January 5th, 1869

Born on January 5th, 1869

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 56,000 days old!

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What happened on January 5th, 1869?

January 5th, 1869

Te Kooti's War: After surviving a five-day siege in the pā at Ngātapa, Māori leader Te Kooti escaped from New Zealand's Armed Constabulary.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Kooti's_War

What else happened on January 5th?

January 5th, 1970

An earthquake registering Mw 7.1 struck Tonghai County in southern China, killing at least 10,000 people and eventually spurring the creation of the nation's largest earthquake monitoring system.

January 5th, 1953

Waiting for Godot by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, termed the "most significant English language play of the 20th century", premiered in Paris.

January 5th, 1949

In his State of the Union speech, U.S. president Harry S. Truman (pictured) announced: "Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal."

January 5th, 1941

Second World War: Australian and British troops defeated Italian forces in Bardia, Libya, the first battle of the war in which an Australian Army formation took part.

January 5th, 1925

Nellie Tayloe Ross was inaugurated as Governor of Wyoming, the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state.

January 5th, 1922

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton (pictured) died of a heart attack during his final expedition.

January 5th, 1919

The German Workers' Party, the precursor of the Nazi Party, was founded by Anton Drexler.

January 5th, 1757

King Louis XV survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who later became the last person in France to be executed by drawing and quartering.

January 5th, 1675

Franco-Dutch War: French troops defeated Austrian and Brandenburg forces at the Battle of Turckheim in Alsace.

January 5th, 1896

Te Kooti's War: After surviving a five-day seige in the pā at Ngātapa, Māori leader Te Kooti escaped from New Zealand's Armed Constabulary.

January 5th, 2009

In Eng Foong Ho v Attorney-General, the Court of Appeal of Singapore held that equality before the law was satisfied by a "reasonable nexus" between state action and the object of the law.

January 5th, 2008

Mikheil Saakashvili was decisively re-elected as President of Georgia in "the first genuinely competitive presidential election" in the history of the country.

January 5th, 2007

The Taiwan High Speed Rail opened, connecting Taipei and Kaohsiung.

January 5th, 2005

The dwarf planet Eris was discovered by a team using images from the Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 5th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 5th?

51

Ella Harper

American circus performer

*January 5th, 1870, Sumner County †December 19th, 1921, Nashville

91

Konrad Adenauer

German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU

*January 5th, 1876, Cologne †April 19th, 1967, Rhöndorf

49

Bradley Cooper

American actor

*January 5th, 1975, Philadelphia

44

Santiago Ventura

Spanish tennis player

*January 5th, 1980, Castelló de la Plana

84

Umberto Eco

Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

*January 5th, 1932, Alessandria †February 19th, 2016, Milan

24

Roxen

Romanian singer

*January 5th, 2000, Cluj-Napoca

80

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

(1846-1926) German philosopher

*January 5th, 1846, Aurich †September 15th, 1926, Jena

68

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

President of Germany since 2017

*January 5th, 1956, Detmold

83

Hayao Miyazaki

Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (1941-)

*January 5th, 1941, Bunkyo

86

Juan Carlos I of Spain

King of Spain from 1975 to 2014

*January 5th, 1938, Rome

93

Robert Duvall

American actor and director

*January 5th, 1931, San Diego

90

Jean-Pierre Aumont

French actor (1911–2001)

*January 5th, 1911, Paris †January 30th, 2001, Saint-Tropez

38

Deepika Padukone

Indian actress

*January 5th, 1986, Copenhagen

61

Ralf Loose

German association football player and manager

*January 5th, 1963, Dortmund

73

Ferdinand von Roemer

German geologist (1818-1891)

*January 5th, 1818, Hildesheim †December 14th, 1891, Wrocław

76

Ted Lange

Actor, director, screenwriter

*January 5th, 1948, Oakland

91

Fritz Holthoff

German politician (1915-2006)

*January 5th, 1915, Dortmund †September 18th, 2006, Duisburg

80

Gerd Siese

German association football player

*January 5th, 1944, Bielefeld

80

Jack Norworth

American songwriter, singer and vaudeville performer (1879-1959)

*January 5th, 1879, Philadelphia †September 1st, 1959, Laguna Beach

80

Constanze Mozart

Austrian singer

*January 5th, 1762, Zell im Wiesental †March 6th, 1842, Salzburg

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Born in 1869

78

Mahatma Gandhi

Indian independence activist (1869–1948)

*October 2nd, 1869, Porbandar †January 30th, 1948, Gandhi Smriti

84

Henri Matisse

French artist (1869–1954)

*December 31st, 1869, Le Cateau-Cambrésis †November 3rd, 1954, Nice

67

Karl Hampe

German historian of medieval age (1869-1936)

*February 3rd, 1869, Bremen †February 14th, 1936, Heidelberg

81

André Gide

French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)

*November 22nd, 1869, Paris †February 19th, 1951, Paris

71

Neville Chamberlain

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940

*March 18th, 1869, Birmingham †November 9th, 1940, Reading

62

Tyrone Power Sr.

English-born American stage and screen actor (1869–1931)

*May 2nd, 1869, London †December 23rd, 1931, Los Angeles

87

Miloje Vasić

Serbian archaeologist, historian and art critic (1869-1956)

*September 3rd, 1869, Požeženo †November 4th, 1956, Belgrade

41

William Vaughn Moody

United States dramatist and poet (1869-1910)

*July 8th, 1869, Spencer †October 17th, 1910, Colorado Springs

70

Emma Goldman

Russian anarchist

*June 27th, 1869, Kaunas †May 14th, 1940, Toronto

61

Fritz Pregl

Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1869-1930)

*September 3rd, 1869, Ljubljana †December 13th, 1930, Graz

90

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)

*February 14th, 1869, Glencorse †November 15th, 1959, Carlops

54

Hovhannes Tumanyan

Armenian writer and public activist

*February 19th, 1869, Dsegh †March 23rd, 1923, Moscow

78

Tony Garnier

French architect

*August 13th, 1869, 1st arrondissement of Lyon †January 19th, 1948, Roquefort-la-Bédoule

86

Charley Grapewin

American actor (1869-1956)

*December 20th, 1869, Xenia †February 2nd, 1956, Corona

47

Grigori Rasputin

Russian mystic (1869-1916)

*January 9th, 1869, Pokrovskoye †December 17th, 1916, Saint Petersburg

72

Hans Spemann

German embryologist

*June 27th, 1869, Stuttgart †September 9th, 1941, Freiburg im Breisgau

80

Karl Seitz

President of Austria (1869-1950)

*September 4th, 1869, Vienna †February 3rd, 1950, Vienna

72

Adam von Au

German politician

*December 24th, 1869, Huchenfeld †July 1st, 1942

75

Will Marion Cook

African American composer and violinist

*January 27th, 1869, Washington, D.C. †July 19th, 1944, New York City

75

Hendrikus Colijn

Dutch politician (1869–1944)

*June 22nd, 1869, Burgerveen †September 18th, 1944, Ilmenau

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1869 is a normal year and no leap year.

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