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Events on Monday 29 January 1962 2
1962 – 2024Ismail Haniyeh (1962-2024)Died 31 July 2024, aged 62Palestinian politician and Hamas leader, prime minister of the Palestinian Authority in 2006-07, assassinated in Tehran.
1962 – presentOlga TokarczukNobel in LiteratureAcclaimed novelist and activist who won the Nobel Prize for 2018.