January 29

January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 336 days remaining until the end of the year (337 in leap years).

Events

• 757 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty and emperor of Yan, is murdered by his own son, An Qingxu.
• 904 – Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
• 1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1814 – France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
• 1819 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
• 1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
• 1845 – "The Raven" is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
• 1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
• 1856 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
• 1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
• 1863 – Bear River Massacre.
• 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• 1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
• 1900 – The American League is organized in Philadelphia with eight founding teams.
• 1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
• 1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
• 1918 – 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.
• 1918 – 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.
• 1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1940 – Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. 181 people are killed.
• 1941 – Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas.
• 1943 – The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
• 1944 – World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.
• 1944 – In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
• 1963 – The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1967 – 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.
• 1989 – Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so
• 1991 – Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
• 1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
• 1996 – La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
• 1998 – 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.
• 2001 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
• 2002 – 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.
• 2005 – 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.
• 2006 – India's Irfan Pathan became the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.
• 2009 – The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.
• 2009 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including the alleged solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.
• 2013 – SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.

Births

• 1584 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)
• 1632 – Johann Georg Graevius, German scholar and critic (d. 1703)
• 1688 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish-English astronomer, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1772)
• 1703 – Carlmann Kolb, German priest and composer (d. 1765)
• 1711 – Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788)
• 1715 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (d. 1777)
• 1717 – Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English field marshal and politician, 19th Governor General of Canada (d. 1797)
• 1718 – Paul Rabaut, French pastor (d. 1794)
• 1737 – Thomas Paine, English-American author, activist, and theorist (d. 1809)
• 1749 – Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
• 1754 – Moses Cleaveland, American general, lawyer, and politician, founded Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1806)
• 1756 – Henry Lee III, American general and politician, 9th Governor of Virginia (d. 1818)
• 1761 – Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1849)
• 1782 – Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871)
• 1801 – Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1857)
• 1801 – Horatia Nelson, English daughter of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (d. 1881)
• 1810 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
• 1843 – William McKinley, American politician, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)
• 1846 – Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1915)
• 1860 – Anton Chekhov, Russian physician and author (d. 1904)
• 1862 – Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)
• 1866 – Julio Peris Brell, Spanish painter (d. 1944)
• 1866 – Romain Rolland, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
• 1867 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish journalist and author (d. 1928)
• 1874 – John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1960)
• 1876 – Havergal Brian, English composer (d. 1972)
• 1877 – Georges Catroux, French general and diplomat (d. 1969)
• 1880 – W. C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)
• 1884 – Juhan Aavik, Estonian composer (d. 1982)
• 1884 – Douglass Cadwallader, American golfer (d. 1971)
• 1888 – Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (d. 1970)
• 1891 – Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)
• 1891 – R. Norris Williams, Swiss-American tennis player (d. 1968)
• 1895 – Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965)
• 1901 – Allen B. DuMont, American engineer and broadcaster, founded the DuMont Television Network (d. 1965)
• 1901 – E. P. Taylor, Canadian businessman and horse breeder (d. 1989)
• 1905 – Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970)
• 1906 – Joe Primeau, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1989)
• 1910 – Colin Middleton, Irish painter (d. 1983)
• 1911 – Peter von Siemens, German businessman (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1913 – Daniel Taradash, American director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
• 1913 – Peter von Zahn, German journalist and author (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Bill Peet, American illustrator (d.2002)
• 1915 – John Serry, Sr., American accordion player and composer (d. 2003)
• 1917 – David Rubitsky, American sergeant (d. 2013)
• 1918 – John Forsythe, American actor (d. 2010)
• 1920 – José Luis de Vilallonga, Spanish actor and author (d. 2007)
• 1921 – Anthony George, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Gerda Steinhoff, Polish concentration camp supervisor (d. 1946)
• 1923 – Paddy Chayefsky, American author and screenwriter (d. 1981)
• 1923 – Ivo Robić, Croatian singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
• 1924 – Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001)
• 1924 – Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
• 1924 – Peter Voulkos, American sculptor (d. 2002)
• 1925 – Harold C. Agerholm, American marine, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1944)
• 1925 – Tofiq Bahramov, Azerbaijani footballer (d. 1993)
• 1925 – Raúl Corrales, Cuban photographer (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Robert W. McCollum, American virologist and epidemiologist (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Franco Cerri, Italian guitarist
• 1926 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
• 1927 – Edward Abbey, American environmentalist and author (d. 1989)
• 1927 – Gerald D. Klee, American psychiatrist and educator (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Peter Byrne, English actor and director
• 1928 – Lee Shau-kee, Hong Kong businessman, founded Henderson Land Development
• 1929 – George Ross Anderson, Jr., American judge
• 1929 – Józef Gara, Polish poet (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Elio Petri, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1982)
• 1929 – Ed Shaughnessy, American drummer (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Joseph Kruskal, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2010)
• 1929 – Puggy Pearson, American poker player (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Derek Bailey, English guitarist (d. 2005)
• 1930 – Christopher Collier, American historian and author
• 1930 – John Junkin, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 1931 – Jim Baumer, American baseball player (d. 1996)
• 1931 – Leslie Bricusse, English playwright and composer
• 1931 – Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian politician, 2nd President of Hungary (d. 2011)
• 1932 – Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
• 1933 – Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (d. 2004)
• 1933 – Hugo Herrestrup, Danish actor
• 1933 – Paul Sally, American mathematician
• 1934 – Noel Harrison, English singer, actor, and skier (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Branko Miljković, Serbian poet (d. 1961)
• 1935 – Fred Jüssi, Estonian biologist and photographer
• 1935 – Roger Payne, American biologist
• 1936 – Malcolm Binns, English pianist
• 1936 – Patrick Caulfield, English painter (d. 2005)
• 1936 – James Jamerson, American bass player (The Funk Brothers) (d. 1983)
• 1937 – Hassan Habibi, Iranian politician, 1st Vice President of Iran (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Bobby Scott, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 1990)
• 1938 – Shuji Tsurumi, Japanese gymnast
• 1939 – Germaine Greer, Australian journalist and author
• 1940 – Katharine Ross, American actress
• 1940 – Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and race car driver
• 1941 – Robin Morgan, American actress, journalist, author, and activist
• 1942 – Robert C. Bonner, American judge
• 1942 – Claudine Longet, French-American singer, actress, and dancer
• 1943 – Tony Blackburn, English radio host
• 1943 – Désiré Letort, French cyclist (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Molly Meldrum, Australian journalist
• 1943 – Pat Quinn, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1944 – Andrew Loog Oldham, English record producer and manager
• 1944 – Patrick Lipton Robinson, Jamaican judge
• 1944 – Pauline van der Wildt, Dutch swimmer
• 1945 – Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali
• 1945 – Jim Nicholson, Irish politician
• 1945 – Tom Selleck, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1946 – Bettye LaVette, American singer-songwriter
• 1946 – Tony Pierce, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1947 – Linda B. Buck, American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1947 – David Byron, English singer-songwriter (Uriah Heep and Spice) (d. 1985)
• 1947 – Marián Varga, Slovak organist and composer
• 1948 – Raymond Keene, English chess player and author
• 1948 – Pat Kenny, Irish television and radio host
• 1948 – Cristina Saralegui, Cuban-American talk show host
• 1948 – Marc Singer, Canadian-American actor
• 1949 – Evgeny Lovchev, Russian footballer
• 1949 – Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer and producer (Ramones and Uncle Monk) (d. 2014)
• 1949 – Tommi Salmelainen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1950 – Max Carl, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player (Grand Funk Railroad and 38 Special)
• 1950 – Ann Jillian, American actress
• 1950 – Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver
• 1950 – Miklós Vámos, Hungarian talk show host and author
• 1951 – Andy Roberts, Caribbean cricketer
• 1951 – Fereydoon Foroughi, Iranian singer and actor (d. 2001)
• 1952 – Klaus-Peter Hanisch, German footballer (d. 2009)
• 1952 – Rupert Hanley, South African cricketer
• 1952 – Tim Healy, English actor and singer
• 1953 – Peter Baumann, German keyboard player and songwriter (Tangerine Dream)
• 1953 – Paulin Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1953 – Caesar Cervin, American soccer player
• 1953 – David Miller, American politician
• 1953 – Dennis Delaney, American actor and playwright
• 1953 – Paul Fusco, American puppeteer and voice actor
• 1953 – Steve March-Tormé, American singer-songwriter
• 1953 – Grażyna Szmacińska, Polish chess players
• 1953 – Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
• 1953 – Ronnie Moore, English footballer and manager
• 1953 – Kalevi Marjamaa, Finnish boxer
• 1953 – Juan Paredes, Mexican boxer
• 1953 – Louie Pérez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Los Lobos and Latin Playboys)
• 1953 – Fred Riebeling, Australian politician
• 1953 – Dwight Takamine, American politician
• 1953 – Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)
• 1953 – Yorie Terauchi, Japanese actress
• 1953 – Charlie Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Gap Band)
• 1953 – Hwang Woo-suk, South Korean veterinarian and academic
• 1953 – Richard Younger-Ross, English politician
• 1954 – Christian Bjelland IV, Norwegian businessman and art collector
• 1954 – Greg Brooks, Canadian chef and author
• 1954 – Alejandro Casañas, Cuban hurdler
• 1954 – Eleanor Clitheroe-Bell, Canadian businesswoman
• 1954 – Bill Evers, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1954 – Yukinobu Hoshino, Japanese illustrator
• 1954 – Terry Kinney, American actor
• 1954 – Richard Manitoba, American singer (The Dictators, MC5, and Manitoba's Wild Kingdom)
• 1954 – Ron Mark, New Zealand soldier and politician
• 1954 – Bob Murdoch, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1954 – Barry Powell, English footballer and manager
• 1954 – Rodolfo Reis, Portuguese footballer
• 1954 – Doug Risebrough, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1954 – Patrick Seguin, French art dealer
• 1954 – Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, actress, and producer, founded the OWN Network and Harpo Productions
• 1955 – Eddie Jordan, American basketball player and coach
• 1955 – Femi Pedro, Nigerian politician
• 1955 – Jonathan Smith, English tennis player
• 1956 – Jan Jakub Kolski, Polish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
• 1956 – Irlene Mandrell, American actress and singer
• 1957 – Sue Douglas, English journalist
• 1957 – Julie Mellor, English politician
• 1957 – Grażyna Miller, Italian journalist and poet
• 1957 – Ron Franscell, American journalist and author
• 1958 – Glen Cochrane, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1958 – Stephen Lerner, American union leader
• 1958 – Linda Smith, English comedian and actress (d. 2006)
• 1959 – Mike Foligno, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1959 – Nadezhda Markina, Russian actress
• 1959 – Michael Sloane, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Nick Xenophon, Australian politician
• 1960 – Matthew Ashford, American actor
• 1960 – Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986)
• 1960 – Sean Kerly, English field hockey player
• 1960 – Greg Louganis, American diver and author
• 1960 – Steve Sax, American baseball player
• 1960 – J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-English singer-songwriter and producer (Wiseblood, The Immaculate Consumptive, Coil, and Foetus)
• 1961 – Mike Aldrete, American baseball player
• 1961 – Petra Thümer, German swimmer
• 1962 – Taija Rae, American pornographic actress
• 1962 – Nicholas Turturro, American actor
• 1963 – Bob Holly, American wrestler
• 1963 – Monica Horan, American actress
• 1963 – Octave Octavian Teodorescu, Romanian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1964 – Holger Behrendt, German gymnast
• 1964 – Roddy Frame, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Aztec Camera)
• 1964 – Andre Reed, American football player
• 1964 – Anna Ryder Richardson, Welsh interior designer and television host
• 1965 – Dominik Hašek, Czech ice hockey player
• 1965 – Peter Lundgren, Swedish tennis player and coach
• 1966 – Romário, Brazilian footballer
• 1967 – Stacey King, American basketball player
• 1967 – Cyril Suk, Czech tennis player
• 1968 – Edward Burns, American actor, director, and producer
• 1968 – Susi Erdmann, German bobsledder
• 1968 – Sora Jung, South Korean actress
• 1968 – Aeneas Williams, American football player
• 1969 – Hyde, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (L'Arc-en-Ciel and Vamps)
• 1969 – Paul Warwick, English race car driver (d. 1991)
• 1970 – Heather Graham, American actress
• 1970 – Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer
• 1970 – Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian target shooter and politician
• 1970 – Paul Ryan, American politician
• 1970 – Mohammed Yusuf, Nigerian militant leader, founded Boko Haram (d. 2009)
• 1971 – Clare Balding, English jockey and journalist
• 1972 – Matt Brandstein, American author
• 1972 – Brian Wood, American author and illustrator
• 1973 – Miranda Krestovnikoff, English archaeologist and television host
• 1973 – Jason Schmidt, American baseball player
• 1973 – Raivo Seppo, Estonian author
• 1974 – Michael Andersen, Danish basketball player
• 1975 – Sara Gilbert, American actress
• 1976 – Chris Castle, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 – Charles Divins, American model and actor
• 1976 – Karsten Kroon, Dutch cyclist
• 1977 – Justin Hartley, American actor
• 1977 – Chaly Jones, Dutch footballer
• 1978 – Rob Bironas, American football player (d. 2014)
• 1978 – Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper
• 1978 – Brian Windhorst, American journalist
• 1979 – Marvin Agustin, Filipino actor
• 1979 – Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player
• 1979 – Andrew Keegan, American actor and producer
• 1979 – April Scott, American actress and model
• 1979 – Andreas Thorstensson, Swedish businessman
• 1980 – Yael Bar Zohar, Israeli actress and model
• 1980 – Ingimundur Ingimundarson, Icelandic handball player
• 1980 – Ivan Klasnić, Croatian footballer
• 1980 – Jason James Richter, American actor
• 1981 – Rui En, Singaporean singer and actress
• 1981 – Jonny Lang, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1981 – Darío Lopilato, Argentinian actor
• 1981 – Vladimir Gojković, Montenegrin water polo player
• 1981 – Roberts Mežeckis, Latvian footballer
• 1981 – Álex Ubago, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1982 – Wallis Bird, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1982 – Adam Lambert, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1982 – Heidi Mueller, American actress
• 1982 – Riff Raff (rapper), American rapper
• 1983 – Biagio Pagano, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Nedžad Sinanović, Bosnian basketball player
• 1984 – Diana Arno, Estonian beauty queen
• 1984 – Natalie du Toit, South African swimmer
• 1984 – Nuno Morais, Portuguese footballer
• 1984 – Safee Sali, Malaysian footballer
• 1984 – David Sencar, Austrian footballer
• 1985 – Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
• 1985 – Mikey Hachey, American bass player (Suburban Legends)
• 1985 – Isabel Lucas, Australian actress
• 1985 – Martynas Mažeika, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1985 – Athina Onassis Roussel, French horse rider
• 1986 – Drew Tyler Bell, American actor and dancer
• 1986 – Mark Howard, English footballer
• 1986 – Jair Jurrjens, Dutch baseball player
• 1986 – Simon Vukčević, Montenegrin footballer
• 1987 – José Abreu, Cuban baseball player
• 1987 – Alex Avila, American baseball player
• 1987 – Matthew Wilson, English race car driver
• 1988 – Tatyana Chernova, Russian heptathlete
• 1988 – Stephanie Gilmore, Australian surfer
• 1988 – Shaleum Logan, English footballer
• 1988 – Margarita Žernosekova, Estonian footballer
• 1989 – Kevin Shattenkirk, American ice hockey player
• 1990 – Charlie Cipriano, American lacrosse player
• 1990 – Nick Moody, American football player
• 1990 – Brandon Taylor, American football player
• 1990 – Danielle Parsons, Canadian curler
• 1991 – Rafaël Dias, Portuguese footballer
• 1992 – George Pocheptsov, American painter
• 1992 – Aleksandr Trokhov, Russian footballer
• 1993 – Michelle Larcher de Brito, Portuguese tennis player
• 1993 – Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Japanese singer and model
• 1994 – Lucas Hufnagel, German footballer
• 1994 – Ayane Sakura, Japanese voice actress
• 1996 – Nora Foss al-Jabri, Iraqi-Norwegian singer
• 1996 – Megan Jossa, English actress
• 1996 – Juho Lammikko, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1997 – Ali Jawad al-Sheikh, Bahraini protester (d. 2011)

Deaths

• 1119 – Pope Gelasius II (b. 1060)
• 1342 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
• 1597 – Elias Ammerbach, German organist and composer (b. 1530)
• 1608 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)
• 1647 – Francis Meres, English author (b. 1565)
• 1678 – Jerónimo Lobo, Portuguese missionary (b. 1593)
• 1706 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
• 1737 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney,Scottish soldier (b. 1666)
• 1743 – André-Hercule de Fleury, French cardinal (b. 1653)
• 1763 – Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
• 1820 – George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
• 1829 – Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, French politician (b. 1755)
• 1829 – István Pauli, Hungarian-Slovenian priest (b. 1760)
• 1847 – Athanasios Christopoulos, Greek poet (b. 1772)
• 1870 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
• 1871 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian author (b. 1786)
• 1888 – Edward Lear, English author, poet, and illustrator (b. 1812)
• 1899 – Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (b. 1839)
• 1906 – Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
• 1928 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish field marshal (b. 1861)
• 1933 – Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
• 1934 – Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1941 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and politician, 130th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1871)
• 1944 – William Allen White, American journalist and author (b. 1868)
• 1946 – Harry Hopkins, American politician, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890)
• 1948 – Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta (b. 1900)
• 1950 – Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1885)
• 1951 – Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
• 1956 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)
• 1959 – Winifred Brunton, English-South African painter (b. 1880)
• 1961 – John F. O'Ryan, American general (b. 1874)
• 1962 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer (b. 1875)
• 1963 – Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
• 1964 – Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1966 – Pierre Mercure, Canadian composer (b. 1927)
• 1969 – Allen Welsh Dulles, American banker, lawyer, and diplomat, 5th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1893)
• 1970 – B. H. Liddell Hart, French-English soldier and historian (b. 1895)
• 1975 – Orestis Makris, Greek actor (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)
• 1977 – Freddie Prinze, American comedian and actor (b. 1954)
• 1980 – Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and pianist (b. 1893)
• 1986 – Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1989 – Halina Konopacka, Polish discus thrower and poet (b. 1900)
• 1991 – Yasushi Inoue, Japanese author and poet (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Willie Dixon, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1915)
• 1993 – Adetokunbo Ademola, Nigerian jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of Nigeria (b. 1906)
• 1993 – Ron Kostelnik, American football player (b. 1940)
• 1994 – Ulrike Maier, Austrian skier (b. 1967)
• 1998 – Joseph Alioto, American politician, 36th Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916)
• 1999 – Lili St. Cyr, American model and dancer (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Dick Lane, American football player (b. 1927)
• 2002 – Harold Russell, Canadian-American actor (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Frank Moss, American lawyer and politician (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Janet Frame, New Zealand author (b. 1924)
• 2004 – M. M. Kaye, Indian-English author (b. 1908)
• 2005 – Eric Griffiths, Welsh-Scottish guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, screenwriter, and director (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Barbaro, American race horse (b. 2003)
• 2007 – Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi cult leader (b. 1970)
• 2008 – Raymond Jacobs, American marine, member of the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Philippe Khorsand, French actor (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Bengt Lindström, Swedish painter (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Margaret Truman, American singer and author (b. 1924)
• 2009 – Bill Frindall, English sportscaster and statistician (b. 1939)
• 2009 – Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (b. 1913)
• 2009 – John Martyn, English-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 2011 – Milton Babbitt, American composer, educator, and theorist (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Damien Bona, American historian and journalist (b. 1955)
• 2012 – Ranjit Singh Dyal, Indian general (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Hellen Huisman, Dutch voice actress (b. 1937)
• 2012 – François Migault, French race car driver (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Kell Osborne, American singer (b. 1939)
• 2012 – John Rich, American director and producer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian lawyer and politician, 9th President of Italy (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Gabriel Lawrence Sengol, Indian bishop (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Camilla Williams, American soprano (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Said al-Muragha, Palestinian colonel (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Ferris Ashton, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Frank Hahn, German-English economist and academic (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Anselm Hollo, Finnish-American poet and academic (b. 1934)
• 2013 – Bernard Horsfall, English-Scottish actor (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Butch Morris, American cornet player, composer, and conductor (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Ferrol Sams, American physician and author (b. 1922)
• 2013 – David Taylor, English veterinarian and television host (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Johnny Allen, American pianist and composer (b. 1917)
• 2014 – François Cavanna, French journalist and author (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Lars Andreas Larssen, Norwegian actor (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Jim Mansfield, Irish businessman (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Theodore Millon, American psychologist and academic (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Vytautas Norkus, Lithuanian–American basketball player (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Robert Resnick, American physicist, academic, and author (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Ildefonso P. Santos, Jr., Filipino architect (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Gildas
  • Aquilinus of Milan
  • Juniper
  • Valerius of Trèves
  • January 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Earliest day on which Fat Tuesday can fall, while March 4 is the latest; celebrated on Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. (Christianity)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On this day in Canada