January 31 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on January 31, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♒︎ Aquarius
Jan 20 – Feb 18
Birth stone
Garnet
Birth flower
Carnation
How common
#204 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous January 31 birthdays
Irving Langmuir · American chemist and physicist1881
Tallulah Bankhead · American actress1902
Alva Myrdal · Swedish sociologist and politician1902
Jackie Robinson · American baseball player1919
Carol Channing · American actress1921
Mario Lanza · American tenor and actor1921
Norman Mailer · American writer1923
Jean Simmons · British-American actress1929
Kenzaburō Ōe · Japanese writer and Nobel Laureate1935
Philip Glass · American composer1937
Suzanne Pleshette · American actress1937
Beatrix of the Netherlands · Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 to 20131938
Jonathan Banks · American actor1947
John Lydon · British-born Irish-American singer and songwriter1956
Minnie Driver · British-American actress1970
Portia de Rossi · Australian-American actress1973
Preity Zinta · Indian actress1975
Kerry Washington · American actress1977
James Adomian · American comedian and actor1980
Justin Timberlake · American singer and actor1981
On this day in history
1961Aboard NASA's Mercury-Redstone 2, the chimpanzee Ham became the first hominid to be launched into outer space.
1988Doug Williams became the first African-American quarterback to play in the Super Bowl, leading the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XXII.
1997Final Fantasy VII, the first video game in the Final Fantasy franchise to use 3-D computer graphics, was released.
2007Emergency officials in Boston mistakenly identified LED placards depicting characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force as IEDs, causing a panic.
1944World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
1949These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago, United States.
1958Cold War: Space Race: The Explorer 1, the first successful American satellite, detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
1978The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) goes on public display after being returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
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