About the day » Tuesday January 29, 1924Calender converter

• Anna Maria Rechters, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Bessel Bak, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 1996)
• Bessel Bak, Amersfoort († 1996)
• Ate Schievink, Harkema-Opeinde († 1960)
• Annie Poel, Castricum († 2013)
• Cornelis Hendricus Jacobus de Vent, Amsterdam († 2007)
• Christiaan Martens Hamstra, Smilde († 2015)
• Charles Drenth, Plainfield, Bremer County, Iowa († 1983)
• * Johanna Maria Petronella de Brouwer, Goirle († 1986)
• Berend Pot († 1968)

• bastiaan RITMEESTER (58), 's-gravendeel
• Akke Sipkes Swierstra (54)
• Abraham Merkus (58), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Adrianus van 't Hof (55), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agatha van der Gaag (76), Rotterdam
• Charles Howard Colket (64), Winter Park, Florida
• Agatha van der Gaag (76), Rotterdam
• Buizerd van Rijn (0), Katwijk aan Zee
• Cornelia Regeer (33), Boskoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Alderen (0), Gilze en Rijen

• 1917 » John Raitt, American actor and singer († 2005)
• 1918 » John Forsythe, American actor († 2010)
• 1921 » Geraldine Pittman Woods, American science administrator and embryologist († 1999)
• 1923 » Jack Burke Jr., American golfer
• 1923 » Paddy Chayefsky, American author and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1926 » Abdus Salam, Pakistani-British physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1996)
• 1926 » Amelita Ramos, 11th First Lady of the Philippines
• 1927 » Edward Abbey, American environmentalist and author († 1989)
• 1929 » Elio Petri, Italian director and screenwriter († 1982)
• 1929 » Joseph Kruskal, American mathematician and computer scientist († 2010)

• 1899 » Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (b. 1839)
• 1906 » Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
• 1928 » Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish field marshal (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Henri Mathias Berthelot, French general during World War I (b. 1861)
• 1933 » Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
• 1934 » Fritz Haber, Polish-German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1941 » Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and politician, 130th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1871)
• 1944 » William Allen White, American journalist and author (b. 1868)
• 1946 » Harry Hopkins, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890)
• 1948 » Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta (b. 1900)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Gerardus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Hendrikus
15. Antonius
16. Arie

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Grietje
15. Helena
16. Alida

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
• February 1 » Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.
• March 25 » On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
• June 26 » The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
• October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
• December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.
• December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.

The temperature on January 29, 1924 was between -1.7 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.