January 23rd, 1944

Born on January 23rd, 1944

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

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What happened on January 23rd?

January 23rd, 2002

American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and later murdered by al-Qaeda agents in Karachi, Pakistan.

January 23rd, 1997

Madeleine Albright was sworn in as the first female United States Secretary of State, becoming the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government at that time.

January 23rd, 1993

The first version of Mosaic, created by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, was released, becoming the first popular web browser.

January 23rd, 1968

USS Pueblo was seized by North Korean forces, who claimed that it had violated their territorial waters while spying.

January 23rd, 1967

The English new town of Milton Keynes was founded in Buckinghamshire, incorporating four towns and fifteen villages as well as planned new developments on intervening farmland.

January 23rd, 1957

American inventor Fred Morrison sold the rights to his "flying disc" to the Wham-O toy company, who later renamed it the "Frisbee" (example pictured).

January 23rd, 1942

World War II: Japan began an invasion of the island of New Britain in the Australian Territory of New Guinea.

January 23rd, 1915

Rebels led by John Chilembwe attacked local plantation owners, beginning an uprising regarded as a key moment in the history of Malawi.

January 23rd, 1909

Two men committed an armed robbery in Tottenham, London, and led police on a two-hour chase, partially by tram, that ended in the perpetrators' suicides.

January 23rd, 1902

In the most fatal recorded mountaineering accident, 199 of the 210 members of an Imperial Japanese Army unit perished in a blizzard on the Hakkōda Mountains.

January 23rd, 1870

American Indian Wars: The United States Army massacred a friendly band of Piegan Blackfeet in the Montana Territory, resulting in about 200 deaths.

January 23rd, 1849

Elizabeth Blackwell (pictured) graduated from Geneva Medical College in New York, making her the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.

January 23rd, 1793

The Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia partitioned the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth for the second time.

January 23rd, 1789

Bishop John Carroll purchased a plot of land that would become the home of the future Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic university in the United States.

January 23rd, 1570

James Hamilton killed James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, in the first recorded assassination of a head of government using a firearm.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 23rd

Born on January 23rd, 1944

75

Rutger Hauer

Dutch actor (1944–2019)

*January 23rd, 1944, Breukelen †July 19th, 2019, Beetsterzwaag

80

Hugo Achugar

Uruguayan writer

*January 23rd, 1944, Montevideo

80

Arturo Valenzuela

Chilean political scientist (1944-)

*January 23rd, 1944, Concepción

80

Marty Russo

American politician

*January 23rd, 1944, Chicago

80

Susan M. Phillips

American economist

*January 23rd, 1944, Richmond

80

Vikram Verma

Indian politician

*January 23rd, 1944, Dhar district

69

Sergei Belov

Soviet professional basketball player (1944-2013)

*January 23rd, 1944 †October 3rd, 2013, Perm

80

Walther Konschitzky

German pundit, photographer, ethnologist and writer

*January 23rd, 1944, Bacova

75

Gerd Nobbe

German judge

*January 23rd, 1944, Lübbecke †April 14th, 2019, Karlsruhe

60

Charles Correll

American television director and cinematographer

*January 23rd, 1944, Los Angeles †June 15th, 2004, Tarzana

80

Bianca Tragni

Italian journalist and writer

*January 23rd, 1944, Altamura

80

L. Alma Mansell

U.S Politician

*January 23rd, 1944, Midvale

80

Barry Lynch

American actor

*January 23rd, 1944, Brooklyn

80

Kjell Georg Lund

Norwegian race walker

*January 23rd, 1944, Bergen

80

Rúben Bareño

Uruguayan footballer

*January 23rd, 1944, Las Piedras

71

John McCluskey

Scottish boxer (1944-2015)

*January 23rd, 1944, Hamilton †July 17th, 2015, Hamilton

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81

Miguel Ángel Revilla

Spanish politician

*January 23rd, 1943, Salceda

77

Megawati Soekarnoputri

5th president of Indonesia (2001-2004) and 8th vice-president of Indonesia (1999-2001)

*January 23rd, 1947, Yogyakarta City

43

Gong Ruina

Chinese badminton player

*January 23rd, 1981, Anhua County

72

Reinhard Saftig

German association football player and manager

*January 23rd, 1952, Uersfeld

37

Alexander Baumjohann

German footballer

*January 23rd, 1987, Waltrop

26

Wos

Argentine rapper, freestyler and actor

*January 23rd, 1998, Buenos Aires

91

Chita Rivera

American actress, dancer and singer (1933–2024)

*January 23rd, 1933, Washington, D.C. †January 30th, 2024, New York City

79

Alexander Cunningham

British army engineer and amateur archaeologist (1814-1893)

*January 23rd, 1814, London †November 28th, 1893, London

87

Derek Walcott

Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright (1930–2017)

*January 23rd, 1930, Castries †March 17th, 2017, Cap Estate

33

Alyssa Lim

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1991, Milton Keynes

32

Gennadiy Natarov

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1992, Kharkiv

29

Linda Efler

German badminton player

*January 23rd, 1995, Emsdetten

27

Cheam June Wei

Malaysian badminton player

*January 23rd, 1997, Penang

62

David Arnold

British film composer

*January 23rd, 1962, Luton

30

Ou Xuanyi

Chinese badminton player

*January 23rd, 1994, Fujian

74

Basrief Arief

Attorney General of Indonesia (1947–2021)

*January 23rd, 1947, Tanjung Enim Selatan †March 23rd, 2021, Jakarta

90

Lou Antonio

American actor (b. 1934)

*January 23rd, 1934, Oklahoma City

28

Rafiddias Akhdan Nugroho

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1996, Jakarta

40

Arjen Robben

Dutch association football player

*January 23rd, 1984, Bedum

81

Gary Burton

American vibraphonist

*January 23rd, 1943, Anderson

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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

80

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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