| 11851 | January 29 | Birth | 1998 – Mion Mukaichi, Japanese idol, singer, and actress (AKB48) |
| 11852 | January 29 | Death | 702 – Princess Ōku, Japanese princess (b. 661) |
| 11853 | January 29 | Death | 1119 – Pope Gelasius II (b. 1060) |
| 11854 | January 29 | Death | 1342 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279) |
| 11855 | January 29 | Death | 1597 – Elias Ammerbach, German organist and composer (b. 1530) |
| 11856 | January 29 | Death | 1608 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557) |
| 11857 | January 29 | Death | 1647 – Francis Meres, English author (b. 1565) |
| 11858 | January 29 | Death | 1678 – Jerónimo Lobo, Portuguese missionary and author (b. 1593) |
| 11859 | January 29 | Death | 1706 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638) |
| 11860 | January 29 | Death | 1737 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, Scottish-English field marshal and politician Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1666) |
| 11861 | January 29 | Death | 1743 – André-Hercule de Fleury, French cardinal (b. 1653) |
| 11862 | January 29 | Death | 1763 – Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692) |
| 11863 | January 29 | Death | 1820 – George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738) |
| 11864 | January 29 | Death | 1829 – Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, French politician (b. 1755) |
| 11865 | January 29 | Death | 1829 – István Pauli, Hungarian-Slovenian priest and poet (b. 1760) |
| 11866 | January 29 | Death | 1870 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797) |
| 11867 | January 29 | Death | 1871 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Canadian author (b. 1786) |
| 11868 | January 29 | Death | 1888 – Edward Lear, English author, poet, and illustrator (b. 1812) |
| 11869 | January 29 | Death | 1899 – Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (b. 1839) |
| 11870 | January 29 | Death | 1906 – Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818) |
| 11871 | January 29 | Death | 1928 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish field marshal (b. 1861) |
| 11872 | January 29 | Death | 1933 – Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884) |
| 11873 | January 29 | Death | 1934 – Fritz Haber, Polish-German chemist and engineer Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868) |
| 11874 | January 29 | Death | 1941 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and politician, 130th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1871) |
| 11875 | January 29 | Death | 1944 – William Allen White, American journalist and author (b. 1868) |
| 11876 | January 29 | Death | 1946 – Harry Hopkins, American politician, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890) |
| 11877 | January 29 | Death | 1948 – Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta (b. 1900) |
| 11878 | January 29 | Death | 1950 – Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1885) |
| 11879 | January 29 | Death | 1951 – Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1880) |
| 11880 | January 29 | Death | 1956 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist and critic (b. 1880) |