January 18th, 1948

Born on January 18th, 1948

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 27,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 143 days, exactly on September 15th, 2024, people who were born on January 18th, 1948 will be 28,000 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, 1948

76

Shaun Davey

Irish composer

*January 18th, 1948, Belfast

76

M.C. Gainey

American actor

*January 18th, 1948, Jackson

76

Penny Hunt

New Zealand sprinter

*January 18th, 1948, Timaru

76

Bodo Abel

German business theorist

*January 18th, 1948, Witzenhausen

76

Gheorghe Urschi

Moldovan actor

*January 18th, 1948, Cotiujeni

76

Marco Tronchetti Provera

Italian businessman

*January 18th, 1948, Milan

76

Ingrīda Verbele

Latvian athletics competitor

*January 18th, 1948, Liepāja

76

Jacques Briat

French politician

*January 18th, 1948, Valence

76

Changuito

Cuban musician

*January 18th, 1948, Havana

46

Valery Yardy

Soviet cyclist (1948-1994)

*January 18th, 1948, Shumerlinsky District †August 1st, 1994, Cheboksary

76

Jani Golob

Slovenian musician

*January 18th, 1948, Ljubljana

76

Boguslav S. Kurlovich

Russian-Finnish scientific agronomist, doctor of biological science, professor, expert in the field of plant genetic resources, botany, plant and fish breeding, follower of N.I. Vavilov.

*January 18th, 1948, Novy Pahost

76

Ryōko Moriyama

Japanese jazz singer

*January 18th, 1948, Tokyo

76

Webster Hubbell

American lawyer, politician, and felon

*January 18th, 1948, Little Rock

73

Loránd Milassin

Hungarian athletics competitor

*January 18th, 1948, Budapest †April 1st, 2021

72

Joanna Frueh

Performance artist and feminist scholar

*January 18th, 1948, Chicago †February 20th, 2020, Tucson

68

Sergio Vitier

Cuban composer and classical guitarist (1948-2016)

*January 18th, 1948, Havana †May 1st, 2016

76

William Tokarsky

American character actor

*January 18th, 1948, Pittsburgh

76

Eric L. Clay

United States federal judge

*January 18th, 1948, Durham

76

Hemaram Choudhary

Indian politician

*January 18th, 1948, Baytu

76

Tim Firkins

American politician

*January 18th, 1948, Louisville

76

Bogdan Jakopič

Yugoslav and Slovenian ice hockey player

*January 18th, 1948, Ljubljana

32

Lillian Molieri Bermúdez

Nicaraguan actor (1925-1980)

*January 18th, 1948, Managua †September 13th, 1980, Managua

76

Dennis Clarke

English footballer (born 1948)

*January 18th, 1948, Stockton-on-Tees

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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

66

Volker Pispers

German cabaret artist

*January 18th, 1958, Rheydt

75

Franz-Olivier Giesbert

French journalist

*January 18th, 1949, Wilmington

69

Kevin Costner

American actor and filmmaker

*January 18th, 1955, Lynwood

50

Maulik Pancholy

Indian American actor, author, activist, and speaker

*January 18th, 1974, Kissimmee

81

Kay Granger

American politician

*January 18th, 1943, Greenville

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

53

Pep Guardiola

Spanish association football manager (born 1971)

*January 18th, 1971, Santpedor

64

Mark Rylance

British actor, playwright and theatre director

*January 18th, 1960, Ashford

50

Steve Lomas

Northern Irish association football player and manager

*January 18th, 1974, Hanover

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

75

Philippe Starck

French architect and industrial designer

*January 18th, 1949, Paris

41

Li Yujia

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1983, Hubei

42

Elin Bergblom

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1982, Knivsta

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Born in 1948

69

Ole Thestrup

Danish actor (1948-2018)

*March 12th, 1948, Nibe †February 2nd, 2018, Tuse Næs

46

Maurizio Gucci

Italian businessman (1948-1995)

*September 26th, 1948, Florence †March 27th, 1995, Milan

75

Charles III of the United Kingdom

King of the United Kingdom since 2022

*November 14th, 1948, Buckingham Palace

75

Norbert Lammert

German politician, president of the Bundestag

*November 16th, 1948, Bochum

75

Jon Amiel

English film director

*May 20th, 1948, London

75

Marius Müller-Westernhagen

German actor and musician

*December 6th, 1948, Düsseldorf

75

Laila Dåvøy

Norwegian politician

*August 11th, 1948, Bergen

75

Richard Simmons

American fitness instructor, actor, and video producer (born 1948)

*July 12th, 1948, New Orleans

69

Bernard Bosson

French politician (1948-2017)

*February 25th, 1948, Annecy †May 13th, 2017, 8th arrondissement of Lyon

76

Bärbel Kramer

German papyrologist

*March 26th, 1948, Mülheim an der Ruhr

75

Kathy Bates

American film actress and director

*June 28th, 1948, Memphis

71

Robert Trump

US business executive and real estate developer (1948-2020)

*August 26th, 1948, Queens †August 15th, 2020, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital

68

Bernie Wrightson

American illustrator

*October 27th, 1948, Baltimore †March 18th, 2017, Austin

75

Gérard Depardieu

French actor (born 1948)

*December 27th, 1948, Châteauroux

76

John de Lancie

American actor

*March 20th, 1948, Philadelphia

76

Al Gore

Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1948)

*March 31st, 1948, Washington, D.C.

75

Jonathan Hyde

Australian-born English actor

*May 21st, 1948, Brisbane

68

Altamas Kabir

39th Chief Justice of India

*July 19th, 1948, Kolkata †February 19th, 2017, Kolkata

75

Brian Eno

British musician, music producer, music theorist and visual artist (born 1948)

*May 15th, 1948, Melton

68

Carlos Gardini

Argentinian journalist (1948-2017)

*August 26th, 1948, Buenos Aires †March 1st, 2017, Buenos Aires

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Leap year

Yes: 1948 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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