January 15th, 1972

Born on January 15th, 1972

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on January 15th?

January 15th, 1970

The Republic of Biafra surrendered following a failed attempt at secession from Nigeria, ending the Nigerian Civil War.

January 15th, 2009

US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its climb out from New York City and made an emergency landing in the Hudson River (featured).

January 15th, 1975

Portugal and the nationalist factions UNITA, the MPLA and the FNLA signed the Alvor Agreement, ending the Angolan War of Independence.

January 15th, 1974

American serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as the "BTK killer", murdered his first four victims.

January 15th, 1967

The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I.

January 15th, 1962

The Derveni papyrus (fragment pictured), the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, was discovered in Macedonia in northern Greece.

January 15th, 1951

Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.

January 15th, 1947

The mutilated corpse of the Black Dahlia, a 22-year-old woman whose murder is one of the most famous unsolved crimes in the United States, was found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.

January 15th, 1943

The highest-capacity office building in the world, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense known as the Pentagon, was dedicated.

January 15th, 1937

Spanish Civil War: Nationalist and Republican forces both withdrew after suffering heavy losses at the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.

January 15th, 1934

At least 10,700 people died when an earthquake registering 8.0 Mw struck Nepal and the Indian state of Bihar.

January 15th, 1933

A teenage girl in Banneux, Belgium, reported the first of several Marian apparitions, now known as Our Lady of Banneux.

January 15th, 1919

A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, burst and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets , killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.

January 15th, 1910

Construction on the Buffalo Bill Dam on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming, then the tallest dam in the world, was completed.

January 15th, 1885

Wilson Bentley took the first known photograph of a snowflake by attaching a bellows camera to a microscope.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 15th

Born on January 15th, 1972

52

Claudia Winkleman

British television presenter

*January 15th, 1972, London

52

Ernie Reyes

American actor and stunt performer

*January 15th, 1972, San Jose

52

Nicolas Burtin

French alpine skier

*January 15th, 1972, Bonneville

52

Christos Kostis

Greek footballer

*January 15th, 1972, Thessaloniki

52

Shelia Burrell

Athletics competitor

*January 15th, 1972, Albuquerque

52

Yang Yong-eun

Professional golfer

*January 15th, 1972, Jeju

52

Vince Poletto

Australian actor

*January 15th, 1972, Townsville

52

Eric Byler

American film director

*January 15th, 1972, United States of America

52

Paul Baines

English footballer (born 1972)

*January 15th, 1972, Tamworth

52

Mark Carroll

Irish long-distance runner

*January 15th, 1972, Cork

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 15th?

28

Dove Cameron

American actress and singer

*January 15th, 1996, Bainbridge Island

39

Thilini Jayasinghe

Badminton player

*January 15th, 1985, Peradeniya

30

Myke Towers

Puerto Rican rapper

*January 15th, 1994, Río Piedras

47

Giorgia Meloni

Prime Minister of Italy since 2022

*January 15th, 1977, Rome

39

Martin Luther King Jr.

American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)

*January 15th, 1929, Atlanta †April 4th, 1968, Memphis

28

Huang Kaixiang

Chinese badminton player

*January 15th, 1996, Nanping

24

Ikhsan Rumbay

Badminton player

*January 15th, 2000, Tomohon City

59

James Nesbitt

Northern Irish actor

*January 15th, 1965, Ballymena

51

Roberto Fresnedoso

Spanish footballer

*January 15th, 1973, Toledo

42

Benjamin Agosto

American ice dancer

*January 15th, 1982, Chicago

65

Josip Juratovic

German politician

*January 15th, 1959, Koprivnica

36

Sebastian Langkamp

German footballer

*January 15th, 1988, Speyer

67

Mario Van Peebles

American actor

*January 15th, 1957, Mexico City

30

Eric Dier

English association football player

*January 15th, 1994, Cheltenham

49

Mary Pierce

French tennis player

*January 15th, 1975, Montreal

77

Andrea Martin

American-Canadian actress, singer and comedian

*January 15th, 1947, Portland

59

Maurizio Fondriest

Italian cyclist

*January 15th, 1965, Cles

43

Pitbull

American singer, rapper and songwriter

*January 15th, 1981, Miami

51

Essam El-Hadary

Egyptian footballer

*January 15th, 1973, Kafr El Battikh

32

Max von der Groeben

German actor

*January 15th, 1992, Cologne

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Born in 1972

51

Stephen Barclay

British politician

*May 3rd, 1972, Lytham St Annes

51

Maia Sandu

President of Moldova since 2020

*May 24th, 1972, Risipeni

47

Ari Behn

Norwegian author and artist (1972-2019)

*September 30th, 1972, Aarhus †December 25th, 2019, Lommedalen

52

Roland Møller

Danish actor

*March 20th, 1972, Odense

51

Bang Soo-hyun

South Korean badminton player

*September 13th, 1972, Seoul

52

Heryanto Arbi

Indonesian badminton player

*January 21st, 1972, Kota Kudus

51

Zinedine Zidane

French football manager and former player

*June 23rd, 1972, Marseille

51

Dwayne Johnson

American actor and professional wrestler

*May 2nd, 1972, Hayward

51

Joanne Goode

English badminton player

*November 17th, 1972, Harlow

51

Eminem

American rapper, record producer and actor (born 1972)

*October 17th, 1972, St. Joseph

52

Milaine Cloutier

Canadian badminton player

*February 16th, 1972, Granby

51

Michael Wiesinger

German association football player and manager

*December 27th, 1972, Burghausen

51

Chris Leslie

British politician (born 1972)

*June 28th, 1972, Keighley

51

Anniken Hauglie

Conservative Norwegian politician

*September 10th, 1972, Oslo

51

Gwyneth Paltrow

American actress, entrepreneur, writer and singer

*September 27th, 1972, Los Angeles

51

Steffen Wöller

German luger

*September 10th, 1972, Erfurt

51

Johann von Bülow

German actor

*September 26th, 1972, Munich

51

Jude Law

English actor

*December 29th, 1972, Lewisham

51

Josh Duhamel

American actor

*November 14th, 1972, Minot

52

Ong Ewe Hock

Badminton player

*March 14th, 1972, Penang

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 15th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, The second day of the sidereal winter solstice festivals in India) which are celebrated on January 15th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on January 15th, 1972
Future birthdays

Leap year

Yes: 1972 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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