Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 29
- 1688 - Birth of Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher (d. 1772)
- 1810 - Birth of Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
- 1846 - Birth of Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)
- 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile
- 1901 - Birth of Allen B. DuMont, American scientist and inventor (d. 1965)
- 1926 - Birth of Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
- 1933 - Birth of Paul Sally, American mathematician
- 1934 - Death of Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1868)
- 1947 - Birth of Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate
- 1953 - Birth of Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist
- 1978 - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban