January 5th, 1984

Born on January 5th, 1984

Age in days, weeks and months
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Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 286 days, exactly on January 29th, 2025, people who were born on January 5th, 1984 will be 15,000 days old!

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What happened on January 5th?

January 5th, 1970

An earthquake registering Mw 7.1 struck Tonghai County in southern China, killing at least 10,000 people and eventually spurring the creation of the nation's largest earthquake monitoring system.

January 5th, 1953

Waiting for Godot by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, termed the "most significant English language play of the 20th century", premiered in Paris.

January 5th, 1949

In his State of the Union speech, U.S. president Harry S. Truman (pictured) announced: "Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal."

January 5th, 1941

Second World War: Australian and British troops defeated Italian forces in Bardia, Libya, the first battle of the war in which an Australian Army formation took part.

January 5th, 1925

Nellie Tayloe Ross was inaugurated as Governor of Wyoming, the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state.

January 5th, 1922

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton (pictured) died of a heart attack during his final expedition.

January 5th, 1919

The German Workers' Party, the precursor of the Nazi Party, was founded by Anton Drexler.

January 5th, 1757

King Louis XV survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who later became the last person in France to be executed by drawing and quartering.

January 5th, 1675

Franco-Dutch War: French troops defeated Austrian and Brandenburg forces at the Battle of Turckheim in Alsace.

January 5th, 1869

Te Kooti's War: After surviving a five-day siege in the pā at Ngātapa, Māori leader Te Kooti escaped from New Zealand's Armed Constabulary.

January 5th, 1896

Te Kooti's War: After surviving a five-day seige in the pā at Ngātapa, Māori leader Te Kooti escaped from New Zealand's Armed Constabulary.

January 5th, 2009

In Eng Foong Ho v Attorney-General, the Court of Appeal of Singapore held that equality before the law was satisfied by a "reasonable nexus" between state action and the object of the law.

January 5th, 2008

Mikheil Saakashvili was decisively re-elected as President of Georgia in "the first genuinely competitive presidential election" in the history of the country.

January 5th, 2007

The Taiwan High Speed Rail opened, connecting Taipei and Kaohsiung.

January 5th, 2005

The dwarf planet Eris was discovered by a team using images from the Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 5th

Born on January 5th, 1984

40

Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen

German actress

*January 5th, 1984, Hamburg

40

Amanda Hearst

American socialite, activist, and fashion model

*January 5th, 1984, New York City

40

Ikechukwu Uche

Nigerian footballer

*January 5th, 1984, Aba

40

Yoo In-young

South Korean actress

*January 5th, 1984, Seoul

40

Sophie Austin

British actress

*January 5th, 1984, London

40

Jorge Iván Castro

Colombian association football player

*January 5th, 1984, Bogotá

40

César Valoyes

Colombian footballer

*January 5th, 1984, Bahía Solano

40

Roberto Pampin

Association football player

*January 5th, 1984, Barakaldo

40

Roberto Castillo Guerrero

Chilean footballer

*January 5th, 1984, Santiago

40

Matt Ballin

Australian rugby league footballer

*January 5th, 1984, Nanango

40

Derrick Atkins

Athletics competitor

*January 5th, 1984, Jamaica

40

Gioia Arismendi

Italian-Venezuelan actress and model

*January 5th, 1984, Caracas

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 5th?

44

Santiago Ventura

Spanish tennis player

*January 5th, 1980, Castelló de la Plana

38

Deepika Padukone

Indian actress

*January 5th, 1986, Copenhagen

49

Bradley Cooper

American actor

*January 5th, 1975, Philadelphia

24

Roxen

Romanian singer

*January 5th, 2000, Cluj-Napoca

39

Diego Vera

Uruguayan footballer

*January 5th, 1985, Montevideo

91

Konrad Adenauer

German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU

*January 5th, 1876, Cologne †April 19th, 1967, Rhöndorf

45

David Kopp

German road bicycle racer

*January 5th, 1979, Bonn

68

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

President of Germany since 2017

*January 5th, 1956, Detmold

42

Benoît Vaugrenard

Road racing cyclist

*January 5th, 1982, Vannes

46

Seanan McGuire

American writer

*January 5th, 1978, Martinez

61

Ralf Loose

German association football player and manager

*January 5th, 1963, Dortmund

36

Nikola Kalinić

Croatian association football player

*January 5th, 1988, Solin

84

Umberto Eco

Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

*January 5th, 1932, Alessandria †February 19th, 2016, Milan

83

Hayao Miyazaki

Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (1941-)

*January 5th, 1941, Bunkyo

55

Marilyn Manson

American musician (born 1969)

*January 5th, 1969, Canton

41

Marlon Roudette

English singer and songwriter

*January 5th, 1983, London

55

Shea Whigham

American actor

*January 5th, 1969, Tallahassee

37

Llorenç Riera Ortega

Spanish footballer

*January 5th, 1987, Manacor

86

Juan Carlos I of Spain

King of Spain from 1975 to 2014

*January 5th, 1938, Rome

51

Ella Harper

American circus performer

*January 5th, 1870, Sumner County †December 19th, 1921, Nashville

Same year
Born in 1984

39

Basshunter

Swedish singer, record producer and DJ

*December 22nd, 1984, Halmstad

40

Marc Zwiebler

German badminton player

*March 13th, 1984, Bonn

39

Helene Fischer

German singer

*August 5th, 1984, Krasnoyarsk

40

Juliette Armanet

French singer

*March 4th, 1984, Lille

39

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

39

Molly Nilsson

Swedish record producer, keyboardist and singer-songwriter

*December 14th, 1984, Stockholm

39

Sony Dwi Kuncoro

Indonesian badminton player

*July 7th, 1984, Surabaya

40

Salakjit Ponsana

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1984, Bangkok

39

Avril Lavigne

Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1984)

*September 27th, 1984, Belleville

40

Chanan Colman

Danish-American-Israeli former basketball player

*March 10th, 1984, Gladsaxe Municipality

39

Scarlett Johansson

American actress (born 1984)

*November 22nd, 1984, Manhattan

40

Valeria Sorokina

Russian badminton player

*March 29th, 1984, Reshetikha, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

39

French Montana

American rapper

*November 9th, 1984, Casablanca

40

Patrícia Kimberly

Brazilian pornographic actress

*January 6th, 1984, São Paulo

40

Duanganong Aroonkesorn

Thai badminton player

*February 6th, 1984, Bangkok

39

Valeriy Atrashchenkov

Badminton player

*August 20th, 1984, Kharkiv

39

Andrej Ashmarin

Badminton player

*November 9th, 1984, Moscow

39

Mark Zuckerberg

American internet entrepreneur

*May 14th, 1984, White Plains

39

Jinjin Harder

German singer

*August 30th, 1984, Wuhan

39

Ave Pajo

Estonian badminton and football player

*July 9th, 1984, Estonia

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Born on January 5th, 1984
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Leap year

Yes: 1984 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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