January 31st, 1929

Born on January 31st, 1929

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 34,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 224 days, exactly on November 28th, 2024, people who were born on January 31st, 1929 will be 35,000 days old!

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What happened on January 31st?

January 31st, 2013

A gas leak underneath the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City caused an explosion that killed at least 37 people and injured another 121.

January 31st, 2010

James Cameron's Avatar became the first film to earn over US$2 billion worldwide.

January 31st, 2000

Alaska Airlines Flight 261, experiencing problems with its horizontal stabilizer system, crashed in the Pacific Ocean off Anacapa Island, California, killing all 88 people on board.

January 31st, 1988

Doug Williams (pictured) became the first African-American quarterback to play in a Super Bowl, leading the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XXII.

January 31st, 1961

Aboard NASA's Mercury-Redstone 2, Ham the Chimp became the first hominid launched into outer space.

January 31st, 1957

A DC-7B operated by Douglas Aircraft collided in mid-air with a U.S. Air Force F-89 and crashed into a schoolyard in Pacoima, California.

January 31st, 1900

Datu Muhammad Salleh, leader of a series of major disturbances in North Borneo, was shot dead in Tambunan, but his followers did not give up for five more years.

January 31st, 1862

American astronomer Alvan Graham Clark first observed the faint white dwarf companion of Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.

January 31st, 1747

The London Lock Hospital, the first voluntary hospital specialising in the treatment of venereal diseases, opened.

January 31st, 1578

Eighty Years' War: Spain won a crushing victory at the Battle of Gembloux, threatening the States General of the Netherlands and contributing to its move from Brussels to Antwerp.

January 31st, 0314

Sylvester I (bust depicted), during whose pontificate many churches in Rome were constructed by Constantine the Great, began his reign as pope.

January 31st, 2007

Emergency officials in Boston mistakenly identified LED placards depicting characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force as IEDs, causing a panic.

January 31st, 1997

Final Fantasy VII, the first video game in the Final Fantasy franchise to use 3-D computer graphics, was released.

January 31st, 1919

Intense rioting over labour conditions broke out in Glasgow, Scotland.

January 31st, 2023

The last Boeing 747, the first wide-body airliner, is delivered.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 31st

Born on January 31st, 1929

82

Rudolf Mössbauer

German nuclear physicist and Noble Prize in Physics

*January 31st, 1929, Munich †September 14th, 2011, Grünwald

80

Jean Simmons

British-American actress (1929–2010)

*January 31st, 1929, London †January 22nd, 2010, Santa Monica

69

Luis Miloc

Uruguayan association football player (1929-1998)

*January 31st, 1929, Montevideo †November 10th, 1998, Bogotá

51

Vera Schwarz

German-born Austrian pianist, harpsichordist, and historic practice specialist

*January 31st, 1929, Hamburg †June 29th, 1980, Vienna

80

Kurt Bretterbauer

Austrian geodesist

*January 31st, 1929, Vienna †February 26th, 2009, Bad Vöslau

86

Girolamo Arnaldi

Italian historian of the Middle Ages

*January 31st, 1929, Pisa †January 30th, 2016, Rome

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Who's birthday is on January 31st?

97

Carol Channing

American actress (1921–2019)

*January 31st, 1921, Seattle †January 15th, 2019, Rancho Mirage

56

Petra Schubert

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1968, Finsterwalde

78

Meena Shah

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1937, Balrampur †March 10th, 2015

57

James Franciscus

American actor (1934-1991)

*January 31st, 1934, Clayton †July 8th, 1991, North Hollywood

42

Ekaterina Ananina

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1982, Perm

39

Oxxxymiron

Russian rapper

*January 31st, 1985, Saint Petersburg

32

Linnéa Claeson

Swedish handball player

*January 31st, 1992, Norrköping

49

Marianne Grunthal

German teacher

*January 31st, 1896, Zehdenick †May 2nd, 1945, Schwerin

88

Kenzaburō Ōe

Japanese writer and Nobel Laureate

*January 31st, 1935, Ōse †March 3rd, 2023

87

Philip Glass

American composer (born 1937)

*January 31st, 1937, Baltimore

73

Spartaco Landini

Italian footballer (1944-2017)

*January 31st, 1944, Terranuova Bracciolini †April 16th, 2017, Genoa

43

Justin Timberlake

American singer and actor (born 1981)

*January 31st, 1981, Memphis

82

Antonio Ciliberti

Italian archbishop

*January 31st, 1935, San Lorenzo del Vallo †April 1st, 2017, Rome

53

Jackie Robinson

American baseball player

*January 31st, 1919, Cairo †October 24th, 1972, Stamford

50

Billy MacLellan

Canadian actor

*January 31st, 1974, Cape Breton Island

65

Anthony LaPaglia

Australian actor

*January 31st, 1959, Adelaide

99

Micheline Lannoy

Belgian figure skater

*January 31st, 1925, Brussels metropolitan area

83

Gustav Sichelschmidt

German historian and writer of the extreme right

*January 31st, 1913, Remscheid †December 9th, 1996, Bad Iburg

31

Franz Schubert

Austrian composer (1797–1828)

*January 31st, 1797, Himmelpfortgrund †November 19th, 1828, Vienna

94

Michael Degen

German Israeli actor

*January 31st, 1928, Chemnitz †April 9th, 2022, Hamburg

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Born in 1929

39

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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

91

Kurt Rudolph

German religious studies scholar

*April 3rd, 1929, Dresden †May 13th, 2020

83

Hebe Camargo

Brazilian recording artist, television host, singer

*March 8th, 1929, Taubaté †September 29th, 2012, Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital

63

Audrey Hepburn

British actress (1929–1993)

*May 4th, 1929, Rue Keyenveld - Keienveldstraat †January 20th, 1993, Tolochenaz

87

Kathleen Crowley

American actress and beauty pageant contestant (1929-2017)

*December 26th, 1929, Green Bank †April 23rd, 2017, Green Bank

91

Christopher Plummer

Canadian actor

*December 13th, 1929, Toronto †February 5th, 2021, Weston

87

Chuck Barris

American game show creator, producer, and host (1929-2017)

*June 3rd, 1929, Philadelphia †March 21st, 2017, Palisades

95

Christian Meier

German historian of ancient history and professor

*February 16th, 1929, Słupsk

87

Willi Fährmann

German writer

*December 18th, 1929, Duisburg †May 25th, 2017, Xanten

52

Grace Kelly

American actress and Princess consort of Monaco (1929–1982)

*November 12th, 1929, Philadelphia †September 14th, 1982, Commune of Monaco

70

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, film producer, and boxer (1929-2000)

*July 18th, 1929, Cleveland †February 12th, 2000, Neuilly-sur-Seine

83

Robert Bonnaud

Historian

*November 13th, 1929, Marseille †January 22nd, 2013, 13th arrondissement of Paris

87

Hans Koschnick

German politician (SPD), Mayor of Bremen (1929-2016)

*April 2nd, 1929, Bremen †April 21st, 2016, Bremen

73

Dorothee Sölle

German theologian

*September 30th, 1929, Cologne †April 27th, 2003, Göppingen

86

Bud Spencer

Italian actor, professional swimmer and water polo player (1929–2016)

*October 31st, 1929, Naples †June 27th, 2016, Rome

94

Milan Kundera

Franco-Czech poet and novelist

*April 1st, 1929, Brno †July 11th, 2023, 7th arrondissement of Paris

85

Karl Otto Pöhl

German banker (1929–2014)

*December 1st, 1929, Hanover †December 9th, 2014, Switzerland

87

Michael M. Ryan

American actor (1929-2017)

*March 19th, 1929, Wichita †March 1st, 2017, Kansas City

87

Josef Válka

Czech historian (1929-2017)

*July 13th, 1929, Borač †May 13th, 2017, Brno

15

Anne Frank

German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)

*June 12th, 1929, Maingau Clinic of the Red Cross †February 1st, 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1929 is a normal year and no leap year.

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