January 18th, 1409

Born on January 18th, 1409

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 224,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 211 days, exactly on January 28th, 2025, people who were born on January 18th, 1409 will be 225,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on January 18th?

January 18th, 1990

In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Marion Barry (pictured), the mayor of Washington, D.C., was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.

January 18th, 1983

Thirty years after his death, the International Olympic Committee presented commemorative medals to the family of American athlete Jim Thorpe, who had been stripped of his gold medals for playing semi-professional baseball before the 1912 Summer Olympics.

January 18th, 1977

The CDC announced that the lung infection Legionnaires' disease is caused by a previously unknown bacterium now known as Legionella.

January 18th, 1969

Thousands of Japanese police stormed the University of Tokyo after six months of nationwide leftist university student protests and occupation.

January 18th, 1958

Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, becoming the first black Canadian to compete in the NHL.

January 18th, 1956

Navvab Safavi, an Iranian Shia cleric and the founder of the fundamentalist group Fada'iyan-e Islam, was executed with three of his followers for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Hossein Ala'.

January 18th, 1951

Construction began on the United Nations Military Cemetery (pictured), the only United Nations cemetery in the world, in Busan, South Korea.

January 18th, 1943

World War II: In Operation Iskra, the Red Army established a narrow land corridor to Leningrad, partially easing the protracted German siege.

January 18th, 1915

Japanese prime minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to China in a bid to increase Japan's power in East Asia.

January 18th, 1871

A number of previously independent states united to form the German Empire, with Wilhelm I as emperor.

January 18th, 1788

The armed tender HMS Supply, the first ship of the First Fleet, arrived at Botany Bay, Australia.

January 18th, 1535

Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes (present-day Lima, Peru) as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish crown.

January 18th, 1486

Elizabeth of York married King Henry VII, becoming queen consort of England.

January 18th, 0474

The young child Leo II became the sole Byzantine emperor upon the death of his grandfather Leo I.

January 18th, 2023

A helicopter crash in Ukraine leaves 14 people dead, including the country's Interior Minister, Denys Monastyrsky.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 18th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 18th?

35

Chen Long

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1989, Shashi District

36

Wang Yihan

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1988, Shanghai

29

Wang Chi-Lin

Taiwanese badminton player

*January 18th, 1995, Taipei

50

Maulik Pancholy

Indian American actor, author, activist, and speaker

*January 18th, 1974, Kissimmee

66

Volker Pispers

German cabaret artist

*January 18th, 1958, Rheydt

59

Johann Gottfried von Hahn

German physician

*January 18th, 1694, Świdnica †May 1st, 1753, Świdnica

68

Werner Liebrich

German footballer (1927–1995)

*January 18th, 1927, Kaiserslautern †March 20th, 1995, Kaiserslautern

53

Pep Guardiola

Spanish association football manager (born 1971)

*January 18th, 1971, Santpedor

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

50

Steve Lomas

Northern Irish association football player and manager

*January 18th, 1974, Hanover

66

Montesquieu

French philosopher

*January 18th, 1689, Château de la Brède †February 10th, 1755, Paris

46

Aparna Popat

Indian badminton player

*January 18th, 1978, Mumbai

50

Tri Kusharyanto

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1974, Yogyakarta

48

Lars Paaske

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1976, Hørsholm

34

Linda Weni Fanetri

Indonesian badminton player

*January 18th, 1990, Jakarta

32

Denis Grachev

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1992, Vladivostok

29

Gloria Groove

Brazilian singer, rapper, songwriter, actor, voice actor and drag queen

*January 18th, 1995, São Paulo

27

Rubén Castellanos

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1997, Morales

41

Li Yujia

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1983, Hubei

42

Elin Bergblom

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1982, Knivsta

Same year
Born in 1409

33

Elizabeth of Luxembourg

Princess and Queen Consort of Hungary and Bohemia, and Regent of Hungary

*October 7th, 1409, Visegrád †December 19th, 1442, Győr

71

René of Anjou

King of Naples (1409-1480)

*January 16th, 1409, Angers †July 10th, 1480, Aix-en-Provence

63

Alessandro Sforza

Italian noble

*October 21st, 1409, Cotignola †April 3rd, 1473, Pesaro

60

Isabella of Urgell, Duchess of Coimbra

Portuguese cuzhess

*March 12th, 1409, Balaguer †September 17th, 1469, Coimbra

67

Jean II, Duke of Alençon

Duke of Alençon, 1415–1474

*March 2nd, 1409, Argentan †September 8th, 1476, Paris

83

Heinrich IV. von Absberg

German coadjutor bishop

*March 19th, 1409, Kinding †July 26th, 1492

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1409 is a normal year and no leap year.

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