January 18th, 1981

Born on January 18th, 1981

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 15,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 199 days, exactly on November 8th, 2024, people who were born on January 18th, 1981 will be 16,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on January 18th, 1981?

January 18th, 1981

Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE_jumping

What else 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.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 18th

Born on January 18th, 1981

43

Antje Traue

German actress

*January 18th, 1981, Mittweida

43

Christophe Kern

Road bicycle racer

*January 18th, 1981, Wissembourg

43

Adrian Ioana

Romanian mathematician

*January 18th, 1981, Târgu Jiu

43

Gang Dong-won

South Korean actor

*January 18th, 1981, Busan

43

Olivier Rochus

Belgian tennis player

*January 18th, 1981, Namur

43

Otgonbayar Ershuu

Painter

*January 18th, 1981, Ulaanbaatar

43

Khari Stephenson

Jamaican footballer

*January 18th, 1981, Kingston

43

James Coppinger

English footballer (born 1981)

*January 18th, 1981, Guisborough

43

Andrei Karpovich

Kazakhstani footballer

*January 18th, 1981, Semey

43

Maria Parr

Norwegian children author

*January 18th, 1981, Vanylven Municipality

43

Thomas Degasperi

Italian water skier

*January 18th, 1981, Trento

43

Aditi Bhagwat

Indian actress

*January 18th, 1981, Mumbai

43

Zeina Abirached

Comic author

*January 18th, 1981, Beirut

43

Daniel Zillmann

German actor

*January 18th, 1981, Berlin

43

Youssouf Kamara

Ivorian footballer

*January 18th, 1981, Dabou

43

Song Lun

Figure skater

*January 18th, 1981, Qiqihar

43

Peter Canero

Scottish footballer (born 1981)

*January 18th, 1981, Glasgow

43

Kazunari Sanematsu

Baseball player

*January 18th, 1981, Saga

43

Francisco Llera

Spanish sprint canoer

*January 18th, 1981, Ribadesella

43

Daniel Mendes

Brazilian footballer and manager

*January 18th, 1981, São Paulo

43

A Zin Latt

Burmese politician and physician

*January 18th, 1981, Kanbalu Township

43

Gareth Berg

South African cricketer

*January 18th, 1981, Cape Town

43

César Cuenca

Argentine boxer

*January 18th, 1981, Tres Isletas

43

Brandon Fahey

Major League Baseball Player

*January 18th, 1981, Dallas

43

Park Eun-Chul

Olympic wrestler

*January 18th, 1981, Cheongju

43

Anton Glasnović

Sport shooter

*January 18th, 1981, Zagreb

43

Aleksandar Brđanin

Footballer

*January 18th, 1981, Ljubljana

43

Dmitri Podshivalov

Russian association football player

*January 18th, 1981, Moscow

43

Naoyuki Daigo

Japanese high jumper

*January 18th, 1981, Tokyo

43

Vasily Filippov

Handballer

*January 18th, 1981, Moscow

43

Martin Taxt

Norwegian musician

*January 18th, 1981, Trondheim

43

Gabriel Cânu

Romanian footballer

*January 18th, 1981, Bucharest

43

Giada Di Miceli

Italian television host television and radio personality

*January 18th, 1981, Rome

43

Mostafa Mido

Qatari footballer

*January 18th, 1981, Qatar

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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

42

Elin Bergblom

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1982, Knivsta

29

Wang Chi-Lin

Taiwanese badminton player

*January 18th, 1995, Taipei

41

Li Yujia

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1983, Hubei

50

Maulik Pancholy

Indian American actor, author, activist, and speaker

*January 18th, 1974, Kissimmee

46

Aparna Popat

Indian badminton player

*January 18th, 1978, Mumbai

40

Jan Glinker

German association football player

*January 18th, 1984, East Berlin

48

Lars Paaske

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1976, Hørsholm

50

Steve Lomas

Northern Irish association football player and manager

*January 18th, 1974, Hanover

50

Tri Kusharyanto

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1974, Yogyakarta City

38

Kristin Skaslien

Norwegian female curler

*January 18th, 1986, Oppdal

39

Riccardo Montolivo

Italian association football player

*January 18th, 1985, Milan

34

Linda Weni Fanetri

Indonesian badminton player

*January 18th, 1990, Jakarta

53

Pep Guardiola

Spanish association football manager (born 1971)

*January 18th, 1971, Santpedor

44

Ne-Yo

American R&B singer

*January 18th, 1980, Camden

46

Thor Hushovd

Norwegian cyclist

*January 18th, 1978, Grimstad

32

Denis Grachev

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1992, Vladivostok

46

Katja Kipping

German politician

*January 18th, 1978, Dresden

29

Gloria Groove

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

*January 18th, 1995, São Paulo

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Born in 1981

42

MS Dhoni

Indian cricket player

*July 7th, 1981, Ranchi

42

Taufik Hidayat

Indonesian badminton player

*August 10th, 1981, Bandung City

43

Vita Marissa

Indonesian badminton player

*January 4th, 1981, Jakarta

43

Alistair Casey

Badminton player

*February 23rd, 1981, Glasgow

42

Martin de Jonge

Badminton player

*June 22nd, 1981, Rotterdam

42

Roger Federer

Swiss tennis player

*August 8th, 1981, Basel

43

Mattias Tesfaye

Danish politician

*March 31st, 1981, Aarhus

42

Beau Bokan

American singer

*November 30th, 1981, Huntington Beach

42

Beyoncé

American singer (born 1981)

*September 4th, 1981, Houston

43

Zhang Jiewen

Badminton player

*January 4th, 1981, Guangzhou

42

Gavin Shuker

British politician (born 1981)

*October 10th, 1981, Luton

43

Gong Ruina

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1981, Anhua County

42

Dorian James

Badminton player

*June 19th, 1981, Cape Town

42

Juliette Ah-Wan

Badminton player

*April 29th, 1981, Victoria

42

Anna Carina

Peruvian musician

*August 14th, 1981, Lima

43

Tom Starke

German association football player

*March 18th, 1981, Dresden

43

Björn Joppien

Badminton player

*January 30th, 1981, Langenfeld

43

Jürgen Wouters

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1981, Gilze en Rijen

42

Miyo Akao

Badminton player

*August 29th, 1981, Hita

42

Marco Vorbeck

German association football player and manager

*June 24th, 1981, Kühlungsborn

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No: With 365 days 1981 is a normal year and no leap year.

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