January 15th, 1832

Born on January 15th, 1832

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 70,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 774 days, exactly on June 6th, 2026, people who were born on January 15th, 1832 will be 71,000 days old!

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What happened on January 15th?

January 15th, 1970

The Republic of Biafra surrendered following a failed attempt at secession from Nigeria, ending the Nigerian Civil War.

January 15th, 2009

US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its climb out from New York City and made an emergency landing in the Hudson River (featured).

January 15th, 1975

Portugal and the nationalist factions UNITA, the MPLA and the FNLA signed the Alvor Agreement, ending the Angolan War of Independence.

January 15th, 1974

American serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as the "BTK killer", murdered his first four victims.

January 15th, 1967

The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I.

January 15th, 1962

The Derveni papyrus (fragment pictured), the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, was discovered in Macedonia in northern Greece.

January 15th, 1951

Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.

January 15th, 1947

The mutilated corpse of the Black Dahlia, a 22-year-old woman whose murder is one of the most famous unsolved crimes in the United States, was found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.

January 15th, 1943

The highest-capacity office building in the world, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense known as the Pentagon, was dedicated.

January 15th, 1937

Spanish Civil War: Nationalist and Republican forces both withdrew after suffering heavy losses at the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.

January 15th, 1934

At least 10,700 people died when an earthquake registering 8.0 Mw struck Nepal and the Indian state of Bihar.

January 15th, 1933

A teenage girl in Banneux, Belgium, reported the first of several Marian apparitions, now known as Our Lady of Banneux.

January 15th, 1919

A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, burst and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets , killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.

January 15th, 1910

Construction on the Buffalo Bill Dam on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming, then the tallest dam in the world, was completed.

January 15th, 1885

Wilson Bentley took the first known photograph of a snowflake by attaching a bellows camera to a microscope.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 15th

Born on January 15th, 1832

76

Friedrich Schmidt

Baltic German geologist and botanist (1832–1908)

*January 15th, 1832, Kaisma Rural Municipality †November 7th, 1908, Saint Petersburg

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28

Dove Cameron

American actress and singer

*January 15th, 1996, Bainbridge Island

39

Martin Luther King Jr.

American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)

*January 15th, 1929, Atlanta †April 4th, 1968, Memphis

30

Myke Towers

Puerto Rican rapper

*January 15th, 1994, Río Piedras

39

Thilini Jayasinghe

Badminton player

*January 15th, 1985, Peradeniya

28

Huang Kaixiang

Chinese badminton player

*January 15th, 1996, Nanping

24

Ikhsan Rumbay

Badminton player

*January 15th, 2000, Tomohon City

51

Molière

French playwright and actor (1622–1673)

*January 15th, 1622, Paris †February 17th, 1673, Paris

75

Raphael von Koeber

Russian-German philosopher

*January 15th, 1848, Nizhny Novgorod †June 14th, 1923, Yokohama

41

Sofia Kovalevskaya

19th-century Russian mathematician

*January 15th, 1850, Moscow †February 10th, 1891, Spain

56

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (1809–1865)

*January 15th, 1809, Besançon †January 19th, 1865, Passy

89

Günther Schellong

German university teacher

*January 15th, 1926, Kiel †October 10th, 2015, Münster

47

Giorgia Meloni

Prime Minister of Italy since 2022

*January 15th, 1977, Rome

52

Gamal Abdel Nasser

President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970

*January 15th, 1918, Alexandria †September 28th, 1970, Cairo

77

Andrea Martin

American-Canadian actress, singer and comedian

*January 15th, 1947, Portland

40

Jenő Károly

Hungarian association football player and association football coach (1886-1926)

*January 15th, 1886, Kaposvár †July 28th, 1926, Turin

84

Marcell Restle

German art historian of byzantine era (1932-2016)

*January 15th, 1932, Bad Waldsee †January 25th, 2016, Bad Waldsee

59

James Nesbitt

Northern Irish actor

*January 15th, 1965, Ballymena

65

Josip Juratovic

German politician

*January 15th, 1959, Koprivnica

62

Carmen Lyra

Costa Rican politician and writer

*January 15th, 1887, San José †May 14th, 1949, Mexico City

30

Eric Dier

English association football player

*January 15th, 1994, Cheltenham

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91

Gustave Eiffel

French chemical engineer and architect

*December 15th, 1832, Dijon †December 27th, 1923, Paris

75

Wilhelm Busch

German painter, poet and cartoonist (1832–1908)

*April 15th, 1832, Wiedensahl †January 9th, 1908, Mechtshausen

51

Édouard Manet

French painter (1832–1883)

*January 23rd, 1832, former 10th arrondissement of Paris †April 30th, 1883, 8th arrondissement of Paris

84

José Echegaray

Spanish author (1832-1916)

*April 19th, 1832, Madrid †September 14th, 1916, Madrid

65

Lewis Carroll

British author and scholar (1832–1898)

*January 27th, 1832, Daresbury †January 14th, 1898, Guildford

83

Tommaso Villa

Italian lawyer and politician (1832-1915)

*January 29th, 1832, Mondovì †July 24th, 1915, Turin

55

Louisa May Alcott

American novelist (1832–1888)

*November 29th, 1832, Germantown †March 6th, 1888, Boston

86

William Crookes

British chemist and physicist (1832-1919)

*June 17th, 1832, London †April 4th, 1919, London

77

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Norwegian writer (1832–1910)

*December 8th, 1832, Kvikne †April 26th, 1910, Paris

52

Jules Vallès

French journalist and author (1832-1885)

*June 11th, 1832, Le Puy-en-Velay †February 14th, 1885, 5th arrondissement of Paris

84

Edward Burnett Tylor

English anthropologist

*October 2nd, 1832, Camberwell †January 2nd, 1917, Wellington

43

Werner Munzinger

Swiss explorer, administrator and linguist (1832-1875)

*April 21st, 1832, Olten †November 7th, 1875, Aussa Sultanate

51

Gustave Doré

French illustrator and painter (1832–1883)

*January 6th, 1832, Strasbourg †January 23rd, 1883, Paris

88

Wilhelm Wundt

German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor (1832-1920)

*August 16th, 1832, Neckarau †August 31st, 1920, Großbothen

34

Maximilian I of Mexico

Emperor of Mexico (1832-1867)

*July 6th, 1832, Schönbrunn Palace †June 19th, 1867, Santiago de Querétaro

58

Nicolaus Otto

German inventor

*June 10th, 1832, Holzhausen an der Haide †January 26th, 1891, Cologne

58

Ferdinando Acton

Naval officer (1832-1891)

*July 16th, 1832, Naples †February 18th, 1891, Rome

67

Charles Friedel

French scientist

*March 10th, 1832, Strasbourg †April 19th, 1899, Montauban

74

Henry Martyn Baird

American historian (1832-1906)

*January 17th, 1832, Philadelphia †November 1st, 1906, New York City

63

Gustav Langenscheidt

German book publisher

*October 21st, 1832, Berlin †November 11th, 1895, Berlin

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 15th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, The second day of the sidereal winter solstice festivals in India) which are celebrated on January 15th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

Yes: 1832 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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