Anniversaries 29 January
Birth
![Emanuel Swedenborg photo]()
Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian
1688–1772
![Henry Lee III photo]()
American politician, governor and representative
1756–1818
![William McKinley photo]()
American politician, 25th president of the United States (i…
1843–1901
![Ebenezer Howard photo]()
British writer, founder of the garden city movement
1850–1928
![John D. Rockefeller, Jr. photo]()
American financier and philanthropist
1874–1960
![Yakov Frenkel photo]()
Russian physicist
1894–1952
![Irving Chernev photo]()
Russian-American chess player
1900–1981
![Yeshayahu Leibowitz photo]()
israeli intellectual
1903–1994
![Jogendra Nath Mandal photo]()
Pakistani politician
1904–1968
![Barnett Newman photo]()
American artist
1905–1970
![Hana Maria Pravda photo]()
British actress
1916–2008
![Rajendra Singh photo]()
formerly Professor of Physics later Chief of RSS
1921–2003
![Paddy Chayefsky photo]()
American playwright, screenwriter and novelist
1923–1981
![Marcelle Ferron photo]()
Canadian artist
1924–2001
![Isidore Isou photo]()
Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist
1925–2007
![Abdus Salam photo]()
theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
1926–1996
![Edward Abbey photo]()
American author and essayist
1927–1989
![O. Timothy O'Meara photo]()
American mathematician
1928–2018
![Lesley Bricusse photo]()
English composer, lyricist and playwright
1931
![Victor J. Stenger photo]()
American philosopher
1935–2014
![Charley Reese photo]()
American journalist
1937–2013
![Germaine Greer photo]()
Australian feminist author
1939
![Robin Morgan photo]()
American feminist writer
1941
![Gerald R. Salancik photo]()
American organizational theorist
1943–1996
![Oprah Winfrey photo]()
American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, …
1954
![Mooji photo]()
Jamaican spiritual teacher
1954
![Nick Xenophon photo]()
Australian politician
1959
![Tigran Sargsyan photo]()
Economist, politician
1960
![Ismail Haniyeh photo]()
Palestinian politician
1963
![Abdul Rashid Ghazi photo]()
Pakistani fundamentalist
1964–2007
![Romário photo]()
Brazilian association football player
1966
![Edward Burns photo]()
American actor and director
1968
![Heather Graham photo]()
actress from the United States
1970
![Emilio Insolera photo]()
Actor and film producer
1979
![MacKenzie Porter photo]()
Canadian actress, singer and musician
1990
Death
![Gildas photo]()
British monk, historian and saint
500–570
![Ali photo]()
cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
601–661
![George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne photo]()
1st Baron Lansdowne
1666–1735
![George III of the United Kingdom photo]()
King of Great Britain and King of Ireland
1738–1820
![Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis photo]()
Swiss poet, author, politician and officer
1762–1834
![Edward Lear photo]()
British artist, illustrator, author and poet
1812–1888
![Cyrus David Foss photo]()
American bishop
1834–1910
![Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer photo]()
British diplomat
1841–1917
![William Allen White photo]()
American newspaper editor and politician
1868–1944
![Ioannis Metaxas photo]()
Greek politician
1871–1941
![Aram Manukian photo]()
Armenian revolutionary, politician and general who managed …
1879–1919
![H.L. Mencken photo]()
American journalist and writer
1880–1956
![Sara Teasdale photo]()
American writer and poet
1884–1933
![James Bridie photo]()
Scottish playwright, screenwriter and surgeon
1888–1951
![Harry Hopkins photo]()
American politician, 8th United States Secretary of Commerc…
1890–1946
![Jimmy Durante photo]()
American jazz singer, pianist, comedian and actor
1893–1980
![Daniel P. Mannix photo]()
animal collector and author
1911–1997
![Willie Dixon photo]()
American blues musician
1915–1992
![Milton Babbitt photo]()
American composer
1916–2011
![Herbert Schiller photo]()
American media critic
1919–2000
![Edward Robert Harrison photo]()
British astronomer
1919–2007
![Jamie Uys photo]()
South African film director
1921–1996
![Harold Kelley photo]()
American psychologist & academic
1921–2003
![Janet Frame photo]()
New Zealand author
1924–2004
![Ephraim Kishon photo]()
Israeli author, dramatist, screenwriter and film director
1924–2005
![Frank R. Wallace photo]()
Philosopher, author, entrepreneur
1932–2006
![Nam June Paik photo]()
American video art pioneer
1932–2006
![Rod McKuen photo]()
American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer
1933–2015
![Colleen McCullough photo]()
Australian author
1937–2015
![Gustav Hasford photo]()
United States Marine
1947–1993
