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Today's Anniversary – Thursday, January 29


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Births

* 1966 Romario Better known simply as Romαrio, is a retired Brazilian football Forward striker.
* 1963 Ismail Haniyeh Senior political leader of Hamas and one of two disputed Prime Ministers of the Palestinian National Authority.
* 1960 Tigran Sargsyan Current prime minister of Armenia since taking office on 9 April 2008.
* 1959 Nick Xenophon South Australian barrister, anti-gambling campaigner and politician.
* 1954 Oprah Winfrey American talk-show host, actress, and entrepreneur.
* 1945 Tom Selleck American actor best known for his starring role on the long-running television show Magnum P I.
* 1939 Germaine Greer Australian author, academic, critic and journalist.
* 1937 Charley Reese American syndicated columnist.
* 1931 Lesley Bricusse British lyricist and composer.
* 1927 Edward Abbey American writer noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies.
* 1926 Abdus Salam Pakistani theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work in electroweak theory which is the mathematical and conceptual synthesis of the electromagnetic and weak interactions, the latest stage reached until now on the path towards a unification theory describing the fundamental forces of nature.
* 1905 Barnett Newman American artist.
* 1880 W. C. Fields Born William Claude Dukenfield, was an American Actor and Comedian.
* 1874 John D. Rockefeller American businessman and philanthropist, the son and heir of John D Rockefeller and the first president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
* 1866 Romain Rolland French writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 after the publication of his major work, Jean-Christophe.
* 1860 Anton Chekhov (Old Style: 17 January 1860 – 2 July 1904) was a major Russian short story writer and playwright.
* 1850 Ebenezer Howard Prominent British town planner famous for his publication Garden Cities of To-morrow (1898), prescribing utopian cities in which man lives harmoniously together with the rest of nature.
* 1843 William McKinley 25th President of the United States.
* 1835 Sarah Chauncey Woolsey American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge.
* 1756 Henry III Lee Called Light Horse Harry, was a cavalry officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
* 1737 Thomas Paine English-American political writer, theorist, and activist who had a great influence on the thoughts and ideas which led to the American Revolution and the United States Declaration of Independence.
* 1688 Emanuel Swedenborg Swedish philosopher, mystic, and scientist.

Deaths

† 2011 Milton Babbitt American composer.
† 2007 Edward Robert Harrison British astronomer and cosmologist, who spent much of his career at the University of Massachusetts and University of Arizona.
† 2006 Jamie Uys South African film director.
† 2005 Ephraim Kishon Israeli writer, satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director.
† 2003 Edward M. Korry US diplomat during the administrations of presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon.
† 2000 Herbert Schiller American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar.
† 1997 Daniel P. Mannix Born Daniel Pratt Mannix IV, was a Pennsylvania-born author and journalist whose best-known work is the 1967 novel The Fox and the Hound on which the Disney animated film The Fox and the Hound was based.
† 1992 Willie Dixon Well-known American blues bassist, singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer.
† 1980 Jimmy Durante American pianist, actor, comedian, composer, and singer; usually known as Jimmy Durante, also nicknamed "The Schnozzola", and "The Schnoz", in reference to his large nose.
† 1963 Robert Frost American poet; winner of four Pulitzer Prizes.
† 1956 H. L. Mencken Better known as H L Mencken, was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American Nietzsche".
† 1946 Harry Hopkins One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers.
† 1933 Sara Teasdale American poet.
† 1910 Cyrus David Foss Prominent Methodist bishop in the latter 19th century, primarily serving in New York and New England.
† 1888 Edward Lear English artist, illustrator and writer known for his nonsensical poetry and his limericks, a form which he popularised.
† 1859 William H. Prescott American historian, best known for his History of the Conquest of Mexico and History of the Conquest of Peru.
† 1834 Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis Swiss poet.
† 1820 George III of the United Kingdom King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, formed by the union of these two countries, until his death.
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