January 18th, 1488

Born on January 18th, 1488

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 195,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 132 days, exactly on September 4th, 2024, people who were born on January 18th, 1488 will be 196,000 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

68

Werner Liebrich

German footballer (1927–1995)

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

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

53

Pep Guardiola

Spanish association football manager (born 1971)

*January 18th, 1971, Santpedor

50

Steve Lomas

Northern Irish association football player and manager

*January 18th, 1974, Hanover

46

Aparna Popat

Indian badminton player

*January 18th, 1978, Mumbai

50

Tri Kusharyanto

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1974, Yogyakarta City

48

Lars Paaske

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1976, Hørsholm

69

Kevin Costner

American actor and filmmaker

*January 18th, 1955, Lynwood

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

30

Shi Longfei

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1994, Shanghai

Same year
Born in 1488

56

Johannes Magnus

Roman Catholic archbishop

*March 19th, 1488, Linköping Cathedral Congregation †March 22nd, 1544, Rome

50

Ferdinand Columbus

Spanish bibliophile and cosmographer, the second son of Christopher Columbus (1488-1539)

*August 15th, 1488, Córdoba †July 12th, 1539, Seville

64

Sebastian Münster

German cartographer, cosmographer, and Hebrew scholar

*January 20th, 1488, Nieder-Ingelheim †May 26th, 1552, Basel

35

Ulrich von Hutten

German scholar, poet and reformer (1488-1523)

*April 21st, 1488, Steckelberg Castle †August 29th, 1523, Ufenau

61

Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria

Duke of Calabria

*December 17th, 1488, Andria †October 26th, 1550, Valencia

52

Helius Eobanus Hessus

16th-century German poet

*January 6th, 1488, Halgehausen †October 4th, 1540, Marburg

79

Marius Nizolius

Italian academic

*March 5th, 1488, Brescello †June 5th, 1567, Sabbioneta

69

Juan Álvarez de Toledo

Catholic cardinal

*July 15th, 1488, Toledo †September 15th, 1557, Rome

71

Pedro Pacheco de Villena

Catholic cardinal

*June 29th, 1488, La Puebla de Montalbán †March 5th, 1560, Rome

60

Johann Briesmann

German theologian

*December 31st, 1488, Cottbus †October 1st, 1549, Königsberg

72

Caspar Aquila

German religious reformer

*August 16th, 1488, Augsburg †November 22nd, 1560, Saalfeld

56

Jungjong of Joseon

11th King of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history

*March 5th, 1488, Changdeokgung †November 15th, 1544, Changgyeonggung

78

Girolamo della Robbia

Italian sculptor (1488–1566)

*March 9th, 1488, Florence †August 4th, 1566, Paris

16

Sidonie of Bavaria

Eldest daughter of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich

*May 1st, 1488, Munich †March 29th, 1505, Munich

63

George de Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg

(1488-1551)

*January 17th, 1488, Neuenstein †March 16th, 1551, Waldenburg

43

Georg, Truchsess von Waldburg

German military leader

*January 25th, 1488, Bad Waldsee †May 29th, 1531, Bad Waldsee

55

Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

German noble

*January 1st, 1488, Ratzeburg †August 1st, 1543, Ratzeburg

49

John III of the Palatinate

48th Archbishop of Regensburg

*May 7th, 1488, Heidelberg †February 3rd, 1538

51

Jodock III of Rosenberg

Bohemian nobleman (1488-1539)

*June 30th, 1488, Český Krumlov †October 15th, 1539

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 18th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on January 18th.

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Leap year

Yes: 1488 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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