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Featured Biography Oprah Winfrey

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

Oprah Winfrey, O, The Oprah Magazine, April 2003

Oprah Winfrey, born this day in 1954, became one of the wealthiest and most influential women in the United States largely as a result of the tremendous popularity of her Emmy Award-winning television talk show.

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January 29, 1749 — March 13, 1808

Christian VII was a mentally incompetent king of Denmark and Norway;...

Christian IX

April 8, 1818 — January 29, 1906

Christian IX was a Danish king who came to the throne at the height...

Henry Lee, portrait by Gilbert Stuart; in a private collection

January 29, 1756 — March 25, 1818

Henry Lee was an American cavalry officer during the American Revolution....

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April 16, 1928 — January 29, 2002

Dick Lane was an American gridiron football player who is widely considered...

Poet and painter Edward Lear

May 12, 1812 — January 29, 1888

Edward Lear was an English landscape painter who is more widely known...

Barnett Newman

January 29, 1905 — July 3, 1970

Barnett Newman was an American painter whose large, austerely reductionist...

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January 29, 1965 —

Dominik Hašek is a Czech ice hockey goaltender known for his unorthodox...

Sisley, Alfred: The Boat During the Flood, Port-Marly

October 30, 1839 — January 29, 1899

Alfred Sisley painter who was one of the creators of French Impressionism....