The Birthday Gazette

Born on January 29

January 29 birthdays & history

If you were born on January 29, you share a birthday with Anton Chekhov, William McKinley and Romain Rolland. January 29 babies are Aquarius, with garnet as their birthstone and the carnation as their birth flower. January 29 is the 29th day of the year in leap years.

Famous people born on January 29

  • 1860Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer
  • 1843William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States
  • 1866Romain Rolland, French historian, author, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1954Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, actress, and producer, founded Harpo Productions
  • 1737Thomas Paine, English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary
  • 1688Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish astronomer, philosopher, and theologian
  • 1926Abdus Salam, Pakistani-British physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1947Linda B. Buck, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1939Germaine Greer, Australian journalist and author
  • 1953Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer

What happened on January 29

  • 1819Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
  • 1845American poet Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" appeared in The Evening Mirror as the newspaper's first publication attributed to Poe.
  • 1850Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
  • 1861Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
  • 1886Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
  • 1891Liliʻuokalani, the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ascended the throne.
  • 1907Charles Curtis of Kansas, a citizen of the Kaw Nation, became the first Native American U.S. Senator.
  • 1936The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
  • 1959The first Melodifestivalen is held at Cirkus in Stockholm, Sweden.
  • 1971The last of its many UFO sightings is made at Pudasjärvi, Finland.
  • 2005The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
  • 2006India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.

Also observed on January 29

  • Kansas Day (Kansas, United States)

Questions, answered

What star sign is January 29?

People born on January 29 are Aquarius. Their birthstone is garnet and their birth flower is the carnation.

Which famous people were born on January 29?

Anton Chekhov (1860), William McKinley (1843), Romain Rolland (1866), Oprah Winfrey (1954), Thomas Paine (1737), Emanuel Swedenborg (1688) were all born on January 29.

What happened on January 29 in history?

Among other things: in 1971, The last of its many UFO sightings is made at Pudasjärvi, Finland; in 2005, The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing; in 2006, India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.

Can I get a newspaper front page from January 29?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any January 29 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “January 29”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.