Anniversaries 29 January

Birth

Emanuel Swedenborg13

Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian 1688–1772

Henry Lee III4

American politician, governor and representative 1756–1818

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey5

writer 1835–1905

William McKinley22

American politician, 25th president of the United States (i… 1843–1901

Ebenezer Howard3

British writer, founder of the garden city movement 1850–1928

Romain Rolland43

French author 1866–1944

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.15

American financier and philanthropist 1874–1960

W.C. Fields47

actor 1880–1946

Yakov Frenkel2

Russian physicist 1894–1952

Irving Chernev2

Russian-American chess player 1900–1981

Yeshayahu Leibowitz15

israeli intellectual 1903–1994

Jogendra Nath Mandal4

Pakistani politician 1904–1968

Barnett Newman25

American artist 1905–1970

Hana Maria Pravda2

British actress 1916–2008

Rajendra Singh1

formerly Professor of Physics later Chief of RSS 1921–2003

Paddy Chayefsky19

American playwright, screenwriter and novelist 1923–1981

Marcelle Ferron3

Canadian artist 1924–2001

Isidore Isou13

Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist 1925–2007

Abdus Salam3

theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient 1926–1996

Edward Abbey146

American author and essayist 1927–1989

O. Timothy O'Meara3

American mathematician 1928–2018

Lesley Bricusse3

English composer, lyricist and playwright 1931

Don Soderquist54

1934–2016

Victor J. Stenger13

American philosopher 1935–2014

Charley Reese1

American journalist 1937–2013

Germaine Greer73

Australian feminist author 1939

Robin Morgan10

American feminist writer 1941

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez1

Cuban cosmonaut 1942

Gerald R. Salancik10

American organizational theorist 1943–1996

Alvaro De Rujula4

1944

Tom Selleck5

American actor 1945

James K. Galbraith5

economist 1952

Oprah Winfrey143

American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, … 1954

Mooji18

Jamaican spiritual teacher 1954

Jeph Loeb1

writer 1958

Linda Smith30

comedian 1958–2006

Nick Xenophon4

Australian politician 1959

Джиа Мари Каранджи1

1960–1986

Tigran Sargsyan8

Economist, politician 1960

Buck Brannaman1

Horse trainer 1962

Matthew Stover56

American writer 1962

Ismail Haniyeh5

Palestinian politician 1963

Abdul Rashid Ghazi9

Pakistani fundamentalist 1964–2007

Romário13

Brazilian association football player 1966

Edward Burns1

American actor and director 1968

Heather Graham2

actress from the United States 1970

Paul Ryan22

American politician 1970

Emilio Insolera10

Actor and film producer 1979

Isabel Lucas2

Australian actress 1985

MacKenzie Porter1

Canadian actress, singer and musician 1990

Death

Gildas6

British monk, historian and saint 500–570

Ali124

cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad 601–661

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne9

1st Baron Lansdowne 1666–1735

George III of the United Kingdom10

King of Great Britain and King of Ireland 1738–1820

Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis2

Swiss poet, author, politician and officer 1762–1834

Aleksandr Pushkin33

Russian poet 1799–1837

Edward Lear21

British artist, illustrator, author and poet 1812–1888

Cyrus David Foss3

American bishop 1834–1910

Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer3

British diplomat 1841–1917

William Allen White1

American newspaper editor and politician 1868–1944

Trần Tế Xương1

poet 1870–1907

Ioannis Metaxas1

Greek politician 1871–1941

Robert Frost265

American poet 1874–1963

Aram Manukian2

Armenian revolutionary, politician and general who managed … 1879–1919

H.L. Mencken281

American journalist and writer 1880–1956

Sara Teasdale39

American writer and poet 1884–1933

James Bridie1

Scottish playwright, screenwriter and surgeon 1888–1951

Harry Hopkins3

American politician, 8th United States Secretary of Commerc… 1890–1946

Jimmy Durante11

American jazz singer, pianist, comedian and actor 1893–1980

Daniel P. Mannix2

animal collector and author 1911–1997

Willie Dixon5

American blues musician 1915–1992

Milton Babbitt6

American composer 1916–2011

Herbert Schiller19

American media critic 1919–2000

Edward Robert Harrison2

British astronomer 1919–2007

Jamie Uys5

South African film director 1921–1996

Harold Kelley10

American psychologist & academic 1921–2003

Janet Frame8

New Zealand author 1924–2004

Ephraim Kishon2

Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter and film director 1924–2005

Frank R. Wallace5

Philosopher, author, entrepreneur 1932–2006

Nam June Paik10

American video art pioneer 1932–2006

Rod McKuen19

American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer 1933–2015

Colleen McCullough4

Australian author 1937–2015

Gustav Hasford2

United States Marine 1947–1993