Famous People Who Died on January 29

• Barbaro (2007)

  The 2006 Kentucky Derby winner who broke his leg in the Preakness

• Durante, Jimmy (1980)

  Big-nosed comedian of 20th-century radio and TV

• Frost, Robert (1963)

  The poet who wrote "The Road Not Taken"

• Haber, Fritz (1934)

  The German chemist who made fertilizer and poison gas in World War I

• King George III (1820)

  English king who lost the American colonies

• Ladd, Alan (1964)

  Star of the 1953 western Shane

• Lear, Edward (1888)

  The author of The Owl and the Pussycat

• Mencken, H.L. (1956)

  Famously acerbic columnist for the Baltimore Sun

• Prinze, Freddie (1977)

  Comedian and star of TV's Chico and the Man

• Russell, Harold (2002)

  The disabled vet in The Best Years of Our Lives

See also: Born on January 29