Birthday facts

Born on January 29.

Everyone born on January 29 is a Aquarius — ruled by Uranus, contrarian on principle. The stone is garnet, the flower carnation, and the day is shared with Katharine Ross and Jarell Quansah.

Sun sign

Aquarius ♒︎

the Water-Bearer · ruled by Uranus · contrarian on principle

Birthstone

Garnet

January

Birth flower

Carnation

& snowdrop

Your book

Born on January 29? Add the year.

Then it is a pop-up book: the sky the day you arrived, the No. 1 that week, the president, what a stamp cost, your life in weeks, and who was exactly your age when they did the thing they are known for — and at the end, a birthday poster of the day, engraved, to take home. One field. The date lives after the # in the link, which no server sees — nothing about you leaves your browser.

Making it for someone else? Send it as a pop-up birthday card.

The old books say

Aquarius, January 20 to February 18.

The Water-Bearer, which is an air sign, and the books enjoy the confusion. Ruled by Saturn in the old texts and Uranus in the new, credited with originality, a wide circle and a certain coolness at the centre of it — the friend of everyone, intimate of few. Its people are supposed to be ahead of their time, which is only comfortable once the time catches up. The tradition calls it the sign of the future and cannot say whose.

Astrology, reported rather than endorsed — the astronomy is the part of the book that is real.

Good company

Also born on January 29.

The names most looked up among everyone who shares the day — leaning on the ones who last.

1940

Katharine Ross

American author and actress

2003

Jarell Quansah

English footballer

1860

Anton Chekhov

Russian playwright and short story writer

1737

Thomas Paine

English-American philosopher and political activist

1843

William McKinley

25th President of the United States

1945

Tom Selleck

American actor

1939

Germaine Greer

Australian author and journalist

1954

Oprah Winfrey

American actress and talk show host

On this day

What January 29 has seen.

1845American poet Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" appeared in The Evening Mirror as the newspaper's first publication attributed to Poe.

1856Queen Victoria introduced the Victoria Cross, originally to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.

1891Liliʻuokalani, the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ascended the throne.

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.

The calendar

When January 29 falls.

A Thursday in 2026, a Friday in 2027, a Saturday in 2028, a Monday in 2029, and a Tuesday in 2030.