January 15th, 1906

Born on January 15th, 1906

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 44,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 978 days, exactly on March 30th, 2029, people who were born on January 15th, 1906 will be 45,000 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, wife of Karl-Otto Koch, the Nazi commander 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 a magnitude-8.0 earthquake 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 was completed on the Buffalo Bill Dam, then the tallest dam in the world, on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming.

January 15th, 1885

Wilson Bentley (pictured) 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, 1906

84

Alfred Maleta

Austrian politician (1906-1990)

*January 15th, 1906, Mödling †January 16th, 1990, Salzburg

Same year
Born in 1906

75

Friedrich Karl Kaul

German screenwriter

*February 21st, 1906, Poznań †April 16th, 1981, East Berlin

67

Bernhard Rösler

German entrepreneur

*June 9th, 1906, Essen †December 2nd, 1973, Düsseldorf

75

Leonid Brezhnev

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)

*December 19th, 1906, Kamyanske †November 10th, 1982, Zareche

90

George Wald

Nobel laureate

*November 18th, 1906, New York City †April 12th, 1997, Cambridge

69

Hannah Arendt

German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)

*October 14th, 1906, Lindener Marktplatz 2, Hannover †December 4th, 1975, Upper West Side

68

Josephine Baker

American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)

*June 3rd, 1906, St. Louis †April 12th, 1975, Paris

65

Maria Goeppert Mayer

German-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)

*June 28th, 1906, Katowice †February 20th, 1972, San Diego

71

Kurt Gödel

Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)

*April 28th, 1906, Brno †January 14th, 1978, Princeton

53

Jacques Becker

French screenwriter and film director (1906-1960)

*September 15th, 1906, 1st arrondissement of Paris †February 21st, 1960, 16th arrondissement of Paris

58

Diana Wynyard

English actress (1906-1964)

*January 16th, 1906, London †May 13th, 1964, London

98

Hans Bethe

German-American nuclear physicist

*July 2nd, 1906, Strasbourg †March 6th, 2005, Ithaca

95

Léopold Sédar Senghor

First president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist (1906–2001)

*October 9th, 1906, Joal-Fadiouth †December 20th, 2001, Verson

100

Bruce Bennett

American actor (1906–2007)

*May 19th, 1906, Tacoma †February 24th, 2007, Los Angeles

79

Hermione Baddeley

British character actress of theatre, film and television (1906-1986)

*November 13th, 1906, Broseley †August 19th, 1986, Los Angeles

91

Henny Youngman

American comedian (1906-1998)

*March 16th, 1906, Liverpool †February 24th, 1998, Manhattan

61

Puyi

Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)

*February 7th, 1906, Prince Chun Mansion †October 17th, 1967, Peking Union Medical College Hospital

69

Luchino Visconti

Italian theatre, opera and cinema director (1906–1976)

*November 2nd, 1906, Milan †March 17th, 1976, Rome

84

Erik Rhodes

American actor and singer

*February 10th, 1906, El Reno †February 17th, 1990, Oklahoma City

74

Hans Asperger

Austrian pediatrician, medical theorist, and medical professor (1906-1980)

*February 18th, 1906, Vienna †October 21st, 1980, Vienna

64

Iris Tanner

British swimmer, Olympic silver medallist

*November 20th, 1906, Eastbourne †February 22nd, 1971, Alfriston

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 1906 is a normal year and no leap year.

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