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Astrology, birth chart, map of the heavens, biography, picture and horoscope excerpts: you will find on this page all the celebrities born on January, 29, sorted by decreasing popularity. The popularity is the number of real time Astrotheme users' clicks for a celebrity. You can either access the picture and detailed map of the heavens by clicking on the thumbnail, or read the horoscope by clicking on "Display his/her horoscope with biography and chart". Back to the Calendar · Home · 34 548 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 34 548 Celebrities
95 celebrities or events were found for January, 29. Biography of Oprah WINFREY
Dr. Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history. She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award-nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time, and the world's only black billionaire for three straight years. She is also, according to several as... Biography of Gia CARANGI
Gia Marie Carangi (January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986) was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Carangi, who was of Italian, Welsh and Irish ancestry, was considered by some to be the first supermodel, although that title has also been given to others including Janice Dickinson and Dorian Leigh. Cindy Crawford, who also appeared on the covers of several fashion publications during her time, was later referred to as "Baby Gia", due to her resemblance to Carangi. Cara... Biography of Tom SELLECK
Thomas William Selleck (born January 29, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan) is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning American actor, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his starring role on the long-running television show Magnum P.I.. Early life Born in Detroit to a Rusyn father from Slovakia and Scottish-American mother, but raised in Los Angeles, Selleck did modeling work and attended the University of Southern California on a basketball scholarship; he majored in business administrat... Biography of Sacha DISTEL
Sacha Distel (January 29, 1933 – July 22, 2004) was a French singer who had hits such as a cover version of the Academy Award winning "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" (originally recorded by B.J. Thomas) and "Scoubidou". He was born in Paris. At age 16, Distel became a professional jazz guitarist. Over his career he worked alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Tony Bennett and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in the late 1950s after establishing himself as a French crooner. Sacha Distel had a m... Biography of Athina ONASSIS ROUSSEL
Athina Onassis de Miranda (née Athina Roussel, born January 29, 1985) is a competitive show jumper who is the only surviving descendant of the Greek shipping magnate Aristote Onassis. Her middle name has been the subject of some confusion over the years. Before the photos of her wedding invitations in 2005, it was believed that her middle name could either be Christina or Alexandra. However, the wedding invitations clearly stated her birth name as Athina Hélène Roussel. Early life and family... Biography of Athina ROUSSEL
Athina Onassis de Miranda (née Athina Roussel, born January 29, 1985) is a competitive show jumper who is the only surviving descendant of the Greek shipping magnate Aristote Onassis. Her middle name has been the subject of some confusion over the years. Before the photos of her wedding invitations in 2005, it was believed that her middle name could either be Christina or Alexandra. However, the wedding invitations clearly stated her birth name as Athina Hélène Roussel. Early life and family... Biography of Heather GRAHAM
Heather Joan Graham (born January 29, 1970, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American film and television actress from Agoura Hills, CA. Childhood and early career Her father, Jim, is a retired FBI agent and her mother, Joan, is a noted author of children's books. Graham has a younger sister, Aimee, who is also an aspiring actress and writer. The family followed a strict traditional Catholic upbringing of Irish descent. Heather has since estranged herself from the Catholic Church, saying it is... Biography of Sara GILBERT
Sara Gilbert (born Sara Rebecca Abeles on January 29, 1975 in Santa Monica, California) is an Emmy-nominated American actress best known for her longtime role as Darlene Conner-Healy from 1988-1997 in the U.S. sitcom Roseanne and as Paula Schaeffer in 24. Height: 5' 3" (1.60 m) Early life Gilbert was born in Santa Monica, California, to a Jewish family. Her parents are Barbara Crane and Harold Abeles. She has two older siblings, Melissa Gilbert (of Little House on the Prairie fame) and Jo...
Biography of Emmanuel SWEDENBORG
Emanuel Swedenborg (help·info) (born Emanuel Swedberg; January 29, 1688 – March 29, 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic, and theologian. Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. At the age of fifty-six he entered into a spiritual phase, in which he experienced dreams and visions. This culminated in a spiritual awakening, where he claimed he was appointed by the Lord to write a heavenly doctrine to reform Christianity. He claimed that the Lord had op... Biography of Pierre TCHERNIA
Pierre Tchernia was born Pierre Tcherniakowski on January 29, 1928 in Paris. In France known as "Magic" Tchernia and Monsieur Cinema, he is a cinema and television producer, screenwriter, presenter, animator and actor. Career He was part of the creation of the first televised news in France in 1949 and was an early French news presenter. In 1955 he became a producer of animation (with a heavy influence from the early animation of Walt Disney). For many years he hosted a television game show ...
Biography of Romain ROLLAND
Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 – December 30, 1944) was a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe (1904-12). His first book was published in 1902, when he was already 36 years old. Thirteen years later, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings." His mind sculpted by a passion...
Biography of Anton CHEKHOV
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов, IPA: ) was a Russian short story writer and playwright. He was born in Taganrog, southern Russia, on 29 January 1860, and died of tuberculosis at the health spa of Badenweiler, Germany, on 15 July 1904. His playwriting career produced four classics, while his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers an... Biography of Salomé STEVENIN
Salomé Stévenin, born January 1985, is a French actress. She is the daughter of French actor Jean-François Stévenin and the sister of actors Robinson Stévenin and Sagamore Stévenin. Filmography 1988 : Peaux de vaches, de Patricia Mazuy 1997 : Soleil de Roger Hanin 2000 : Love me, de Laetitia Masson 2002 : Mischka, de Jean-François Stévenin 2005 : Douches froides, de Antony Cordier 2007 : Il a suffi que Maman s'en aille... Television L'instit : Concerto pour Guillaume, de... Biography of ROMARIO
Romário de Souza Faria (born January 29, 1966 in Rio de Janerio), better known simply as Romário, is a Brazilian football center forward who helped the Brazil national team win the 1994 FIFA World Cup and has been one of the most prolific strikers in the world since the 1990s, having had successful tenures with European clubs PSV Eindhoven and FC Barcelona, and in Brazil with Flamengo, Fluminense and Vasco da Gama. His professional career has extended past age 40, an age by which most profession... Biography of William Claude FIELDS
W. C. Fields (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946) was an American juggler, comedian, and actor. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century—a misanthrope who teetered on the edge of buffoonery but never quite fell in, an egotist blind to his own failings, a charming drunk; and a man who hated children, dogs, and women, unless they were the wrong sort of women. This characterization that he portrayed in films and radio was so strong that it w... Biography of Roddy FRAME
Roddy Frame (born January 29 1964, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland) is the founder of the 1980s indie band, Aztec Camera, and more recently a solo performer. Career Between 1981 and 1982 Frame was co-productive in fronting Postcard Records, where he began to befriend and record a string of low budget singles such as "Just Like Gold" and "Mattress of Wire". The latter single drew attention from BBC Radio 1 DJ, John Peel. In 1983, the band released "High Land, Hard Rain," their firs... Biography of Ann JILLIAN
Ann Jillian (born Ann Jura Nauseda on January 29, 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American actress born to Roman Catholic Lithuanian immigrant parents. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Jillian has been acting since 1961 when she played "Little Bo Peep" in the Disney film, Babes In Toyland. She appeared in the Rosalind Russell- Natalie Wood 1962 movie version of Gypsy. She later became a regular on the 1960s sitcom Hazel, the Twilight Zone ("Mute" 1963) as the mute telepathic Ilse Nielson; an...
Biography of Sylvester MATUSHKA
Hungarian murderer, Sylvester Matushka, born January 29, 1892, gained erotic excitement by blowing up trains. In 1932 he was gaoled for life for causing two train wrecks in which twenty-two people were killed and over one hundred injured, he was released during Word War Two. During the Korean War he worked for the Americans as an explosives expert.... Biography of Katie LOHMANN
Katie Lohmann (born 29 January 1980 in Scottsdale, Arizona) is a model, actress, and most notably a Playboy Playmate for the month of April 2001. Measurements 32D - 22 - 32 Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) Weight 103 lb (47 kg) She is the youngest of three children, with a brother and a sister. Her father, Dan, is a successful accountant and her mother, Sharon, is the head of payroll for Citibank. They were divorced in 1992. Lohmann discovered early on that she loved performing on stage. ...
Biography of Thomas PAINE
Thomas Paine (Thetford, England, 29 January 1737 – 8 June 1809, New York City, U.S.) was a pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, classical liberal and intellectual. Born in Great Britain, he lived in America, having migrated to the American colonies just in time to take part in the American Revolution, mainly as the author of the powerful, widely read pamphlet, Common Sense (1776), advocating independence for the American Colonies from the Kingdom of Great Britain and of The American Crisis, supp... Biography of William McKINLEY
William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the twenty-fifth President of the United States, and the last veteran of the Civil War to be elected. By the 1880s, this Ohio native was a nationally known Republican leader; his signature issue was high tariffs on imports as a formula for prosperity, as typified by his McKinley Tariff of 1890. As the Republican candidate in the 1896 presidential election, he upheld the gold standard, and promoted pluralism among ethnic groups.... Biography of Winnie Ruth JUDD
Winnie Ruth Judd (1905-1998), known as the "Trunk murderess" was an American murderess convicted of the murder of a women on 16 October 1931. Only the trial of Bruno Hauptmann garnered more interest during the 1930's. Trial Judd was charged and convicted of the murder of Agnes LeRoi, one of her two friends she was alleged to have murdered in mid-October 1931 in Phoenix, Arizona. The fateful fight that led to the shooting of the two women reportedly was fueled by a conflict of interest - all ... Biography of Germaine GREER
Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian born writer, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century. Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her ground-breaking The Female Eunuch became an international best-seller in 1970, turning her overnight into a household name and bringing her both adulation and criticism. She is also the author of Sex and Destiny: The Politics ...
Biography of Dalila di LAZZARO
Dalila Di Lazzaro, born January 29, 1953 in Udine, is an Italian actress and model. Filmography Lo scopone scientifico (1972) Il mostro è in tavola barone Frankenstein Il bestione, regia di Sergio Corbucci (1974) L'ultimo treno della notte La pupa del gangster L'Italia s'è rotta Il gatto Un uomo in premio Voltati Eugenio Stark system Tre uomini da abbattere Quando la coppia scoppia Prima che sia troppo presto La donna giusta Una di troppo Phenomena Spogliand...
Biography of Friedrich MOHS
Friedrich Mohs (January 29, 1773 - September 29, 1839) was a German geologist/mineralogist. Career Mohs, born in Gernrode, Germany, studied chemistry, mathematics and physics at the University of Halle and also studied at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Saxony. After assuming the position of a foreman at a mine in 1801, Mohs moved in 1802 to Austria, where he was employed in trying to identify the minerals in a private collection of a Banker. Mineral properties As part of this task, he...
Biography of Belle PEREZ
Maribel Pérez (born on January 29, 1976 in Neerpelt, Belgium), best known by her stage name Belle Perez, is a Belgian musician and songwriter. Born in Neerpelt to Spanish parents as María Isabelle Pérez Cerezo. The 31 year old Belgian singer was discovered for her musical talents by her current manager Patrick Renier at a local talent show. In 1999 she participated in the Belgian preselections of the Eurovision Song Contest and from then on Belle's career in music took off. She started off in... Biography of Edward BURNS
Edward J. Burns, Jr. (born January 29, 1968) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Biography Early life Burns was born in Woodside, Queens, New York, the son of Molly (née McKenna), a federal agency manager, and Edward J. Burns, Sr., a public relations spokesperson and police officer. He is the second of three children (with siblings Mary and Brian) in an Irish American family. He was raised in Valley Stream, New York, on Long Island. He briefly attended Chaminade High S...
Biography of Claudine LONGET
Claudine Georgette Longet (born on 29 January 1942 (1942-01-29) (age 66) in Paris, France) was a popular singer and recording artist during the 1960s and 1970s. She was also an actress and a dancer. She was married to pop singer Andy Williams from 1961 until 1975 and they remain "very good friends" to the present day. In 1977, a trial jury convicted her of "misdemeanor negligent homicide" in the 1976 death of former Olympic skier Spider Sabich. Andy Williams Longet and Williams met in Las V... Biography of Nicholas TURTURRO
Nicholas Turturro, Jr. (born January 29, 1962) is an American film, television and prolific on-stage character actor, perhaps best known for his role as Dennis Franz's rookie plainclothes detective and Gordon Clapp's partner, Sgt. James Martinez, on NYPD Blue (a role he played from 1993 to 2000). Biography Career He garnered an Emmy nomination for playing Officer/Det./Sgt. James Martinez on the TV program NYPD Blue, where he sparkled a wonderful on- and off-screen chemistry between both...
Biography of Frederick DELIUS
Frederick Albert Theodore Delius (January 29, 1862 – June 10, 1934) was an English composer born in Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the north of England. Life Delius's parents were German. Julius and Elise Pauline Delius had moved from Bielefeld, Germany to England to set themselves up in the woollen business. Frederick ('Fritz' to his family, 'Fred' to his friends) Delius was the fourth of their fourteen children. Although born in England and educated at Bradford Grammar Sch... Biography of Andrew KEEGAN
Andrew Keegan (born January 29, 1979) is an American actor. Keegan was born Andrew Keegan Heying in Los Angeles, California, the older son of Lana (née Ocampo), a hairdresser, and Larry Heying, a voice-over actor. Keegan's mother is Colombian and his father is from Nebraska. Keegan has a younger brother, Casey (born June 12, 1980), who is also an actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in films such as 10 Things I Hate about You (1999), The Broken Hearts Club (2000) and O (2001). He ... Biography of John FORSYTHE
John Lincoln Freund - better known as John Forsythe (born January 29, 1918), is an American stage, television and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning three decades, as single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the 1950s sitcom Bachelor Father Early life Forsythe, the oldest of three children, was born in Penns Grove, New Jersey to a factory worker, and was raised in Brooklyn, New York where his father worked as a Wall Street businessman during the Great Depression of... Biography of Thomas JANE
Thomas Jane (born January 29, 1969) is an American actor, known for his roles in the 2004 film The Punisher and the 2007 Stephen King adaption The Mist. Biography Early life Jane was born Thomas Elliott III in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Cynthia, an antiques dealer, and Michael Elliott, a biogenetic engineer. In 1987, he graduated from Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School in Montgomery County, Maryland. He studied acting at The Lee Strasburg Theatre Institute in Hollywood,CA. Caree... Biography of Isabel LUCAS
Isabel Lucas (born January 29, 1985 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian actress of Swiss descent, perhaps best known for her role as Tasha Andrews on popular Australian television soap opera Home and Away until 2006 and for her active role in various environmental awareness organizations including Greenpeace International. Lucas moved to Los Angeles in early 2008. Lucas' current projects include Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and Rights Revoked (2009), a documentary s... Biography of Victor MATURE
Victor Mature (29 January 1913 – 4 August 1999) was an American film actor. Early life Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky to a Tyrolean Italian-speaking father, Marcellino Gelindo Maturi, a cutler, and a Swiss-American mother, Clara Maturi. Discovered while on stage at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, his first leading role was as a fur-clad caveman in One Million B.C. (1940), after which he joined 20th Century Fox to star opposite actresses such as Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth. H... Biography of Katharine ROSS
Katharine Juliet Ross (born January 29, 1940 - some sources say 1942 or 1943 - in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actress. Trained at the San Francisco Workshop, she is perhaps best known for her role as Elaine Robinson in the 1967 film The Graduate, opposite Dustin Hoffman, and her role as Etta Place in 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, opposite Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Early life Ross was born in Hollywood, California, when her...
Biography of Bobbie PHILLIPS
Bobbie Phillips (born 29 January 1968 in Charleston, South Carolina) is an American actress. She originally went to college to be a lawyer but after taking an acting class in order to improve her courtroom performance she decided to quit school (while holding a 4.0 GPA) and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. Bobbie began landing television work immediately. Her first acting job was guest starring with Halle Berry on a short lived FOX comedy "They Came From Outer Space". She... Biography of Greg LOUGANIS
Gregory ("Greg") Efthimios Louganis (born January 29, 1960 in El Cajon, California) is an American diver who is best known for winning back-to-back Olympic titles in both the 3m and 10m diving events. He received the James E. Sullivan Award from the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) in 1984 as the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States. Louganis is of Samoan/Swedish descent and was raised in California by his adoptive parents, a Greek-American couple. At age 16, Louganis took part i... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||