January 18th, 1944

Born on January 18th, 1944

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 29,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 681 days, exactly on March 8th, 2026, people who were born on January 18th, 1944 will be 30,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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, 1944

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

80

Paul Keating

Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia

*January 18th, 1944, Bankstown

80

Kjersti Ericsson

Norwegian criminologist and politician

*January 18th, 1944, Oslo

80

Leonard D. Holder, Jr.

American lieutenant general

*January 18th, 1944, San Antonio

80

Kei Ogura

Japanese singer

*January 18th, 1944, Ueno

80

Zenon E. Kohut

Historian specializing in Early Modern Ukrainian History (b. 1944)

*January 18th, 1944, Ivano-Frankove

67

Hugo Perié

Argentine politician (1944-2011)

*January 18th, 1944, Posadas †August 15th, 2011, Corrientes

39

Carl Morton

Baseball player

*January 18th, 1944, Kansas City †April 12th, 1983, Tulsa

80

Al Perkins

American musician

*January 18th, 1944, De Kalb

73

Wilfried Weiland

German athletics competitor

*January 18th, 1944, Piła †December 10th, 2017

80

Amanda Burden

American urban planner

*January 18th, 1944, New York City

80

Francisco Rezek

Brazilian jurist

*January 18th, 1944, Cristina, Minas Gerais

80

Thorodd Presberg

Norwegian footballer and manager

*January 18th, 1944, Drammen Municipality

80

William Francis Malooly

Catholic bishop

*January 18th, 1944, Baltimore

80

Graham McIntosh

South African farmer and politician

*January 18th, 1944, Pretoria

76

William H. Langille

Canadian politician

*January 18th, 1944, Truro †April 12th, 2020

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81

Kay Granger

American politician

*January 18th, 1943, Greenville

35

Chen Long

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1989, Shashi District

36

Wang Yihan

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1988, Shanghai

29

Wang Chi-Lin

Taiwanese badminton player

*January 18th, 1995, Taipei

66

Volker Pispers

German cabaret artist

*January 18th, 1958, Rheydt

50

Maulik Pancholy

Indian American actor, author, activist, and speaker

*January 18th, 1974, Kissimmee

69

Kevin Costner

American actor and filmmaker

*January 18th, 1955, Lynwood

68

Werner Liebrich

German footballer (1927–1995)

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

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

50

Tri Kusharyanto

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1974, Yogyakarta City

64

Mark Rylance

British actor, playwright and theatre director

*January 18th, 1960, Ashford

48

Lars Paaske

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1976, Hørsholm

46

Aparna Popat

Indian badminton player

*January 18th, 1978, Mumbai

75

Franz-Olivier Giesbert

French journalist

*January 18th, 1949, Wilmington

76

Michael Bliss

Canadian historian and author

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

41

Li Yujia

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1983, Hubei

42

Elin Bergblom

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1982, Knivsta

34

Linda Weni Fanetri

Indonesian badminton player

*January 18th, 1990, Jakarta

84

Dieter Krause

East German canoe racer (1936-2020)

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

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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

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

79

Mary Robinson

Former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

*May 21st, 1944, Ballina

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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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