29th January
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, (d. 1772)
- 1717 - Jeffrey Amherst, British Military leader, (d. 1797)
- 1737 - Thomas Paine, patriot, radical, pamphleteer, (d. 1809)
- 1749 - King Christian VII of Denmark, (d. 1808)
- 1843 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, (d. 1901
- 1860 - Anton Chekhov, playwright and short story writer, (d. 1904)
- 1862 - Frederick Delius, composer, (d. 1934)
- 1866 - Romain Rolland, dramatist, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915, (d. 1944)
- 1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr., entrepreneur, (d. 1960)
- 1876 - Havergal Brian, composer, (d. 1972)
- 1880 - W.C. Fields, actor, (d. 1946)
- 1885 - Leadbelly, musician, (d. 1949)
- 1901 - Allen Du Mont, television pioneer
- 1905 - Barnett Newman, painter, (d. 1970)
- 1911 - Peter von Siemens, industrialist, (d. 1986)
- 1913 - Peter von Zahn, journalist and writer
- 1915 - Victor Mature, actor, (d. 1999)
- 1917 - John Raitt, actor, singer
- 1918 - John Forsythe, actor
- 1923 - Paddy Chayefsky, writer, (d. 1981)
- 1924 - Luigi Nono, composer, (d. 1990)
- 1927 - Edward Abbey, environmentalist, (d. 1989)
- 1939 - Germaine Greer, writer, feminist
- 1950 - Jody Scheckter, South Africa racing driver
- 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
- 1970 - Sean Scullion, activist & author
- 1975 - Sara Gilbert, actress
- 1981 - Jonny Lang, musician
- 1982 - Arthur O'Keeffe
Deaths
- 1743 - Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV (b. 1653)
- 1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
- 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet (b. 1799)
- 1906 - King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
- 1928 - Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
- 1933 - Sara Teasdale, poet (b. 1884)
- 1946 - Harry Hopkins, politician
- 1963 - Robert Frost, poet (b. 1874)
- 1964 - Alan Ladd, actor
- 1969 - Allen Dulles, Director of the CIA (b. 1893)
- 1977 - Freddie Prinze, actor, comedian (b. 1954)
- 1980 - Jimmy Durante, actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillian (b. 1893)
- 1991 - Yasushi Inoue, historian
- 1992 - Willie Dixon, composer, musician (b. 1915)
- 1994 - Ulrike Maier, alpine skiing world champion, in a downhill skiing accident (b. 1967)
- 1999 - Lili St. Cyr, exotic dancer (b. 1918)
- 2002 - Harold Russell, actor
- 2002 - Daniel Pearl, journalist (one possible date) (b. 1963)
- 2003 - Frank Moss, U.S. Senator from Utah (b. 1911)
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
Referenced By
Greg Dyke
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