January 26th, 1857

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Born on January 26th, 1857 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on January 26th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on January 26th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (January 1857)

Born on January 26th, 1857

Weekday

Monday

January 26th, 1857 was a Monday.

Age

167

People born on January 26th, 1857 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 167 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♒

Aquarius (The Water-Bearer)

January 21st, 1857 - February 19th, 1857

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 61,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 911 days, exactly on October 27th, 2026, people who were born on January 26th, 1857 will be 62,000 days old!

61,089 Days

8,727 Weeks

2,007 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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What happened on January 26th?

January 26th, 1974

Turkish Airlines Flight 301 crashed while taking off from İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport, killing 67 people.

January 26th, 1545

The Council of Trent officially separates Roman Catholicism and Protestantism

January 26th, 2009

Rioting broke out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that led to the deposal of President Marc Ravalomanana.

January 26th, 2001

An earthquake in the Indian state of Gujarat killed at least 13,000 people, injured 167,000 others and destroyed nearly 400,000 homes.

January 26th, 1998

In a nationally televised press conference, U.S. president Bill Clinton denied having "sexual relations" with intern Monica Lewinsky.

January 26th, 1972

JAT Flight 367 exploded in mid-air over Czechoslovakia; the only survivor of the 28 on board, flight attendant Vesna Vulović, fell 10,160 m (33,330 ft), setting the record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute.

January 26th, 1966

The three Beaumont children disappeared from a beach in Glenelg, South Australia, resulting in one of the country's largest-ever police investigations.

January 26th, 1952

Spontaneous anti-British riots erupted in Cairo following the killings of 50 Egyptian auxiliary police officers the previous day.

January 26th, 1950

Indian independence movement: India became a republic under a new constitution, with Rajendra Prasad as president and Jawaharlal Nehru as prime minister.

January 26th, 1949

The Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory (pictured) in California, the largest aperture optical telescope in the world for 28 years, saw first light.

January 26th, 1945

Audie Murphy engaged in action at the Colmar Pocket that won him a Medal of Honor and made him one of the most famous and decorated U.S. soldiers of World War II.

January 26th, 1918

A group of Red Guards hung a red lantern atop the tower of the Helsinki Workers' House, symbolically marking the start of the Finnish Civil War.

January 26th, 1905

The 3,106-carat (621 g) Cullinan Diamond (pictured), the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found, was discovered at the Premier Mine in Gauteng, South Africa.

January 26th, 1841

Commodore Gordon Bremer took formal possession of Hong Kong Island for the United Kingdom at Possession Point.

January 26th, 1808

William Bligh, the governor of New South Wales, was deposed in the only military coup in Australian history.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 26th

Born on January 26th, 1857

Trinle Gyatso

12th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1857-1875)

*January 26th, 1857, Tibet †April 25th, 1875, Lhasa

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 26th?

Helge Sten

Norwegian musician

*January 26th, 1971, Røros Municipality

Lee Jae-jin

South Korean badminton player

*January 26th, 1983, Miryang

KC Rebell

German rapper

*January 26th, 1988, Pazarcık

Lutz Bachmann

German political activist; founder of Pegida

*January 26th, 1973, Dresden

Heinz Kessler

German military officer, Armeegeneral in the former National People's Army of East Germany (1920-2017)

*January 26th, 1920, Lubań †May 2nd, 2017, Berlin

Reinhard Bütikofer

German politician

*January 26th, 1953, Mannheim

Silvi Antarini

Indonesian badminton player

*January 26th, 1984, Jakarta

Paul Newman

American actor and film director (1925–2008)

*January 26th, 1925, Shaker Heights †September 26th, 2008, Westport

Douglas MacArthur

United States Army general in WWI, WWII and Korea (1880–1964)

*January 26th, 1880, Little Rock †April 5th, 1964, Washington, D.C.

Marvin Plattenhardt

German association football player

*January 26th, 1992, Filderstadt

Nicolae Ceaușescu

Romanian communist leader from 1965 to 1989

*January 26th, 1918, Scornicești †December 25th, 1989, Târgoviște

Adam Cwalina

Badminton player

*January 26th, 1985, Częstochowa

Yang Li Lian

Malaysian badminton player

*January 26th, 1993, Selangor

Rhys Walker

Badminton player

*January 26th, 1994, Nuneaton

Huang Chia-Chi

Australian badminton player, former Taiwanese badminton player

*January 26th, 1979, Taipei

Evelyn Siamupangila

Badminton player

*January 26th, 1997, Kabwe

Tedi Supriadi

Badminton player

*January 26th, 1996, Bandung City

Alex Lanier

Badminton player

*January 26th, 2005, Caen

Frank Mills

American actor (1891-1973)

*January 26th, 1891, Kalamazoo †August 18th, 1973, Los Angeles

Matt Rippy

American actor

*January 26th, 1968, Houston

Same year
Born in 1857

Ernst Fabricius

German historian, archaeologist and scholar (1857–1942)

*September 6th, 1857, Darmstadt †March 22nd, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau

William Howard Taft

President of the United States from 1909 to 1913

*September 15th, 1857, Cincinnati †March 8th, 1930, Washington metropolitan area

Ferdinand de Saussure

Swiss linguist (1857-1913)

*November 26th, 1857, Geneva †February 22nd, 1913, Vufflens-le-Château

Friedrich August Emil Heuer

*December 27th, 1857, Rammenau †March 29th, 1934, Dresden

Heinrich Hertz

German physicist (1857–1894)

*February 22nd, 1857, Hamburg †January 1st, 1894, Bonn

Joseph Conrad

Polish-British writer (1857–1924)

*December 3rd, 1857, Terekhove †August 3rd, 1924, Bishopsbourne

Pius XI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939

*May 31st, 1857, Desio †February 10th, 1939, Vatican City

Henrik Pontoppidan

Writer, Nobel Laureate

*July 24th, 1857, Fredericia †August 21st, 1943, Copenhagen

Ronald Ross

British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857 – 1932)

*May 13th, 1857, Almora †September 16th, 1932, London

Otto Sidow

German politician (SPD)

*May 1st, 1857, Friesack †September 6th, 1927, Brandenburg an der Havel

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

Lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement (1857-1941)

*February 22nd, 1857, Paddington †January 8th, 1941, Nyeri

Eugène Regnault

French diplomat (1857-1941)

*December 28th, 1857, Boulogne-sur-Mer †September 25th, 1941, Gorre

Mario Méndez Bejarano

Spanish author

*December 5th, 1857, Seville †January 16th, 1931, Madrid

Julien Tiersot

French musicologist, composer and pioneer in ethnomusicology (1857-1936)

*July 5th, 1857, Bourg-en-Bresse †August 10th, 1936, 13th arrondissement of Paris

Margaret Deland

American writer and poet (1857–1945)

*February 23rd, 1857, Allegheny †January 13th, 1945, Boston

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Italian composer

*April 23rd, 1857, Naples †August 9th, 1919, Montecatini Terme

Edward Elgar

English composer (1857-1934)

*June 2nd, 1857, Lower Broadheath †February 23rd, 1934, Worcester

Alfred Binet

French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test

*July 8th, 1857, Nice †October 18th, 1911, Paris

Charles Scott Sherrington

English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)

*November 27th, 1857, Islington †March 4th, 1952, Eastbourne

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Austrian doctor, Nobel prize laureate and psychiatrist

*March 7th, 1857, Wels †September 27th, 1940, Vienna

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 26th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on January 26th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXVI.I.MDCCCLVII

26.1.1857

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1857 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
January 1857

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

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January 26th, 1857

Born on January 26th, 1857

Weekday

Monday

Age

Zodiac

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Aquarius (The Water-Bearer)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 61,000 days old!

61,089 Days

8,727 Weeks

2,007 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on January 26th?

Turkish Airlines Flight 301 crashed while taking off from İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport, killing 67 people.

The Council of Trent officially separates Roman Catholicism and Protestantism

Rioting broke out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that led to the deposal of President Marc Ravalomanana.

An earthquake in the Indian state of Gujarat killed at least 13,000 people, injured 167,000 others and destroyed nearly 400,000 homes.

In a nationally televised press conference, U.S. president Bill Clinton denied having "sexual relations" with intern Monica Lewinsky.

JAT Flight 367 exploded in mid-air over Czechoslovakia; the only survivor of the 28 on board, flight attendant Vesna Vulović, fell 10,160 m (33,330 ft), setting the record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute.

The three Beaumont children disappeared from a beach in Glenelg, South Australia, resulting in one of the country's largest-ever police investigations.

Spontaneous anti-British riots erupted in Cairo following the killings of 50 Egyptian auxiliary police officers the previous day.

Indian independence movement: India became a republic under a new constitution, with Rajendra Prasad as president and Jawaharlal Nehru as prime minister.

The Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory (pictured) in California, the largest aperture optical telescope in the world for 28 years, saw first light.

Audie Murphy engaged in action at the Colmar Pocket that won him a Medal of Honor and made him one of the most famous and decorated U.S. soldiers of World War II.

A group of Red Guards hung a red lantern atop the tower of the Helsinki Workers' House, symbolically marking the start of the Finnish Civil War.

The 3,106-carat (621 g) Cullinan Diamond (pictured), the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found, was discovered at the Premier Mine in Gauteng, South Africa.

Commodore Gordon Bremer took formal possession of Hong Kong Island for the United Kingdom at Possession Point.

William Bligh, the governor of New South Wales, was deposed in the only military coup in Australian history.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 26th

Born on January 26th, 1857

12th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1857-1875)

Same Day Who's birthday is on January 26th?

Same year Born in 1857

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 26th

Alberic of Cîteaux

Blessed Gabriele Allegra

Paula

Timothy and Titus

January 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Australia Day (Australia)

Duarte Day (Dominican Republic)

Engineer's Day (Panama)

International Customs Day

Liberation Day (Uganda)

Republic Day (India)

Saint Alberic of Cîteaux

Saint Paula of Rome

Saint Timothy and Saint Titus

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

26.1.1857

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