January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 337 days remaining until the end of the year (338 in leap years).
Events
814 – Charlemagne dies of pleurisy in Aachen as the first Holy Roman Emperor. He is succeeded by his son Louis the Pious as king of the Frankish Empire.
1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
1393 – King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball.
1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
1547 – Henry VIII dies. His nine-year-old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
1573 – Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
1701 – The Chinese storm Dartsedo.
1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
1754 – Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
1760 – Pownal, Vermont, is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
1813 – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
1821 – Alexander Island is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
1846 – The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
1851 – Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
1855 – A locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway, runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
1871 – Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
1878 – Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
1887 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
1902 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
1908 – Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
1909 – United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
1918 – Finnish Civil War: Rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
1922 – Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.
1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
1933 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
1934 – The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
1935 – Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
1938 – The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
1941 – Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
1945 – World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first US television appearance
1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
1958 – The last episode of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show is broadcast.
1960 – The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.
1964 – An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
1965 – The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
1977 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 which dumps 10 feet (3.0 m) of snow in one-day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas most affected.
1979 – CBS News Sunday Morning debuts with original host and cocreator Charles Kuralt.
1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first pastoral visit to Mexico.
1980 – USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
1982 – US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
1984 – Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
1985 – Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.
1988 – In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws, effectively allowing abortions in Canada in all nine months of pregnancy.
2002 – TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 92.
2006 – The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzów/Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.
2010 – Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh are hung.
Births
1312 – Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)
1457 – Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1540 – Ludolph van Ceulen, German-Dutch mathematician and academic (d. 1610)
1578 – Cornelius Haga, Dutch diplomat (d. 1654)
1582 – John Barclay, French-Scottish poet and author (d. 1621)
1600 – Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
1608 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
1611 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and politician (d. 1687)
1622 – Adrien Auzout, French astronomer and instrument maker (d. 1691)
1693 – Gregor Werner, Austrian composer (d. 1766)
1701 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
1706 – John Baskerville, English printer and typographer (d. 1775)
1712 – Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
1717 – Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1774)
1719 – Johann Elias Schlegel, German poet and critic (d. 1749)
1719 – Christian Felix Weiße, German writer and pedagogue (d. 1802)
1755 – Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Polish-German physician, anthropologist, and paleontologist (d. 1830)
1784 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)
1797 – Charles Gray Round, English barrister and politician (d. 1867)
1818 – George S. Boutwell, American lawyer and politician, 28th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1905)
1822 – Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian soldier, journalist, and politician; 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
1833 – Charles George Gordon, English general and politician (d. 1885)
1841 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-American explorer and journalist (d. 1904)
1843 – Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet and linguist (d. 1890)
1853 – José Martí, Cuban journalist, poet, and theorist (d. 1895)
1853 – Vladimir Solovyov, Russian philosopher, poet, and critic (d. 1900)
1857 – William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (d. 1898)
1858 – Tannatt William Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (d. 1934)
1861 – Julián Felipe, Filipino composer and educator (d. 1944)
1863 – Ernest William Christmas, Australian-American painter (d. 1918)
1864 – Charles Williams Nash, American businessman, founded Nash Motors (d. 1948)
1864 – Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer; invented the Hot bulb engine and Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine (d. 1927)
1865 – Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (d. 1928)
1865 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st President of Finland (d. 1952)
1873 – Colette, French novelist and journalist (d. 1954)
1875 – Julián Carrillo, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1965)
1878 – Walter Kollo, German composer (d. 1940)
1884 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (d. 1962)
1885 – Vahan Terian, Armenian poet and activist (d. 1920)
1886 – Marthe Bibesco, Romanian-French author and poet (d. 1973)
1886 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic (d. 1976)
1887 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist (d. 1982)
1890 – Robert Stroud, American ornithologist (d. 1963)
1892 – Ernst Lubitsch, German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1947)
1897 – Valentin Kataev, Russian author and playwright (d. 1986)
1899 – Elias Simojoki, Finnish priest and activist (d. 1940)
1900 – Alice Neel, American painter (d. 1984)
1903 – Aleksander Kamiński, Polish author and educator (d. 1978)
1904 – Canuplin, Filipino magician and actor (d. 1979)
1908 – Paul Misraki, Turkish-French composer and historian (d. 1998)
1909 – John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931)
1910 – John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)
1910 – Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989)
1911 – Johan van Hulst, Dutch academic and politician
1912 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
1915 – Nien Cheng, Chinese-American author (d. 2009)
1918 – Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (d. 2004)
1919 – Gabby Gabreski, American colonel and pilot (d. 2002)
1922 – Anna Gordy Gaye, American businesswoman, composer and songwriter (d. 2014)
1922 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
1924 – Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter and poet (d. 1976)
1925 – Raja Ramanna, Indian physicist and politician (d. 2004)
1927 – Eşref Kolçak, Turkish actor
1927 – Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1927 – Ronnie Scott, English saxophonist (The Jazz Couriers) (d. 1996)
1927 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1929 – Acker Bilk, English singer and clarinet player (d. 2014)
1929 – Nikolai Parshin, Russian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1929 – Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-American sculptor and illustrator
1930 – Jasraj, Indian singer
1930 – Kurt Biedenkopf, German academic and politician, 54th President of the German Bundesrat
1930 – Roy Clarke, English soldier and screenwriter
1930 – Ruth Cohen, American actress (d. 2008)
1934 – Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1990)
1934 – Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor and producer (d. 1970)
1935 – David Lodge, English author and critic
1935 – Nicholas Pryor, American actor
1936 – Alan Alda, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1936 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian author and poet
1937 – Karel Čáslavský, Czech historian and television host (d. 2013)
1938 – Tomas Lindahl, Swedish-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1938 – Leonid Zhabotinsky, Ukrainian weightlifter (d. 2016)
1939 – John M. Fabian, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1940 – Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman, founded Grupo Carso
1941 – Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985)
1941 – King Tubby, Jamaican DJ, producer, and engineer (d. 1989)
1942 – Sjoukje Dijkstra, Dutch figure skater
1943 – John Beck, American actor
1943 – Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player and minister
1944 – Bobby Ball, English comedian, actor, and singer
1944 – Tim Heald, English journalist and author
1944 – Susan Howard, American actress and screenwriter
1944 – Rosalía Mera, Spanish businesswoman, co-founded Inditex and Zara (d. 2013)
1944 – John Tavener, English composer (d. 2013)
1945 – Maxwell Fuller, Australian chess player (d. 2013)
1945 – Karen Lynn Gorney, American actress and singer
1945 – Marthe Keller, Swiss actress and director
1945 – John Perkins, American author and activist
1945 – Robert Wyatt, English singer-songwriter and drummer
1947 – Jeanne Shaheen, American educator and politician; 78th Governor of New Hampshire
1948 – Bob Moses, American drummer
1948 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer, choreographer, and actor
1948 – Charles Taylor, Liberian politician; 22nd President of Liberia
1949 – Gregg Popovich, American basketball player and coach
1950 – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahraini king
1950 – Barbi Benton, American model, actress, and singer
1950 – David C. Hilmers, American colonel, physician, and astronaut
1950 – Naila Kabeer, Bangladeshi-English economist and academic
1951 – Brian Bilbray, American politician
1951 – Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut
1952 – Richard Glatzer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1952 – Tomokazu Miura, Japanese actor (RC Succession)
1953 – Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1954 – Peter Lampe, German theologian and historian
1954 – Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager (d. 2013)
1954 – Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor (d. 2000)
1954 – Rick Warren, American pastor and author
1955 – Vinod Khosla, Indian-American businessman; co-founded Sun Microsystems
1955 – Nicolas Sarkozy, French lawyer and politician, 23rd President of France
1956 – Richard Danielpour, American composer
1957 – Kent Kessler, American bassist
1957 – Mark Napier, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1957 – Nick Price, South African-Zimbabwean golfer
1957 – Frank Skinner, English comedian, actor, and author
1959 – Frank Darabont, American director and producer
1960 – Loren Legarda, Filipino journalist and politician
1961 – Arnaldur Indriðason, Icelandic author
1962 – Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor
1962 – Sam Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 – Dan Spitz, American guitarist
1964 – Jürgen Teller, German-English photographer
1965 – Lynda Boyd, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer
1966 – Seiji Mizushima, Japanese director and producer
1967 – Jan Lamb, Chinese singer and actor
1968 – Rakim, American rapper (Eric B. & Rakim)
1968 – Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1968 – DJ Muggs, American DJ and producer (Cypress Hill and The 7A3)
1969 – Kathryn Morris, American actress
1969 – Mo Rocca, American comedian and television journalist
1969 – Linda Sánchez, American lawyer and politician
1971 – Anthony Hamilton, American singer-songwriter and producer
1972 – Léon van Bon, Dutch cyclist
1974 – Tony Delk, American basketball player and coach
1974 – Ramsey Nasr, Dutch author and poet
1974 – Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player and politician
1975 – Shark Boy, American wrestler
1975 – Tanya Chua, Singaporean singer-songwriter and producer
1975 – Terri Conn, American actress
1975 – Hiroshi Kamiya, Japanese voice actor and singer
1975 – Pedro Pinto, Portuguese-American journalist
1975 – Junior Spivey, American baseball player and coach
1976 – Sireli Bobo, Fijian rugby player
1976 – Lee Ingleby, English actor
1976 – Emiko Kado, Japanese wrestler (d. 1999)
1976 – Mark Madsen, American basketball player
1976 – Rick Ross, American rapper and producer
1976 – Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
1977 – Matt DeVries, American guitarist
1977 – Joey Fatone, American singer, dancer, and actor (*NSYNC)
1977 – Takuma Sato, Japanese race car driver
1978 – Sheamus, Irish wrestler and actor
1978 – Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
1978 – Jamie Carragher, English footballer and sportscaster
1978 – Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
1979 – Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder
1980 – Nick Carter, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (Backstreet Boys)
1980 – Yasuhito Endō, Japanese footballer
1980 – Michael Hastings, American journalist and author (d. 2013)
1980 – Jesse James Hollywood, American murderer
1981 – Gen Hoshino, Japanese singer-songwriter, lyricist, actor, and voice actor
1981 – Elijah Wood, American actor and producer
1984 – Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
1985 – Daniel Carcillo, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – J. Cole, German-American rapper and producer
1985 – Lauris Dārziņš, Latvian ice hockey player
1985 – Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
1985 – Libby Trickett, Australian swimmer
1986 – Jessica Ennis-Hill, English heptathlete and hurdler
1986 – Shruti Haasan, Indian actress and singer
1986 – Nathan Outteridge, Australian sailor
1986 – Antonis Petropoulos, Greek footballer
1986 – Blake Riley, American porn actor
1986 – Asad Shafiq, Pakistani cricketer
1988 – AKA, South African hip hop musician and record producer
1988 – Paul Henry, English footballer
1988 – Seiya Sanada, Japanese wrestler
1989 – Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer
1989 – Ronny Philp, Romanian-German footballer
1990 – Kalifa Faifai Loa, New Zealand rugby player
1990 – Zhang Kailin, Chinese tennis player
1991 – Carl Klingberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1991 – Calum Worthy, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1992 – Sergio Araujo, Argentinian footballer
1992 – Andrei Savchenko, Russian footballer
1993 – Richmond Boakye, Ghanaian footballer
1993 – Will Poulter, English actor
1998 – Ariel Winter, American actress and singer
Deaths
592 – Guntram, French king (b. 532)
814 – Charlemagne, Roman emperor (b. 742)
1061 – Spytihněv II, Duke of Bohemia (b. 1031)
1271 – Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France (b. 1247)
1443 – Robert le Maçon, French diplomat (b. 1365)
1547 – Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
1613 – Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and scholar, founded the Bodleian Library (b. 1545)
1621 – Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
1672 – Pierre Séguier, French politician, Lord Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
1681 – Richard Allestree, English priest and academic (b. 1619)
1687 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and politician (b. 1611)
1697 – Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet, English general and politician (b. 1645)
1754 – Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian-Danish historian and philosopher (b. 1684)
1802 – Joseph Wall, Irish born British Army officer and Lieutenant Governor of Gorée (b. 1737)
1832 – Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769)
1859 – F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, English politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)
1864 – Émile Clapeyron, French physicist and engineer (b. 1799)
1903 – Augusta Holmès, French pianist and composer (b. 1847)
1912 – Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist and theorist (b. 1819)
1918 – John McCrae, Canadian soldier, physician, and author (b. 1872)
1921 – Mustafa Suphi, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1883)
1930 – Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano (b. 1878)
1935 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1859)
1937 – Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and target shooter (b. 1862)
1938 – Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (b. 1909)
1939 – W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1942 – Edward Siegler, American gymnast and triathlete (b. 1881)
1945 – Roza Shanina, Russian sergeant (b. 1924)
1947 – Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan-French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1875)
1948 – Hans Aumeier, German SS officer (b. 1906)
1948 – Therese Brandl, German concentration camp guard (b. 1902)
1948 – Arthur Liebehenschel, German SS officer (b. 1901)
1949 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
1950 – Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1883)
1953 – James Scullin, Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
1953 – Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher and poet (b. 1879)
1959 – Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899)
1960 – Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1891)
1962 – Hermann Wlach, Austrian-Swiss actor (b. 1884)
1963 – Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)
1965 – Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
1965 – Maxime Weygand, Belgian-French general (b. 1867)
1967 – Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director (b. 1896)
1968 – Aleksander Maaker, Estonian bagpipe player (b. 1890)
1971 – Donald Winnicott, English paediatrician and psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
1973 – John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910)
1975 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
1976 – Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter and poet (b. 1924)
1978 – Ward Moore, American author (b. 1903)
1979 – Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (b. 1901)
1983 – Frank Forde, Australian educator and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
1983 – Billy Fury, English singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1940)
1986 – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger
– Gregory Jarvis, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1944)
– Christa McAuliffe, American educator and astronaut (b. 1948)
– Ronald McNair, American physicist and astronaut (b. 1950)
– Ellison Onizuka, American engineer and astronaut (b. 1946)
– Judith Resnik, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1949)
– Dick Scobee, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1939)
– Michael J. Smith, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1945)
1988 – Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and politician (b. 1911)
1989 – Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (b. 1938)
1993 – Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer (b. 1905)
1994 – Hal Smith, American actor and singer (b. 1916)
1996 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and academic; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)
1996 – Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist and author (b. 1911)
1996 – Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator; co-created Superman (b. 1914)
1998 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1938)
1999 – Valery Gavrilin, Russian composer (b. 1939)
2001 – Ranko Marinković, Croatian novelist and playwright (b. 1913)
2002 – Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist and soldier (b. 1913)
2002 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author and screenwriter (b. 1907)
2002 – Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist (b. 1946)
2004 – Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937)
2005 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer (b. 1944)
2005 – Karen Lancaume, French porn actress (b. 1973)
2005 – Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951)
2006 – Yitzhak Kaduri, Iraqi-Israeli rabbi
2006 – Henry McGee, English actor and singer (b. 1929)
2007 – Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (b. 1929)
2007 – Robert Drinan, American priest, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920)
2007 – Beatrice Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer (b. 1978)
2007 – Teala Loring, American actress (b. 1922)
2007 – Yelena Romanova, Russian runner (b. 1963)
2007 – Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (b. 1938)
2008 – Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens (b. 1939)
2009 – Billy Powell, American keyboard player and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
2012 – Keriman Halis Ece, Turkish pianist and model; Miss Universe 1932 (b. 1913)
2012 – Roman Juszkiewicz, Polish astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1952)
2014 – Gudo Wafu Nishijima, Japanese priest and educator (b. 1919)
2014 – Jorge Obeid, Argentinian engineer and politician; Governor of Santa Fe (b. 1947)
2015 – Suraj Abdurrahman, Nigerian general, architect, and engineer (b. 1954)
2015 – Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930)
Holidays and observances
Army Day (Armenia)
Christian feast day:
Julian of Cuenca
Thomas Aquinas
January 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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