January 5th, 1944

Born on January 5th, 1944

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on January 5th, 1944?

January 5th, 1944

The Daily Mail becomes the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail

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, 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.

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.

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

Born on January 5th, 1944

80

Gerd Siese

German association football player

*January 5th, 1944, Bielefeld

80

Peter Rieger

German boxer

*January 5th, 1944, Nysa

72

Louis Stewart

Irish jazz guitarist (1944-2016)

*January 5th, 1944, Waterford †August 20th, 2016, Harold's Cross

80

Ed Rendell

Governor of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2011

*January 5th, 1944, New York City

80

Carolyn McCarthy

American politician

*January 5th, 1944, Brooklyn

69

José Hernández Muñoz

Spanish artist (1944-2013)

*January 5th, 1944, Tangier †November 20th, 2013, Málaga

77

Jan de Vries

Dutch motorcyclist

*January 5th, 1944, Sint Jacobiparochie †January 14th, 2021, Purmerend

46

Jo Ann Kelly

English blues singer and guitarist (1944-1990)

*January 5th, 1944, London †October 21st, 1990, London

80

Brian Tracy

American motivational speaker and writer

*January 5th, 1944, Charlottetown

66

Eystein Eggen

Norwegian writer (1944-2010)

*January 5th, 1944, Oslo †November 19th, 2010

80

Franco Ferrini

Italian screenwriter

*January 5th, 1944, La Spezia

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

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

84

Umberto Eco

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

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

68

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

President of Germany since 2017

*January 5th, 1956, Detmold

76

Ted Lange

Actor, director, screenwriter

*January 5th, 1948, Oakland

49

Bradley Cooper

American actor

*January 5th, 1975, Philadelphia

44

Santiago Ventura

Spanish tennis player

*January 5th, 1980, Castelló de la Plana

91

Konrad Adenauer

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

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

81

Carolyn Schuler

American swimmer

*January 5th, 1943, San Francisco

78

Diane Keaton

American actress

*January 5th, 1946, Los Angeles

24

Roxen

Romanian singer

*January 5th, 2000, Cluj-Napoca

93

Robert Duvall

American actor and director

*January 5th, 1931, San Diego

61

Ralf Loose

German association football player and manager

*January 5th, 1963, Dortmund

51

Ella Harper

American circus performer

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

77

Rita Kühne

East German sprinter

*January 5th, 1947, Dresden

38

Deepika Padukone

Indian actress

*January 5th, 1986, Copenhagen

72

Uli Hoeneß

German football player and executive

*January 5th, 1952, Ulm

55

Marilyn Manson

American musician (born 1969)

*January 5th, 1969, Canton

70

László Krasznahorkai

Hungarian novelist and screenwriter

*January 5th, 1954, Gyula

55

Shea Whigham

American actor

*January 5th, 1969, Tallahassee

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Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Leap year

Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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