On This Day — January 29
4124 noted people were born and 2132 died on January 29 in our archive, including Alice Catherine Evans, Kitasato Shibasaburō and Michael Hastings, Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 29
Alice Catherine Evans
1881 – 1975
Kitasato Shibasaburō
1853 – 1931
Michael Hastings, Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick
b. 1958
Sydney Chapman
1888 – 1970
Yeshayahu Leibowitz
1903 – 1994
Abdus Salam
1926 – 1996
Adolf A. Berle
1895 – 1971
Andrzej Trybulec
1941 – 2013
Arai Kentarō
1863 – 1938
Bair Zhamsuev
b. 1959
Beda Dudík
1815 – 1890
Carl Giskra
1820 – 1879
Christian A. Herter, Jr.
1919 – 2007
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
b. 1964
Edward W. Morley
1838 – 1923
Ernst Kummer
1810 – 1893
Ferenc Mádl
1931 – 2011
Friedrich Mohs
1773 – 1839
George Hamilton Kenrick
1850 – 1939
Gheorghe Mironescu
1874 – 1949
Gianni Francesco Mattioli
1940 – 2026
Heinrich Ritter von Wittek
1844 – 1930
Hugo Obermaier
1877 – 1946
James Kendall Hosmer
1834 – 1927
John Trevor Stuart
1929 – 2023
Joseph Smagorinsky
1924 – 2005
Kazimierz Morawski
1852 – 1925
Lateefah Simon
b. 1977
Linda B. Buck
b. 1947
Luboš Kohoutek
1935 – 2023
Mamoru Mohri
b. 1948
Martin Deutsch
1917 – 2002
Nicolas Fuss
1755 – 1826
Oded Béjà
b. 1964
Patrick Lipton Robinson
b. 1944
Paul Ryan
b. 1970
Paul Sally
1933 – 2013
Petru Bogdan
1873 – 1944
Pierre Tchernia
1928 – 2016
Qu Qiubai
1899 – 1935
Rafael Grossi
b. 1961
René Maury
1928 – 2014
Romain Rolland
1866 – 1944
Vladimir Zuyev
1925 – 2003
Wil van der Aalst
b. 1966
Akira Miyawaki
1928 – 2021
Albert Christiaan Willem Beerman
1901 – 1967
Albert Gallatin
1761 – 1849
Aleksander Brückner
1856 – 1939
Aleksander Jaakson
1892 – 1942
Alex B. Morse
b. 1989
Alexej Pludek
1923 – 2002
Alexis Caswell
1799 – 1877
Alfred Church Lane
1863 – 1948
Anatolii Zahorodnii
b. 1951
Anselm von Rothschild
1803 – 1874
Anthony F. Ciampi
1816 – 1893
Anton Gubankov
1965 – 2016
Anton Julius Carlson
1875 – 1956
Antony Leung
b. 1952
Bartholomew W. Hogan
1901 – 1983
Ben Garrod
b. 1982
Bianca Maria Piccinino
1924 – 2025
Bill Barnard
1886 – 1958
Bill Peet
1915 – 2002
Björn Bjuggren
1904 – 1968
Boichi
b. 1973
Bonnie Angelo
1924 – 2017
Christian Colbjørnsen
1749 – 1814
Clare Balding
b. 1971
Cyntoia Brown Long
b. 1988
Daniel François Esprit Auber
1782 – 1871
David Agus
b. 1965
David Tartakover
1944 – 2025
Deborah L. Rhode
1952 – 2021
Dorothy Malone
1924 – 2018
E. P. Taylor
1901 – 1989
Ebenezer Howard
1850 – 1928
Edmond Nocard
1850 – 1903
Edvard Tchivzhel
b. 1944
Edward Abbey
1927 – 1989
Elia Barceló
b. 1957
Elmar Degenhart
b. 1959
Endi E. Poskovic
b. 1969
Enrico Martini
1911 – 1976
Ernst Träger
1926 – 2015
Evgeniy Shapiro
1934 – 2024
Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds
1751 – 1799
Francisco Soc Rodrigo
1914 – 1998
Franklin David Murphy
1916 – 1994
Frederick Robinson, 2nd Marquess of Ripon
1852 – 1923
Georg Gerland
1833 – 1919
George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy
1909 – 1997
Georges Catroux
1877 – 1969
Georges Eugène Charles Beauvisage
1852 – 1925
Georges de Pimodan
1822 – 1860
Germaine Greer
b. 1939
Giovanni Sante Gaspero Santini
1787 – 1877
Guido Knopp
b. 1948
Hassan Habibi
1937 – 2013
Heinrich Blücher
1899 – 1970
Heinrich Liebe
1908 – 1997
Henry Lee III
1756 – 1818
Hirohiko Nakamura
1943 – 2013
Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster
b. 1991
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
1945 – 2022
Ivo Kraus
b. 1936
Jadwiga Puzynina
1928 – 2025
James K. Galbraith
b. 1952
James W. Plummer
1920 – 2013
Jay Gambetta
b. 1979
Jennifer C. Ward
b. 1944
Jerzy Józef Henryk Potocki
1889 – 1961
Jesús Moliné Labarta
b. 1939
Joan Herrera i Torres
b. 1971
Johan Budi
b. 1967
Johann Georg Graevius
1632 – 1703
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
1874 – 1960
John Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie
1847 – 1887
John Rarick
1924 – 2009
Joseph Kruskal
1928 – 2010
Julianne Dalcanton
b. 1968
Julien Balkany
b. 1981
Juquinha das Neves
b. 1947
Justus Henning Böhmer
1674 – 1749
Józefa Joteyko
1866 – 1928
Karol Olszewski
1846 – 1915
Kaspar Velberg
b. 1989
Kees Edelman
1903 – 1964
Khir Johari
1923 – 2006
Kim Kyu-sik
1881 – 1950
L. Jacques Ménard
1946 – 2020
Lidia Yermoshina
b. 1953
Luis Valdivieso Montano
b. 1951
Marco Bersanelli
b. 1960
Marguerite Canal
1890 – 1978
Mark Arndt
b. 1941
Martha Griffiths
1912 – 2003
Mary Jobe Akeley
1878 – 1966
Miranda Krestovnikoff
b. 1973
Molly Meldrum
b. 1943
Moshe-Zvi Neria
1913 – 1995
Olav Rytter
1903 – 1992
Olga Tokarczuk
b. 1962
Oprah Winfrey
b. 1954
Pamela Ronald
b. 1961
Paolo Grossi
1933 – 2022
Pat Dodson
b. 1948
Pat Kenny
b. 1948
Pavel Malkov
b. 1980
Peter Voulkos
1924 – 2002
Placide Nicod
1876 – 1953
Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia
1887 – 1949
Rajyavardhan Rathore
b. 1970
Richard E. Blackwelder
1909 – 2001
Richard Needham
b. 1942
Rickard Sandler
1884 – 1964
Rosa María Cid López
b. 1956
Roy Markham
1916 – 1979
Rudolf Heidenhain
1834 – 1897
Rudolph Carl von Ripper
1905 – 1960
Sacha Distel
1933 – 2004
Samir Shah
b. 1952
Scott Tweedie
b. 1988
Sergei Rudenko
1885 – 1969
Son Myung-soon
1929 – 2024
Stacey King
1967 – 2026
Stanislav Gustavovich Strumilin
1877 – 1974
Sylwia Spurek
b. 1976
Tigran Sargsyan
b. 1960
U. S. Jayawickrama
b. 1930
Uichiro Niwa
1939 – 2025
Victor J. Stenger
1935 – 2014
Vladislav Tumanov
b. 1958
Wacław Jędrzejewicz
1893 – 1993
Walter Lewin
b. 1936
Wellington Koo
1888 – 1985
William F. Kernan
1946 – 2025
William Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale
1826 – 1911
William Robertson
1860 – 1933
Yakov Frenkel
1894 – 1952
Ye Peijian
b. 1945
Yevhen Kushnaryov
1951 – 2007
Yutaka Murakawa
b. 1958
Éric Woerth
b. 1956
İldus Fäyezef
b. 1963
Adam van Koeverden
b. 1982
Adolph Frank
1834 – 1916
Aeneas Williams
b. 1968
Agnė Bilotaitė
b. 1982
Ajay Singh
b. 1974
Ajit Nath Ray
1912 – 2010
Akira Ishihama
1935 – 2022
Alberto Martinez Piedra
1926 – 2021
Aleksandr Golovko
b. 1964
Alexander Chayanov
1888 – 1937
Alexander Gutman
1945 – 2016
Alexander Mamut
b. 1960
Alexandre Soumet
1786 – 1845
Alfred John Church
1829 – 1912
… and 3,924 more
Died on January 29
Freddy Thielemans
1944 – 2022
Fritz Haber
1868 – 1934
Jacques Rivette
1928 – 2016
Jakub Karol Parnas
1884 – 1949
Allen Dulles
1893 – 1969
Antonio Mercader
1944 – 2019
Arai Kentarō
1863 – 1938
Arthur Ware
1861 – 1927
Carlos Ibáñez de Ibero
1825 – 1891
Charles Soubre
1821 – 1895
Dukinfield Henry Scott
1854 – 1934
Emil Lenz
1804 – 1865
Ernst Moritz Arndt
1769 – 1860
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer
1841 – 1917
Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne
1782 – 1853
Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini
1811 – 1889
Helge Seip
1919 – 2004
Jacob Dori
1899 – 1973
James Marjoribanks
1911 – 2003
Jules Petiet
1813 – 1871
Julio Rodríguez Martínez
1928 – 1979
Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui
1798 – 1854
Leslie Peter Wenham
1911 – 1990
Max Weinreich
1894 – 1969
Philippe Morillon
1935 – 2026
Richard Bergh
1858 – 1919
Samuel Guimarães
1939 – 2024
Vladimir Kirillin
1913 – 1999
Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston
1828 – 1909
Adam Zamenhof
1888 – 1940
Adelchi Serena
1895 – 1970
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife
1849 – 1912
Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore
1872 – 1962
Anselm Hollo
1934 – 2013
Archibald Robertson
1853 – 1931
Aristóbulo del Valle
1845 – 1896
Arlette Jouanna
1936 – 2022
Bernard Lamy
1640 – 1715
Boubou Hama
1906 – 1982
Bruno Hildebrand
1812 – 1878
Camilla Williams
1919 – 2012
Charles Frédéric Girard
1822 – 1895
Charles Peers Davidson
1841 – 1929
Chester Lyman
1814 – 1890
Christian IX of Denmark
1818 – 1906
Colleen McCullough
1937 – 2015
Cyril Taylor
1935 – 2018
Dan H. Yaalon
1924 – 2014
Daniel Lysons
1816 – 1898
Dillon Anderson
1906 – 1974
Dmytro Pavlychko
1929 – 2023
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
1861 – 1928
Eduard Georg von Wahl
1833 – 1890
Edward Burtenshaw Sugden
1781 – 1875
Elliot Sperling
1951 – 2017
Esler Dening
1897 – 1977
Frank Hahn
1925 – 2013
Frank Nicklin
1895 – 1978
Frank Press
1924 – 2020
Franz Gürtner
1881 – 1941
François Folie
1833 – 1905
François Noël
1756 – 1841
Fusanosuke Kuhara
1869 – 1965
General Soedirman
1916 – 1950
George Fernandes
1930 – 2019
George Le Hunte
1852 – 1925
George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough
1739 – 1817
Gero Storjohann
1958 – 2023
Giovanni Prodi
1925 – 2010
Gordon H. Mansfield
1941 – 2013
Gregory of Sanok
1406 – 1477
Hans Dragendorff
1870 – 1941
Harry Julian Allen
1910 – 1977
Helge Backlund
1878 – 1958
Henry A. Barnum
1833 – 1892
Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford
1825 – 1914
Hideo Hatoyama
1884 – 1946
Hugh Childers
1827 – 1896
Ian George
1934 – 2019
Ignaz Schustala
1822 – 1891
Ihsan Abbas
1920 – 2003
Ingvald Smith-Kielland
1890 – 1984
Ioan Mire Melik
1840 – 1889
Ioannis Metaxas
1871 – 1941
Ion Ciubuc
1943 – 2018
James Rhyne Killian
1904 – 1988
Janet Frame
1924 – 2004
Jean-Marc Fontaine
1944 – 2019
Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness
1954 – 2026
John K. Singlaub
1921 – 2022
John Parsons Earwaker
1847 – 1895
Joseph Édouard de La Motte-Rouge
1804 – 1883
Ken Harada
1919 – 1997
Ko Ni
1953 – 2017
Lawren Harris
1885 – 1970
Leslie Fiedler
1917 – 2003
Louis-Joseph Seutin
1793 – 1862
Manuel García Barzanallana
1817 – 1892
Marcelle Lentz-Cornette
1927 – 2008
Merritt Ruhlen
1944 – 2021
Milan I Obrenović
1854 – 1901
Nam June Paik
1932 – 2006
Natalia Dudinskaya
1912 – 2003
Nijaz Duraković
1949 – 2012
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
1918 – 2012
Palden Thondup Namgyal
1923 – 1982
Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé
1786 – 1871
Reginald Wingate
1861 – 1953
Reinhold Stecher
1921 – 2013
René Berger
1915 – 2009
Richard Grenier
1933 – 2002
Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough
1686 – 1740
Robert Charles Wallace
1881 – 1955
Robert Frost
1874 – 1963
Robert Fruin
1823 – 1899
Robert Tucker
1832 – 1905
Robert de Lasteyrie
1849 – 1921
Rogier van Otterloo
1941 – 1988
Samuel Atkins Eliot
1798 – 1862
Seth Neddermeyer
1907 – 1988
Simon Lokodo
1957 – 2022
Sitiveni Halapua
1969 – 2023
Sjur Refsdal
1935 – 2009
Sousa Dantas
1831 – 1894
Spartak Nikanorov
1923 – 2015
St Clair Thomson
1853 – 1943
Stuart H. Ingersoll
1898 – 1983
Tenkoko Sonoda
1919 – 2015
Theodore Millon
1928 – 2014
Timothy Pickering
1745 – 1829
Vail M. Pittman
1883 – 1964
Vladimir Kokovtsov
1853 – 1943
Vladimir Saitov
1849 – 1938
Will Steffen
1947 – 2023
William Cranch Bond
1789 – 1859
William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland
1766 – 1842
Yevgeny Leonov
1926 – 1994
Yusuke Hagihara
1897 – 1979
Óli Niklái Skaalum
1849 – 1924
A. A. Bublikov
1875 – 1941
Adolf Dahm-Petersen
1856 – 1922
Alan Ladd
1913 – 1964
Alessandro Mazzucotelli
1865 – 1938
Alexander Heron
1884 – 1971
Alexander Lyman Holley
1832 – 1882
Alexander Pushkin
1799 – 1837
Alexander Vraciu
1918 – 2015
Alexey Andreyevich Khovansky
1814 – 1899
Alf Ahlberg
1892 – 1979
Alf Lüdtke
1943 – 2019
Alice Hibbert-Ware
1869 – 1944
Alice Mathieu-Dubois
1861 – 1942
Allan R. McKinnon
1930 – 2019
Alva L. Hager
1850 – 1923
Ambrose Maréchal
1764 – 1828
André-Hercule de Fleury
1653 – 1743
Anne Goldthwaite
1869 – 1944
Anthony Cordesman
1939 – 2024
Anthony Eisley
1925 – 2003
Antonio Molina
1894 – 1980
Antonio Álvarez de Toledo, 5th Duke of Alba
1568 – 1639
Aram Manukian
1879 – 1919
Armando Palacio Valdés
1853 – 1938
Arthur Peters
1854 – 1908
Augustin Deac
1928 – 2004
B. H. Liddell Hart
1895 – 1970
Baba Iqbal Singh
1926 – 2022
Beatrice Blackwood
1889 – 1975
Borislav Milošević
1936 – 2013
Bruno Marek
1900 – 1991
Carl Nelson Gorman
1907 – 1998
Carl van Dockum
1804 – 1893
Carlo Brioschi
1782 – 1833
Charles Abbatucci
1816 – 1885
Charles Bertier
1821 – 1882
Charles Holland Duell
1850 – 1920
Charles Lewis Beale
1824 – 1900
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset
1638 – 1706
Charles Todd
1826 – 1910
Christian Gerhard Overbeck
1784 – 1846
Clarence B. Culbertson
1869 – 1951
Claudius Crozet
1789 – 1864
Craig Tracy
1945 – 2026
Cyril Atkinson
1874 – 1967
Cyrus David Foss
1834 – 1910
David McKee Hall
1918 – 1960
Donald C. McRuer
1826 – 1898
Duarte de Menezes, 3rd Count of Viana
1414 – 1464
E. L. Senanayake
1920 – 2000
Edouard Rod
1857 – 1910
Edward D. Taussig
1847 – 1921
Edward Robert Harrison
1919 – 2007
Emil von Höegh
1865 – 1915
Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1784 – 1844
Ethel Williams
1863 – 1948
Eugène Thomas
1903 – 1969
Evgeny Agranovich
1918 – 2010
Federigo De Larderel
1815 – 1876
Filippo Giudice Caracciolo
1785 – 1844
Frances Goodrich
1890 – 1984
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