January 18th, 1543

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Born on January 18th, 1543 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on January 18th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on January 18th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (January 1543)

Born on January 18th, 1543

Weekday

Monday

January 18th, 1543 was a Monday.

Age

481

People born on January 18th, 1543 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 481 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♑

Capricorn (The Sea-Goat)

December 22nd, 1542 - January 20th, 1543

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 175,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 226 days, exactly on December 1st, 2024, people who were born on January 18th, 1543 will be 176,000 days old!

175,774 Days

25,110 Weeks

5,775 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

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?

Chen Long

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1989, Shashi District

Wang Yihan

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1988, Shanghai

Wang Chi-Lin

Taiwanese badminton player

*January 18th, 1995, Taipei

Maulik Pancholy

Indian American actor, author, activist, and speaker

*January 18th, 1974, Kissimmee

Volker Pispers

German cabaret artist

*January 18th, 1958, Rheydt

Werner Liebrich

German footballer (1927–1995)

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

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

Pep Guardiola

Spanish association football manager (born 1971)

*January 18th, 1971, Santpedor

Steve Lomas

Northern Irish association football player and manager

*January 18th, 1974, Hanover

Aparna Popat

Indian badminton player

*January 18th, 1978, Mumbai

Tri Kusharyanto

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1974, Yogyakarta City

Lars Paaske

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1976, Hørsholm

Kevin Costner

American actor and filmmaker

*January 18th, 1955, Lynwood

Linda Weni Fanetri

Indonesian badminton player

*January 18th, 1990, Jakarta

Denis Grachev

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1992, Vladivostok

Gloria Groove

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

*January 18th, 1995, São Paulo

Rubén Castellanos

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1997, Morales

Li Yujia

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1983, Hubei

Elin Bergblom

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1982, Knivsta

Shi Longfei

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1994, Shanghai

Same year
Born in 1543

Tokugawa Ieyasu

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

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

Claudio Acquaviva

Superior General of the Society of Jesus

*September 14th, 1543, Atri †January 31st, 1615, Rome

Hartmann Pistoris

German jurist (1543-1603)

*January 22nd, 1543, Leipzig †March 1st, 1603, Leipzig

Kanō Eitoku

Japanese artist (1543-1590)

*February 16th, 1543, Heian-kyō †October 12th, 1590, Heian-kyō

Charles III, Duke of Lorraine

Duke of Lorraine from 1545

*February 18th, 1543, Nancy †May 14th, 1608, Nancy

John Still

Bishop of Bath and Wells in Somerset, England

*November 30th, 1543, Grantham †January 1st, 1608, Wells

Dorothea van Saksen-Lauenburg

(1543-1586)

*March 11th, 1543, Lüneburg †April 5th, 1586, Herzberg am Harz

Valentin Schindler

Lutheran Hebraist and professor of the University of Wittenberg, where he was an important teacher of the Hebrew language

*February 14th, 1543, Oederan †June 11th, 1604, Helmstedt

Christine of Hesse

Duchess Consort of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp

*June 29th, 1543, Kassel †May 13th, 1604, Kiel

Johann Yetzeler

(1543-1622)

*January 1st, 1543, Schaffhausen †January 1st, 1622, Schaffhausen

Lettice Knollys

English noblewoman

*November 8th, 1543, Rotherfield Greys †December 25th, 1634, Drayton Bassett

Sharaf Khan Bidlisi

Kurdish noble and writer (1543-c.1603)

*February 25th, 1543, Bitlis †January 1st, 1603, Bitlis

François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières

Marshal of France (1543-1626)

*April 1st, 1543, Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur †September 21st, 1626, Valence

John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern

German prince and reigning count palatine of Simmern (1543-1592)

*March 7th, 1543, Simmern †January 16th, 1592, Heidelberg

Giovanni Bembo

Doge of Venice (1543-1618)

*August 21st, 1543, Venice †March 16th, 1618, Venice

Petrus Albinus

German professor, father of Saxon historiography

*June 28th, 1543, Schneeberg †July 31st, 1598, Dresden

Antonio Archilei

Italian singer, composer and luth player

*March 12th, 1543, Albano Laziale †January 1st, 1612, Florence

Nathanael Chytraeus

German historian and theologian

*January 1st, 1543, Menzingen †January 1st, 1598, Bremen

Johann Lange

*September 4th, 1543, Wesselburen †November 17th, 1616, Kamenz

Àngela Margarida Prat

*October 26th, 1543, Manresa †December 24th, 1608

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 18th

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

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XVIII.I.MDXLIII

18.1.1543

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

XL = 40

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1543 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
January 1543

January 1543

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January 18th, 1543

Born on January 18th, 1543

Weekday

Monday

Age

Zodiac

♑

Capricorn (The Sea-Goat)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 175,000 days old!

175,774 Days

25,110 Weeks

5,775 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on January 18th?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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'.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Same year Born in 1543

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 18th

Amy Carmichael (Church of England)

Athanasius of Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Confession of Peter (Eastern Orthodox, some Anglican and Lutheran Churches)

Cyril of Alexandria

Deicolus

Margaret of Hungary

Prisca

Volusianus of Tours

January 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Royal Thai Armed Forces Day (Thailand)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

18.1.1543

Legend

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 175,000 days old!

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

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

Same year
Born in 1543

Calendar
January 1543

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53					1	2	3
54	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
55	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
56	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
57	25	26	27	28	29	30	31