January 18th, 1522

Born on January 18th, 1522

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 183,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 555 days, exactly on October 27th, 2025, people who were born on January 18th, 1522 will be 184,000 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 1522

45

Lamoral, Count of Egmont

General and statesman in Flanders (1522-1568)

*November 18th, 1522, County of Hainaut †June 5th, 1568, City of Brussels

34

Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach

Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1527-1553)

*March 28th, 1522, Ansbach †January 8th, 1557, Pforzheim

52

Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Princess and Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1522-1575)

*July 13th, 1522, Kraków †May 28th, 1575, Schöningen

43

Lodovico Ferrari

Italian mathematician (1522-1565)

*February 2nd, 1522, Bologna †October 5th, 1565, Bologna

82

Ulisse Aldrovandi

Italian naturalist (1522-1605)

*September 11th, 1522, Bologna †May 4th, 1605, Bologna

63

Margaret of Parma

Italian noble (1522-1586)

*July 5th, 1522, Oudenaarde †January 18th, 1586, Ortona

74

Joachim von Beust

German judge and author (1522-1597)

*April 19th, 1522, Möckern †February 4th, 1597, Planitz

42

Miyoshi Nagayoshi

Japanese samurai and daimyo who was lord of the Miyoshi clan during the Sengoku period

*March 10th, 1522, Yamashiro Province †August 10th, 1564, Iimoriyama Castle

74

Gabriele Paleotti

Italian cardinal

*October 4th, 1522, Bologna †July 22nd, 1597, Rome

23

Charles II de Valois, Duke of Orléans

French duke

*January 22nd, 1522, Saint-Germain-en-Laye †September 9th, 1545, Forest-Montiers

28

Charles II de Croÿ

2nd Duke of Aarschot, 3rd Prince of Chimay and 3rd Count of Beaumont

*July 31st, 1522, Quiévrain †June 24th, 1551, Quiévrain

65

Michael Beuther

German historian (1522-1587)

*October 18th, 1522, Karlstadt am Main †October 27th, 1587, Strasbourg

67

Catherine of Ricci

Italian Dominican Tertiary Religious Sister

*April 23rd, 1522, Florence †February 1st, 1590, Prato

66

Lampert Distelmeyer

German jurist

*February 22nd, 1522, Leipzig †October 12th, 1588, Berlin

54

Heinrich Salmuth

German theologian

*March 2nd, 1522, Schweinfurt †March 20th, 1576, Leipzig

49

Udai Singh II

King of Mewar and the founder of the city of Udaipur (1522-1572)

*August 4th, 1522, Chittorgarh †February 28th, 1572, Gogunda

79

Albert de Gondi

Marshal of France

*November 4th, 1522, Florence †April 12th, 1602, Paris

63

Martin Chemnitz

Lutheran theologian and reformer

*November 9th, 1522, Treuenbrietzen †April 8th, 1586, Brunswick

49

John Jewel

English clergyman and bishop

*May 24th, 1522, Devon †September 23rd, 1571, Monkton Farleigh

68

Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert

Dutch writer, philosopher, translator, politician and theologian (1522-1590)

*January 1st, 1522, Amsterdam †October 29th, 1590, Gouda

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1522 is a normal year and no leap year.

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