January 7th, 1956

Born on January 7th, 1956

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 24,000 days old!

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... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on January 7th?

January 7th, 2012

A hot air balloon flight from Carterton, New Zealand, collided with a power line while landing, causing it to crash and killing all eleven people on board.

January 7th, 2010

In Nag Hammadi, Egypt, Muslim gunmen opened fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after attending Christmas Liturgy, killing eight of them, as well as one Muslim bystander.

January 7th, 1993

The Fourth Republic of Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings, the country's former military ruler, as president.

January 7th, 1989

Representatives of Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini delivered a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, inviting him to consider Islam as an alternative to communism, and predicting the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc.

January 7th, 1979

The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, marking the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.

January 7th, 1955

Marian Anderson became the first African-American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

January 7th, 1948

Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell, flying in pursuit of an alleged UFO, was killed when his P-51 Mustang crashed near Fort Knox, Kentucky.

January 7th, 1939

French physicist Marguerite Perey identified francium, the last element to be discovered in nature rather than by synthesis.

January 7th, 1931

Australian aviator Guy Menzies (pictured) flew from Sydney to New Zealand's West Coast, making the first solo trans-Tasman flight.

January 7th, 1797

The Italian tricolour was first adopted as an official flag by the government of the Cispadane Republic.

January 7th, 1782

The Bank of North America (pictured) opened in Philadelphia as the de facto first central bank of the United States.

January 7th, 1610

Through his telescope, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made the first observation of Jupiter's Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, although he was not able to distinguish the first two until the following night.

January 7th, 2020

After 253 days without an operational government, a second round of investiture votes produced Spain's first coalition government since the Second Republic.

January 7th, 2015

A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.

January 7th, 2012

A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 7th

Born on January 7th, 1956

68

David Caruso

American actor

*January 7th, 1956, Forest Hills

68

Uwe Ochsenknecht

German actor and singer

*January 7th, 1956, Biblis

68

Herbert Willi

Austrian composer

*January 7th, 1956, Vorarlberg

68

Mike Liut

Canadian ice hockey player

*January 7th, 1956, Weston

68

August Zirner

Austrian American actor

*January 7th, 1956, Urbana

68

Ignacio Walker

Chilean politician

*January 7th, 1956, Santiago

68

Karl-Heinz Petzinka

German architect

*January 7th, 1956, Bocholt

68

Leonard Lansink

German actor

*January 7th, 1956, Hamm

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 7th?

31

Nico Santos

German singer-songwriter

*January 7th, 1993, Bremen

36

Line Damkjær Kruse

Badminton player

*January 7th, 1988, Aarhus

58

Markus Schupp

German association football player and manager

*January 7th, 1966, Idar-Oberstein

60

Nicolas Cage

American actor

*January 7th, 1964, Long Beach

53

Jeremy Renner

American actor, producer, and musician

*January 7th, 1971, Modesto

72

Hans-Dieter Jancker

German journalist

*January 7th, 1952, Grevesmühlen

93

Geoffrey Bayldon

British actor (1924-2017)

*January 7th, 1924, Leeds †May 10th, 2017, London

39

Lewis Hamilton

British racing driver

*January 7th, 1985, Stevenage

25

Brandon Austin

English association football player

*January 7th, 1999, Hemel Hempstead

63

Jeff Richmond

American composer, television actor and producer

*January 7th, 1961, Garrettsville

33

Eden Hazard

Belgian association football player (born 1991)

*January 7th, 1991, La Louvière

24

Rosario Soto

Argentinian Beach handball player

*January 7th, 2000, Cipolletti

67

Katie Couric

American journalist, presenter, producer, and author

*January 7th, 1957, Arlington County

74

Ichirō Mizuki

Japanese singer, voice actor (1948-2022)

*January 7th, 1948, Setagaya-ku †December 6th, 2022, Tokyo

71

Dieter Hoeneß

German footballer and manager

*January 7th, 1953, Ulm

61

Rand Paul

United States Senator from Kentucky since 2011

*January 7th, 1963, Pittsburgh

72

Hans-Josef Fell

German Green Party MP (b.1952), author of EEG (Renewable Energy Sources Act)

*January 7th, 1952, Hammelburg

78

Dick Marty

Swiss politician

*January 7th, 1945, Sorengo †December 28th, 2023, Fescoggia

67

Nicholson Baker

American novelist, essayist, non-fiction writer

*January 7th, 1957, New York City

53

Irrfan Khan

Indian actor

*January 7th, 1967, Tonk †April 29th, 2020, Mumbai

Same year
Born in 1956

68

Peter Hook

English musician

*February 13th, 1956, Salford

67

Charles M. Huber

German actor and politician

*December 3rd, 1956, Munich

68

Sheila McCarthy

Canadian actress

*January 1st, 1956, Toronto

67

Stephan Barratt-Due

Norwegian musician

*June 1st, 1956, Oslo

67

Tom Hanks

American actor and film producer (born 1956)

*July 9th, 1956, Concord

67

Theresa May

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019

*October 1st, 1956, Eastbourne

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

60

Carrie Fisher

American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)

*October 21st, 1956, Burbank †December 27th, 2016, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

23

Ian Curtis

British musician (1956–1980)

*July 15th, 1956, Stretford †May 18th, 1980, Macclesfield

67

Valgerd Svarstad Haugland

Norwegian politician

*August 23rd, 1956, Kvam Municipality

67

Ulrike Meyfarth

German former high jumper

*May 4th, 1956, Frankfurt

67

Martyn Ware

English musician

*May 19th, 1956, Sheffield

68

Gunnar Brands

German classical archaeologist

*March 30th, 1956, Duisburg

67

Justus Carrière

German actor

*May 16th, 1956, Schwerin

68

Michel Houellebecq

French writer

*February 26th, 1956, Saint-Pierre

68

Bryan Cranston

American actor, director, and producer

*March 7th, 1956, Hollywood

62

Minken Fosheim

Norwegian actress (1956-2018)

*March 20th, 1956, Oslo †June 7th, 2018, Oslo

68

Imelda Staunton

English actress (born 1956)

*January 9th, 1956, London

67

Andreas Bornschein

German association football player

*November 29th, 1956, Leipzig

67

Han Jian

Chinese badminton player

*July 6th, 1956, Liaoning

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 7th

Fixed holidays (Christian Feast Day, Christmas) which are celebrated on January 7th.

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Born on January 7th, 1956
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Leap year

Yes: 1956 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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