| 11671 | January 29 | Birth | 1880 – W. C. Fields, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1946) |
| 11672 | January 29 | Birth | 1884 – Juhan Aavik, Estonian-Swedish composer and conductor (d. 1982) |
| 11673 | January 29 | Birth | 1884 – Douglass Cadwallader, American golfer (d. 1971) |
| 11674 | January 29 | Birth | 1888 – Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (d. 1970) |
| 11675 | January 29 | Birth | 1891 – Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina and educator (d. 1975) |
| 11676 | January 29 | Birth | 1891 – R. Norris Williams, Swiss-American tennis player and banker (d. 1968) |
| 11677 | January 29 | Birth | 1895 – Muna Lee, American poet and author (d. 1965) |
| 11678 | January 29 | Birth | 1901 – Allen B. DuMont, American engineer and broadcaster founded the DuMont Television Network (d. 1965) |
| 11679 | January 29 | Birth | 1901 – E. P. Taylor, Canadian businessman and horse breeder (d. 1989) |
| 11680 | January 29 | Birth | 1905 – Barnett Newman, American painter and etcher (d. 1970) |
| 11681 | January 29 | Birth | 1906 – Joe Primeau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1989) |
| 11682 | January 29 | Birth | 1910 – Colin Middleton, Irish painter and poet (d. 1983) |
| 11683 | January 29 | Birth | 1911 – Peter von Siemens, German businessman (d. 1986) |
| 11684 | January 29 | Birth | 1913 – Victor Mature, American actor and singer (d. 1999) |
| 11685 | January 29 | Birth | 1913 – Daniel Taradash, American director and screenwriter (d. 2003) |
| 11686 | January 29 | Birth | 1913 – Peter von Zahn, German journalist and author (d. 2001) |
| 11687 | January 29 | Birth | 1915 – John Serry, Sr., American accordion player and composer (d. 2003) |
| 11688 | January 29 | Birth | 1918 – John Forsythe, American actor (d. 2010) |
| 11689 | January 29 | Birth | 1920 – José Luis de Vilallonga, Spanish actor and author (d. 2007) |
| 11690 | January 29 | Birth | 1922 – Gerda Steinhoff, German concentration camp guard (d. 1946) |
| 11691 | January 29 | Birth | 1923 – Paddy Chayefsky, American author and screenwriter (d. 1981) |
| 11692 | January 29 | Birth | 1923 – Ivo Robić, Croatian singer-songwriter (d. 2000) |
| 11693 | January 29 | Birth | 1924 – Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990) |
| 11694 | January 29 | Birth | 1925 – Tofiq Bahramov, Azerbaijani footballer and referee (d. 1993) |
| 11695 | January 29 | Birth | 1925 – Raúl Corrales Forno, Cuban photographer (d. 2006) |
| 11696 | January 29 | Birth | 1925 – Robert W. McCollum, American virologist and epidemiologist (d. 2010) |
| 11697 | January 29 | Birth | 1926 – Franco Cerri, Italian guitarist |
| 11698 | January 29 | Birth | 1926 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996) |
| 11699 | January 29 | Birth | 1927 – Edward Abbey, American environmentalist and author (d. 1989) |
| 11700 | January 29 | Birth | 1928 – Lee Shau-kee, Hong Kong businessman, founded Henderson Land Development |