January 15th, 1988

Born on January 15th, 1988

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 13,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 750 days, exactly on May 15th, 2026, people who were born on January 15th, 1988 will be 14,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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, 1988

36

Sebastian Langkamp

German footballer

*January 15th, 1988, Speyer

36

Darwin Atapuma

Road racing cyclist

*January 15th, 1988, Túquerres

36

Skrillex

American DJ and record producer

*January 15th, 1988, Los Angeles

36

Jun. K

South Korean singer

*January 15th, 1988, Daegu

36

Daniel Caligiuri

Italian footballer

*January 15th, 1988, Villingen-Schwenningen

36

Nathalie Álvarez Mesén

Swedish film director and script writer

*January 15th, 1988, Stockholm

36

Gavin Edwards

American basketball player

*January 15th, 1988, Gilbert

36

Donald Sloan

American basketball player

*January 15th, 1988, Shreveport

36

Casey Reibelt

Australian football referee

*January 15th, 1988, Australia

36

Eddie Hall

British strongman

*January 15th, 1988, Newcastle-under-Lyme

36

Joelle Dagher

Lebanese actor

*January 15th, 1988, Beirut

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

28

Huang Kaixiang

Chinese badminton player

*January 15th, 1996, Nanping

24

Ikhsan Rumbay

Badminton player

*January 15th, 2000, Tomohon City

39

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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

30

Eric Dier

English association football player

*January 15th, 1994, Cheltenham

47

Giorgia Meloni

Prime Minister of Italy since 2022

*January 15th, 1977, Rome

32

Max von der Groeben

German actor

*January 15th, 1992, Cologne

42

Benjamin Agosto

American ice dancer

*January 15th, 1982, Chicago

43

Pitbull

American singer, rapper and songwriter

*January 15th, 1981, Miami

59

James Nesbitt

Northern Irish actor

*January 15th, 1965, Ballymena

20

Grace VanderWaal

American singer-songwriter

*January 15th, 2004, Lenexa

37

Kelly Kelly

American professional wrestler, model, dancer and television personality

*January 15th, 1987, Jacksonville

33

Marc Bartra

Spanish footballer

*January 15th, 1991, Sant Jaume dels Domenys

34

Miroslav Štěpánek

Czech soccer player

*January 15th, 1990, Olomouc

37

Greg Inglis

Australian rugby league footballer

*January 15th, 1987, Kempsey

65

Josip Juratovic

German politician

*January 15th, 1959, Koprivnica

32

Joshua King

Norwegian association football player

*January 15th, 1992, Oslo

77

Andrea Martin

American-Canadian actress, singer and comedian

*January 15th, 1947, Portland

Same year
Born in 1988

35

Adele

British singer

*May 5th, 1988, Tottenham

36

Wang Yihan

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1988, Shanghai

35

Mizuki Fujii

Badminton player

*August 5th, 1988, Ashikita

35

Ma Jin

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

35

Arun Vishnu

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Kozhikode

36

Line Damkjær Kruse

Badminton player

*January 7th, 1988, Aarhus

36

Chan Yun Lung

Badminton player

*February 29th, 1988, Hong Kong

35

Gzuz

German rapper

*June 29th, 1988, Hamburg

36

KC Rebell

German rapper

*January 26th, 1988, Pazarcık

36

Christian Meaas Svendsen

Norwegian musician

*February 26th, 1988, Kongsberg Municipality

35

Pramod Bhagat

Indian para-badminton player

*June 4th, 1988, Attabira

35

Jérôme Boateng

German association football player

*September 3rd, 1988, West Berlin

35

Mats Hummels

German association football player

*December 16th, 1988, Bergisch Gladbach

35

Sara Hjort Ditlevsen

Danish actress

*May 23rd, 1988, Copenhagen

35

Monika Lewczuk

Polish singer-songwriter and former model

*June 10th, 1988, Łomża

36

Gabi Tóth

Hungarian singer

*January 17th, 1988, Tapolca

35

Friðrik Dór

Icelandic singer

*October 7th, 1988, Hafnarfjörður

36

Marcel Schmelzer

German footballer

*January 22nd, 1988, Magdeburg

35

Lyna bonasera

Belgian actress

*May 17th, 1988, West Los Angeles

35

Savitree Amitrapai

Badminton player

*November 19th, 1988, Bangkok

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, 1988
Future birthdays

Leap year

Yes: 1988 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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January 1988