January 7th, 1966

Born on January 7th, 1966

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 21,000 days old!

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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, which marked 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

The French physicist Marguerite Perey identified francium, the last element first 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 adopted for the first time as 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, 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.

January 7th, 1999

The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.

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

Born on January 7th, 1966

57

Sean Harris

British actor (born 1966)

*January 7th, 1966, Bethnal Green

57

Ehab Tawfik

Egyptian singer and actor

*January 7th, 1966, Cairo

57

Peyton Hayslip

American actress

*January 7th, 1966, Garland

33

Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

American publicist and socialite

*January 7th, 1966, White Plains †July 16th, 1999, Martha's Vineyard

46

Corrie Sanders

South African boxer (1966-2012)

*January 7th, 1966, Pretoria †September 23rd, 2012, Pretoria

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

30

Nico Santos

German singer-songwriter

*January 7th, 1993, Bremen

53

Irrfan Khan

Indian actor

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

59

Nicolas Cage

American actor

*January 7th, 1964, Long Beach

35

Line Damkjær Kruse

Badminton player

*January 7th, 1988, Aarhus

52

Jeremy Renner

American actor, producer, and musician

*January 7th, 1971, Modesto

38

Lewis Hamilton

British racing driver

*January 7th, 1985, Stevenage

56

Peter Reichhardt

Danish actor

*January 7th, 1967, Charlottenlund

56

Johannes Brandrup

German actor

*January 7th, 1967, Frankfurt

32

Eden Hazard

Belgian association football player

*January 7th, 1991, La Louvière

62

Jeff Richmond

American composer, television actor and producer

*January 7th, 1961, Garrettsville

60

Lester Speight

American football player, professional wrestler actor

*January 7th, 1963, Baltimore

93

Geoffrey Bayldon

British actor (1924-2017)

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

28

Enric Mas

Spanish cyclist

*January 7th, 1995, Artà

62

John Thune

American politician

*January 7th, 1961, Pierre

56

Miranda Sawyer

British journalist

*January 7th, 1967, Wilmslow

30

Jan Oblak

Slovenian association football player

*January 7th, 1993, Škofja Loka

59

Christian Louboutin

French fashion designer (born 1963)

*January 7th, 1964, Paris

44

Christian Lindner

German politician and federal minister of finance

*January 7th, 1979, Wuppertal

69

Zora Neale Hurston

African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891-1960)

*January 7th, 1891, Notasulga †January 28th, 1960, Fort Pierce

67

Uwe Ochsenknecht

German actor and singer

*January 7th, 1956, Biblis

Same year
Born in 1966

56

Sinéad O'Connor

Irish singer-songwriter (1966–2023)

*December 8th, 1966, Glenageary †July 26th, 2023, London

57

Stefan Emmerling

German association football player and manager

*February 10th, 1966, Heidelberg

57

Kristian Eidnes Andersen

Danish composer

*July 2nd, 1966, Faxe

57

Chan Oi Ni

Hong Kong badminton player

*May 5th, 1966, Hong Kong

56

Diedrich Bader

American actor

*December 24th, 1966, Alexandria

57

Jimmy Wales

Co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)

*August 7th, 1966, Huntsville

57

Sophie Marceau

French actress

*November 17th, 1966, Paris

57

Cynthia Nixon

American actress and politician

*April 9th, 1966, New York City

57

Jeppe Kaas

Danish actor and composer

*November 23rd, 1966, Denmark

57

Urs Fischer

Swiss association football player and manager (born 1966)

*February 20th, 1966, Triengen

57

Alka Yagnik

Indian playback singer

*March 20th, 1966, Kolkata

57

Mike Tyson

American boxer and media personality (born 1966)

*June 30th, 1966, Brooklyn

57

Adam Sandler

American actor and comedian

*September 9th, 1966, Brooklyn

57

David Cameron

British politician (born 1966)

*October 9th, 1966, Marylebone

57

Nuno Bettencourt

Portuguese guitarist

*September 20th, 1966, Praia da Vitória

56

Kiefer Sutherland

British-Canadian actor

*December 21st, 1966, St. Mary's Hospital

57

Mark Gatiss

British actor, screenwriter and novelist

*October 17th, 1966, Sedgefield

57

Bernd Althusmann

German politician, State Minister of Lower Saxony

*December 3rd, 1966, Oldenburg

56

Alberto Tomba

Italian alpine ski racer

*December 19th, 1966, Bologna

57

Thomas Doll

German association football player and manager

*April 9th, 1966, Malchin

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Born on January 7th, 1966
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1966 is a normal year and no leap year.

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