January 18th, 1961

Born on January 18th, 1961

Age in days, weeks and months
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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, 1961

63

Peter Beardsley

English footballer

*January 18th, 1961, Hexham

63

Bobby Broom

American musician

*January 18th, 1961, New York City

63

Christian Hutin

French politician

*January 18th, 1961, Lille

63

Veselin Vujović

Montenegrin former handball player

*January 18th, 1961, Cetinje

63

Frits Landesbergen

Dutch musician

*January 18th, 1961, Voorschoten

63

Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin

Russian-Swiss writer

*January 18th, 1961, Moscow

63

Mark Messier

Canadian ice hockey player

*January 18th, 1961, Edmonton

63

Takashige Ichise

Japanese screenwriter and film producer

*January 18th, 1961, Kobe

63

Jeff Yagher

American actor

*January 18th, 1961, Lawrence

63

Bob Hansen

American basketball player

*January 18th, 1961, Des Moines

63

Lawrence Hunter

Computational Biology

*January 18th, 1961, United States of America

63

Pasi Hulkkonen

Modern pentathlete

*January 18th, 1961, Orimattila

63

Marian Bâcu

Romanian footballer

*January 18th, 1961, Craiova

63

Linn Siri Jensen

Norwegian handball player

*January 18th, 1961, Bergen

63

John Bohnet

American baseball player

*January 18th, 1961, Pasadena

63

Cindy Omatsu

American martial artist

*January 18th, 1961, Torrance

63

Carmen Tănase

Romanian actress

*January 18th, 1961, Romania

63

Jean-Pierre Mustier

French banker

*January 18th, 1961, Chamalières

63

Mike Black

American football punter

*January 18th, 1961, Glendale

63

Michele Miscavige

Missing wife of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige

*January 18th, 1961, Dallas

63

Mustafa Demir

Member of Parliament

*January 18th, 1961, Trabzon

49

Bridget O'Connor

British screenwriter

*January 18th, 1961, Harrow †September 22nd, 2010, Hove

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 18th?

35

Chen Long

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1989, Shashi District

64

Mark Rylance

British actor, playwright and theatre director

*January 18th, 1960, Ashford

66

Volker Pispers

German cabaret artist

*January 18th, 1958, Rheydt

36

Wang Yihan

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1988, Shanghai

50

Maulik Pancholy

Indian American actor, author, activist, and speaker

*January 18th, 1974, Kissimmee

29

Wang Chi-Lin

Taiwanese badminton player

*January 18th, 1995, Taipei

69

Kevin Costner

American actor and filmmaker

*January 18th, 1955, Lynwood

61

Martin O'Malley

American politician

*January 18th, 1963, Washington, D.C.

53

Pep Guardiola

Spanish association football manager (born 1971)

*January 18th, 1971, Santpedor

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

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

41

Li Yujia

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1983, Hubei

42

Elin Bergblom

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1982, Knivsta

68

Werner Liebrich

German footballer (1927–1995)

*January 18th, 1927, Kaiserslautern †March 20th, 1995, Kaiserslautern

34

Linda Weni Fanetri

Indonesian badminton player

*January 18th, 1990, Jakarta

32

Denis Grachev

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1992, Vladivostok

29

Gloria Groove

Brazilian singer, rapper, songwriter, actor, voice actor and drag queen

*January 18th, 1995, São Paulo

27

Rubén Castellanos

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1997, Morales

Same year
Born in 1961

62

Barack Obama

President of the United States from 2009 to 2017

*August 4th, 1961, Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children

63

Erna Solberg

Norwegian politician and the 35th Prime Minister of Norway

*February 24th, 1961, Bergen

62

Joe Lando

American actor

*December 9th, 1961, Prairie View

63

Lothar Matthäus

German footballer, manager and pundit

*March 21st, 1961, Erlangen

63

Steven Weber

American actor

*March 4th, 1961, Briarwood

62

Kristin Krohn Devold

Norwegian politician

*August 12th, 1961, Ålesund Municipality

63

Knut Nærum

Norwegian comedian and author

*March 3rd, 1961, Arendal

62

Jan-Eric Antonsson

Badminton player

*September 9th, 1961, Karlskrona

62

Michael Meister

German politician

*June 9th, 1961, Lorsch

63

Hans-Georg von der Marwitz

German politician

*April 8th, 1961, Heidelberg

62

Olaug Bollestad

Norwegian politician

*November 4th, 1961, Strand Municipality

62

Julia Gillard

Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013

*September 29th, 1961, Barry

63

Eddie Murphy

American stand-up comedian and actor

*April 3rd, 1961, Brooklyn

36

Diana, Princess of Wales

Member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales (1961–1997)

*July 1st, 1961, Sandringham †August 31st, 1997, Paris

63

Dirk Heidenblut

German politician

*April 21st, 1961, Essen

62

Arundhati Roy

Indian novelist, essayist, and activist

*November 24th, 1961, Shillong

62

George Clooney

American actor and filmmaker (born 1961)

*May 6th, 1961, Lexington

62

Nadia Comăneci

Romanian gymnast and five-time Olympic gold medalist

*November 12th, 1961, Onești

57

Stephen Hillenburg

American marine science educator and artist (1961-2018)

*August 21st, 1961, Fort Sill †November 26th, 2018, San Marino

62

Florent Pagny

French recording artist; singer

*November 6th, 1961, Chalon-sur-Saône

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No: With 365 days 1961 is a normal year and no leap year.

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