January 18th, 1611

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Born on January 18th, 1611 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on January 18th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on January 18th
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Calendar (January 1611)

Born on January 18th, 1611

Weekday

Tuesday

January 18th, 1611 was a Tuesday.

Age

413

People born on January 18th, 1611 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 413 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

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Capricorn (The Sea-Goat)

December 22nd, 1610 - January 20th, 1611

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 150,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 54 days, exactly on June 21st, 2024, people who were born on January 18th, 1611 will be 151,000 days old!

150,946 Days

21,563 Weeks

4,959 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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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 1611

Johannes Hevelius

Astronomer

*January 28th, 1611, Gdańsk †January 28th, 1687, Gdańsk

Innocent XI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1676 to 1689

*May 19th, 1611, Como †August 12th, 1689, Rome

Evliya Çelebi

Turkish traveler and writer (1611–1682)

*March 25th, 1611, Istanbul †January 1st, 1682, Cairo

Johann Friedrich Gronovius

German-Dutch classical scholar, professor of Greek and history and librarian in Leiden (1611-1671), owner/creator of the album amicorum of Johannes Fredericus Gronovius

*September 8th, 1611, Hamburg †December 28th, 1671, Amsterdam