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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 29th of January 0904 | EVENT | Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. |
| 29th of January 1676 | EVENT | Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia. |
| 29th of January 1814 | EVENT | France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne. |
| 29th of January 1834 | EVENT | US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute. |
| 29th of January 1845 | EVENT | "The Raven" is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe |
| 29th of January 1850 | EVENT | Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress. |
| 29th of January 1856 | EVENT | Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross. |
| 29th of January 1861 | EVENT | Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state. |
| 29th of January 1863 | EVENT | Bear River Massacre. |
| 29th of January 1886 | EVENT | Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. |
| 29th of January 1891 | EVENT | Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch. |
| 29th of January 1900 | EVENT | The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams. |
| 29th of January 1916 | EVENT | World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins. |
| 29th of January 1918 | EVENT | Ukrainian-Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty. |
| 29th of January 1918 | EVENT | Ukrainian-Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later. |
| 29th of January 1936 | EVENT | The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced. |
| 29th of January 1940 | EVENT | Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. 181 people are killed. |
| 29th of January 1943 | EVENT | The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers. |
| 29th of January 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy. |
| 29th of January 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Approximately 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland. |
| 29th of January 1944 | EVENT | In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid. |
| 29th of January 1963 | EVENT | The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced. |
| 29th of January 1967 | EVENT | The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg. |
| 29th of January 1979 | EVENT | Brenda Spencer kills two people and wounds eight at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School shootings. |
| 29th of January 1985 | EVENT | Final recording session of We Are The World, by the supergroup USA for Africa. |
| 29th of January 1989 | EVENT | Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so |
| 29th of January 1991 | EVENT | Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins. |
| 29th of January 1996 | EVENT | President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing. |
| 29th of January 1996 | EVENT | La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire. |
| 29th of January 1998 | EVENT | In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit. |
| 29th of January 2001 | EVENT | Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals. |
| 29th of January 2002 | EVENT | In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea. |
| 29th of January 2005 | EVENT | The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing. |
| 29th of January 1584 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647) |
| 29th of January 1632 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703) |
| 29th of January 1688 | BIRTHDAY | Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher (d. 1772) |
| 29th of January 1711 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788) |
| 29th of January 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (d. 1777) |
| 29th of January 1717 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Amherst, British military leader (d. 1797) |
| 29th of January 1718 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794) |
| 29th of January 1737 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Paine, English-born American patriot (d. 1809) |
| 29th of January 1749 | BIRTHDAY | King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808) |
| 29th of January 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland (d. 1806) |
| 29th of January 1756 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Lee III, American General (d. 1818) |
| 29th of January 1761 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, politician, and 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1849) |
| 29th of January 1782 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871) |
| 29th of January 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (d. 1881) |
| 29th of January 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893) |
| 29th of January 1843 | BIRTHDAY | William McKinley, American politician, 39th Governor of Ohio, and 25th President of the United States (d. 1901) |
| 29th of January 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915) |
| 29th of January 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904) |
| 29th of January 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934) |
| 29th of January 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1944) |
| 29th of January 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Peris Brell, Spanish painter (d. 1944) |
| 29th of January 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish writer (d. 1928) |
| 29th of January 1874 | BIRTHDAY | John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960) |
| 29th of January 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972) |
| 29th of January 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Catroux, French general (d. 1969) |
| 29th of January 1880 | BIRTHDAY | W. C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946) |
| 29th of January 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Sydney Chapman, British mathematician and geophysicist (d. 1970) |
| 29th of January 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975) |
| 29th of January 1891 | BIRTHDAY | R. Norris Williams, American survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1968) |
| 29th of January 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965) |
| 29th of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Allen B. DuMont, American scientist and inventor (d. 1965) |
| 29th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970) |
| 29th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983) |
| 29th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986) |
| 29th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (d. 2003) |
| 29th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001) |
| 29th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999) |
| 29th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | John Serry, Sr., American musician and arranger (d. 2003) |
| 29th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | John Forsythe, American actor (d. 2010) |
| 29th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Luis de Villalonga, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2007) |
| 29th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony George, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 29th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp supervisor (d. 1946) |
| 29th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981) |
| 29th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Ivo Robic, Croatian singer and songwriter (d. 2000) |
| 29th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990) |
| 29th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Marcelle Ferron, French-Canadian painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001) |
| 29th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Voulkos, American artist (d. 2002) |
| 29th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Franco Cerri, Italian musician |
| 29th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996) |
| 29th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist (d. 1989) |
| 29th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong property developer |
| 29th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | John Junkin, English radio, television and film performer (d. 2006) |
| 29th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (d. 2005) |
| 29th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958) |
| 29th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | George Allen, English footballer |
| 29th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Herrestrup, Danish actor |
| 29th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (d. 2004) |
| 29th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Sally, American mathematician |
| 29th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records (d. 1983) |
| 29th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Germaine Greer, Australian writer |
| 29th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver |
| 29th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Katharine Ross, American actress |
| 29th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Morgan, American feminist and activist |
| 29th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Claudine Longet, French singer and dancer |
| 29th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Blackburn, English disc jockey |
| 29th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda |
| 29th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Loog Oldham, English rock and roll producer |
| 29th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Lipton Robinson, Jamaican judge |
| 29th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Nicholson, Irish politician |
| 29th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Selleck, American actor, screenwriter and film producer |
| 29th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate |
| 29th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Marian Varga, Slovak musician |
| 29th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (d. 1985) |
| 29th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Kenny, Irish TV presenter and radio host |
| 29th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Singer, Canadian-born actor |
| 29th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Cristina Saralegui, American talk-show host |
| 29th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Jillian, American actress |
| 29th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver |
| 29th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Miklos Vamos, Hungarian writer, television host |
| 29th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Roberts, West Indian cricketer |
| 29th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus-Peter Hanisch, German footballer (d. 2009) |
| 29th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Rupert Hanley, South African cricketer |
| 29th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones) |
| 29th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Baumann, German musician (Tangerine Dream) |
| 29th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Paulin Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 29th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Caesar Cervin, American soccer player |
| 29th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Steve March-Torme, American musician |
| 29th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Louie Perez, American songwriter, percussionist and guitarist |
| 29th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Fusco, American puppeteer, voice-over artist and character actor |
| 29th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Dwight Takamine, Okinawan-American Hawaii state senator |
| 29th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995) |
| 29th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Lynne McGranger, Australian actress |
| 29th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Wilson, American singer (The Gap Band) |
| 29th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist |
| 29th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Manitoba, American singer (The Dictators and MC5) |
| 29th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Kinney, American actor |
| 29th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Risebrough, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive |
| 29th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host and actress |
| 29th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Jordan, American basketball player and head coach |
| 29th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist |
| 29th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Rino Schreuder, Dutch publisher |
| 29th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Ashford, American actor |
| 29th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986) |
| 29th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Kerly, English field hockey player |
| 29th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Sax, American baseball player |
| 29th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Louganis, American diver |
| 29th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-born musician |
| 29th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Turturro, American actor |
| 29th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Holly, American professional wrestler |
| 29th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Monica Horan, American actress |
| 29th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Reed, American football player |
| 29th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Ryder Richardson, British interior designer and television presenter |
| 29th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Dominik Hasek, Czech ice hockey player |
| 29th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Lundgren, Swedish tennis coach |
| 29th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Romario, Brazilian footballer |
| 29th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Stacey King, American basketball player |
| 29th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Cyril Suk, Czech tennis player |
| 29th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Burns, American actor |
| 29th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Susi Erdmann, German bobsledder and luger |
| 29th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Sora Jung, Korean actress |
| 29th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Hyde, Japanese singer (L'Arc-en-Ciel) |
| 29th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Heather Graham, American actress |
| 29th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jorg Hoffmann, German swimmer |
| 29th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter |
| 29th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Wood, writer and artist of graphic novels |
| 29th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Schmidt, American baseball player |
| 29th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Gilbert, American actress |
| 29th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Castle, American singer-songwriter |
| 29th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Divins, American model and actor |
| 29th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Hartley, American actor |
| 29th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Chaly Jones, Dutch footballer |
| 29th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Bironas, American football player |
| 29th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper |
| 29th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Marvin Agustin, Filipino actor and entrepreneur |
| 29th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Keegan, American actor |
| 29th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | April Scott, American actress and model |
| 29th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Thorstensson, Swedish website developer |
| 29th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player |
| 29th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Todd, Arena Football League player |
| 29th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Yael Bar-Zohar, Israeli actress and model |
| 29th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ingimundur Ingimundarson, Icelandic handball player |
| 29th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Klasnic, Croatian football player |
| 29th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jonny Lang, American musician |
| 29th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Rui En, Singaporean actress & singer |
| 29th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Ubago, Spanish musician |
| 29th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Dario Lopilato, Argentine actor |
| 29th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Lambert, American actor and singer |
| 29th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Heidi Mueller, American actress |
| 29th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Irina Shabayeva American fashion designer |
| 29th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Nedzad Sinanovic, Bosnian basketball player |
| 29th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player |
| 29th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Mikey Hachey, American musician (Suburban Legends) |
| 29th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Herzog, American reality-show contestant |
| 29th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Isabel Lucas, Australian actress |
| 29th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Athina Onassis, French heiress |
| 29th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Howard, English football player |
| 29th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jair Jurrjens, Dutch baseball player |
| 29th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Tyler Bell, American actor |
| 29th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Vukcevic, Montenegrin footballer |
| 29th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Wilson, English world rally driver |
| 29th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie Gilmore, Australian surfer |
| 29th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Shattenkirk, American ice hockey player |
| 29th of January 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, son of the Duke of Westminster |
| 29th of January 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Larcher de Brito, Portuguese tennis player |
| 29th of January 1119 | DEATH | Pope Gelasius II |
| 29th of January 1240 | DEATH | Pelagio Galvani, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (Born c. 1165) |
| 29th of January 1342 | DEATH | Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (Born 1279) |
| 29th of January 1597 | DEATH | Elias Ammerbach, German organist (Born 1530) |
| 29th of January 1608 | DEATH | Frederick I, Duke of Wurttemberg (Born 1557) |
| 29th of January 1647 | DEATH | Francis Meres, English writer (Born 1565) |
| 29th of January 1676 | DEATH | Tsar Alexis I of Russia (Born 1629) |
| 29th of January 1678 | DEATH | Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (Born 1593) |
| 29th of January 1696 | DEATH | Tsar Ivan V of Russia, Russian tsar (Born 1666) |
| 29th of January 1706 | DEATH | Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (Born 1638) |
| 29th of January 1737 | DEATH | George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (Born 1666) |
| 29th of January 1743 | DEATH | Andre-Hercule de Fleury, French statesman (Born 1653) |
| 29th of January 1763 | DEATH | Louis Racine, French poet (Born 1692) |
| 29th of January 1820 | DEATH | King George III of the United Kingdom (Born 1738) |
| 29th of January 1829 | DEATH | Paul Francois Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (Born 1755) |
| 29th of January 1870 | DEATH | Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (Born 1797) |
| 29th of January 1871 | DEATH | Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspe, French Canadian writer (Born 1786) |
| 29th of January 1899 | DEATH | Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter (Born 1839) |
| 29th of January 1901 | DEATH | King Milan I of Serbia (Born 1855) |
| 29th of January 1906 | DEATH | King Christian IX of Denmark (Born 1818) |
| 29th of January 1918 | DEATH | Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian-counter revolutionary (Born 1861) |
| 29th of January 1928 | DEATH | Douglas Haig, British soldier (Born 1861) |
| 29th of January 1933 | DEATH | Sara Teasdale, American poet (Born 1884) |
| 29th of January 1934 | DEATH | Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (Born 1868) |
| 29th of January 1941 | DEATH | Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (Born 1871) |
| 29th of January 1946 | DEATH | Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (Born 1890) |
| 29th of January 1948 | DEATH | Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (Born 1900) |
| 29th of January 1950 | DEATH | Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (Born 1885) |
| 29th of January 1951 | DEATH | Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (Born 1880) |
| 29th of January 1956 | DEATH | H. L. Mencken, American journalist (Born 1880) |
| 29th of January 1959 | DEATH | Winifred Brunton, British-born South African painter (Born 1880) |
| 29th of January 1961 | DEATH | John F. O'Ryan, American major general (Born 1874) |
| 29th of January 1962 | DEATH | Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (Born 1875) |
| 29th of January 1963 | DEATH | Robert Frost, American poet (Born 1874) |
| 29th of January 1964 | DEATH | Alan Ladd, American actor (Born 1913) |
| 29th of January 1966 | DEATH | Pierre Mercure, French Canadian composer (Born 1927) |
| 29th of January 1969 | DEATH | Allen Dulles, American CIA director (Born 1893) |
| 29th of January 1970 | DEATH | B. H. Liddell Hart, British historian (Born 1895) |
| 29th of January 1975 | DEATH | Orestis Makris, Greek actor (Born 1898) |
| 29th of January 1977 | DEATH | Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (Born 1902) |
| 29th of January 1977 | DEATH | Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (Born 1954) |
| 29th of January 1980 | DEATH | Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (Born 1893) |
| 29th of January 1986 | DEATH | Leif Erickson, American actor (Born 1911) |
| 29th of January 1989 | DEATH | Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (Born 1900) |
| 29th of January 1991 | DEATH | Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (Born 1907) |
| 29th of January 1992 | DEATH | Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (Born 1915) |
| 29th of January 1993 | DEATH | Adetokunbo Ademola, Nigerian Chief Justice (Born 1906) |
| 29th of January 1993 | DEATH | Ron Kostelnik, American football player (Born 1940) |
| 29th of January 1994 | DEATH | Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (Born 1967) |
| 29th of January 1998 | DEATH | Joseph Alioto, American politician (Born 1916) |
| 29th of January 1999 | DEATH | Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (Born 1918) |
| 29th of January 2002 | DEATH | Harold Russell, Canadian-born American actor (Born 1914) |
| 29th of January 2002 | DEATH | Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (Born 1928) |
| 29th of January 2003 | DEATH | Frank Moss, American politician (Born 1911) |
| 29th of January 2004 | DEATH | Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (Born 1924) |
| 29th of January 2004 | DEATH | M. M. Kaye, British writer (Born 1908) |
| 29th of January 2005 | DEATH | Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist (Born 1924) |
| 29th of January 2005 | DEATH | Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (Born 1940) |
| 29th of January 2007 | DEATH | Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (Born 2003) |
| 29th of January 2007 | DEATH | Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi extremist leader (Born 1970) |
| 29th of January 2008 | DEATH | Raymond Jacobs, American soldier (Born 1925) |
| 29th of January 2008 | DEATH | Philippe Khorsand, French actor (Born 1948) |
| 29th of January 2008 | DEATH | Bengt Lindstrom, Swedish artist (Born 1925) |
| 29th of January 2008 | DEATH | Margaret Truman, American writer, daughter of Harry S. Truman (1924) |
| 29th of January 2009 | DEATH | Bill Frindall, English cricket scorer and statistician (Born 1939) |
| 29th of January 2009 | DEATH | Helio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (Born 1913) |
| 29th of January 2009 | DEATH | John Martyn, Scottish singer and songwriter (Born 1948) |