What happened on January 29 ?

1119 - Pope Gelasius II

1342 - Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)

1597 - Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)

1608 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)

1647 - Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)

1676 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)

1678 - Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)

1696 - Ivan V, Russian tsar;reigned from (1682-1689)

1706 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)

1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)

1737 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)

1743 - Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister under Louis XV of France (b. 1653)

1763 - Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)

1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)

1829 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755)

1870 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)

1901 - Milan I, King of Serbia (b. 1855)

1906 - King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)

1918 - Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian counter revolutionary (b. 1861)

1928 - Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)

1933 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)

1934 - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)

1946 - Harry Hopkins, American politician (b. 1890)

1950 - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885)

1951 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)

1956 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)

1962 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875)

1963 - Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)

1964 - Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)

1969 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1893)

1970 - Basil Liddell Hart, British historian (b. 1895)

1977 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)

1977 - Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)

1980 - Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and comedian (b. 1893)

1986 - Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)

1989 - Halina Konopacka Polish athlete (b. 1900)

1991 - Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)

1992 - Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)

1998 - Joseph Alioto, mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916)

1999 - Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b. 1918)

2002 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928)

2002 - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (b. 1914)

2003 - Frank Moss, U.S. Senator from Utah (b. 1911)

2004 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (b. 1908)

2004 - Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937)

2005 - Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940)

2005 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirst (b. 1924)

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