January 18th, 1946

Born on January 18th, 1946

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 28,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 415 days, exactly on June 12th, 2025, people who were born on January 18th, 1946 will be 29,000 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, 1946

78

Joseph Deiss

Swiss economist, member of the Swiss Federal Council

*January 18th, 1946, Fribourg

78

Edward Janssens

Belgian cyclist

*January 18th, 1946, Londerzeel

78

Billy Grabarkewitz

American baseball player

*January 18th, 1946, Lockhart

78

Alex Somlyay

Australian politician

*January 18th, 1946, Budapest

78

Nguyen Sinh Hung

Vietnamese politician

*January 18th, 1946, Nghệ An

78

Félix Ynduráin Muñoz

Spanish condensed matter physicist

*January 18th, 1946, Zaragoza

67

Henrique Rosa

President of Guinea-Bissau (1946-2013)

*January 18th, 1946, Bafatá †May 15th, 2013, Porto

73

Perro Aguayo

Mexican professional wrestler

*January 18th, 1946, Nochistlán de Mejía Municipality †July 3rd, 2019, Tala

78

Bernhard Schobinger

Jewelry designer

*January 18th, 1946, Zürich

78

Suresh Tiwari

Indian politician

*January 18th, 1946, Rudrapur, Uttar Pradesh

78

Jim Holifield

American football player and coac h(born 1946)

*January 18th, 1946, Bessemer

78

Cho Chung-yun

Footballer

*January 18th, 1946, South Korea

78

Pieter Stoop

Dutch painter

*January 18th, 1946, Breda

78

Adolfo Nef

Chilean footballer

*January 18th, 1946, Lota

66

Victoria Fyodorova

Soviet and American actress and author (1946-2012)

*January 18th, 1946, Moscow †September 5th, 2012, Greenwich Township

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 18th?

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

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

81

Kay Granger

American politician

*January 18th, 1943, Greenville

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

77

Takeshi Kitano

Japanese film director, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter and video game designer

*January 18th, 1947, Adachi-ku

75

Franz-Olivier Giesbert

French journalist

*January 18th, 1949, Wilmington

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

64

Mark Rylance

British actor, playwright and theatre director

*January 18th, 1960, Ashford

50

Tri Kusharyanto

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1974, Yogyakarta City

48

Lars Paaske

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1976, Hørsholm

46

Aparna Popat

Indian badminton player

*January 18th, 1978, Mumbai

80

Paul Keating

Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia

*January 18th, 1944, Bankstown

41

Li Yujia

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1983, Hubei

42

Elin Bergblom

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1982, Knivsta

Same year
Born in 1946

77

Donald Trump

President of the United States from 2017 to 2021

*June 14th, 1946, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center

77

George W. Bush

President of the United States from 2001 to 2009

*July 6th, 1946, New Haven

77

Bill Clinton

42nd President of the United States

*August 19th, 1946, Hope

77

Jean-Claude Arnault

Swedish photographer

*August 15th, 1946, Marseille

78

Kabir Bedi

Indian actor (1946-)

*January 16th, 1946, Lahore

77

Svein Ludvigsen

Norwegian politician

*July 18th, 1946, Hillesøy Municipality

78

Charlotte Rampling

British actress

*February 5th, 1946, Sturmer

77

Steven Spielberg

American filmmaker (born 1946)

*December 18th, 1946, Cincinnati

76

Suzanne Somers

American actress, author, singer, businesswoman in alternative medicine (1946–2023)

*October 16th, 1946, San Bruno †October 15th, 2023, Palm Springs

77

Berti Vogts

German footballer and manager

*December 30th, 1946, Büttgen

71

Jiří Bělohlávek

Czech conductor (1946-2017)

*February 24th, 1946, Prague †May 31st, 2017, Prague

62

Lux Interior

American punk rock musician and a founding member of the band The Cramps

*October 21st, 1946, Akron †February 4th, 2009, Glendale

64

Michael Hansen

German cabaret artist (1946-2011)

*October 21st, 1946, Aalborg †March 15th, 2011, Berlin

69

Alan Rickman

British actor and director (1946–2016)

*February 21st, 1946, Hammersmith †January 14th, 2016, London

77

Rolf Konow

Danish photographer and actor

*July 22nd, 1946, Copenhagen

78

David Lynch

American filmmaker, visual artist, and musician

*January 20th, 1946, Missoula

78

Liza Minnelli

American actress and singer

*March 12th, 1946, Los Angeles

78

Tan Aik Huang

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1946, Singapore

77

Sylvester Stallone

American actor and film director

*July 6th, 1946, Hell's Kitchen

77

Gerard 't Hooft

Dutch theoretical physicist

*July 5th, 1946, Den Helder

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No: With 365 days 1946 is a normal year and no leap year.

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