| 11641 | January 29 | Event | 2015 – Malaysia has officially declared the disappearance of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 an accident and its passengers and crew presumed dead. |
| 11642 | January 29 | Birth | 1584 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647) |
| 11643 | January 29 | Birth | 1632 – Johann Georg Graevius, German scholar and critic (d. 1703) |
| 11644 | January 29 | Birth | 1688 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish-English astronomer, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1772) |
| 11645 | January 29 | Birth | 1703 – Carlmann Kolb, German priest and composer (d. 1765) |
| 11646 | January 29 | Birth | 1711 – Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788) |
| 11647 | January 29 | Birth | 1715 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1777) |
| 11648 | January 29 | Birth | 1717 – Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English field marshal and politician, 19th Governor General of Canada (d. 1797) |
| 11649 | January 29 | Birth | 1718 – Paul Rabaut, French pastor (d. 1794) |
| 11650 | January 29 | Birth | 1737 – Thomas Paine, English-American author, activist, and theorist (d. 1809) |
| 11651 | January 29 | Birth | 1749 – Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808) |
| 11652 | January 29 | Birth | 1754 – Moses Cleaveland, American general, lawyer, and politician, founded Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1806) |
| 11653 | January 29 | Birth | 1756 – Henry Lee III, American general and politician, 9th Governor of Virginia (d. 1818) |
| 11654 | January 29 | Birth | 1761 – Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1849) |
| 11655 | January 29 | Birth | 1782 – Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871) |
| 11656 | January 29 | Birth | 1801 – Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1857) |
| 11657 | January 29 | Birth | 1801 – Horatia Nelson, English daughter of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (d. 1881) |
| 11658 | January 29 | Birth | 1810 – Ernst Kummer, Polish-German mathematician and academic (d. 1893) |
| 11659 | January 29 | Birth | 1843 – William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901) |
| 11660 | January 29 | Birth | 1846 – Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1915) |
| 11661 | January 29 | Birth | 1852 – Frederic Hymen Cowen, British composer (d. 1935) |
| 11662 | January 29 | Birth | 1858 – Henry Ward Ranger, American artist (d. 1916) |
| 11663 | January 29 | Birth | 1860 – Anton Chekhov, Russian physician and author (d. 1904) |
| 11664 | January 29 | Birth | 1862 – Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934) |
| 11665 | January 29 | Birth | 1866 – Julio Peris Brell, Spanish painter (d. 1944) |
| 11666 | January 29 | Birth | 1866 – Romain Rolland, French historian, author, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944) |
| 11667 | January 29 | Birth | 1867 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish journalist and author (d. 1928) |
| 11668 | January 29 | Birth | 1874 – John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1960) |
| 11669 | January 29 | Birth | 1876 – Havergal Brian, English composer (d. 1972) |
| 11670 | January 29 | Birth | 1877 – Georges Catroux, French general and diplomat (d. 1969) |