Discover what happened on 29 January 1945 in history! This day marks a series of notable events, famous births, and significant deaths. Explore the details below to learn more about the historical happenings of this day. On this day, history comes alive!
Deaths
- Antoni Ostrowski
- Stanisław Kolankowski
- Aleksander Chojnacki
- Roman Minga
- Emil Kaszuba
- Roman Idasiak
- Julian Kujawski
- Elise Leplae
- Karl Fübinger (victim of National Socialism from Berlin)
- Tadeusz Dyniawski (Dyniowski)
- George Frederick Havill ((1865-1945))
- Antal Gyárfás (Hungarian architect (1881–1945))
- Otto Kroeger (victim of National Socialism from Berlin)
- Elise Leplae
- Karl Fübinger (victim of National Socialism from Berlin)
- Tadeusz Dyniawski (Dyniowski)
- George Frederick Havill ((1865-1945))
- Antal Gyárfás (Hungarian architect (1881–1945))
- Otto Kroeger (victim of National Socialism from Berlin)
- Francis A. Flaks (American architect, active in Chicago)
- Asunción Menéndez Fernández
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- Hans Conrad Leipelt (active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany)
- Emil Schön (German fencer (1872–1945))
- Gustav Flatow (German gymnast (1875-1945))
- Giuseppe Baldi (Italian footballer (1905-1945))
- Ilonka Szabó (opera singer, screenwriter (1911-1945))
- Karl Heinrich Schäfer (German historian and archivist (1871–1945))
- Josef Höhn (German politician (1902-1945))
- Kurt Riedel (German jurist (1903-1945))
- Rudolf Seiffert (German baker (1908–1945))
- Ilya Golosov (Russian architect (1883–1945))
- Wilhelm Cornelius Werhahn (German entrepreneur (1891-1945))
- Andrea Schivo
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- Feodosiy Gorbach
- Yakov Strepanovich Zadorozhny (Hero of the Soviet Union (1912-1945))
- Yuriy Ivliyev (Hero of the Soviet Union (1923–1945))
- Nikolay Krasnov (Soviet fighter pilot (1914-1945))
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- Arthur Wollaston Bartholomew (English cricketer (1878-1945))
- Austin Clarke (Canadian politician)
- Johannes Kolf
- Thomas Harrison Butler (British doctor (1871–1945))
- Grigory Shostatsky (Soviet military officer)
- German Molodov (Soviet military personnel)
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- Vasily Isakov
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- Rafel Vich i Bennàssar (Spanish organist (1893-1945))
- Aleksandrs Mateass (Latvian military officer)
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- Petras Gužas
- Masami Nakamura (Japanese baseball player (1924-1945))
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- Karl Lüdtke (German politician)
- Herbert Splanemann
- Eugenio di Mattei
- James Galbraith (judge and politician, died 1945)
- Dimitris Vitris (Greek painter)
- Josef Losch
- Karl Holzfäller (victim of National Socialism from Berlin)
- Friedrich Tischler (German ornithologist)
- Maksym Ostrovskyi
- Naitō Hisahiro
- Ulrich Mundt
- Edgardo Fogli
- Egmont Schultz (victim of National Socialism from Berlin)
- Herman Huber Kuyper (Dutch professor (1864-1945))
- Denyse Le Lasseur (French archeologist, orientalist (1889-1945))
- Johanna Antonia Maria Bartels-Striethorst (Dutch resistance fighter)
- Georges Maerckaert
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- Bertalan Szepesházy (Hungarian soldier, politician (1890-1945))
- Otto Fabian (holocaust victim, b. 1915-09-22)
- Juda Friedmann (Holocaust victim (born 1896))
- Stefano Idzkowski (Polish-born Italian librarian (1875-1945))
- Gottfried Fuchs (German clergyman)
- Antonín Fried (holocaust victim, b. 1872-10-08)
- Martha Wittkower (holocaust victim, b. 1876-01-14)
- Fritz Sommer (Holocaust victim (born 1894))
- Josef Last (holocaust victim, b. 1894-08-25)
- Gosen Murman
- Ludvík Albert Engel
- Johannes Marquardt (priest)
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- Ludvík Engel
- Andrej Medve
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- Ivan Hendrjuk
- Michal Hricko
- Ondrej Chlpík
- Ján Tomka
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- Bobette van Gelder (Dutch painter)
- Hendrik Nijhof (Dutch Righteous Among the Nations)
- Elena Balsh (6 May 1866 Iasi, Moldovia – 29 Jan 1945 Bucuresti, Romania)
- Amélie Arató (Hungarian high school teacher and pedagogical writer (1883–1945))
- David Wolf ((born 1901) Holocaust victim)
- Jakob Powodowski
- Stanisław Grzeniewski
- Franciszek Jechowski
- Wacław Rygielski