January 31st, 1960

Born on January 31st, 1960

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 23,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 539 days, exactly on October 16th, 2025, people who were born on January 31st, 1960 will be 24,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on January 31st?

January 31st, 2013

A gas leak underneath the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City caused an explosion that killed at least 37 people and injured another 121.

January 31st, 2010

James Cameron's Avatar became the first film to earn over US$2 billion worldwide.

January 31st, 2000

Alaska Airlines Flight 261, experiencing problems with its horizontal stabilizer system, crashed in the Pacific Ocean off Anacapa Island, California, killing all 88 people on board.

January 31st, 1988

Doug Williams (pictured) became the first African-American quarterback to play in a Super Bowl, leading the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XXII.

January 31st, 1961

Aboard NASA's Mercury-Redstone 2, Ham the Chimp became the first hominid launched into outer space.

January 31st, 1957

A DC-7B operated by Douglas Aircraft collided in mid-air with a U.S. Air Force F-89 and crashed into a schoolyard in Pacoima, California.

January 31st, 1900

Datu Muhammad Salleh, leader of a series of major disturbances in North Borneo, was shot dead in Tambunan, but his followers did not give up for five more years.

January 31st, 1862

American astronomer Alvan Graham Clark first observed the faint white dwarf companion of Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.

January 31st, 1747

The London Lock Hospital, the first voluntary hospital specialising in the treatment of venereal diseases, opened.

January 31st, 1578

Eighty Years' War: Spain won a crushing victory at the Battle of Gembloux, threatening the States General of the Netherlands and contributing to its move from Brussels to Antwerp.

January 31st, 0314

Sylvester I (bust depicted), during whose pontificate many churches in Rome were constructed by Constantine the Great, began his reign as pope.

January 31st, 2007

Emergency officials in Boston mistakenly identified LED placards depicting characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force as IEDs, causing a panic.

January 31st, 1997

Final Fantasy VII, the first video game in the Final Fantasy franchise to use 3-D computer graphics, was released.

January 31st, 1919

Intense rioting over labour conditions broke out in Glasgow, Scotland.

January 31st, 2023

The last Boeing 747, the first wide-body airliner, is delivered.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 31st

Born on January 31st, 1960

64

Rod Higgins

American basketball player

*January 31st, 1960, Monroe

64

Grant Morrison

Scottish comic book writer and playwright

*January 31st, 1960, Glasgow

64

Akbar Ganji

Iranian journalist

*January 31st, 1960, Qazvin

64

George Benjamin

British composer, conductor, pianist and teacher

*January 31st, 1960, London

64

Francis Chateauraynaud

French sociologist

*January 31st, 1960, Périgueux

64

Bernhard Kempen

German jurist

*January 31st, 1960, Saarbrücken

54

Željko Šturanović

Prime Minister of Montenegro (1960-2014)

*January 31st, 1960, Nikšić †June 30th, 2014, Villejuif

64

Jan Linnebjerg

Danish actor

*January 31st, 1960, Herning

64

Douglas Johansson

Actor

*January 31st, 1960, Solna Municipality

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 31st?

65

Anthony LaPaglia

Australian actor

*January 31st, 1959, Adelaide

56

Petra Schubert

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1968, Finsterwalde

42

Ekaterina Ananina

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1982, Perm

39

Oxxxymiron

Russian rapper

*January 31st, 1985, Saint Petersburg

32

Linnéa Claeson

Swedish handball player

*January 31st, 1992, Norrköping

65

Pierre Aïm

French cinematographer

*January 31st, 1959, Paris

50

Billy MacLellan

Canadian actor

*January 31st, 1974, Cape Breton Island

43

Justin Timberlake

American singer and actor (born 1981)

*January 31st, 1981, Memphis

49

Preity Zinta

Indian film actress, entrepreneur

*January 31st, 1975, Shimla

68

John Lydon

British-born Irish-American singer and songwriter

*January 31st, 1956, Holloway

78

Meena Shah

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1937, Balrampur †March 10th, 2015

97

Carol Channing

American actress (1921–2019)

*January 31st, 1921, Seattle †January 15th, 2019, Rancho Mirage

49

Marianne Grunthal

German teacher

*January 31st, 1896, Zehdenick †May 2nd, 1945, Schwerin

65

Kelly Lynch

American actress

*January 31st, 1959, Golden Valley

63

Lloyd Cole

English singer and songwriter

*January 31st, 1961, Buxton

68

Artur Mas

Spanish politician, President of the Generalitat of Catalonia

*January 31st, 1956, Barcelona

44

Paul Jabara

American actor, singer, songwriter (1948-1992)

*January 31st, 1948, Brooklyn †September 29th, 1992, Los Angeles

54

Minnie Driver

British-American actress (born 1970)

*January 31st, 1970, Marylebone

47

Kerry Washington

American actress

*January 31st, 1977, The Bronx

65

Laura Lippman

American detective fiction writer

*January 31st, 1959, Atlanta

Same year
Born in 1960

63

Vince Clarke

English synth-pop musician and songwriter

*July 3rd, 1960, South Woodford tube station

63

Sydney Youngblood

American/German singer

*December 2nd, 1960, San Antonio

63

Åse Michaelsen

Norwegian politician

*June 4th, 1960, Mandal Municipality

63

Sally Yates

American lawyer, 36th United States Deputy Attorney General

*August 20th, 1960, Atlanta

64

Naruhito

Emperor of Japan since 2019

*February 23rd, 1960, Hospital of the Imperial Household

64

Lene Kaaberbøl

Danish writer

*March 24th, 1960, Copenhagen

63

David Duchovny

American actor and writer

*August 7th, 1960, New York City

64

Pierre Littbarski

German association football player and manager

*April 16th, 1960, West Berlin

32

Jón Páll Sigmarsson

Icelandic strongman, powerlifter and bodybuilder

*April 28th, 1960, Hafnarfjörður †January 16th, 1993, Reykjavík

60

Diego Maradona

Argentine football player and manager (1960–2020)

*October 30th, 1960, Lanús †November 25th, 2020, Dique Luján

63

Christopher Barker

Swiss actor

*May 2nd, 1960, Rome

63

Friederike Seyfried

German archaeologist and egyptologist

*November 19th, 1960, Mosbach

63

John Leguizamo

American actor, comedian, producer, and writer (born 1960)

*July 22nd, 1960, Bogotá

63

Jane Lynch

American actress

*July 14th, 1960, Evergreen Park

63

Susanne Zimmer

Danish politician

*June 9th, 1960, Brønderslev

64

Ivanna Lie

Indonesian badminton player

*March 7th, 1960, Bandung City

63

Bobby Ertanto

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1960, Surabaya

64

Misbun Sidek

Badminton player

*February 17th, 1960, Banting

63

Colin Firth

English actor and producer

*September 10th, 1960, Grayshott

63

Denyse Julien

Badminton player

*July 22nd, 1960, Rouyn-Noranda

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Leap year

Yes: 1960 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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