta †April 4th, 1968, Memphis

51

Molière

French playwright and actor (1622–1673)

*January 15th, 1622, Paris †February 17th, 1673, Paris

30

Myke Towers

Puerto Rican rapper

*January 15th, 1994, Río Piedras

39

Thilini Jayasinghe

Badminton player

*January 15th, 1985, Peradeniya

28

Huang Kaixiang

Chinese badminton player

*January 15th, 1996, Nanping

24

Ikhsan Rumbay

Badminton player

*January 15th, 2000, Tomohon

47

Giorgia Meloni

Prime Minister of Italy since 2022

*January 15th, 1977, Rome

77

Andrea Martin

American-Canadian actress, singer and comedian

*January 15th, 1947, Portland

89

Günther Schellong

German university teacher

*January 15th, 1926, Kiel †October 10th, 2015, Münster

52

Gamal Abdel Nasser

President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970

*January 15th, 1918, Alexandria †September 28th, 1970, Cairo

30

Eric Dier

English association football player

*January 15th, 1994, Cheltenham

59

James Nesbitt

Northern Irish actor

*January 15th, 1965, Ballymena

36

Sebastian Langkamp

German footballer

*January 15th, 1988, Speyer

65

Josip Juratovic

German politician

*January 15th, 1959, Koprivnica

84

Marcell Restle

German art historian of byzantine era (1932-2016)

*January 15th, 1932, Bad Waldsee †January 25th, 2016, Bad Waldsee

42

Benjamin Agosto

American ice dancer

*January 15th, 1982, Chicago

67

Mario Van Peebles

American actor

*January 15th, 1957, Mexico City

20

Grace VanderWaal

American singer-songwriter

*January 15th, 2004, Lenexa

32

Max von der Groeben

German actor

*January 15th, 1992, Cologne

40

Jenő Károly

Hungarian association football player and association football coach (1886-1926)

*January 15th, 1886, Kaposvár †July 28th, 1926, Turin

76

Torin Thatcher

British actor

*January 15th, 1905, Mumbai †March 4th, 1981, Thousand Oaks

75

Raphael von Koeber

Russian-German philosopher

*January 15th, 1848, Nizhny Novgorod †June 14th, 1923, Yokohama

75

Franz Xaver Bogner

German director and screenwriter

*January 15th, 1949, Pliening

95

Edward Teller

Hungarian-American nuclear physicist

*January 15th, 1908, Budapest †September 9th, 2003, Stanford

56

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (1809–1865)

*January 15th, 1809, Besançon †January 19th, 1865, Passy

62

Carmen Lyra

Costa Rican politician and writer

*January 15th, 1887, San José †May 14th, 1949, Mexico City

43

Pitbull

American singer, rapper and songwriter

*January 15th, 1981, Miami

41

Sofia Kovalevskaya

19th-century Russian mathematician

*January 15th, 1850, Moscow †February 10th, 1891, Spain

36

Darwin Atapuma

Road racing cyclist

*January 15th, 1988, Túquerres

79

Per Ahlmark

Swedish politician and writer (1939-2018)

*January 15th, 1939, Stockholm †June 8th, 2018, Skarpnäck

59

Maurizio Fondriest

Italian cyclist

*January 15th, 1965, Cles

36

Skrillex

American DJ and record producer

*January 15th, 1988, Los Angeles

77

Martin Chalfie

American scientist

*January 15th, 1947, Chicago

66

Boris Tadić

3rd President of Serbia

*January 15th, 1958, Sarajevo

92

August Englas

Estonian wrestler

*January 15th, 1925, Pühajärve †March 21st, 2017, Tallinn

84

Michel Debré

79th Prime Minister of France (1912-1996)

*January 15th, 1912, Paris †August 2nd, 1996, Montlouis-sur-Loire

83

Wilhelm Marx

German politician (1863–1946)

*January 15th, 1863, Cologne †August 5th, 1946, Bonn

45

Ariella Ferrera

Columbian pornographic actress

*January 15th, 1979, Medellín

84

Ernst Benda

German judge (1925-2009)

*January 15th, 1925, Berlin †March 2nd, 2009, Karlsruhe

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 15th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, The second day of the sidereal winter solstice festivals in India) which are celebrated on January 15th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

Yes: 1136 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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