About the day » Tuesday January 29, 1924Calender converter

• Senden Zenden, Voerendaal
• Adrianus Bartholomeus van Huik, Alphen aan de Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2001)
• Ate Schievink, Harkema-Opeinde († 1960)
• Clasina Johanna van der Ven, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1926)
• Alida Veronika Steneker, Franeker, Nederland († 2014)
• Adrianus van Eldijk, Maasbommel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1944)
• Marinus (Rinus) Baten, Steenbergen († 1944)
• Christianus Johannes Dessing, Soest († 2015)
• Christiaan Martens Hamstra, Smilde († 2015)
• Anna Maria (Annie, Zr. Lidwiena) Rechters, Schiedam († 2008)

• bastiaan RITMEESTER (58), 's-gravendeel
• ADRIANA CATHARINA RIJNDERS (90), UTRECHT
• Agatha van der Gaag (76), Rotterdam
• Catharina Jurgens (91), Loosduinen, Nederland
• Antoinette Jacoba Teunissen (0), Arnhem
• Andries Dekker (27), Koudekerke, Zeeland, NL
• Antje Folkerts Berg van den (59), Terwispel
• Arie Bot (82), goudriaan (zuid holland)
• Akke Sipkes Swierstra (54)
• Adrianus van 't Hof (55), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 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)

• 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.
• March 3 » The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
• March 8 » A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
• April 8 » Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.
• June 26 » The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
• July 11 » Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday.
• September 17 » The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.

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.