The 29th day of the year
Born on 29 January
Every 29 January birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aquarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AquariusAir, fixed, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- GarnetThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Carnation, SnowdropUsually taken today to mean devotion and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Sunday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
The Wood Snake's first day
The most recent new year on this date was 29 January 2025, the first day of the Wood Snake. It also fell here in 1949, the Earth Ox, 1987, the Fire Rabbit, and 2006, the Fire Dog, and the engine does not put it on 29 January again until 2063. The Fire Rabbit of 1987 and the Fire Dog of 2006 are nineteen years apart, and 2025 is nineteen years after 2006.
2025 shows the rule working in both directions. A birth on 28 January 2025 belongs to the Wood Dragon of 2024; a birth on 29 January 2025 to the Wood Snake. The next year the same date fell 19 days before the new year of 17 February 2026, so 29 January 2026 belongs to the Wood Snake too, although the calendar year had changed.
Over the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 29 January fell before the new year in 76 and on or after it in 31. The sign never varies: Aquarius, all day, in every year and every time zone.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 29 January in any year.
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 29 January in 76 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 31 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1949, 1987, 2006 and 2025.
Shaded: 29 January came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 29 January. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 29 January falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 29 January falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Sunday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Friday 15, Wednesday 15.
Showing 29 January in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 29 January is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,775 babies were born on 29 January in each year of the twenty, making it the 300th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
Office for National Statistics, How popular is your birthday? Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. What a ranking like this can and cannot say →
Born on 29 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Anton Chekhov | 1860–1904 | Russian dramatist and author |
| William McKinley | 1843–1901 | president of the United States from 1897 to 1901 |
| Romain Rolland | 1866–1944 | French author |
| Thomas Paine | 1737–1809 | American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist; born 29 January in the Julian calendar then used in England, which is 9 February in the Gregorian |
| Oprah Winfrey | 1954– | American talk show host, actress, producer, and author |
| Emanuel Swedenborg | 1688–1772 | Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian; born 29 January in the Julian calendar, which is 8 February in the Gregorian |
| Abdus Salam | 1926–1996 | Pakistani theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics |
| Linda B. Buck | 1947– | American biologist |
| Germaine Greer | 1939– | Australian writer and public intellectual |
| Teresa Teng | 1953–1995 | Taiwanese singer |
| Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta | 1945–2022 | Malian politician |
| Christina Koch | 1979– | American astronaut |
| Adam Lambert | 1982– | American singer |
| Vicente Blasco Ibáñez | 1867–1928 | Spanish author |
| Ernst Lubitsch | 1892–1947 | German-American actor and film director |
| Heather Graham | 1970– | American actress |
| Paul Ryan | 1970– | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019 |
| Tom Selleck | 1945– | American actor |
Died on 29 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Frost | 1874–1963 | American poet |
| George III | 1738–1820 | King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820 |
| Fritz Haber | 1868–1934 | German chemist |
| Alfred Sisley | 1839–1899 | French-born British Impressionist painter |
| Pope Gelasius II | 1060–1119 | Pope from 1118 to 1119 |
| H. L. Mencken | 1880–1956 | American journalist and writer |
| Oscar Luigi Scalfaro | 1918–2012 | 9th President of Italy |
| Christian IX | 1818–1906 | King of Denmark from 1863 to 1906 |
| Edward Lear | 1812–1888 | British artist, illustrator, author and poet |
| Colleen McCullough | 1937–2015 | Australian author |
| Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig | 1861–1928 | British senior officer during the First World War |
| Ioannis Metaxas | 1871–1941 | Greek military officer and politician |
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