January 31st, 1197

Born on January 31st, 1197

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 302,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 835 days, exactly on September 2nd, 2026, people who were born on January 31st, 1197 will be 303,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on January 31st?

January 31st, 2013

A gas leak underneath the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City caused an explosion that killed at least 37 people and injured another 121.

January 31st, 2010

James Cameron's Avatar became the first film to earn over US$2 billion worldwide.

January 31st, 2000

Alaska Airlines Flight 261, experiencing problems with its horizontal stabilizer system, crashed in the Pacific Ocean off Anacapa Island, California, killing all 88 people on board.

January 31st, 1988

Doug Williams (pictured) became the first African-American quarterback to play in a Super Bowl, leading the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XXII.

January 31st, 1961

Aboard NASA's Mercury-Redstone 2, Ham the Chimp became the first hominid launched into outer space.

January 31st, 1957

A DC-7B operated by Douglas Aircraft collided in mid-air with a U.S. Air Force F-89 and crashed into a schoolyard in Pacoima, California.

January 31st, 1900

Datu Muhammad Salleh, leader of a series of major disturbances in North Borneo, was shot dead in Tambunan, but his followers did not give up for five more years.

January 31st, 1862

American astronomer Alvan Graham Clark first observed the faint white dwarf companion of Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.

January 31st, 1747

The London Lock Hospital, the first voluntary hospital specialising in the treatment of venereal diseases, opened.

January 31st, 1578

Eighty Years' War: Spain won a crushing victory at the Battle of Gembloux, threatening the States General of the Netherlands and contributing to its move from Brussels to Antwerp.

January 31st, 0314

Sylvester I (bust depicted), during whose pontificate many churches in Rome were constructed by Constantine the Great, began his reign as pope.

January 31st, 2007

Emergency officials in Boston mistakenly identified LED placards depicting characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force as IEDs, causing a panic.

January 31st, 1997

Final Fantasy VII, the first video game in the Final Fantasy franchise to use 3-D computer graphics, was released.

January 31st, 1919

Intense rioting over labour conditions broke out in Glasgow, Scotland.

January 31st, 2023

The last Boeing 747, the first wide-body airliner, is delivered.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 31st

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 31st?

49

Marianne Grunthal

German teacher

*January 31st, 1896, Zehdenick †May 2nd, 1945, Schwerin

32

Linnéa Claeson

Swedish handball player

*January 31st, 1992, Norrköping

39

Oxxxymiron

Russian rapper

*January 31st, 1985, Saint Petersburg

56

Petra Schubert

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1968, Finsterwalde

42

Ekaterina Ananina

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1982, Perm

31

Franz Schubert

Austrian composer (1797–1828)

*January 31st, 1797, Himmelpfortgrund †November 19th, 1828, Vienna

97

Carol Channing

American actress (1921–2019)

*January 31st, 1921, Seattle †January 15th, 2019, Rancho Mirage

43

Justin Timberlake

American singer and actor (born 1981)

*January 31st, 1981, Memphis

50

Billy MacLellan

Canadian actor

*January 31st, 1974, Cape Breton Island

78

Meena Shah

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1937, Balrampur †March 10th, 2015

49

Preity Zinta

Indian film actress, entrepreneur

*January 31st, 1975, Shimla

65

Anthony LaPaglia

Australian actor

*January 31st, 1959, Adelaide

54

André-Jacques Garnerin

Inventor of the frameless parachute

*January 31st, 1769, Paris †August 18th, 1823, Paris

53

Gustav Hülsenberg

German politician (1812-1865)

*January 31st, 1812, Hamburg †October 19th, 1865, Hamburg

73

Spartaco Landini

Italian footballer (1944-2017)

*January 31st, 1944, Terranuova Bracciolini †April 16th, 2017, Genoa

57

James Franciscus

American actor (1934-1991)

*January 31st, 1934, Clayton †July 8th, 1991, North Hollywood

88

Kenzaburō Ōe

Japanese writer and Nobel Laureate

*January 31st, 1935, Ōse †March 3rd, 2023

77

Oskar von Hindenburg

German politician and general (1883–1960)

*January 31st, 1883, Königsberg †February 12th, 1960, Bad Harzburg

87

Philip Glass

American composer (born 1937)

*January 31st, 1937, Baltimore

44

James Adomian

American comedian and actor

*January 31st, 1980, Omaha

83

Gustav Sichelschmidt

German historian and writer of the extreme right

*January 31st, 1913, Remscheid †December 9th, 1996, Bad Iburg

76

Irving Langmuir

American chemist and physicist

*January 31st, 1881, Brooklyn †August 16th, 1957, Woods Hole

47

Kerry Washington

American actress

*January 31st, 1977, The Bronx

53

Jackie Robinson

American baseball player

*January 31st, 1919, Cairo †October 24th, 1972, Stamford

44

Paul Jabara

American actor, singer, songwriter (1948-1992)

*January 31st, 1948, Brooklyn †September 29th, 1992, Los Angeles

78

Frederick Douglass

African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)

*January 31st, 1817, Talbot County †February 20th, 1895, Washington, D.C.

84

Eva Mozes Kor

Romanian-born Holocaust survivor and author (1934-2019)

*January 31st, 1935, Porț †July 4th, 2019, Kraków

82

Antonio Ciliberti

Italian archbishop

*January 31st, 1935, San Lorenzo del Vallo †April 1st, 2017, Rome

73

Ina Bauer

German figure skater (1941-2014)

*January 31st, 1941, Krefeld †December 13th, 2014, Krefeld

68

John Lydon

British-born Irish-American singer and songwriter

*January 31st, 1956, Holloway

54

Minnie Driver

British-American actress (born 1970)

*January 31st, 1970, Marylebone

72

Kurt Benning

German painter (1945-2017)

*January 31st, 1945, Pleystein †March 24th, 2017, Munich

77

Jonathan Banks

American actor

*January 31st, 1947, Washington, D.C.

66

Tallulah Bankhead

American actress (1902–1968)

*January 31st, 1902, Huntsville †December 12th, 1968, New York City

22

Loïcia Demougeot

French ice dancer

*January 31st, 2002, Belfort

74

Stephan Chase

British actor (1945-2019)

*January 31st, 1945, Duchy of Cornwall †June 27th, 2019

86

Beatrix of the Netherlands

Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 to 2013

*January 31st, 1938, Soestdijk Palace

73

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1543–1616)

*January 31st, 1543, Okazaki Castle †June 1st, 1616, Sunpu Castle

51

Portia de Rossi

Australian-American actress

*January 31st, 1973, Horsham

73

Harry Wayne Casey

American musician and record producer

*January 31st, 1951, Opa-locka

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Public holidays on January 31st

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on January 31st.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1197 is a normal year and no leap year.

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