January 29th, 1927

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Born on January 29th, 1927 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
Born on January 29th, 1927: When to retire?
What happened on January 29th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on January 29th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (January 1927)

Born on January 29th, 1927

Weekday

Saturday

January 29th, 1927 was a Saturday.

Age

People born on January 29th, 1927 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 97 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♒

Aquarius (The Water-Bearer)

January 21st, 1927 - February 19th, 1927

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 35,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 486 days, exactly on August 22nd, 2025, people who were born on January 29th, 1927 will be 36,000 days old!

35,514 Days

5,073 Weeks

1,166 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

Born on January 29th, 1927: When to retire?

Birth

67 80

Childhood & Education 20 Years

Work 47 Years

Retirement 13 Years

Please adjust life expectancy

The current age is higher than the life expectancy assumed, please adjust the life expectancy on the right.

What 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.

January 29th, 2013

Twenty-one people died when SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashed near Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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

Born on January 29th, 1927

Edward Abbey

American author and essayist (1927-1989)

*January 29th, 1927, Home †March 14th, 1989, Tucson

Peter Fernandez

American actor (1927-2010)

*January 29th, 1927, New York City †July 15th, 2010, Pomona

Don Shirley

American-Jamaican jazz pianist and composer

*January 29th, 1927, Pensacola †April 6th, 2013, Manhattan

Lewis Urry

Canadian inventor and chemical engineer

*January 29th, 1927, Ontario †October 19th, 2004

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

Abdus Salam

Theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient

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

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

The Quiett

South Korean rapper

*January 29th, 1985, Gwangmyeong

Joseph Kruskal

American statistician (1928-2010)

*January 29th, 1928, New York City †September 19th, 2010, Princeton

Anton Chekhov

Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)

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

Olga Tokarczuk

Polish writer and activist

*January 29th, 1962, Sulechów

John Raitt

American singer and actor (1917-2005)

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

*January 29th, 1954, Kosciusko

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez

Cuban cosmonaut

*January 29th, 1942, Guantánamo

Leslie Bricusse

English composer, lyricist and playwright

*January 29th, 1931, London †October 19th, 2021, Saint-Paul-de-Vence

Romain Rolland

French author (1866-1944)

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

Luigi Nono

Italian composer (1924-1990)

*January 29th, 1924, Venice †May 8th, 1990, Venice

Germaine Greer

Australian writer and public intellectual (born 1939)

*January 29th, 1939, Melbourne

Victor Mature

American actor (1913–1999)

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

Linda B. Buck

American biologist

*January 29th, 1947, Seattle

Dorothy Malone

American actress (1924-2018)

*January 29th, 1924, Chicago †January 19th, 2018, Dallas

Roger Joubert

French actor and pianist (1929-2010)

*January 29th, 1929, Avignon †October 2nd, 2010, Lorraine

William McKinley

President of the United States from 1897 to 1901

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

Sam Trammell

American actor

*January 29th, 1969, New Orleans

Ernst Träger

German judge (1926-2015)

*January 29th, 1926, Künzelsau †January 25th, 2015, Waldbronn

Same year
Born in 1927

Shirley Fry

American tennis and badminton player

*June 30th, 1927, Akron †July 13th, 2021, Naples

John Boardman

British classical archaeologist (born 1927)

*August 20th, 1927, London Borough of Redbridge

Hansjürgen Müller-Beck

German prehistorian

*August 13th, 1927, Apolda †August 2nd, 2018, Bern

Roger Moore

English actor (1927–2017)

*October 14th, 1927, Stockwell †May 23rd, 2017, Crans-Montana

Bhumibol Adulyadej

King of Thailand

*December 5th, 1927, Mount Auburn Hospital †October 13th, 2016, Siriraj Hospital

Benedict XVI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013 (1927–2022)

*April 16th, 1927, Birth house of Benedict XVI †December 31st, 2022, Mater Ecclesiae Monastery

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)

*March 6th, 1927, Aracataca †April 17th, 2014, Mexico City

Harry Belafonte

American singer and actor (1927–2023)

*March 1st, 1927, New York City †April 25th, 2023, New York City

Johannes Georg Seidel

*May 16th, 1927, Dresden †August 26th, 2017

Günter Guillaume

Stasi officer

*February 1st, 1927, Berlin †April 10th, 1995, Petershagen-Eggersdorf

Werner Liebrich

German footballer (1927–1995)

*January 18th, 1927, Kaiserslautern †March 20th, 1995, Kaiserslautern

Lothar Dräger

German comics writer

*January 19th, 1927, Grambow †July 9th, 2016, Potsdam

Claude Taittinger

French businessperson

*October 2nd, 1927, Paris †January 3rd, 2022, Paris

Erika Simon

German classical archaeologist (1927-2019)

*June 27th, 1927, Rheingönheim †February 15th, 2019, Würzburg

Horst Rudolf Abe

German medical historian (1927-2006)

*October 12th, 1927, Erfurt †February 27th, 2006, Erfurt

Günter Grass

German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)

*October 16th, 1927, Free City of Danzig †April 13th, 2015, Lübeck

Hans Wußing

German historian of mathematics

*October 15th, 1927, Waldheim †April 26th, 2011, Leipzig

Uta Ranke-Heinemann

German Catholic theologian and author; World's first woman to hold a chair in Catholic theology

*October 2nd, 1927, Essen †March 25th, 2021, Essen

Rosalynn Carter

First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981

*August 18th, 1927, Plains †November 19th, 2023, Plains

Kika de la Garza

American politician (1927-2017)

*September 22nd, 1927, Mercedes †March 13th, 2017, McAllen

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.MCMXXVII

29.1.1927

Legend

M = 1000

CM = 900

X = 10

IX = 9

V = 5

I = 1

Born on January 29th, 1927
Future birthdays

99

2026Thursday, January 29th

100

2027Friday, January 29th

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1927 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
January 1927

January 1927

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January 29th, 1927

Born on January 29th, 1927

Weekday

Saturday

Age

Zodiac

♒

Aquarius (The Water-Bearer)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 35,000 days old!

35,514 Days

5,073 Weeks

1,166 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

Born on January 29th, 1927: When to retire?

Please adjust life expectancy

Assumptions & Individualization

What 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.

Twenty-one people died when SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashed near Almaty, Kazakhstan.

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

Born on January 29th, 1927

American author and essayist (1927-1989)

American actor (1927-2010)

American-Jamaican jazz pianist and composer

Canadian inventor and chemical engineer

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

Same year Born in 1927

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

29.1.1927

Legend

Born on January 29th, 1927 Future birthdays

99

100

Leap year

Calendar January 1927

January 1927

Date of birth

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 35,000 days old!

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

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

Same year
Born in 1927

Born on January 29th, 1927
Future birthdays

Calendar
January 1927

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
52						1	2
53	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
54	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
55	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
56	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
57	31