Famous Birthdays in January Week 4
What happens if your client’s birthday is the same as celebrities like Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift or President Obama or President Xi Jinping?
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The list of famous birthdays during January Week 4 (22nd – 28th)
Diane Lane
Birth Date: 22nd January 1960
Birth Place: New York, New York, United States
Education: Hunter College High School
Who is she?
An accomplished actress with starring role in A Walk on the Moon (1999), The Perfect Storm (2000) and an Oscar nomination in Unfaithful (2002).
Steve Perry
Birth Date: 22nd January 1966
Birth Place: Hanford, California, United States
Education: College of the Sequoias
Full Name: Stephen Ray Perry
Who is he?
A famous singer. He joined Journey in 1977, achieving success with the 1981 album Escape, featuring the class “Don’t Stop Believin.”
John Hancock (1737 – 1793) 
Birth Date: 23rd January 1737
Birth Place: Quincy, Massachusetts
Education: Harvard University
Who is he?
A prominent merchant and in 1780, he became the first governor of Massachusetts. He became the President of the Continental Congress in 1781 and was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence.
John Hancock Insurance Co. founded on April 21 1862 was named in his honour. The Co. was acquired in 2004 by Canadian Insurer Manulife Financial.
Megawati Sukarnoputri
Birth Date: 23rd January 1947
Birth Place: Jakarta, Indonesia
Education: Padjadjaran University, University of Indonesia
Full Name: Dyah Permata Megawati Setiawati Sukarnoputri
Who is she?
She is the fifth President of Indonesia (2001-2004, and is the daughter of the first President of Indonesia (Sukarno).
Neil Diamond
Birth Date: 24th January 1941
Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Education: New York University
Full Name: Neil Leslie Diamond
Who is he?
Frederick II (1712-1786)
Birth Date: 24th January 1712
Birth Place: Berlin, Germany
Education: Louisville Central High School
Nick Name: Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
Who is he?
Frederick II is commonly known as Frederick the Great. He was Prussia’s king from 1740 to 1786 and establish Prussia as a strong military power.
Michio Kaku
Birth Date: 24th January 1947
Birth Place: San Jose, California, United States
Education: Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley
Who is he?
He is a scientist & physicist and one of the co-founders of string field theory. He is the author of several popular books and has appeared on numerous television programs.
Alicia Keys
Birth Date: 25th January 1981
Birth Place:New York, New York, United States
Education: Professional Performance Arts School, Columbia University
Full Name: Alicia Augello Cook
Who is she?
Singer, song writer, pianist. She is a multiple Grammy Award-winnner. Her debut album Songs in A Minor (2001) went platinum five times over and earned her five Grammys and with more hit albums such as The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003), As I Am (2007) and Girl on Fire (2009), all of which won the artist Grammys.
Douglas C. Engelbart (1925 – 1988)
Birth Date: 25th January 1925
Birth Place: Portland, Oregon, United States
Education: Oregon State College (Oregon State University), University of California, Berkeley
Full Name: Douglas Carl Engelbart
Who is he?
An inventor and computer programmer, he was a pioneer in interactive computer design and invented the computer mouse in 1964. He created the first 2D editing system and the first to demonstrate the use of mixed text-graphics and shared-screen viewing. He founded Stanford University’s Bootstrap Project.
Corazon Aquino (1933 – 2009)
Birth Date: 25th January 1933
Birth Place: Tarlac, Philippines
Education: Mount St. Vincent College
Full Name: Maria Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino
Who is she?
She was the 11th president and first female president) of the Philippines and restored democracy after the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. Her husband had been an opponent of Ferdinand Marcos and was assassinated upon returning from exile. In 1986, Marcos unexpectedly called for elections in 1986 and Corazon Aquino became the unified opposition’s presidential candidate. She took office after Marcos fled the country, and served as president until 1992.
Douglas MacArthur (1880 – 1964)
Birth Date: 26th January 1880
Birth Place: Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Education: West Point
Who is he?
A famous American general, re-known for his command of Allied forces in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He fought in World War I, and in World War II was the commander of Allied forces in the Pacific. He criticized President Harry Truman’s handling of the Korean War and was subsequently relieved of his command.
Jose Mourinho
Birth Date: 26th January 1963
Birth Place: Setubal, Portugal
Education: Technical University of Lisbon
Who is he?
A successful and controversial football manager, his career has led to many league titles and accolades with with Porto FC, Chelsea FC, Internazionale and Real Madrid.
Wolfgang Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Birth Date: 27th January 1756
Birth Place: Salzburg, Austria
Full Name: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Who is he?
A musician and composer, he created a string of operas, concertos, symphonies and sonatas that profoundly shaped classical music. At 5 years old, he was already capable of playing multiple instruments and composing his own music.
Edward J. Smith (1850 – 1912)
Birth Date: 27th January 1850
Birth Place: Hanley, United Kingdom
Education: Royal Naval Reserve
Full Name: Edward John Smith
Who is he?
The Captain of the luxury vessel Titanic which sank in 1912. The sinking is one of the most famous disasters at sea in history.
Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898)
Birth Date: January 27, 1832
Birth Place: Daresbury, England
Education: Christ Church (Oxford), Rugby School, Richmond School, Yorkshire
Original Name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Pen Name: Lewis Carroll
Who is he?
The famous author of the children’s classics “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass.”
Kaiser Wilhelm (1859 – 1941)
Birth Date: 27th January 1859
Birth Place: Potsdam, Germany
Education: Kassel at the Friedrichsgymnasium
Full Name: Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert
Who is he?
He is the emperor of Germany from 1888 until the end of World War I. During the war, he allowed his military advisers to dictate German policy. Realizing that Germany would lose the war, he abdicated the throne in November 1918 and fled to the Netherlands.
Steve Wynn
Birth Date: 27th January 1942
Birth Place: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Education: University of Pennsylvania, Manlius School
Full Name: Stephen Alan Wynn
Who is he?
In 1967, he moved to Las Vegas and brought new life to the Las Vegas strip by renovating the Golden Nugget and opening The Mirage and The Bellagio. In 2005, he opened the Wynn Las Vegas. A year later, he opened Wynn Macau.
Carlos Slim Helú
Birth Date: 28th January 1940
Birth Place: Mexico City, Mexico
Education: National Autonomous University of Mexico
Who is he?
He purchased investments following the economic crash of 1982, which later made him the richest man in the world between 2011 – 2013 (Forbes)
Elijah Wood
Birth Date: 28th January 1981
Birth Place: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
Best Known: Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings
Who is he?
An Actor who was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance for his role as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. His other notable films include Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sin City, and Happy Feet.
Credits: Biography & Famous Birthdays
We get curious questions why we track popular people and their birthdays which are non-related to wealth management, financial markets and investments.
Here are 10 reasons why:
- Clients don’t care about complex solutions, neither can they understand them.
- There are hundreds of banks and thousands of wealth managers, your solution is not the best, and may be the worst.
- If they don’t like you, no matter how low your fees are or how good your solution is, they will not listen to you.
- No matter how expert you are, you need to find a willing listener.
- A good conversation is different from a real conversation.
- Every sales pitch starts with an ice breaker, that sounds real.
- You can’t accurately predict financial market, so keep those conversation short.
- If you need an excuse to be personable & emotional, linking to famous people you know always help.
- There is no better connections than birthday connections.
- And there is no better announcement than having the same birthdays as Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift, Jet Li, Jackie Chan.
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