January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 336 days remaining, (337 in leap years).
Events
Births
- 1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, naturalist and theosophist (+ 1772)
- 1717 - Jeffrey Amherst, British Military leader (+ 1797)
- 1737 - Thomas Paine, patriot, radical, pamphleteer (+ 1809)
- 1749 - King Christian VII of Denmark (+ 1808)
- 1843 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (+ 1901
- 1860 - Anton Chekhov, playwright and short story writer (+ 1904)
- 1862 - Frederick Delius, composer (+ 1934)
- 1866 - Romain Rolland, dramatist, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915 (+ 1944)
- 1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr.[?], entrepreneur
- 1880 - W.C. Fields, actor (+ 1946)
- 1885 - Leadbelly, musician (+ 1949)
- 1901 - Allen Du Mont[?], television pioneer
- 1905 - Barnett Newman, painter (+ 1970)
- 1911 - Peter von Siemens[?], industrialist (+ 1986)
- 1913 - Peter von Zahn[?], journalist and writer
- 1915 - Victor Mature[?], actor (+ 1999)
- 1917 - John Raitt[?], actor, singer
- 1918 - John Forsythe[?], actor
- 1923 - Paddy Chayefsky[?], writer (+ 1981)
- 1924 - Luigi Nono[?], composer (+ 1990)
- 1927 - Edward Abbey[?], environmentalist (+ 1989)
- 1939 - Germaine Greer, writer, feminist
- 1945 - Tom Selleck[?], actor
- 1954 - Oprah Winfrey, actress, talk show host, producer, publisher
- 1960 - Greg Louganis, Olympics gold medalist in swimming
- 1968 - Edward Burns[?], actor
- 1970 - Heather Graham, actress
- 1981 - Jonny Lang[?], musician
Deaths
- 1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom
- 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet
- 1906 - King Christian IX of Denmark
- 1928 - Douglas Haig, British soldier
- 1946 - Harry Hopkins[?], politician
- 1963 - Robert Frost, poet
- 1964 - Alan Ladd[?], actor
- 1969 - Allen Dulles, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
- 1977 - Freddie Prinze, actor, comedian
- 1980 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillian
- 1991 - Yasushi Inoue[?], historian
- 1992 - Willie Dixon, composer, musician
- 1999 - Lili St. Cyr[?], exotic dancer
- 2002 - Harold Russell[?], actor
- 2002 - Daniel Pearl, journalist (one possible date)
Holidays and observances
See Also:
January 28 - January 30 - December 29 - February 29 - listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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