January 29th, 1861

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Born on January 29th, 1861 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on January 29th, 1861?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on January 29th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (January 1861)

Born on January 29th, 1861

Weekday

Tuesday

January 29th, 1861 was a Tuesday.

Age

163

People born on January 29th, 1861 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 163 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♒

Aquarius (The Water-Bearer)

January 21st, 1861 - February 19th, 1861

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 59,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 376 days, exactly on May 9th, 2025, people who were born on January 29th, 1861 will be 60,000 days old!

59,624 Days

8,517 Weeks

1,958 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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What happened on January 29th, 1861?

January 29th, 1861

Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas

What else happened on January 29th?

January 29th, 2017

A lone gunman carried out a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, killing six people and injuring up to nineteen others.

January 29th, 2009

The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt ruled that people who did not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions are also eligible to receive government identity documents.

January 29th, 2006

India's Irfan Pathan became the only bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.

January 29th, 1991

The first major ground engagement of the Gulf War began with the Iraqi invasion of Khafji, Saudi Arabia, recaptured three days later by Coalition forces.

January 29th, 1967

The Mantra-Rock Dance (poster pictured), called the "ultimate high" of the hippie era, took place in San Francisco, featuring Swami Bhaktivedanta, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.

January 29th, 1944

World War II: At least 38 civilians were killed and about a dozen others injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy was attacked by a Soviet partisan unit with a contingent of Jewish partisans.

January 29th, 1943

World War II: The Battle of Rennell Island, the last major naval engagement between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Guadalcanal campaign, began.

January 29th, 1911

Mexican Revolution: The Magonista rebellion began when Mexican Liberal Party troops captured the town of Mexicali.

January 29th, 1891

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

January 29th, 1863

American Indian Wars: The U.S. Army led by Patrick Edward Connor massacred Chief Bear Hunter and Shoshone forces at the Bear River Massacre in present-day Franklin County, Idaho.

January 29th, 1856

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

January 29th, 1845

American poet Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" appeared in The Evening Mirror, its first publication attributed to Poe.

January 29th, 1814

War of the Sixth Coalition: At the Battle of Brienne, both sides' commanders, Napoleon and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, were nearly captured.

January 29th, 0904

Sergius III (pictured), whose pontificate was marked by feudal violence and disorder in central Italy, returned from exile to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 29th

Born on January 29th, 1861

Florida Ruffin Ridley

American civil rights activist, teacher, editor and writer

*January 29th, 1861, Boston †February 25th, 1943, Toledo

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 29th?

Anton Chekhov

Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)

*January 29th, 1860, Taganrog †July 2nd, 1904, Badenweiler

Romain Rolland

French author (1866-1944)

*January 29th, 1866, Clamecy †December 30th, 1944, Vézelay

William McKinley

President of the United States from 1897 to 1901

*January 29th, 1843, Niles †September 14th, 1901, Buffalo

The Quiett

South Korean rapper

*January 29th, 1985, Gwangmyeong

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

Olga Tokarczuk

Polish writer and activist

*January 29th, 1962, Sulechów

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Spanish author (1867-1928)

*January 29th, 1867, Valencia †January 28th, 1928, Menton

Louis Prével

French rower (1879-1964)

*January 29th, 1879, Nice †November 26th, 1964, Nice

Oprah Winfrey

American talk show host, actress, producer, and author (born 1954)

*January 29th, 1954, Kosciusko

Charles Méré

French screenwriter

*January 29th, 1883, Marseille †October 2nd, 1970, Paris

John Raitt

American singer and actor (1917-2005)

*January 29th, 1917, Santa Ana †February 20th, 2005, Pacific Palisades

Victor Mature

American actor (1913–1999)

*January 29th, 1913, Louisville †August 4th, 1999, Rancho Santa Fe

Fryco Rocha

German writer (1863-1942)

*January 29th, 1863, Tauer †April 24th, 1942, Klingmühl

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez

Cuban cosmonaut

*January 29th, 1942, Guantánamo

Frederick Delius

English composer

*January 29th, 1862, Bradford †June 10th, 1934, Grez-sur-Loing

Tommaso Villa

Italian lawyer and politician (1832-1915)

*January 29th, 1832, Mondovì †July 24th, 1915, Turin

Heinz Lieberich

German legal historian and archivist (1905–1999)

*January 29th, 1905, Kaiserslautern †October 24th, 1999, Mosbach

Sam Trammell

American actor

*January 29th, 1969, New Orleans

Linda B. Buck

American biologist

*January 29th, 1947, Seattle

Abdus Salam

Theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient

*January 29th, 1926, Jhang †November 21st, 1996, Oxford

Same year
Born in 1861

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

*May 7th, 1861, Kolkata †August 7th, 1941, Kolkata

Fridtjof Nansen

Norwegian polar explorer and diplomat; Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1861-1930)

*October 10th, 1861, Vestre Aker †May 13th, 1930, Polhøgda

Nellie Melba

Australian opera singer

*May 19th, 1861, Melbourne †February 23rd, 1931, Sydney

Friedrich Simon Archenhold

German astronomer

*October 2nd, 1861, Lichtenau †October 14th, 1939, Berlin

Georges Méliès

French film maker and illusionist (1861–1938)

*December 8th, 1861, Paris †January 21st, 1938, Paris

Maximilian von Spee

German admiral

*June 22nd, 1861, Copenhagen †December 8th, 1914, South Atlantic Ocean

Armando Diaz

Italian general (1861-1928)

*December 5th, 1861, Naples †February 29th, 1928, Rome

Marie von Miller

German painter (1861–1933)

*February 22nd, 1861, Munich †August 18th, 1933, Starnberg

Mehmed VI

Last sultan of the Ottoman Empire

*January 14th, 1861, Istanbul †May 16th, 1926, Sanremo

Franz Xaver Engelhart

German composer, priest and choir director

*March 4th, 1861, Geiselhöring †July 14th, 1924, Regensburg

Johannes Angern

*June 13th, 1861, Germany †September 10th, 1938, Berlin

Frederick Jackson Turner

American historian (1861-1932)

*November 14th, 1861, Portage †March 14th, 1932, San Marino

Victor Horta

Belgian architect, designer, publicist, teacher and creator of Art Nouveau

*January 6th, 1861, Ghent †September 8th, 1947, City of Brussels

Rudolf Steiner

Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)

*February 25th, 1861, Donji Kraljevec †March 30th, 1925, Dornach

Lou Andreas-Salomé

German-Russian Psychoanalyst and author

*February 12th, 1861, Saint Petersburg †February 5th, 1937, Göttingen

Charles Édouard Guillaume

Swiss physicist (1861-1938)

*February 15th, 1861, Fleurier †June 13th, 1938, Sèvres

Pauline Johnson

Canadian poet and performer

*March 10th, 1861, Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation †March 7th, 1913, Vancouver

Luigi Facta

Italian politician (1861-1930)

*September 13th, 1861, Pinerolo †November 5th, 1930, Pinerolo

José Rizal

Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)

*June 19th, 1861, Calamba †December 30th, 1896, Manila

Ludwig Fulda

German writer

*November 30th, 1861, Frankfurt †March 30th, 1939, Berlin

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 29th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on January 29th.

Earliest day on which Fat Thursday can fall, while March 4 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday before Ash Wednesday. (Christianity)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Thursday

Kansas Day (Kansas, United States)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_Day

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXIX.I.MDCCCLXI

29.1.1861

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

IX = 9

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1861 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
January 1861

January 1861

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
1		1	2	3	4	5	6
2	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
3	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
4	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
5	28	29	30	31

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Born on January 29th, 1861

Weekday

Tuesday

Age

Zodiac

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Aquarius (The Water-Bearer)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 59,000 days old!

59,624 Days

8,517 Weeks

1,958 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on January 29th, 1861?

Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.

What else happened on January 29th?

A lone gunman carried out a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, killing six people and injuring up to nineteen others.

The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt ruled that people who did not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions are also eligible to receive government identity documents.

India's Irfan Pathan became the only bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.

The 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 Mantra-Rock Dance (poster pictured), called the "ultimate high" of the hippie era, took place in San Francisco, featuring Swami Bhaktivedanta, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.

World War II: At least 38 civilians were killed and about a dozen others injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy was attacked by a Soviet partisan unit with a contingent of Jewish partisans.

World War II: The Battle of Rennell Island, the last major naval engagement between the United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Guadalcanal campaign, began.

Mexican Revolution: The Magonista rebellion began when Mexican Liberal Party troops captured the town of Mexicali.

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

American Indian Wars: The U.S. Army led by Patrick Edward Connor massacred Chief Bear Hunter and Shoshone forces at the Bear River Massacre in present-day Franklin County, Idaho.

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

American poet Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" appeared in The Evening Mirror, its first publication attributed to Poe.

War of the Sixth Coalition: At the Battle of Brienne, both sides' commanders, Napoleon and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, were nearly captured.

Sergius III (pictured), whose pontificate was marked by feudal violence and disorder in central Italy, returned from exile to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 29th

Born on January 29th, 1861

American civil rights activist, teacher, editor and writer

Same Day Who's birthday is on January 29th?

Same year Born in 1861

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 29th

Gildas

Sabinian of Troyes

Sulpitius I of Bourges

January 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Earliest day on which Fat Thursday can fall, while March 4 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday before Ash Wednesday. (Christianity)

Kansas Day (Kansas, United States)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

29.1.1861

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