About the day » Saturday January 29, 1955Calender converter

• Jetske (Jetty) Douma, Drogeham, Achtkarspelen († 2010)
• Doodgeboren kind van de Sande, Goirle († 1955)
• Wilhelmus Hubertus van Hemmen, Huissen
• Maximillian-Gaudenz Karl Ludwig Wilhelm zu Törring-Jettenbach († 1997)
• John Ray Todd ?****, Henderson, Henderson, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2020)
• Wanda Emily Jane MacLean, Charlottetown, Queens Co., Prince Edward Island, Canada († 2010)
• Martine Neyrinck, Kortrijk West-Vlaanderen België († 2003)
• Nijmeijer, Denekamp, Overijssel, Nederland
• Kitty VENEMAN, Deventer († 2006)
• Jean Begaud († 1986)

• Antonia Velders (88), Tiel
• Anna Maria Strijbosch (76), Asten
• * Simon Plugge (48), 's Gravenhage
• Cornelis Offerein (82), Zuidwolde
• Antonia Velders (88), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anthony SNOEP (82), Rotterdam
• Abraham Fegely Latshaw (80), Douglass Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Bartholomeus Kuiper (77), Den Helder
• Apolonia Slof (54), Scheveningen
• Bartholomeus Johannes Eernink (68), Rotterdam

• 1953 » Charlie Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1953 » Peter Baumann, German keyboard player and songwriter
• 1953 » Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer († 1995)
• 1954 » Christian Bjelland IV, Norwegian businessman and art collector
• 1954 » Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, actress, and producer, founded Harpo Productions
• 1954 » Terry Kinney, American actor and director
• 1956 » Jan Jakub Kolski, Polish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
• 1957 » Grażyna Miller, Italian journalist and poet
• 1957 » Philippe Dintrans, French rugby player
• 1957 » Ron Franscell, American author and journalist

• 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)
• 1950 » Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1880)
• 1956 » H. L. Mencken, American journalist and critic (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Winifred Brunton, South African painter and illustrator (b. 1880)
• 1962 » Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Robert Frost, American poet and playwright (b. 1874)
• 1964 » Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Peter
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. John
10. Petrus
11. Gerrit
12. Dirk
13. David
14. Adrianus
15. Johan
16. Jacobus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Yvonne
11. Petronella
12. Margaretha
13. Marianne
14. Gerda
15. Marie
16. Helena

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
• April 12 » The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
• July 27 » The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.
• September 16 » The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
• October 26 » After the last Allied troops have left the country, and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares that it will never join a military alliance.
• November 1 » The Vietnam War begins.
• November 19 » National Review publishes its first issue.

The temperature on January 29, 1955 was between 2.1 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.