January 15th, 1996

Born on January 15th, 1996

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 10,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 814 days, exactly on February 26th, 2026, people who were born on January 15th, 1996 will be 11,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on January 15th?

January 15th, 2009

US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its initial climb out from New York City and made an emergency landing in the Hudson River.

January 15th, 1991

Queen Elizabeth II signed letters patent instituting the Victoria Cross for Australia; the country became the first Commonwealth realm with a separate Victoria Cross award in its honours system.

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 blinded, tortured, and killed his first three victims, earning him the nickname "BTK killer".

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, 1996

27

Dove Cameron

American actress and singer

*January 15th, 1996, Seattle

27

Huang Kaixiang

Badminton player

*January 15th, 1996, Nanping

27

Romano Fenati

Italian motorcycle racer

*January 15th, 1996, Ascoli Piceno

27

Deebo Samuel

American football player (born 1996)

*January 15th, 1996, Inman

27

Julian Estrada

Filipino teen actor

*January 15th, 1996, San Juan

27

Katharina Truppe

Austrian alpine skier

*January 15th, 1996, Villach

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 15th?

29

Myke Towers

Puerto Rican rapper

*January 15th, 1994, Río Piedras

29

Eric Dier

English association football player

*January 15th, 1994, Cheltenham

41

Benjamin Agosto

American ice dancer

*January 15th, 1982, Chicago

39

Martin Luther King Jr.

American civil-rights activist and leader, Nobel peace prize laureate (1929–1968)

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

32

Marc Bartra

Spanish footballer

*January 15th, 1991, Sant Jaume dels Domenys

46

Giorgia Meloni

Prime Minister of Italy since 2022

*January 15th, 1977, Rome

29

Sinan Gümüş

German association football player

*January 15th, 1994, Pfullendorf

24

Gavin Becker

American actor and singer-songwriter

*January 15th, 1999, Philadelphia

19

Grace VanderWaal

American singer-songwriter

*January 15th, 2004, Lenexa

35

Skrillex

American DJ and record producer

*January 15th, 1988, Los Angeles

31

Max von der Groeben

German actor

*January 15th, 1992, Cologne

58

James Nesbitt

Northern Irish actor

*January 15th, 1965, Ballymena

76

Andrea Martin

American-Canadian actress, singer and comedian

*January 15th, 1947, Portland

30

Paulina Vega

Colombian model, presenter, and beauty queen

*January 15th, 1993, Barranquilla

19

Evie Dolan

American actress and musician

*January 15th, 2004, Miami

37

Jessy Schram

American actress

*January 15th, 1986, Skokie

42

Pitbull

American rapper and singer from Florida

*January 15th, 1981, Miami

89

Günther Schellong

German university teacher

*January 15th, 1926, Kiel †October 10th, 2015, Münster

37

Clara Lee

South Korean actress

*January 15th, 1986, Bern

38

Brandon Mebane

American football defensive lineman

*January 15th, 1985, Los Angeles

Same year
Born in 1996

27

Lauren Jauregui

American singer

*June 27th, 1996, Miami

26

Kungs

French DJ, record producer and musician

*December 17th, 1996, Aix-en-Provence

27

Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo

Indonesian badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Banyuwangi

27

Tom Holland

British actor

*June 1st, 1996, Kingston upon Thames

27

Luke Hemmings

Australian singer and guitarist

*July 16th, 1996, Freemans Reach

27

Lili Reinhart

American actress

*September 13th, 1996, Cleveland

27

Summer Walker

American R&B singer

*April 11th, 1996, Atlanta

27

Nico Dannowski

Badminton player

*December 1st, 1996, Ebersbach-Neugersdorf

27

Dawid Kwiatkowski

Polish singer-songwriter

*January 1st, 1996, Gorzów Wielkopolski

27

Ruben Jille

Dutch badminton player

*July 11th, 1996, Nieuwegein

21

Lil Peep

American rapper and singer

*November 1st, 1996, Allentown †November 15th, 2017, Tucson

27

Normani

American singer and dancer

*May 31st, 1996, Atlanta

22

Anthoine Hubert

French racing driver

*September 22nd, 1996, 7th arrondissement of Lyon †August 31st, 2019, Spa-Francochamps Circuit

27

Astrid S

Norwegian singer and songwriter

*October 29th, 1996, Berkåk

27

Birdy

English singer

*May 15th, 1996, Lymington

27

Ruby O. Fee

German actress

*February 7th, 1996, San José

27

Mabel

English singer and songwriter

*February 19th, 1996, Alhaurín el Grande

27

Luisa Neubauer

German climate activist

*April 21st, 1996, Hamburg

27

Shi Yuqi

Badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

27

Rachel Honderich

Canadian badminton player

*April 21st, 1996, Toronto

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, 1996
Future birthdays

Leap year

Yes: 1996 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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