January 5th, 1950

Born on January 5th, 1950

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on January 5th?

January 5th, 1970

An earthquake registering Mw 7.1 struck Tonghai County in southern China, killing at least 10,000 people and eventually spurring the creation of the nation's largest earthquake monitoring system.

January 5th, 1953

Waiting for Godot by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, termed the "most significant English language play of the 20th century", premiered in Paris.

January 5th, 1949

In his State of the Union speech, U.S. president Harry S. Truman (pictured) announced: "Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal."

January 5th, 1941

Second World War: Australian and British troops defeated Italian forces in Bardia, Libya, the first battle of the war in which an Australian Army formation took part.

January 5th, 1925

Nellie Tayloe Ross was inaugurated as Governor of Wyoming, the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state.

January 5th, 1922

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton (pictured) died of a heart attack during his final expedition.

January 5th, 1919

The German Workers' Party, the precursor of the Nazi Party, was founded by Anton Drexler.

January 5th, 1757

King Louis XV survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who later became the last person in France to be executed by drawing and quartering.

January 5th, 1675

Franco-Dutch War: French troops defeated Austrian and Brandenburg forces at the Battle of Turckheim in Alsace.

January 5th, 1869

Te Kooti's War: After surviving a five-day siege in the pā at Ngātapa, Māori leader Te Kooti escaped from New Zealand's Armed Constabulary.

January 5th, 1896

Te Kooti's War: After surviving a five-day seige in the pā at Ngātapa, Māori leader Te Kooti escaped from New Zealand's Armed Constabulary.

January 5th, 2009

In Eng Foong Ho v Attorney-General, the Court of Appeal of Singapore held that equality before the law was satisfied by a "reasonable nexus" between state action and the object of the law.

January 5th, 2008

Mikheil Saakashvili was decisively re-elected as President of Georgia in "the first genuinely competitive presidential election" in the history of the country.

January 5th, 2007

The Taiwan High Speed Rail opened, connecting Taipei and Kaohsiung.

January 5th, 2005

The dwarf planet Eris was discovered by a team using images from the Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 5th

Born on January 5th, 1950

74

Chris Stein

American guitarist

*January 5th, 1950, Brooklyn

65

Merl Reagle

Crossword constructor

*January 5th, 1950, Audubon †August 22nd, 2015, Tampa

74

Jean-Yves Autexier

French politician

*January 5th, 1950, Châtellerault

74

Krzysztof Wielicki

Polish mountaineer

*January 5th, 1950, Szklarka Przygodzicka

74

John Manley

Canadian politician

*January 5th, 1950, Ottawa

74

Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith

British barrister (born 1950)

*January 5th, 1950, Liverpool

74

Jakob Brunnschweiler

Swiss politician

*January 5th, 1950, Glarus

74

James Anthony Brown

Manx politician (born 1950)

*January 5th, 1950, Castletown

41

Ioan P. Culianu

Romanian academic (1950-1991)

*January 5th, 1950, Iași †May 21st, 1991, Chicago

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 5th?

68

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

President of Germany since 2017

*January 5th, 1956, Detmold

76

Ted Lange

Actor, director, screenwriter

*January 5th, 1948, Oakland

49

Bradley Cooper

American actor

*January 5th, 1975, Philadelphia

83

Hayao Miyazaki

Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (1941-)

*January 5th, 1941, Bunkyo

44

Santiago Ventura

Spanish tennis player

*January 5th, 1980, Castelló de la Plana

84

Umberto Eco

Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

*January 5th, 1932, Alessandria †February 19th, 2016, Milan

86

Juan Carlos I of Spain

King of Spain from 1975 to 2014

*January 5th, 1938, Rome

91

Konrad Adenauer

German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU

*January 5th, 1876, Cologne †April 19th, 1967, Rhöndorf

72

Uli Hoeneß

German football player and executive

*January 5th, 1952, Ulm

66

Anne-Marie Lizin

Belgian politician (1949-2015)

*January 5th, 1949, Huy †October 17th, 2015, Huy

80

Gerd Siese

German association football player

*January 5th, 1944, Bielefeld

24

Roxen

Romanian singer

*January 5th, 2000, Cluj-Napoca

61

Ralf Loose

German association football player and manager

*January 5th, 1963, Dortmund

80

Peter Rieger

German boxer

*January 5th, 1944, Nysa

70

László Krasznahorkai

Hungarian novelist and screenwriter

*January 5th, 1954, Gyula

73

Christian De Sica

Italian actor and director

*January 5th, 1951, Rome

78

Diane Keaton

American actress

*January 5th, 1946, Los Angeles

93

Robert Duvall

American actor and director

*January 5th, 1931, San Diego

38

Deepika Padukone

Indian actress

*January 5th, 1986, Copenhagen

51

Ella Harper

American circus performer

*January 5th, 1870, Sumner County †December 19th, 1921, Nashville

Same year
Born in 1950

67

Jeff Lowe

American mountain climber

*September 13th, 1950, Ogden †August 24th, 2018, Colorado

73

Annette Badland

English actress

*August 26th, 1950, Edgbaston

73

Narendra Modi

14th Prime Minister of India

*September 17th, 1950, Vadnagar

66

Martin McGuinness

Sinn Féin politician and deputy First Minister (1950-2017)

*May 23rd, 1950, Derry †March 21st, 2017, Altnagelvin Area Hospital

74

Billy Currie

British multi-instrumentalist

*April 1st, 1950, Huddersfield

66

Sandra Reemer

Dutch singer and presenter (1950–2017)

*October 17th, 1950, Bandung City †June 6th, 2017, Amsterdam

73

Øivind Blunck

Norwegian actor and comedian

*December 28th, 1950, Norway

73

Wayne Eagling

Canadian ballet dancer

*November 27th, 1950, Montreal

74

Peter Funke

German historian of classical antiquity

*March 18th, 1950, Rheine

74

Rötger Feldmann

German comic artist

*March 17th, 1950, Travemünde

73

Pedro Barceló

Spanish historian of classical antiquity

*April 30th, 1950, Vinaròs

70

Jóhannes Eðvaldsson

Icelandic football player (1950-2021)

*September 3rd, 1950, Reykjavík †January 24th, 2021, Glasgow

74

Ade Chandra

Badminton player

*February 4th, 1950, Jakarta

73

Ed Harris

American actor and director (born 1950)

*November 28th, 1950, Englewood

67

Horace Burrell

Jamaican sports executive

*February 8th, 1950, Clarendon Parish †June 6th, 2017, Kingston

73

Harriet Walter

British actress

*September 24th, 1950, London

74

Martin Short

Canadian actor and comedian (born 1950)

*March 26th, 1950, Hamilton

73

Stevie Wonder

American musician (born 1950)

*May 13th, 1950, Saginaw

74

William Sadler

American actor

*April 13th, 1950, Buffalo

74

Rick Perry

14th United States Secretary of Energy

*March 4th, 1950, Haskell

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No: With 365 days 1950 is a normal year and no leap year.

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