Deaths on 29 January
2000s
Salwan Momika
2025
Iraqi refugee and anti-Muslim demonstrator (1986–2025)
Richard Williamson (bishop)
2025
British excommunicated Catholic bishop (1940–2025)
Vadim Naumov
2025
Russian pair skater (1969–2025)
Evgenia Shishkova
2025
Russian pair skater and coach (1972–2025)
Inna Volyanskaya
2025
Russian pair skater (1965–2025)
Alexandr Kirsanov
2025
Russian-American ice dancer (1978–2025)
Hazel McCallion
2023
Canadian politician (1921–2023)
Will Steffen
2023
Climate scientist (1947–2023)
Gero Storjohann
2023
German politician (1958–2023)
Howard Hesseman
2022
American actor (1940–2022)
Walker Boone
2021
Canadian actor (1944–2021)
George Fernandes
2019
Indian trade unionist and politician (1930–2019)
James Ingram
2019
American singer, songwriter, and record producer (1952–2019)
Jean-Marie Doré
2016
20th and 21st-century Guinean Prime Minister
Jacques Rivette
2016
French film director, screenwriter and film critic
Colleen McCullough
2015
Australian author (1937–2015)
Rod McKuen
2015
American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer (1933–2015)
Alexander Vraciu
2015
US Navy fighter pilot
Ranjit Singh Dyal
2012
Indian Army general (1928–2012)
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
2012
President of Italy from 1992 to 1999
Camilla Williams
2012
American opera singer (1919–2012)
Milton Babbitt
2011
American composer (1916–2011)
Hélio Gracie
2009
Brazilian co-inventor of Brazilian jiu-jitsu (1913–2009)
John Martyn
2009
British musician (1948–2009)
Margaret Truman
2008
American writer and daughter of President Harry S. Truman (1924–2008)
Nam June Paik
2006
South Korean video artist (1932–2006)
Ephraim Kishon
2005
Israeli author and filmmaker (1924–2005)
Janet Frame
2004
New Zealand author (1924–2004)
Frank Moss
2003
American politician
Harold Russell
2002
American veteran and actor (1914–2002)
1900s
Lili St. Cyr
1999
American model and burlesque performer (1917–1999)
Ulrike Maier
1994
Austrian alpine skier (1967–1994)
Adetokunbo Ademola
1993
Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1958 to 1972
Willie Dixon
1992
American blues musician (1915–1992)
Yasushi Inoue
1991
Japanese writer (1907–1991)
Morton DaCosta
1989
American dramatist
James Rhyne Killian
1988
American college president (1904–1988)
Vincent R. Impellitteri
1987
American politician and jurist (1900–1987)
Frances Goodrich
1984
American writer
John Macnaghten Whittaker
1984
British mathematician (1905–1984)
Stuart H. Ingersoll
1983
United States Navy admiral
Rudolph Peters
1982
British biochemist (1889–1982)
Roger Stanier
1982
Canadian microbiologist (1916–1982)
Charles Sykes (metallurgist)
1982
British physicist and metallurgist (1905-1982)
Jack A. W. Bennett
1981
New Zealand literary scholar
John Glassco
1981
Canadian poet and writer (1909–1981)
Jimmy Durante
1980
American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist (1893–1980)
Sonny Payne
1979
American jazz drummer (1926–1979)
Tim McCoy
1978
American actor and television host (1891–1978)
Frank Nicklin
1978
Australian politician (1895–1978)
Johnny Franz
1977
English record producer (1922–1977)
Freddie Prinze
1977
American actor and comedian (1954–1977)
Jesse Fuller
1976
American one-man band musician (1896–1976)
H. E. Bates
1974
British writer (1905–1974)
Johannes Paul Thilman
1973
German composer
Lawren Harris
1970
Canadian painter (1885–1970)
B. H. Liddell Hart
1970
British historian and military theorist (1895–1970)
Allen Dulles
1969
Director of Central Intelligence from 1953 to 1961
Max Weinreich
1969
American linguist (1894–1969)
Harold Munro Fox
1967
English zoologist (1889–1967)
Pierre Mercure
1966
Canadian musician and producer (1927–1966)
Jack Hylton
1965
English pianist, composer, bandleader and impresario (1892–1965)
Vera Hall
1964
American folk and blues singer (1902–1964)
Alan Ladd
1964
American actor (1913–1964)
Robert Frost
1963
American poet (1874–1963)
Fritz Kreisler
1962
Austrian-American violinist and composer (1875–1962)
William Francis Gray Swann
1962
English physicist (1884–1962)
Angela Thirkell
1961
British and Australian novelist (1890–1961)
Mack Harrell
1960
American baritone (1909–1960)
George S. Messersmith
1960
American diplomat (1883-1960)
Pauline Smith
1959
H. L. Mencken
1956
American journalist and writer (1880–1956)
Hans Hedtoft
1955
Prime Minister of Denmark (1903–1955)
Walter Conrad Arensberg
1954
American art collector, critic and poet
James Bridie
1951
Scottish playwright, screenwriter and physician (1888–1951)
Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta
1948
Italian prince and nominal king of Croatia (1900–1948)
Harry Hopkins
1946
American New Deal administrator and WWII diplomat (1890–1946)
Sidney Jones (composer)
1946
English conductor and composer
William Allen White
1944
American newspaper editor and Progressive leader (1868–1944)
Ioannis Metaxas
1941
Greek military officer and politician (1871–1941)
Edward Harkness
1940
American philanthropist
Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
1935
American explorer (1853–1935)
Fritz Haber
1934
German chemist (1868–1934)
Dukinfield Henry Scott
1934
British botanist
Sara Teasdale
1933
American writer and poet (1884–1933)
Jacques Bouhy
1929
Belgian baritone (1848–1929)
Charles Fox Parham
1929
American preacher and evangelist (1873–1929)
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
1928
British field marshal (1861–1928)
Elihu Vedder
1923
American painter (1836–1923)
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer
1917
British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator (1841–1917)
Sibylle von Olfers
1916
German art teacher, nun, author and illustrator
Herman Bang
1912
Danish journalist and author (1857–1912)
Édouard Rod
1910
French-Swiss novelist
Christian IX
1906
King of Denmark from 1863 to 1906
Eugène Louis-Marie Jancourt
1901
French bassoonist, composer, and pedagogue
1800s
Alfred Sisley
1899
19th-century France-based British painter
Edward Lear
1888
British artist and writer (1812–1888)
Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany
1870
Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1824 to 1859
Paul Barras
1829
French politician, nobleman and military officer (1755-1829)
George III
1820
King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820
Before 1800
Juan José Eguiara y Eguren
1763
Mexican bishop (1696–1763)
Louis Racine
1763
French poet (1692–1763)
André-Hercule de Fleury
1743
French cardinal and statesman (1653–1743)
George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney
1737
British army officer (1666–1737)
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset
1706
English politician, courtier and poet
Jerónimo Lobo
1678
Portuguese Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia (1595–1678)
Francis Meres
1647
English churchman and author (1565/1566–1647)
Elias Ammerbach
1597
German organist and transcriber
Pope Gelasius II
1119
Head of the Catholic Church from 1118 to 1119
AD 757
757
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