January 15th, 1890

Born on January 15th, 1890

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 49,000 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, 1890

57

Michiaki Kamada

Japanese admiral

*January 15th, 1890, Ehime Prefecture †October 18th, 1947, Pontianak

69

Paul Guédon

French poet

*January 15th, 1890, Maine-et-Loire †June 4th, 1959, Montluçon

75

Tommy Fleming

Scottish-American soccer player (1890-1965)

*January 15th, 1890, Beith †March 19th, 1965, Quincy

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Who's birthday is on January 15th?

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

62

Carmen Lyra

Costa Rican politician and writer

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

40

Jenő Károly

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

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

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

52

Gamal Abdel Nasser

President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970

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

89

Günther Schellong

German university teacher

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

95

Edward Teller

Hungarian-American nuclear physicist

*January 15th, 1908, Budapest †September 9th, 2003, Stanford

51

Molière

French playwright and actor (1622–1673)

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

77

Andrea Martin

American-Canadian actress, singer and comedian

*January 15th, 1947, Portland

84

Marcell Restle

German art historian of byzantine era (1932-2016)

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

47

Giorgia Meloni

Prime Minister of Italy since 2022

*January 15th, 1977, Rome

58

Ivor Novello

Welsh composer and actor (1893–1951)

*January 15th, 1893, Cardiff †March 6th, 1951, Westminster

76

Torin Thatcher

British actor

*January 15th, 1905, Mumbai †March 4th, 1981, Thousand Oaks

65

Josip Juratovic

German politician

*January 15th, 1959, Koprivnica

59

James Nesbitt

Northern Irish actor

*January 15th, 1965, Ballymena

67

Mario Van Peebles

American actor

*January 15th, 1957, Mexico City

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85

Mortimer Wheeler

British archaeologist (1890-1976)

*September 10th, 1890, Glasgow †July 22nd, 1976, London

79

Charles de Gaulle

President of France from 1959 to 1969

*November 22nd, 1890, Lille †November 9th, 1970, Colombey-les-Deux-Églises

85

Agatha Christie

English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)

*September 15th, 1890, Torquay †January 12th, 1976, Winterbrook

78

Dwight D. Eisenhower

President of the United States from 1953 to 1961

*October 14th, 1890, Denison †March 28th, 1969, Washington, D.C.

25

Max Immelmann

German flying ace

*September 21st, 1890, Dresden †June 18th, 1916, Sallaumines

63

Edwin Howard Armstrong

American electrical engineer and inventor

*December 18th, 1890, Manhattan †February 1st, 1954, New York City

88

Jean Rhys

British novelist (1890–1979)

*August 24th, 1890, Roseau †May 14th, 1979, Exeter

46

H. P. Lovecraft

American author (1890–1937)

*August 20th, 1890, Providence †March 15th, 1937, Providence

81

William Lawrence Bragg

Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer

*March 31st, 1890, Adelaide †July 1st, 1971, Ipswich

57

Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger

Nazi leader (1890-1947)

*April 14th, 1890, Zielonowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship †April 25th, 1947, Nuremberg

79

Ho Chi Minh

Vietnamese communist leader (1890–1969)

*May 19th, 1890, Kim Liên †September 2nd, 1969, Hanoi

86

Groucho Marx

American comedian (1890–1977)

*October 2nd, 1890, Manhattan †August 19th, 1977, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

72

Ronald Fisher

British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)

*February 17th, 1890, London †July 29th, 1962, Adelaide

55

Robert Ley

German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)

*February 15th, 1890, Niederbreidenbach †October 25th, 1945, Nuremberg Court Prison

70

Boris Pasternak

Russian writer (1890-1960)

*February 10th, 1890, Moscow †May 30th, 1960, Peredelkino

78

Naima Wifstrand

Swedish actress

*September 4th, 1890, Kungsholm parish †October 23rd, 1968, Gustav Vasa parish

56

Alfred Jodl

German general and convicted war criminal (1890–1946)

*May 10th, 1890, Würzburg †October 16th, 1946, Nuremberg

84

Vannevar Bush

American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890–1974)

*March 11th, 1890, Everett †June 28th, 1974, Belmont

75

Steve Brown

Jazz musician best known for his work on string bass (1890-1965)

*January 13th, 1890, New Orleans †September 15th, 1965, Detroit

74

Stan Laurel

British-American actor (1890–1965)

*June 16th, 1890, Ulverston †February 23rd, 1965, Santa Monica

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

No: With 365 days 1890 is a normal year and no leap year.

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