January 18th, 1760

Born on January 18th, 1760

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 96,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 474 days, exactly on August 16th, 2025, people who were born on January 18th, 1760 will be 97,000 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

69

Kevin Costner

American actor and filmmaker

*January 18th, 1955, Lynwood

50

Tri Kusharyanto

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1974, Yogyakarta City

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

30

Shi Longfei

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1994, Shanghai

Same year
Born in 1760

88

Katsushika Hokusai

Japanese artist (1760-1849)

*October 31st, 1760, Honjo †May 10th, 1849, Asakusa

63

Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien

Prussian general

*September 15th, 1760, Potsdam †February 20th, 1824, Berlin

36

François-Noël Babeuf

French political agitator and journalist (1760-1797)

*November 23rd, 1760, Saint-Quentin †May 27th, 1797, Vendôme

64

Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon

French early socialist theorist (1760-1825)

*October 17th, 1760, Paris †May 19th, 1825, Paris

68

Leo XII

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1823 to 1829

*August 2nd, 1760, Genga †February 10th, 1829, Rome

34

Alexandre de Beauharnais

French general; president of the National Constituent Assembly in 1791

*May 28th, 1760, Fort-de-France †July 23rd, 1794, Paris

71

Richard Allen

Minister, educator, writer (1760-1831)

*February 14th, 1760, Philadelphia †March 26th, 1831, Philadelphia

62

Michael Leib

American politician (1760-1822)

*January 8th, 1760, Philadelphia †December 8th, 1822, Philadelphia

42

Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg

German composer

*January 10th, 1760, Lauda-Königshofen †January 27th, 1802, Stuttgart

85

David Heinrich Hoppe

German botanist (1760-1846)

*December 15th, 1760, Bruchhausen-Vilsen †August 1st, 1846, Regensburg

61

Jonas Rein

Norwegian priest, writer and politician (1760-1821)

*January 30th, 1760, Sunndal Municipality †November 21st, 1821, Bergen

69

William Payne

English painter and etcher (1760-1830)

*March 4th, 1760, London †January 1st, 1830, London

80

Anton Hasenhut

Austrian actor

*June 1st, 1760, Novi Sad †February 6th, 1841, Vienna

73

Oliver Wolcott

United States federal judge; second U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1760-1833)

*January 11th, 1760, Litchfield †June 1st, 1833, New York City

78

Tomaž Dolinar

(1760-1839)

*December 12th, 1760, Dorfarje †February 15th, 1839, Vienna

78

Francisco Javier Venegas

Spanish noble and general

*January 1st, 1760, Zafra †January 1st, 1838, Madrid

58

Joseph Ludwig Colmar

German bishop (1760-1818)

*June 22nd, 1760, Strasbourg †December 15th, 1818, Mainz

76

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

French army officer (1760-1836)

*May 10th, 1760, Lons-le-Saunier †June 26th, 1836, Choisy-le-Roi

86

Thomas Clarkson

English abolitionist (1760-1846)

*March 28th, 1760, Wisbech †September 26th, 1846, Playford Hall

82

Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley

British politician (1760-1842)

*June 20th, 1760, Meath †September 26th, 1842, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

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Public holidays on January 18th

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

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Leap year

Yes: 1760 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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