January 10th, 1949

Born on January 10th, 1949

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on January 10th?

January 10th, 2007

A general strike began in Guinea as an attempt to force President Lansana Conté to resign, eventually resulting in the appointment of two new prime ministers.

January 10th, 1993

The Braer Storm, the strongest extratropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Atlantic, reached peak intensity.

January 10th, 1985

Sir Clive Sinclair launched the Sinclair C5 personal electric vehicle, "one of the great marketing bombs of postwar British industry", which later became a cult collectable despite its commercial failure.

January 10th, 1966

India and Pakistan signed the Tashkent Declaration to end the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.

January 10th, 1946

The first session of the United Nations General Assembly convened at the Methodist Central Hall in London with representatives from 51 member states.

January 10th, 1941

Greco-Italian War: The Greek army captured the strategically important Klisura Pass in Albania.

January 10th, 1929

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, the first volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, began serialisation.

January 10th, 1927

The science fiction film Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang, was released in Germany.

January 10th, 1923

Lithuanian residents of the Klaipėda Region began a revolt, ahead of a League of Nations decision on their future which they expected to be against their interest.

January 10th, 1917

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months.

January 10th, 1901

The first great gusher of the Texas oil boom was discovered in the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont.

January 10th, 1863

Service began on the Metropolitan Railway (construction depicted) between Paddington and Farringdon Street, today the oldest segment of the London Underground.

January 10th, 1812

New Orleans (pictured), the first steamship on the Mississippi River, arrived at New Orleans to complete its maiden voyage.

January 10th, 1776

Common Sense, a pamphlet by Thomas Paine denouncing British rule in the Thirteen Colonies, was published.

January 10th, 1475

Moldavian–Ottoman Wars: Stephen the Great led Moldavian forces to defeat an Ottoman attack under Hadım Suleiman Pasha near Vaslui in present-day Romania.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 10th

Born on January 10th, 1949

75

James Lapine

American stage director and librettist.

*January 10th, 1949, Mansfield

75

George Foreman

American professional boxer, ordained Baptist minister, author and entrepreneur

*January 10th, 1949, Marshall

53

Linda Lovelace

American pornographic actress, later anti-porn activist

*January 10th, 1949, The Bronx †April 22nd, 2002, Denver

66

Walter Browne

American poker and chess player

*January 10th, 1949, Sydney †June 24th, 2015, Las Vegas

75

Allu Aravind

Indian film producer

*January 10th, 1949, Andhra Pradesh

66

Jim Bailey

American actor

*January 10th, 1949, Philadelphia †May 30th, 2015, Los Angeles

75

Thomas Chase Jones

American film and television composer (born 1949)

*January 10th, 1949, Burbank

75

Jutta Treiber

Austrian writer

*January 10th, 1949, Oberpullendorf

74

Kemal Derviş

Turkish economist, politician and academician

*January 10th, 1949, Istanbul †May 8th, 2023, Washington, D.C.

40

William Vollery

(1949-1989)

*January 10th, 1949, Lausanne †September 11th, 1989, Bern

75

Tim Haldeman

Actor

*January 10th, 1949, Los Angeles

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18

Angelina Jordan

Norwegian singer

*January 10th, 2006, Oslo

44

Dani Kind

Canadian actress

*January 10th, 1980, Toronto

77

Peer Steinbrück

German politician

*January 10th, 1947, Hamburg

73

Nicolas Philibert

French film director

*January 10th, 1951, Nancy

76

Bernard Thévenet

French cyclist

*January 10th, 1948, Saint-Julien-de-Civry

79

Rod Stewart

English singer and songwriter (born 1945)

*January 10th, 1945, London

74

Andreas von der Meden

German actor and voice actor

*January 10th, 1943, Hamburg †April 26th, 2017, Hamburg

65

Fran Walsh

New Zealand screenwriter and producer

*January 10th, 1959, Wellington

47

Tim Ricke

German actor

*January 10th, 1977, Duisburg

71

Blanca Guerra

Mexican actress

*January 10th, 1953, Mexico City

42

Reid Carolin

American film producer, director and screenwriter

*January 10th, 1982, Lake Forest

31

Rauw Alejandro

Puerto Rican singer and songwriter

*January 10th, 1993, San Juan

92

Fritz Schachermeyr

Austrian classical scholar and archaeologist

*January 10th, 1895, Urfahr †December 26th, 1987, Eisenstadt

88

Robert Wilson

American astronomer

*January 10th, 1936, Houston

55

Andreas Reinke

German association football player and manager (born 1969)

*January 10th, 1969, Krakow am See

50

Sergei Eisenstein

Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)

*January 10th, 1898, Riga †February 11th, 1948, Moscow

76

Donald Fagen

American recording artist, musician, best known as co-founder and lead singer of the rock band Steely Dan.

*January 10th, 1948, Passaic

87

Ronnie Hawkins

American musician

*January 10th, 1935, Huntsville †May 29th, 2022, Peterborough

83

Ilse Geisler

East German Luger

*January 10th, 1941, Kunowice

51

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

German composer and writer

*January 10th, 1797, Burg Hülshoff †May 24th, 1848, Meersburg Castle

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75

Joachim Witt

German rock musician

*February 22nd, 1949, Hamburg

74

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

75

Åse Kleveland

Swedish-Norwegian singer and politician

*March 18th, 1949, Stockholm

70

Jahn Teigen

Norwegian singer, musician, and comedian (1949–2020)

*September 27th, 1949, Tønsberg Municipality †February 24th, 2020, Ystad

74

David Rubenstein

American businessman

*August 11th, 1949, Baltimore

74

Sherman Howard

American actor

*June 11th, 1949, Chicago

74

Egon Flaig

German university teacher, Historian of classical antiquity and writer

*May 16th, 1949, Oberstenfeld

74

Meryl Streep

American actress (born 1949)

*June 22nd, 1949, Summit

74

Odaline de la Martinez

American conductor and composer

*October 31st, 1949, Matanzas

74

Gertrúd Ladányi

Badminton player

*May 3rd, 1949, Esztergom

66

Papa Wemba

Congolese singer and musician

*June 14th, 1949, Lubefu †April 24th, 2016, Abidjan

67

Denis Johnson

American writer (novel, drama, poetry, essay) (1949-2017)

*July 1st, 1949, Munich †May 24th, 2017, Sea Ranch

40

Stiv Bators

American punk rock vocalist and guitarist

*October 22nd, 1949, Youngstown †June 3rd, 1990, 1st arrondissement of Paris

74

Sverre Årnes

Norwegian writer

*May 14th, 1949, Surnadal Municipality

74

Gloria Gaynor

American singer

*September 7th, 1949, Newark

74

Jessica Lange

American actress

*April 20th, 1949, Cloquet

67

Carlos Slepoy

Argentinian lawyer (1949-2017)

*October 2nd, 1949, Buenos Aires †April 17th, 2017, Madrid

68

Stanley Greene

American photographer (1949-2017)

*February 14th, 1949, Brooklyn †May 19th, 2017, Paris

74

Bruce Springsteen

American rock singer (born 1949)

*September 23rd, 1949, Long Branch

74

Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999, 2009–2021, 2022–present)

*October 21st, 1949, Tel Aviv

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No: With 365 days 1949 is a normal year and no leap year.

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