A Saturday
Born on January 29, 1949?
Here's the world on that day. Add a name and a birthplace for the full time capsule: the weather, the sky above your town and what things cost.
📅 Weekday
Saturday
♒ Star sign
Aquarius
🐂 Chinese zodiac
Earth Ox
🌑 Moon
New Moon
🎂 Age today
77 years
Famous people born on January 29, 1949
Tommy Ramone
Hungarian-American drummer (1949–2014)
Eugene de Kock
South African police officer, convicted for several political murders as head of the secret police unit C10 (Vlakplaas) during Apartheid, today a free man after serving a prison sentence
Chelagat Mutai
Kenyan politician (b. 1949, d. 2013)
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
January 29, 1949 was a Saturday. Someone born on January 29, 1949 is a Aquarius. Someone born on January 29, 1949 is 77 years old today and has lived about 28,404 days. People born in 1949 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on January 29
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Anton Chekhov
1860 · Russian dramatist and author

Boris Pasternak
1890 · Russian writer

Teresa Teng
1953 · Taiwanese ROC singer

Oprah Winfrey
1954 · American talk show host, actress, producer, and author (born )
Gift ideas for someone born in 1949
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 78
- “Born in 1949” gifts
- Wine from 1949
- Books about 1949
- A newspaper from 1949
- Coin set from 1949
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Questions about January 29, 1949
- What day of the week was January 29, 1949?
- January 29, 1949 was a Saturday.
- What star sign is someone born on January 29, 1949?
- Someone born on January 29, 1949 is a Aquarius.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 29, 1949?
- In the Chinese zodiac, January 29, 1949 falls in the year of the Earth Ox.
- How old is someone born on January 29, 1949?
- Someone born on January 29, 1949 is 77 years old today and has lived about 28,404 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1949?
- People born in 1949 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for January?
- The birthstone for January is garnet.
- What was the moon phase on January 29, 1949?
- On January 29, 1949 the moon was a New Moon.
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