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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 30th of January 1048 | EVENT | Protestantism: The villagers around today's Baden-Baden elect their own priest in defiance of the local bishop. |
| 30th of January 1648 | EVENT | Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Munster and Osnabruck is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain. |
| 30th of January 1649 | EVENT | King Charles I of England is beheaded. |
| 30th of January 1661 | EVENT | Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed. |
| 30th of January 1667 | EVENT | The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth cedes Kiev, Smolensk, and left-bank Ukraine to the Tsardom of Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo. |
| 30th of January 1703 | EVENT | The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Oishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master. |
| 30th of January 1790 | EVENT | The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne. |
| 30th of January 1806 | EVENT | The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened. |
| 30th of January 1820 | EVENT | Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica. |
| 30th of January 1826 | EVENT | The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened. |
| 30th of January 1835 | EVENT | In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen. |
| 30th of January 1841 | EVENT | A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. |
| 30th of January 1847 | EVENT | Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco. |
| 30th of January 1858 | EVENT | The first Halle concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Halle Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra. |
| 30th of January 1862 | EVENT | The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched. |
| 30th of January 1889 | EVENT | Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling. |
| 30th of January 1902 | EVENT | The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London. |
| 30th of January 1911 | EVENT | The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy. |
| 30th of January 1911 | EVENT | The destroyer USS Terry (DD-25) makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba. |
| 30th of January 1913 | EVENT | The United Kingdom's House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill. |
| 30th of January 1925 | EVENT | The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul. |
| 30th of January 1933 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. |
| 30th of January 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. |
| 30th of January 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago (CA-29) is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes. |
| 30th of January 1944 | EVENT | World War II: United States troops land on Majuro. |
| 30th of January 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9,400 people. |
| 30th of January 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp. |
| 30th of January 1948 | EVENT | Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. |
| 30th of January 1956 | EVENT | American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. |
| 30th of January 1959 | EVENT | MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, killing all 95 aboard. |
| 30th of January 1960 | EVENT | The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties. |
| 30th of January 1964 | EVENT | Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched. |
| 30th of January 1964 | EVENT | In a bloodless coup, General Nguyen Khanh overthrows General Duong Van Minh's military junta in South Vietnam. |
| 30th of January 1969 | EVENT | The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police. |
| 30th of January 1971 | EVENT | Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide. |
| 30th of January 1972 | EVENT | Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland. |
| 30th of January 1972 | EVENT | Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| 30th of January 1975 | EVENT | The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary. |
| 30th of January 1979 | EVENT | Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo. |
| 30th of January 1982 | EVENT | Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner". |
| 30th of January 1989 | EVENT | The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes. |
| 30th of January 1994 | EVENT | Peter Leko becomes the youngest chess grand master. |
| 30th of January 1995 | EVENT | Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease. |
| 30th of January 1996 | EVENT | Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit. |
| 30th of January 2000 | EVENT | Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169. |
| 30th of January 0133 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193) |
| 30th of January 1563 | BIRTHDAY | Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641) |
| 30th of January 1615 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler; son of Pocahontas and John Rolfe (d. 1675) |
| 30th of January 1661 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741) |
| 30th of January 1697 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (d. 1773) |
| 30th of January 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778) |
| 30th of January 1754 | BIRTHDAY | John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829) |
| 30th of January 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838) |
| 30th of January 1816 | BIRTHDAY | Nathaniel Prentice Banks, American politician, 25th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and 24th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894) |
| 30th of January 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899) |
| 30th of January 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897) |
| 30th of January 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Faure, French politician (d. 1899) |
| 30th of January 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944) |
| 30th of January 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Martin Loeffler, German-born composer (d. 1935) |
| 30th of January 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Ricard-Cordingley, French painter (d. 1939) |
| 30th of January 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940) |
| 30th of January 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Franklin D. Roosevelt, American politician, 44th Governor of New York, and 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945) |
| 30th of January 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet and dramatist (d. 1937) |
| 30th of January 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943) |
| 30th of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1972) |
| 30th of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959) |
| 30th of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (d. 1983) |
| 30th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000) |
| 30th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Eldridge, American musician (d. 1989) |
| 30th of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988) |
| 30th of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989) |
| 30th of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Schaeffer, American theologian and pastor (d. 1984) |
| 30th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener (d. 1988) |
| 30th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995) |
| 30th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | John Ireland, Canadian actor (d. 1992) |
| 30th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976) |
| 30th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006) |
| 30th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Frere, Belgian racing driver and motorsport journalist (d. 2008) |
| 30th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | David Opatoshu, American television actor (d. 1996) |
| 30th of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979) |
| 30th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001) |
| 30th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Delbert Mann, American film director (d. 2007) |
| 30th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Anderson, English film director |
| 30th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Martin, American comedian (d. 2008) |
| 30th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Walt Dropo, American baseball player (d. 2010) |
| 30th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007) |
| 30th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist |
| 30th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Malone, American actress |
| 30th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (d. 2005) |
| 30th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Olof Palme, Swedish politician (d. 1986) |
| 30th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Prince, American stage producer and director |
| 30th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and aid worker (d. 1996) |
| 30th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974) |
| 30th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Sandy Amoros, Cuban baseball player (d. 1992) |
| 30th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Magnus Malan, South African politician |
| 30th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Hackman, American actor |
| 30th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | John Crosbie, Canadian politician |
| 30th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author |
| 30th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Allan W. Eckert, American naturalist and author |
| 30th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician |
| 30th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (d. 2006) |
| 30th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (d. 1984) |
| 30th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005) |
| 30th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | F. Vernon Boozer, American politician |
| 30th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Horst Jankowski, German popular pianist (d. 1998) |
| 30th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Redgrave, English actress |
| 30th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Spassky, Russian chess player |
| 30th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (d. 2005) |
| 30th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Islom Karimov, Uzbekistani politician |
| 30th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Benford, American author and scientist |
| 30th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Cheney, American politician, 7th White House Chief of Staff, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming, 17th United States Secretary of Defense and 46th Vice President of the United States |
| 30th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer |
| 30th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Marty Balin, American musician |
| 30th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager |
| 30th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997) |
| 30th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Les Barker, English poet |
| 30th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Marriott, English musician (Humble Pie, The Small Faces) (d. 1991) |
| 30th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Magee, Irish IRA figure |
| 30th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Broomfield, English documentarian |
| 30th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Miles Reid, English mathematician |
| 30th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel laureate |
| 30th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988) |
| 30th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Collins, English musician |
| 30th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Charles S. Dutton, American actor |
| 30th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Stokes, English former footballer (d. 1995) |
| 30th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Falconer, Canadian football player |
| 30th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | John Baldacci, American politician |
| 30th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Curtis Strange, American golfer |
| 30th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Tarr, American author |
| 30th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Mychal Thompson, Bahamian basketball player |
| 30th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Gittins, English actor |
| 30th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver |
| 30th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999) |
| 30th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Butler, American actress and comedian |
| 30th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Eitzel, American singer and musician (American Music Club) |
| 30th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jody Watley, American singer |
| 30th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Titomirov, Russian-born American businessman |
| 30th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dexter Scott King, son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King |
| 30th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | King Abdullah II of Jordan |
| 30th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Kay Letourneau, former teacher |
| 30th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Tina Malone, English actress |
| 30th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Otis Smith, American basketball player |
| 30th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Julie McCullough, American model and actress |
| 30th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Danielle Goyette, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 30th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Gordon, American musician |
| 30th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Dunn, American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Secret Chiefs 3) |
| 30th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Felipe of Spain |
| 30th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Maudsley, British film actor |
| 30th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman and reality TV actor |
| 30th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Boyd, British actor |
| 30th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player |
| 30th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Lupillo Rivera, Mexican singer |
| 30th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 30th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jalen Rose, American basketball player |
| 30th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Bale, English actor |
| 30th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Olivia Colman, English actress |
| 30th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jemima Khan, English socialite |
| 30th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer |
| 30th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi) |
| 30th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Milonakis, American comedian |
| 30th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Hinote, American ice hockey player |
| 30th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Malchow, American swimmer |
| 30th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Deltha O'Neal, American football player |
| 30th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | John Patterson, American baseball player |
| 30th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Kung, Swiss curler |
| 30th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Leilani Dowding, British model |
| 30th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Kelley, American musician |
| 30th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor |
| 30th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Wilmer Valderrama, American actor |
| 30th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Joaozinho, Brazilian footballer |
| 30th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer |
| 30th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Bender, American basketball player |
| 30th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Crouch, English footballer |
| 30th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver |
| 30th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | DeSagana Diop, Senegalese basketball player |
| 30th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Cantu, Mexican baseball player |
| 30th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player |
| 30th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kid Cudi, American hip hop performer |
| 30th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Aaadietya Pandey, Indian astrologer |
| 30th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Trae Williams, American football player |
| 30th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Duckworth, British singer-songwriter |
| 30th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Evans, American baseball player |
| 30th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler |
| 30th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Renato Santos, Brazilian footballer |
| 30th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Arda Turan, Turkish footballer |
| 30th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Pinkston, American actor |
| 30th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper |
| 30th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Luca Sbisa, Swiss ice hockey player |
| 30th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress and singer |
| 30th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Thomas, American actor |
| 30th of January 2005 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II of Jordan |
| 30th of January 1030 | DEATH | William V, Duke of Aquitaine (Born 969) |
| 30th of January 1181 | DEATH | Emperor Takakura of Japan (Born 1161) |
| 30th of January 1384 | DEATH | Louis II of Flanders (Born 1330) |
| 30th of January 1574 | DEATH | Damiao de Gois, Portuguese philosopher (Born 1502) |
| 30th of January 1606 | DEATH | Everard Digby, English conspirator (Born 1578) |
| 30th of January 1649 | DEATH | King Charles I of England (Born 1600) |
| 30th of January 1730 | DEATH | Tsar Peter II of Russia (Born 1715) |
| 30th of January 1836 | DEATH | Betsy Ross, American seamstress (Born 1752) |
| 30th of January 1849 | DEATH | Jonathan Alder, American settler (Born 1773) |
| 30th of January 1858 | DEATH | Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (Born 1778) |
| 30th of January 1867 | DEATH | Emperor Komei of Japan (Born 1831) |
| 30th of January 1869 | DEATH | William Carleton, Irish novelist (Born 1794) |
| 30th of January 1889 | DEATH | Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (Born 1858) |
| 30th of January 1926 | DEATH | Barbara La Marr, American actress (Born 1896) |
| 30th of January 1928 | DEATH | Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel laureate (Born 1867) |
| 30th of January 1929 | DEATH | La Goulue, French dancer (Born 1866) |
| 30th of January 1934 | DEATH | Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (Born 1862) |
| 30th of January 1948 | DEATH | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Father of Nation, India (Born 1869) |
| 30th of January 1948 | DEATH | Arthur Coningham, New Zealand air commander (Born 1895) |
| 30th of January 1948 | DEATH | Orville Wright, American aviator (Born 1871) |
| 30th of January 1951 | DEATH | Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (Born 1875) |
| 30th of January 1958 | DEATH | Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (Born 1878) |
| 30th of January 1958 | DEATH | Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (Born 1888) |
| 30th of January 1962 | DEATH | Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (Born 1894) |
| 30th of January 1963 | DEATH | Francis Poulenc, French composer (Born 1899) |
| 30th of January 1969 | DEATH | Dominique Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel laureate (Born 1910) |
| 30th of January 1980 | DEATH | Professor Longhair, American musician (Born 1918) |
| 30th of January 1982 | DEATH | Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (Born 1912) |
| 30th of January 1984 | DEATH | Luke Kelly, Irish singer (The Dubliners) (Born 1940) |
| 30th of January 1984 | DEATH | Lee McCall, South African bank robber (Born 1950) |
| 30th of January 1989 | DEATH | Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cadiz, Spanish pretender to the French throne (Born 1936) |
| 30th of January 1991 | DEATH | Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (Born 1907) |
| 30th of January 1991 | DEATH | John McIntire, American actor (Born 1907) |
| 30th of January 1991 | DEATH | John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1908) |
| 30th of January 1994 | DEATH | Pierre Boulle, French author (Born 1912) |
| 30th of January 1995 | DEATH | Gerald Durrell, British naturalist and television presenter (Born 1925) |
| 30th of January 1998 | DEATH | Richard Cassilly, American tenor (Born 1927) |
| 30th of January 1999 | DEATH | Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (Born 1909) |
| 30th of January 1999 | DEATH | Huntz Hall, American actor (Born 1919) |
| 30th of January 2001 | DEATH | Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (Born 1911) |
| 30th of January 2001 | DEATH | Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (Born 1915) |
| 30th of January 2001 | DEATH | Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (Born 1915) |
| 30th of January 2005 | DEATH | Wes Wehmiller, American musician (Born 1971) |
| 30th of January 2005 | DEATH | Martyn Bennett, Canadian musician (Born 1971) |
| 30th of January 2006 | DEATH | Coretta Scott King, American activist; widow of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Born 1927) |
| 30th of January 2007 | DEATH | Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (Born 1917) |
| 30th of January 2007 | DEATH | Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor (Born 1934) |
| 30th of January 2008 | DEATH | Jeremy Beadle, British television host (Born 1948) |
| 30th of January 2008 | DEATH | Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (Born 1969) |
| 30th of January 2008 | DEATH | Marcial Maciel, Mexican religious figure (Born 1920) |
| 30th of January 2009 | DEATH | John Gordy, American football player (Born 1935) |
| 30th of January 2009 | DEATH | Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (Born 1932) |
| 30th of January 2009 | DEATH | H. Guy Hunt, American politician (Born 1933) |
| 30th of January 2010 | DEATH | Aaron Ruben, American television director (Born 1914) |
| 30th of January 2010 | DEATH | Bernard Arcand, French-Canadian anthropologist (Born 1945) |
| 30th of January 2011 | DEATH | John Barry, English film score composer (Born 1933) |