January 13th, 1212

Born on January 13th, 1212

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 296,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 255 days, exactly on March 11th, 2025, people who were born on January 13th, 1212 will be 297,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on January 13th?

January 13th, 2012

The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on a reef and capsized off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany.

January 13th, 2000

Steve Ballmer replaced Bill Gates as the chief executive officer of Microsoft.

January 13th, 1972

Ghanaian military officer Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a coup to overthrow Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo.

January 13th, 1968

American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom Prison in California.

January 13th, 1963

Togo's first president, Sylvanus Olympio (pictured), was assassinated by military officers in a coup d'état led by Emmanuel Bodjollé, Étienne Eyadéma, and Kléber Dadjo.

January 13th, 1915

About 30,000 people were killed when an earthquake struck the Province of L'Aquila in Italy.

January 13th, 1884

Welsh physician William Price (pictured) was arrested for attempting to cremate his deceased infant son; this eventually led to the United Kingdom cremation act becoming law.

January 13th, 1847

The Treaty of Cahuenga was signed, informally ending the fighting of the Mexican–American War in California.

January 13th, 1842

First Anglo-Afghan War: William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British Army, was the sole European of the 14,000 people retreating from Kabul to Jalalabad who evaded capture or death.

January 13th, 1815

War of 1812: British troops captured Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, in the only battle of the war to take place in the state.

January 13th, 1797

French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle off the coast of Brittany between two British frigates and a French ship of the line ended with hundreds of deaths when the latter ran aground.

January 13th, 1435

Pope Eugene IV promulgated the papal bull Sicut dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the native Guanche of the Canary Islands by the Spanish.

January 13th, 2000

A Short 360 aircraft chartered by the Sirte Oil Company crashes off the coast of Brega, Libya, killing 21.

January 13th, 2021

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time on a charge of incitement of insurrection following the January 6 United States Capitol attack one week prior.

January 13th, 2020

The Thai Ministry of Public Health confirms the first case of COVID-19 outside China.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 13th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 13th?

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

48

Robert Mateusiak

Badminton player

*January 13th, 1976, Wołomin

35

Derek Wong

Singaporean badminton player

*January 13th, 1989, Singapore

91

Osa Massen

Danish actress (1914-2006)

*January 13th, 1914, Copenhagen †January 2nd, 2006, Santa Monica

43

Lee Hyo-jung

South Korean badminton player

*January 13th, 1981, Busan

40

Kęstutis Navickas

Lithuanian badminton player

*January 13th, 1984, Kaunas

30

Edi Subaktiar

Badminton player

*January 13th, 1994, Sidoarjo

30

Emmanuel Donkor

Badminton player

*January 13th, 1994, Sekondi-Takoradi

29

Dylan Soedjasa

Badminton player

*January 13th, 1995, Takapuna

89

Bengt Gustavsson

Swedish footballer (1928-2017)

*January 13th, 1928, Ringarum †February 16th, 2017, Norrköping

51

Ain Matvere

Estonian badminton player

*January 13th, 1967, Tartu †May 14th, 2018, Tartu

55

Steve Wiebe

American electronic sports player

*January 13th, 1969, Seattle

25

Emilie Nautnes

Norwegian soccer player

*January 13th, 1999, Norway

28

Axel Louissaint

Swiss basketball player

*January 13th, 1996, Yverdon-les-Bains

49

Andrew Yang

American entrepreneur, attorney and political candidate

*January 13th, 1975, Schenectady

54

Shonda Rhimes

American television producer, television and film writer, and author

*January 13th, 1970, Chicago

76

Charles Nelson Reilly

American comedian and actor

*January 13th, 1931, South Bronx †May 25th, 2007, Beverly Hills

34

Marco Pantani

Italian road racing cyclist

*January 13th, 1970, Cesena †February 14th, 2004, Rimini

42

Ruth Wilson

British actress

*January 13th, 1982, Ashford

93

Frances Sternhagen

American actress

*January 13th, 1930, Washington, D.C. †November 27th, 2023, New Rochelle

29

Natalia Dyer

American actress (born 1995)

*January 13th, 1995, Nashville

75

Gwen Verdon

American dancer and actress (1925-2000)

*January 13th, 1925, Culver City †October 18th, 2000, Woodstock

84

Shivkumar Sharma

Indian classical musician

*January 13th, 1938, Jammu †May 10th, 2022, Mumbai

86

Chris Wiggins

Canadian actor

*January 13th, 1931, Blackpool †February 19th, 2017, Elora

83

Denise Guénard

French sprinter (1934-2017)

*January 13th, 1934, Saint-Maurice †May 23rd, 2017, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre

47

Orlando Bloom

English actor

*January 13th, 1977, Canterbury

64

Matthew Bourne

British ballet and dance choreographer

*January 13th, 1960, Walthamstow

87

Rosemary Murphy

German-American actress (1925–2014)

*January 13th, 1927, Munich †July 5th, 2014, New York City

37

Daniel Oss

Italian racing cyclist

*January 13th, 1987, Trento

27

Egan Bernal

Colombian cyclist

*January 13th, 1997, Zipaquirá

34

Liam Hemsworth

Australian actor (born 1990)

*January 13th, 1990, Melbourne

22

Alexandra Föster

German rower

*January 13th, 2002, Meschede

81

Tom Gola

American basketball player and politician (1933-2014)

*January 13th, 1933, Philadelphia †January 26th, 2014, Philadelphia

43

Riccardo Fraccaro

Italian politician

*January 13th, 1981, Montebelluna

41

Giovanni Visconti

Italian road bicycle racer

*January 13th, 1983, Turin

34

Danilo Sousa Campos

Brazilian professional footballer

*January 13th, 1990, São Luís

26

Gabrielle Daleman

Canadian figure skater

*January 13th, 1998, Toronto

76

Ruth Taylor

American actress (1908-1984)

*January 13th, 1908, Grand Rapids †April 12th, 1984, Palm Springs

32

Thibault Colard

French rower

*January 13th, 1992, Fontainebleau

82

Carol Cleveland

British actress

*January 13th, 1942, London

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 13th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Old New Year's Eve , Sidereal winter solstice's eve celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; the last day of the six-month Dakshinayana period) which are celebrated on January 13th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

Yes: 1212 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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