January 18th, 1980

Born on January 18th, 1980

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 16,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 836 days, exactly on August 4th, 2026, people who were born on January 18th, 1980 will be 17,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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, 1980

44

Ne-Yo

American R&B singer

*January 18th, 1980, Camden

44

Jason Segel

American actor

*January 18th, 1980, Los Angeles

44

Rodrigo Guirao

Argentine actor

*January 18th, 1980, Buenos Aires

44

Robert Green

English association football player

*January 18th, 1980, Chertsey

44

Antonio Jesús Vázquez Muñoz

Spanish footballer

*January 18th, 1980, Santa Olalla del Cala

44

Julius Peppers

American football player

*January 18th, 1980, Wilson

44

Nia Künzer

Association footballer

*January 18th, 1980, Mochudi

44

Jason LaBarbera

Canadian ice hockey player

*January 18th, 1980, Burnaby

44

Liah Soares

Brazilian recording artist, singer-songwriter

*January 18th, 1980, Tucuruí

44

Kellee Maize

American rapper

*January 18th, 1980, New Berlin

44

Illogic

American rapper

*January 18th, 1980, Columbus

44

Estelle

British musician

*January 18th, 1980, Hammersmith

44

Kert Haavistu

Estonian footballer

*January 18th, 1980, Tallinn

44

Édgar Álvarez

Honduran footballer

*January 18th, 1980, Puerto Cortés

44

Amalia Levari

Animation screenwriter

*January 18th, 1980, Pittsburgh

44

Kenny Corupe

Canadian ice hockey player

*January 18th, 1980, Hamilton

44

Sazali Salleh

Singaporean footballer

*January 18th, 1980, Singapore

44

Nenad Brnović

Montenegrin footballer

*January 18th, 1980, Podgorica

44

Tsuguo Mogami

Japanese voice actor

*January 18th, 1980, Saitama Prefecture

44

Jolene Chin

Malaysian actress

*January 18th, 1980, Kuala Lumpur

44

Joey Barrington

British squash player

*January 18th, 1980, Rio de Janeiro

44

Davit Dighmelashvili

Georgian footballer

*January 18th, 1980, Tbilisi

44

Precious Dede

Nigerian association football player

*January 18th, 1980, Aba

44

Djalil Narjissi

Moroccan rugby union player

*January 18th, 1980, Morocco

44

Mick Kenney

British musician

*January 18th, 1980, Birmingham

44

Issara Sritaro

Thai footballer and manager

*January 18th, 1980, Thailand

44

Adel El Hadi

Algerian footballer

*January 18th, 1980, Biskra

44

Răzvan Stanca

Romanian footballer

*January 18th, 1980, Bucharest

44

Piotr Klimczak

Polish sprinter

*January 18th, 1980, Nowy Sącz

44

Zach Kingsley

American soccer player

*January 18th, 1980, Spokane

44

Ryosuke Shimizu

Japanese martial artist

*January 18th, 1980, Kyoto

44

Dominic Lash

British musician

*January 18th, 1980, Cambridge

44

Arvinn Gadgil

Norwegian politician

*January 18th, 1980, Tromsø Municipality

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

35

Chen Long

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1989, Shashi District

36

Wang Yihan

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1988, Shanghai

46

Aparna Popat

Indian badminton player

*January 18th, 1978, Mumbai

29

Wang Chi-Lin

Taiwanese badminton player

*January 18th, 1995, Taipei

50

Maulik Pancholy

Indian American actor, author, activist, and speaker

*January 18th, 1974, Kissimmee

42

Elin Bergblom

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1982, Knivsta

43

Antje Traue

German actress

*January 18th, 1981, Mittweida

41

Li Yujia

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1983, Hubei

48

Lars Paaske

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1976, Hørsholm

43

Christophe Kern

Road bicycle racer

*January 18th, 1981, Wissembourg

50

Steve Lomas

Northern Irish association football player and manager

*January 18th, 1974, Hanover

50

Tri Kusharyanto

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1974, Yogyakarta City

46

Thor Hushovd

Norwegian cyclist

*January 18th, 1978, Grimstad

40

Jan Glinker

German association football player

*January 18th, 1984, East Berlin

46

Katja Kipping

German politician

*January 18th, 1978, Dresden

53

Pep Guardiola

Spanish association football manager (born 1971)

*January 18th, 1971, Santpedor

38

Kristin Skaslien

Norwegian female curler

*January 18th, 1986, Oppdal

34

Linda Weni Fanetri

Indonesian badminton player

*January 18th, 1990, Jakarta

39

Riccardo Montolivo

Italian association football player

*January 18th, 1985, Milan

32

Denis Grachev

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1992, Vladivostok

Same year
Born in 1980

43

Kristen Bell

American actress (born 1980)

*July 18th, 1980, Huntington Woods

44

Cai Yun

Chinese badminton player

*January 19th, 1980, Suzhou

43

Jeph Jacques

Comic author and illustrator (1980-)

*June 17th, 1980, Rockville

44

Volker Bruch

German actor

*March 9th, 1980, Munich

43

Julia Hummer

German actress and singer

*April 24th, 1980, Hagen

44

Henriett Koósz

Paralympic tennis and badminton player

*February 14th, 1980, Kőszeg

43

Dag Inge Ulstein

Norwegian politician

*December 4th, 1980, Sula

43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

43

Mathias Boe

Danish badminton player

*July 11th, 1980, Frederikssund

43

Sudheer Babu

Indian film actor and former professional badminton player

*May 11th, 1980, Vijayawada

38

Vibeke Skofterud

Norwegian cross country skier

*April 20th, 1980, Askim Municipality †July 29th, 2018, Hove

43

Maya Diab

Lebanese singer, entertainer, actress and television personality

*November 12th, 1980, Beirut

43

Mustafa Ceceli

Turkish singer

*November 2nd, 1980, Ankara

43

Matias Varela

Swedish actor

*November 1st, 1980, Stockholm

43

Roman Weidenfeller

German association football player

*August 6th, 1980, Diez

44

Dani Kind

Canadian actress

*January 10th, 1980, Toronto

43

Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

Emir of Qatar

*June 3rd, 1980, Doha

44

Lee Kyung-won

South Korean badminton player

*January 21st, 1980, Changwon

43

Wolke Hegenbarth

Actress

*May 6th, 1980, Meerbusch

44

Kennevic Asuncion

Badminton player

*March 21st, 1980, Barbaza

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Leap year

Yes: 1980 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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