January 31st, 1988

Born on January 31st, 1988

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

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 771 days, exactly on May 31st, 2026, people who were born on January 31st, 1988 will be 14,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on January 31st, 1988?

January 31st, 1988

Doug Williams becomes the first African American quarterback to play in a Super Bowl and leads the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XXII.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Williams_(quarterback)

January 31st, 1988

Doug Williams (pictured) became the first African-American quarterback to play in a Super Bowl, leading the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XXII.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Williams_(quarterback)

What else happened on January 31st?

January 31st, 2013

A gas leak underneath the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City caused an explosion that killed at least 37 people and injured another 121.

January 31st, 2010

James Cameron's Avatar became the first film to earn over US$2 billion worldwide.

January 31st, 2000

Alaska Airlines Flight 261, experiencing problems with its horizontal stabilizer system, crashed in the Pacific Ocean off Anacapa Island, California, killing all 88 people on board.

January 31st, 1961

Aboard NASA's Mercury-Redstone 2, Ham the Chimp became the first hominid launched into outer space.

January 31st, 1957

A DC-7B operated by Douglas Aircraft collided in mid-air with a U.S. Air Force F-89 and crashed into a schoolyard in Pacoima, California.

January 31st, 1900

Datu Muhammad Salleh, leader of a series of major disturbances in North Borneo, was shot dead in Tambunan, but his followers did not give up for five more years.

January 31st, 1862

American astronomer Alvan Graham Clark first observed the faint white dwarf companion of Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.

January 31st, 1747

The London Lock Hospital, the first voluntary hospital specialising in the treatment of venereal diseases, opened.

January 31st, 1578

Eighty Years' War: Spain won a crushing victory at the Battle of Gembloux, threatening the States General of the Netherlands and contributing to its move from Brussels to Antwerp.

January 31st, 0314

Sylvester I (bust depicted), during whose pontificate many churches in Rome were constructed by Constantine the Great, began his reign as pope.

January 31st, 2007

Emergency officials in Boston mistakenly identified LED placards depicting characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force as IEDs, causing a panic.

January 31st, 1997

Final Fantasy VII, the first video game in the Final Fantasy franchise to use 3-D computer graphics, was released.

January 31st, 1919

Intense rioting over labour conditions broke out in Glasgow, Scotland.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 31st

Born on January 31st, 1988

36

Sidney Sam

German association football player

*January 31st, 1988, Kiel

36

Brett Pitman

Footballer (born 1988)

*January 31st, 1988, Saint Helier

36

Kyle Kulinski

American political commentator

*January 31st, 1988, Westchester County

36

Shalmali Kholgade

Indian singer

*January 31st, 1988, Mumbai

36

Maude Hirst

British actress

*January 31st, 1988, Hackney

36

Mozart La Para

Dominican singer

*January 31st, 1988, Los Mina

36

Taijo Teniste

Estonian footballer

*January 31st, 1988, Tartu

36

Daniel Wessig

German handball player

*January 31st, 1988, Schwerin

36

Cathy Hummels

German presenter

*January 31st, 1988, Dachau

36

Line Røddik Hansen

Danish footballer

*January 31st, 1988, Copenhagen

36

Brock Harris

American musician, model , and actor

*January 31st, 1988, Stillwater

36

Chloé Robichaud

Canadian screenwriter and film director

*January 31st, 1988, Cap-Rouge

36

Joe Costner

American actor, filmmaker and musician

*January 31st, 1988, Los Angeles

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 31st?

39

Oxxxymiron

Russian rapper

*January 31st, 1985, Saint Petersburg

32

Linnéa Claeson

Swedish handball player

*January 31st, 1992, Norrköping

42

Ekaterina Ananina

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1982, Perm

56

Petra Schubert

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1968, Finsterwalde

43

Justin Timberlake

American singer and actor (born 1981)

*January 31st, 1981, Memphis

50

Billy MacLellan

Canadian actor

*January 31st, 1974, Cape Breton Island

49

Preity Zinta

Indian film actress, entrepreneur

*January 31st, 1975, Shimla

44

James Adomian

American comedian and actor

*January 31st, 1980, Omaha

37

Marcus Mumford

British musician. songwriter and singer of the folk rock band Mumford & Sons

*January 31st, 1987, Anaheim

47

Kerry Washington

American actress

*January 31st, 1977, The Bronx

65

Anthony LaPaglia

Australian actor

*January 31st, 1959, Adelaide

49

Marianne Grunthal

German teacher

*January 31st, 1896, Zehdenick †May 2nd, 1945, Schwerin

97

Carol Channing

American actress (1921–2019)

*January 31st, 1921, Seattle †January 15th, 2019, Rancho Mirage

35

Tommy La Stella

American baseball player

*January 31st, 1989, Closter

39

Kalomira

Greek-American singer

*January 31st, 1985, West Hempstead

42

Helena Paparizou

Greek singer

*January 31st, 1982, Borås

78

Meena Shah

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1937, Balrampur †March 10th, 2015

34

Cro

German rapper and singer

*January 31st, 1990, Mutlangen

32

Xandro Meurisse

Belgian cyclist

*January 31st, 1992, Kortrijk

73

Spartaco Landini

Italian footballer (1944-2017)

*January 31st, 1944, Terranuova Bracciolini †April 16th, 2017, Genoa

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

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

Jérôme Boateng

German association football player

*September 3rd, 1988, West Berlin

35

Pramod Bhagat

Indian para-badminton player

*June 4th, 1988, Attabira

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

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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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