January 29

Events

Pre-1600

* 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
* 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire. He is succeeded by Al-Muti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate.
*1258 – First Mongol invasion of Đại Việt: Đại Việt defeats the Mongols at the battle of Đông Bộ Đầu, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country.

1601–1900

* 1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
* 1819 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
* 1845 – " The Raven" is published in ''The Evening Mirror'' in New York, 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 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 – The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men, women and children.
* 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
* 1891 – Liliʻuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

1901–present

* 1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
*1911 – Mexican Revolution: Mexicali is captured by the Mexican Liberal Party, igniting the Magonista rebellion of 1911.
*1918 – Ukrainian–Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kyiv, 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 Nishinari Line; present Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. One hundred and eighty-one people are killed.
* 1941 – Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas.
* 1943 – World War II: The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, 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 completely destroyed in an air-raid, during the Second World War.
* 1959 – The first Melodifestivalen is held in Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden.
* 1963 – The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
* 1973 – EgyptAir Flight 741 crashes into the Kyrenia Mountains in Cyprus, killing 37 people.
*1980 – The Rubik's Cube makes its international debut at the Ideal Toy Corp. in Earl's Court, London.
* 1983 – Singapore cable car crash: Panamanian-registered oil rig, ''Eniwetok'', strikes the cables of the Singapore Cable Car system linking the mainland and Sentosa Island, causing two cabins to fall into the water and killing seven people and leaving thirteen others trapped for hours.
*1989 – Cold War: 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 between Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
* 1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
* 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.
* 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.
*2014 – Rojava conflict: The Afrin Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.
* 2017 – Quebec City mosque shooting: Alexandre Bissonnette opens fire at mosque in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, killing six and wounding 19 others in a spree shooting.
* 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Trump administration establishes the White House Coronavirus Task Force under Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar.

Births

Pre-1600

*133 – Didius Julianus, Roman emperor (probable; d. 193)
* 919 – Shi Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (d. 951)
*1455 – Johann Reuchlin, German-born humanist and scholar (d. 1522)
* 1475 – Giuliano Bugiardini, Italian painter (d. 1555)
* 1499 – Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther; formerly a Roman Catholic nun (d. 1552)
* 1525 – Lelio Sozzini, Italian humanist and reformer (d. 1562)
* 1584 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)
* 1591 – Franciscus Junius, pioneer of Germanic philology (d. 1677)

1601–1900

* 1602 – Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1651)
* 1632 – Johann Georg Graevius, German scholar and critic (d. 1703)
* 1650 – Juan de Galavís, Spanish archbishop of Santo Domingo and Bogotá (d. 1739)
* 1688 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish astronomer, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1772)
*1711 – Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788)
* 1715 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian organist and 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 political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary (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 ethnologist, linguist, and 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)
* 1810 – Ernst Kummer, Polish-German mathematician and academic (d. 1893)
* 1810 – Mary Whitwell Hale, American teacher, school founder, and hymnwriter (d. 1862)
*1843 – William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)
* 1846 – Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1915)
* 1852 – Frederic Hymen Cowen, Jamaican-English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1935)
* 1858 – Henry Ward Ranger, American painter and academic (d. 1916)
*1860 – Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (d. 1904)
* 1861 – Florida Ruffin Ridley, American civil rights activist, teacher, editor, and writer (d. 1943)
*1862 – Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)
* 1866 – Julio Peris Brell, Spanish painter (d. 1944)
* 1866 – Romain Rolland, French historian, author, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
* 1867 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish journalist and author (d. 1928)
*1870 – Süleyman Nazif, Turkish poet and civil servant (d. 1927)
*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, comedian, and screenwriter (d. 1946)
* 1881 – Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist (d. 1975)
* 1884 – Juhan Aavik, Estonian-Swedish composer and conductor (d. 1982)
* 1888 – Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (d. 1970)
* 1888 – Wellington Koo, Chinese statesman (d. 1985)
* 1891 – Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina and educator (d. 1975)
* 1891 – R. Norris Williams, Swiss-American tennis player and banker (d. 1968)
* 1892 – Ernst Lubitsch, German American film director, producer, writer, and actor (d. 1947)
* 1895 – Muna Lee, American poet and author (d. 1965)

1901–present

* 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)
* 1903 – Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Russian-Israeli biochemist and philosopher (d. 1994)
* 1905 – Barnett Newman, American painter and etcher (d. 1970)
* 1906 – Joe Primeau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1989)
* 1913 – Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)
* 1915 – Bill Peet, American author and illustrator (d. 2002)
* 1915 – John Serry Sr., Italian-American concert accordionist and composer (d. 2003)
* 1917 – John Raitt, American actor and singer (d. 2005)
*1918 – John Forsythe, American actor (d. 2010)
*1920 – Paul Gayten, American R&B pianist, songwriter, producer, and record company executive (d. 1991)
*1921 – Geraldine Pittman Woods, American science administrator and embryologist (d. 1999)
* 1923 – Jack Burke Jr., American golfer
* 1923 – Paddy Chayefsky, American author and screenwriter (d. 1981)
* 1923 – Eddie Taylor, American electric blues guitarist and singer (d. 1985)
* 1926 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani-British physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
* 1927 – Edward Abbey, American environmentalist and author (d. 1989)
*1928 – Joseph Kruskal, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2010)
* 1929 – Elio Petri, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1982)
* 1931 – Leslie Bricusse, English playwright and composer (d. 2021)
* 1931 – Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian academic and politician, 2nd President of Hungary (d. 2011)
*1932 – Raman Subba Row, English cricketer and referee
* 1932 – Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
*1933 – Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (d. 2004)
* 1934 – Branko Miljković, Serbian poet and academic (d. 1961)
* 1936 – James Jamerson, American bass player (d. 1983)
* 1936 – Veturi, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 2010)
* 1937 – Jeff Clyne, British musician (d. 2009)
* 1937 – Hassan Habibi, Iranian lawyer and politician, 1st Vice President of Iran (d. 2013)
* 1937 – Bobby Scott, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 1990)
* 1939 – Germaine Greer, Australian journalist and author
* 1939 – Jeanne Lee, American jazz singer, poet and composer (d. 2000)
* 1940 – Justino Díaz, Puerto Rican opera singer
* 1940 – Katharine Ross, American actress and author
* 1940 – Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and race car driver (d. 2022)
* 1941 – Robin Morgan, American actress, journalist, and author
* 1943 – Tony Blackburn, English radio and television host
* 1943 – Pat Quinn, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)
* 1943 – Mark Wynter, English singer and actor
*1944 – Andrew Loog Oldham, English record producer and manager
* 1944 – Patrick Lipton Robinson, Jamaican lawyer and judge
* 1944 – Pauline van der Wildt, Dutch swimmer
* 1945 – Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Malian academic and politician, Prime Minister of Mali (d. 2022)
* 1945 – Jim Nicholson, Northern Irish politician
* 1945 – Tom Selleck, American actor and businessman
* 1946 – Geater Davis, American singer and songwriter (d. 1984)
* 1946 – Bettye LaVette, American singer-songwriter
* 1947 – Linda B. Buck, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1947 – David Byron, English singer-songwriter (d. 1985)
* 1947 – Marián Varga, Slovak organist and composer (d. 2017)
* 1948 – Raymond Keene, English chess player and author
* 1948 – Cristina Saralegui, Cuban-American journalist, actress and talk show host
* 1949 – Doris Davenport, American poet and teacher
* 1949 – Evgeny Lovchev, Russian footballer and manager
* 1949 – Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer and producer (d. 2014)
* 1950 – Ann Jillian, American actress and singer
* 1950 – Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver and sportscaster
* 1950 – Miklós Vámos, Hungarian writer, novelist, screenwriter and translator
* 1951 – Fereydoon Forooghi, Iranian singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
* 1951 – Andy Roberts, Caribbean cricketer
* 1952 – Pete Geren, American attorney and politician
* 1952 – Tim Healy, British actor
*1953 – Peter Baumann, German keyboard player and songwriter
* 1953 – Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)
* 1953 – Charlie Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer
* 1954 – Christian Bjelland IV, Norwegian businessman and art collector
* 1954 – Terry Kinney, American actor and director
* 1954 – Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, actress, and producer, founded Harpo Productions
*1955 – John Tate, American boxer, WBA heavyweight champion (d. 1998)
*1956 – Jan Jakub Kolski, Polish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
* 1956 – Irlene Mandrell, American musician, actress, and model
* 1956 – Amii Stewart, American singer and dancer
* 1957 – Philippe Dintrans, French rugby player
* 1957 – Ron Franscell, American author and journalist
* 1957 – Grażyna Miller, Polish journalist and poet (d. 2009)
*1958 – Judy Norton, American actress and theater director
* 1959 – Mike Foligno, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
*1960 – Gia Carangi, American supermodel (d. 1986)
* 1960 – Cho-liang Lin, Taiwanese-American musician
* 1960 – Greg Louganis, American diver and author
*1961 – Strive Masiyiwa, Zimbabwean businessman and philanthropist
* 1961 – Petra Thümer, German swimmer and photographer
* 1962 – Gauri Lankesh, Indian journalist and activist (d. 2017)
* 1962 – Lee Terry, American politician and lawyer
* 1962 – Nicholas Turturro, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1964 – Roddy Frame, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician
*1965 – David Agus, American physician and author
* 1965 – Dominik Hašek, Czech ice hockey player
* 1966 – Romário, Brazilian footballer, manager, and politician
* 1967 – Stacey King, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
*1968 – Monte Cook, American game designer and writer
* 1968 – Susi Erdmann, German luger and bobsledder
*1969 – Sam Trammell, American actor
* 1970 – Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian colonel and politician
* 1970 – Heather Graham, American actress
* 1970 – Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer
* 1970 – Paul Ryan, American politician, 62nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
* 1970 – Mohammed Yusuf, Nigerian Islamist leader, founded Boko Haram (d. 2009)
*1971 – Clare Balding, English broadcaster, journalist and author
* 1972 – Brian Wood, American writer, illustrator and graphic designer
* 1973 – Megan McArdle, American journalist
*1975 – Sharif Atkins, American actor
* 1975 – Sara Gilbert, American actress, producer, and talk show host
* 1977 – Justin Hartley, American actor
* 1977 – Sam Jaeger, American actor and screenwriter
* 1979 – Christina Koch, American engineer and astronaut
*1980 – Ivan Klasnic, German-Croatian footballer
* 1980 – Jason James Richter, American actor and musician
* 1981 – Jonny Lang, American singer, songwriter and guitarist
* 1982 – Adam Lambert, American singer, songwriter and actor
* 1984 – Natalie du Toit, South African swimmer
* 1984 – Nuno Morais, Portuguese footballer
* 1985 – Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
* 1985 – Isabel Lucas, Australian actress and model
* 1987 – José Abreu, Cuban baseball player
* 1987 – Jessica Burkhart, American author
* 1988 – Ayobami Adebayo, Nigerian author
* 1988 – Jake Auchincloss, American politician, businessman, and Marine veteran
* 1988 – Shay Logan, English footballer
*1989 – Kevin Shattenkirk, American ice hockey player
* 1992 – Markel Brown, American basketball player
* 1993 – Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Japanese singer

Deaths

Pre-1600

* 661 – Ali, cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad (b. 601)
* 702 – Princess Ōku of Japan (b. 661)
* 757 – An Lushan, Chinese general (b. 703)
* 870 – Salih ibn Wasif, Muslim general
* 1119 – Pope Gelasius II (b. 1060)
* 1327 – Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1300)
* 1465 – Louis, Duke of Savoy (b. 1413)
* 1597 – Elias Ammerbach, German organist and composer (b. 1530)

1601–1900

* 1608 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)
* 1647 – Francis Meres, English priest and author (b. 1565)
* 1678 – Jerónimo Lobo, Portuguese missionary and author (b. 1593)
* 1706 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1643)
* 1737 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, Scottish-English field marshal and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (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 Barras, French captain and politician (b. 1755)
* 1829 – István Pauli, Hungarian-Slovenian priest and poet (b. 1760)
*1870 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
*1871 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian author (b. 1786)
* 1888 – Edward Lear, English poet and illustrator (b. 1812)
* 1899 – Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (b. 1839)

1901–present

* 1901 – Eugène Louis-Marie Jancourt, French bassoonist, composer and pedagogue (b. 1815)
* 1906 – Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
* 1910 – Édouard Rod, French-Swiss novelist (b. 1857)
*1912 – Herman Bang, Danish journalist and author (b. 1857)
* 1916 – Sibylle von Olfers, German art teacher, author and nun (b. 1881)
* 1917 – Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator (b. 1841)
* 1923 – Elihu Vedder, American symbolist painter, book illustrator and poet (b. 1836)
*1928 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish field marshal (b. 1861)
* 1929 – Jacques Bouhy, Belgian baritone (b. 1848)
* 1929 – Charles Fox Parham, American preacher and evangelist (b. 1873)
*1933 – Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
* 1934 – Fritz Haber, Polish-German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
* 1934 – Dukinfield Henry Scott, British botanist (b. 1854)
* 1935 – Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, American explorer (b. 1853)
* 1940 – Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (b. 1874)
* 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 businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890)
* 1946 – Sidney Jones, English conductor and composer (b. 1861)
* 1948 – Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta (b. 1900)
* 1950 – Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1885)
* 1951 – James Bridie, Scottish playwright, screenwriter and physician (b. 1888)
* 1951 – Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1880)
* 1954 – Walter Conrad Arensberg, American art collector, critic and poet (b. 1878)
*1955 – Hans Hedtoft, Danish politician (b. 1903)
*1956 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist and critic (b. 1880)
* 1959 – Winifred Brunton, South African painter and illustrator (b. 1880)
* 1959 – Pauline Smith, South African novelist, short story writer, memoirist and playwright (b. 1882)
*1960 – Mack Harrell, American operatic and concert baritone vocalist (b. 1909)
* 1960 – George S. Messersmith, American diplomat (b. 1883)
*1961 – Angela Thirkell, English novelist (b. 1890)
* 1962 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer (b. 1875)
* 1962 – William Francis Gray Swann, Anglo-American physicist (b. 1884)
* 1963 – Robert Frost, American poet and playwright (b. 1874)
* 1964 – Vera Hall, American folk singer (b. 1902)
* 1964 – Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)
*1965 – Jack Hylton, English pianist, composer, band leader and impresario (b. 1892)
* 1966 – Pierre Mercure, Canadian composer, TV producer, bassoonist and administrator (b. 1927)
*1969 – Allen Dulles, American banker, lawyer, and diplomat, 5th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1893)
* 1970 – Lawren Harris, Canadian painter (b. 1885)
* 1970 – B. H. Liddell Hart, French-English soldier, historian, and journalist (b. 1895)
* 1973 – Johannes Paul Thilman, German composer (b. 1903)
* 1974 – H. E. Bates, English writer (b. 1905)
* 1976 – Jesse Fuller, American one-man band musician (b. 1896)
* 1977 – Johnny Franz, English record producer and pianist (b. 1922)
* 1977 – Freddie Prinze, American comedian and actor (b. 1954)
* 1978 – Tim McCoy, American actor and military officer (b. 1891)
* 1978 – Frank Nicklin, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Queensland (b. 1895)
* 1979 – Sonny Payne, American jazz drummer (b. 1926)
*1980 – Jimmy Durante, American entertainer (b. 1893)
* 1981 – Jack A. W. Bennett, New Zealander literary scholar (b. 1911)
* 1981 – John Glassco, Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist (b. 1909)
* 1983 – Stuart H. Ingersoll, American naval aviator, USN vice admiral (b. 1898)
* 1984 – Frances Goodrich, American actress, dramatist and screenwriter (b. 1890)
* 1987 – Vincent R. Impellitteri, American politician and judge, 101st Mayor of New York City (b. 1900)
* 1988 – James Rhyne Killian, American educator, scientist and White House advisor (b. 1904)
*1989 – Morton DaCosta, American theatre and film director, film producer, writer and actor (b. 1914)
* 1991 – Yasushi Inoue, Japanese author and poet (b. 1907)
* 1992 – Willie Dixon, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1915)
* 1993 – Adetokunbo Ademola, Nigerian lawyer and jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of Nigeria (b. 1906)
*1994 – Ulrike Maier, Austrian skier (b. 1967)
*1999 – Lili St. Cyr, American model and dancer (b. 1918)
* 2002 – Harold Russell, Canadian-American soldier and actor (b. 1914)
* 2003 – Frank Moss, American lawyer and politician (b. 1911)
* 2004 – Janet Frame, New Zealand author and poet (b. 1924)
* 2005 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, screenwriter, and director (b. 1924)
* 2006 – Nam June Paik, South Korean-American artist (b. 1932)
*2008 – Bengt Lindström, Swedish painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
* 2008 – Margaret Truman, American singer and author (b. 1924)
* 2009 – Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (b. 1913)
* 2009 – John Martyn, British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
* 2011 – Milton Babbitt, American composer, educator, and theorist (b. 1916)
* 2012 – Ranjit Singh Dyal, Indian general and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry (b. 1928)
* 2012 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian lawyer and politician, 9th President of Italy (b. 1918)
* 2012 – Camilla Williams, American soprano and educator (b. 1919)
*2014 – François Cavanna, French journalist and author (b. 1923)
* 2015 – Colleen McCullough, Australian neuroscientist, author, and academic (b. 1937)
* 2015 – Rod McKuen, American singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1933)
* 2015 – Alexander Vraciu, American commander and pilot (b. 1918)
* 2016 – Jean-Marie Doré, Guinean lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Guinea (b. 1938)
* 2016 – Jacques Rivette, French director, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1928)
* 2019 – George Fernandes, Indian politician (b. 1930)
* 2019 – James Ingram, American musician (b. 1952)
* 2021 – Walker Boone, Canadian actor (b. 1944)
* 2022 – Howard Hesseman, American actor (b. 1940)

Holidays and observances

* Christian feast day:
** Andrei Rublev ( Episcopal Church (USA))
** Aquilinus of Milan
** Constantius of Perugia
** Dallán Forgaill
** Gildas
** Juniper
** Sabinian of Troyes
** Sulpitius I of Bourges
** Valerius of Trèves
** January 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*Earliest day on which Fat Thursday can fall, while March 4 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday before Ash Wednesday. (Christianity)
*Kansas Day (Kansas, United States)

References

External links

BBC: On This Day
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