January 29 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on January 29, 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
#341 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous January 29 birthdays
William McKinley · President of the United States from 1897 to 19011843
Anton Chekhov · Russian dramatist and author1860
Romain Rolland · French author1866
W. C. Fields · American comedian, actor, juggler and writer1880
Ernst Lubitsch · German-American actor and film director1892
John Forsythe · American film and television actor1918
Abdus Salam · Theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient1926
Edward Abbey · American author and essayist1927
Germaine Greer · Australian writer and public intellectual1939
Tom Selleck · American actor1945
Linda B. Buck · American biologist1947
Teresa Teng · Taiwanese ROC singer1953
Oprah Winfrey · American talk show host, actress, producer, and author1954
Greg Louganis · American Olympic springboard and platform diver1960
Gia Carangi · American model1960
Olga Tokarczuk · Polish writer and activist1962
Romário · Former Brazilian footballer, politician and Senator of Brazil since 20151966
Heather Graham · American actress1970
Christina Koch · American astronaut1979
Adam Lambert · American singer1982
On this day in history
1845American poet Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" appeared in The Evening Mirror as the newspaper's first publication attributed to Poe.
1907Charles Curtis of Kansas, a citizen of the Kaw Nation, became the first Native American U.S. Senator.
1943World War II: The Battle of Rennell Island, the last major naval engagement between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Guadalcanal campaign, began.
2006India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.
1911Mexican Revolution: The Magonista rebellion began when Mexican Liberal Party troops captured the town of Mexicali.
1991The first major ground engagement of the Gulf War began with the Iraqi invasion of Khafji, Saudi Arabia, recaptured three days later by Coalition forces.
1996President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
2001Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
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