About the day » Tuesday January 29, 2008Calender converter

• Marieke Eline vos, Arnhem
• Shelby Devine, Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington, Verenigde Staten († 2008)

• Anneke Peter
• Clasina Elisabeth van Wouw (76), Leiden
• Cornelia Margaretha Fokker (88), Laren
• Antonia van der Burg (88)
• Bontje Hulshoff (89), Leeuwarden
• Annie Dijxhoorn (87), Zeist, Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Bote DOEVENDANS (51), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Clara Johanna van Iddekinge (97), Winsum
• Aagje Niedeveld (72), Rotterdam
• Betty J. Fenstermaker

• 1982 » Adam Lambert, American singer, songwriter and actor
• 1984 » Natalie du Toit, South African swimmer
• 1984 » Nuno Morais, Portuguese footballer
• 1985 » Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
• 1987 » José Abreu, Cuban baseball player
• 1988 » Aydın Yılmaz, Turkish footballer
• 1988 » Shay Logan, English footballer
• 1988 » Tatyana Chernova, Russian heptathlete
• 1989 » Kevin Shattenkirk, American ice hockey player
• 1993 » Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Japanese singer

• 2004 » Janet Frame, New Zealand author and poet (b. 1924)
• 2005 » Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, screenwriter, and director (b. 1924)
• 2006 » Nam June Paik, South Korean-American artist, (b. 1932)
• 2008 » Bengt Lindström, Swedish painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
• 2008 » Margaret Truman, American singer and author (b. 1924)
• 2009 » Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (b. 1913)
• 2011 » Milton Babbitt, American composer, educator, and theorist (b. 1916)
• 2012 » Camilla Williams, American soprano and educator (b. 1919)
• 2012 » Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian lawyer and politician, 9th President of Italy (b. 1918)
• 2012 » Ranjit Singh Dyal, Indian general and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry (b. 1928)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
• February 24 » Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32 years. He remains as head of the Communist Party for another three years.
• May 12 » An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
• August 1 » Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
• August 6 » A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
• October 29 » Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.
• November 26 » Mumbai attacks, a series of terrorist attacks killing approximately 166 citizens by 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan based extremist Islamist terrorist organisation, and the ship, Queen Elizabeth 2 is out of service, and docks in Dubai.

The temperature on January 29, 2008 was between 5.7 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.