January 18th, 1939

Born on January 18th, 1939

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 31,000 days old!

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What happened on January 18th?

January 18th, 1990

In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Marion Barry (pictured), the mayor of Washington, D.C., was arrested for possession of crack cocaine.

January 18th, 1983

Thirty years after his death, the International Olympic Committee presented commemorative medals to the family of American athlete Jim Thorpe, who had been stripped of his gold medals for playing semi-professional baseball before the 1912 Summer Olympics.

January 18th, 1977

The CDC announced that the lung infection Legionnaires' disease is caused by a previously unknown bacterium now known as Legionella.

January 18th, 1969

Thousands of Japanese police stormed the University of Tokyo after six months of nationwide leftist university student protests and occupation.

January 18th, 1958

Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, becoming the first black Canadian to compete in the NHL.

January 18th, 1956

Navvab Safavi, an Iranian Shia cleric and the founder of the fundamentalist group Fada'iyan-e Islam, was executed with three of his followers for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Hossein Ala'.

January 18th, 1951

Construction began on the United Nations Military Cemetery (pictured), the only United Nations cemetery in the world, in Busan, South Korea.

January 18th, 1943

World War II: In Operation Iskra, the Red Army established a narrow land corridor to Leningrad, partially easing the protracted German siege.

January 18th, 1915

Japanese prime minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued the Twenty-One Demands to China in a bid to increase Japan's power in East Asia.

January 18th, 1871

A number of previously independent states united to form the German Empire, with Wilhelm I as emperor.

January 18th, 1788

The armed tender HMS Supply, the first ship of the First Fleet, arrived at Botany Bay, Australia.

January 18th, 1535

Francisco Pizarro founded Ciudad de los Reyes (present-day Lima, Peru) as the capital of the lands he conquered for the Spanish crown.

January 18th, 1486

Elizabeth of York married King Henry VII, becoming queen consort of England.

January 18th, 0474

The young child Leo II became the sole Byzantine emperor upon the death of his grandfather Leo I.

January 18th, 2023

A helicopter crash in Ukraine leaves 14 people dead, including the country's Interior Minister, Denys Monastyrsky.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 18th

Born on January 18th, 1939

80

Denton Lotz

American theologian (1939-2019)

*January 18th, 1939, Flushing †April 23rd, 2019, Forestdale

85

Celestinas Jucys

Soviet rower

*January 18th, 1939, Klausgalvų Medsėdžiai

85

Regina Silveira

University professor and researcher active in Brazil

*January 18th, 1939, Porto Alegre

85

Daniel H. Janzen

American biologist

*January 18th, 1939, Milwaukee

71

David French

Canadian writer (1939-2010)

*January 18th, 1939, Coley's Point †December 4th, 2010, Toronto

85

Volodymyr Stelmakh

Ukrainian politician

*January 18th, 1939, Oleksandrivka

78

Tsuyoshi Yamanaka

Japanese swimmer

*January 18th, 1939, Wajima †February 10th, 2017, Tokyo

85

Myron Pottios

American football player

*January 18th, 1939, Washington County

85

Carole A. Rubley

American politician

*January 18th, 1939, Bethel

85

Bo Gritz

American army officer and political candidate

*January 18th, 1939, Enid

62

John Bukowski

Australian boxer

*January 18th, 1939, Mackay †January 20th, 2001

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Who's birthday is on January 18th?

35

Chen Long

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1989, Shashi District

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

36

Wang Yihan

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1988, Shanghai

29

Wang Chi-Lin

Taiwanese badminton player

*January 18th, 1995, Taipei

81

Kay Granger

American politician

*January 18th, 1943, Greenville

68

Werner Liebrich

German footballer (1927–1995)

*January 18th, 1927, Kaiserslautern †March 20th, 1995, Kaiserslautern

50

Maulik Pancholy

Indian American actor, author, activist, and speaker

*January 18th, 1974, Kissimmee

66

Volker Pispers

German cabaret artist

*January 18th, 1958, Rheydt

69

Kevin Costner

American actor and filmmaker

*January 18th, 1955, Lynwood

84

Dieter Krause

East German canoe racer (1936-2020)

*January 18th, 1936, Brandenburg an der Havel †August 10th, 2020, Bad Saarow

76

Michael Bliss

Canadian historian and author

*January 18th, 1941, Leamington †May 18th, 2017, Toronto

53

Pep Guardiola

Spanish association football manager (born 1971)

*January 18th, 1971, Santpedor

50

Steve Lomas

Northern Irish association football player and manager

*January 18th, 1974, Hanover

83

John Hume

Irish politician from Northern Ireland (1937–2020)

*January 18th, 1937, Derry †August 3rd, 2020, Derry

50

Tri Kusharyanto

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1974, Yogyakarta City

46

Aparna Popat

Indian badminton player

*January 18th, 1978, Mumbai

48

Lars Paaske

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1976, Hørsholm

64

Mark Rylance

British actor, playwright and theatre director

*January 18th, 1960, Ashford

41

Li Yujia

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1983, Hubei

34

Linda Weni Fanetri

Indonesian badminton player

*January 18th, 1990, Jakarta

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Born in 1939

85

Hans Kloft

German historian of classical antiquity

*April 10th, 1939, Düsseldorf

64

João César Monteiro

Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic

*February 2nd, 1939, Figueira da Foz †February 3rd, 2003, Lisbon

77

Dudley Storey

New Zealand rower

*November 27th, 1939, Wairoa †March 6th, 2017, Auckland

84

Thilo Ulbert

German christian archaeologist

*June 20th, 1939, Augsburg

83

Tina Turner

American-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)

*November 26th, 1939, Brownsville †May 24th, 2023, Küsnacht

83

Hans-Christian Ströbele

German lawyer and politician (1939–2022)

*June 7th, 1939, Halle (Saale) †August 29th, 2022, Moabit

78

Oscar Fulloné

Argentine association football player and manager (1939-2017)

*April 4th, 1939, La Plata †May 22nd, 2017, Casablanca

84

Helga Piur

German actress and voice actress

*May 24th, 1939, Berlin

84

Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist,pépiniériste and inventor

*November 18th, 1939, Ottawa

84

Yves Meyer

French mathematician

*July 19th, 1939, Paris

56

Peter Aust

1939-1996 German actor

*March 17th, 1939, Bytom †January 26th, 1996, Bad Wildungen

70

Dixie Carter

American actress (1939–2010)

*May 25th, 1939, McLemoresville †April 10th, 2010, Houston

78

Irio De Paula

Brazilian composer

*May 10th, 1939, Rio de Janeiro †May 23rd, 2017, Rome

78

Peter Grünberg

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

*May 18th, 1939, Plzeň †April 7th, 2018, Jülich

59

Dusty Springfield

British singer (1939–1999)

*April 16th, 1939, London †March 2nd, 1999, Henley-on-Thames

74

Karen Black

American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter (1939-2013)

*July 1st, 1939, Park Ridge †August 8th, 2013, Santa Monica

80

Karel Gott

Czech singer and actor

*July 14th, 1939, Plzeň †October 1st, 2019, Prague

84

Brenda Vaccaro

American actress

*November 18th, 1939, Brooklyn

80

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

*August 22nd, 1939, Suffern †August 30th, 2019, Los Angeles

84

Jane Alexander

American actress (b. 1939)

*October 28th, 1939, Boston

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No: With 365 days 1939 is a normal year and no leap year.

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