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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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