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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 28th of January 1077 | EVENT | Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted. |
| 28th of January 1521 | EVENT | The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25. |
| 28th of January 1547 | EVENT | Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England. |
| 28th of January 1573 | EVENT | Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland. |
| 28th of January 1624 | EVENT | Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts. |
| 28th of January 1724 | EVENT | 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. |
| 28th of January 1754 | EVENT | Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann. |
| 28th of January 1760 | EVENT | Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants. |
| 28th of January 1813 | EVENT | Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom. |
| 28th of January 1820 | EVENT | A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast. |
| 28th of January 1846 | EVENT | The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith. |
| 28th of January 1851 | EVENT | Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois. |
| 28th of January 1855 | EVENT | The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway. |
| 28th of January 1871 | EVENT | Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice. |
| 28th of January 1878 | EVENT | Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. |
| 28th of January 1887 | EVENT | 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. |
| 28th of January 1896 | EVENT | Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent became the first person to be convicted of speeding. He is fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h). |
| 28th of January 1902 | EVENT | The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. |
| 28th of January 1908 | EVENT | Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'etat against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister Joao Franco. |
| 28th of January 1909 | EVENT | United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War. |
| 28th of January 1915 | EVENT | An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard. |
| 28th of January 1917 | EVENT | Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California. |
| 28th of January 1918 | EVENT | Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground. |
| 28th of January 1922 | EVENT | Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses. |
| 28th of January 1932 | EVENT | Japanese forces attack Shanghai. |
| 28th of January 1933 | EVENT | The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence. |
| 28th of January 1934 | EVENT | The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont. |
| 28th of January 1935 | EVENT | Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion. |
| 28th of January 1938 | EVENT | The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph). |
| 28th of January 1941 | EVENT | French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day. |
| 28th of January 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road. |
| 28th of January 1956 | EVENT | Elvis Presley made his first US TV appearance |
| 28th of January 1958 | EVENT | The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today. |
| 28th of January 1964 | EVENT | An unarmed USAF T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19. |
| 28th of January 1965 | EVENT | The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament. |
| 28th of January 1977 | EVENT | The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, which severely affects and cripples much of Upstate New York, but Buffalo, NY, Syracuse, NY, Watertown, NY, and surrounding areas are most affected, each area accumulating close to 10 feet (3.0 m) of snow on this one day. Disintegration of the Space Shuttle Challenger. |
| 28th of January 1980 | EVENT | USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers. |
| 28th of January 1981 | EVENT | 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. |
| 28th of January 1982 | EVENT | US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades. |
| 28th of January 1984 | EVENT | 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. |
| 28th of January 1985 | EVENT | 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. |
| 28th of January 1986 | EVENT | Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission : Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board. |
| 28th of January 2002 | EVENT | TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92. |
| 28th of January 2006 | EVENT | The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Chorzow / Katowice, Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others. |
| 28th of January 2010 | EVENT | Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh: Lieutenant Colonel Syed Faruq Rahman, Lieutenant Colonel Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Major AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, Major Bazlul Huda and Lieutenant Colonel Mohiuddin Ahmed are hanged. |
| 28th of January 2011 | EVENT | Hundreds of thousands of protesters filled up the Egyptian's streets in demonstrations referred to as "Friday of Anger" against the Mubarak regime. |
| 28th of January 1225 | BIRTHDAY | Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274) |
| 28th of January 1312 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349) |
| 28th of January 1457 | BIRTHDAY | King Henry VII of England (d. 1509) |
| 28th of January 1540 | BIRTHDAY | Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610) |
| 28th of January 1582 | BIRTHDAY | John Barclay, Scottish writer (d. 1621) |
| 28th of January 1600 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Clement IX (d. 1669) |
| 28th of January 1608 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679) |
| 28th of January 1611 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Hevelius, Polish-born astronomer (d. 1687) |
| 28th of January 1622 | BIRTHDAY | Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691) |
| 28th of January 1701 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774) |
| 28th of January 1706 | BIRTHDAY | John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775) |
| 28th of January 1712 | BIRTHDAY | Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761) |
| 28th of January 1717 | BIRTHDAY | Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1774) |
| 28th of January 1719 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749) |
| 28th of January 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Thomas von Sommering, German physician (d. 1830) |
| 28th of January 1784 | BIRTHDAY | George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the UK (d. 1860) |
| 28th of January 1818 | BIRTHDAY | George S. Boutwell, American politican, 20th Governor of Massachusetts and later the 28th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1905) |
| 28th of January 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892) |
| 28th of January 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d. 1885) |
| 28th of January 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d. 1904) |
| 28th of January 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Marti, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895) |
| 28th of January 1855 | BIRTHDAY | William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (d. 1898) |
| 28th of January 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Felipe, Filipino musician (d. 1944) |
| 28th of January 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst William Christmas, Australian painter (d. 1918) |
| 28th of January 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Charles W. Nash, American automobile entrepreneur (d. 1948) |
| 28th of January 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English inventor (d. 1927) |
| 28th of January 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928) |
| 28th of January 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, first president of Finland (d. 1952) |
| 28th of January 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Colette, French writer (d. 1954) |
| 28th of January 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (d. 1940) |
| 28th of January 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970) |
| 28th of January 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962) |
| 28th of January 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973) |
| 28th of January 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976) |
| 28th of January 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist (d. 1982) |
| 28th of January 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963) |
| 28th of January 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954) |
| 28th of January 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947) |
| 28th of January 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986) |
| 28th of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940) |
| 28th of January 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Neel, American artist (d. 1984) |
| 28th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksander Kaminski, Polish writer (d. 1978) |
| 28th of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (d. 1979) |
| 28th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998) |
| 28th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931) |
| 28th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973) |
| 28th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989) |
| 28th of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician |
| 28th of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956) |
| 28th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Nien Cheng, Chinese-born American writer (d. 2009) |
| 28th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Corbett, English puppeteer (Sooty) (d. 1989) |
| 28th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (d. 2004) |
| 28th of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (d. 2002) |
| 28th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1993) |
| 28th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter (d. 1976) |
| 28th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Scotty Bloch, American stage and television actress |
| 28th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (d. 2010) |
| 28th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Scott, British tenor saxophonist and club owner (d. 1996) |
| 28th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001) |
| 28th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist |
| 28th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist |
| 28th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Biedenkopf, German politician |
| 28th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Hill, American film director |
| 28th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990) |
| 28th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970) |
| 28th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | David Lodge, English author |
| 28th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer |
| 28th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director |
| 28th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter |
| 28th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | John M. Fabian, NASA astronaut |
| 28th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman |
| 28th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985) |
| 28th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Osbourne 'King Tubby' Ruddock, Jamaican musician and sound engineer (d. 1989) |
| 28th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | John Beck, American actor |
| 28th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 28th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Taylor, English musician (The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things) |
| 28th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Howard, American actress |
| 28th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | John Tavener, English composer |
| 28th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Lynn Gorney, American actress |
| 28th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Perkins, American author and activist |
| 28th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Marthe Keller, Swiss actress |
| 28th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Wyatt, English musician |
| 28th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanne Shaheen, American Senator |
| 28th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Taylor, former (22nd) President of Liberia |
| 28th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Downey, former American Congressman |
| 28th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Gregg Popovich, American basketball coach |
| 28th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Hay, American songwriter and musician |
| 28th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | David C. Hilmers, NASA astronaut |
| 28th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain |
| 28th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Barbi Benton, American actress |
| 28th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Bilbray, American politician |
| 28th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut |
| 28th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and executive |
| 28th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Carter, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey) |
| 28th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Warren, American pastor and author |
| 28th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France |
| 28th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Napier, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 28th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Price, Zimbabwean golfer |
| 28th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Burkhard Dallwitz, German-born composer |
| 28th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Darabont, American filmmaker |
| 28th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm) |
| 28th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Randi Rhodes, radio personality |
| 28th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Robert von Dassanowsky, American historian, writer, and producer |
| 28th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 28th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Arnaldur Indridason, Icelandic writer |
| 28th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor |
| 28th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Creflo Dollar, American televangelist |
| 28th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Phillips, American singer |
| 28th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Spitz, American musician, guitarist (Anthrax) |
| 28th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Lynda Boyd, American actress |
| 28th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Lamb, Chinese disc jockey & comedian |
| 28th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill) |
| 28th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter |
| 28th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Rakim (William Michael Griffin Jr.), American rapper |
| 28th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kathryn Morris, American actress |
| 28th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Sanchez, American politician |
| 28th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mo Rocca, American writer and comedian |
| 28th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Hamilton, American soul singer |
| 28th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Southall, English footballer |
| 28th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Delk, American basketball player |
| 28th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Magglio Ordonez, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 28th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jermaine Dye, American baseball player |
| 28th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Terri Colombino, American actress |
| 28th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tanya Chua, Singaporean singer |
| 28th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Montminy, Canadian diver |
| 28th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer |
| 28th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Junior Spivey, American baseball player |
| 28th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Ingleby, British actor |
| 28th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Emiko Kado, Japanese wrestler (d. 1999) |
| 28th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Madsen, American basketball player |
| 28th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Ross, rapper |
| 28th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer |
| 28th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot) |
| 28th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Daunte Culpepper, American football player |
| 28th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC) |
| 28th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lyle Overbay, American baseball player |
| 28th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Takuma Sato, Japanese racing driver |
| 28th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira) |
| 28th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer |
| 28th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Carragher, English footballer |
| 28th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Farrelly, Irish professional wrestler |
| 28th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer |
| 28th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder |
| 28th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys) |
| 28th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse James Hollywood, American drug dealer and fugitive |
| 28th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Yasuhito Endo, Japanese footballer |
| 28th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Elijah Wood, American actor |
| 28th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Gostkowski, American football player |
| 28th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Iguodala, American basketball player |
| 28th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | J. Cole, American rapper |
| 28th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Carcillo, Canadian hockey player |
| 28th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer |
| 28th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Libby Trickett, Australian swimmer |
| 28th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Ennis, British athlete |
| 28th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Shruti Haasan, Indian actress |
| 28th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Chelsea Brummet, American actress |
| 28th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Henry, English footballer |
| 28th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer |
| 28th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Kalifa Fai-Fai Loa, New Zelander rugby league footballer |
| 28th of January 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Calum Worthy, Canadian actor and musician |
| 28th of January 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Savchenko, Russian professional footballer |
| 28th of January 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Will Poulter, English actor |
| 28th of January 0814 | DEATH | Charlemagne (Born 742) |
| 28th of January 1061 | DEATH | Duke Spytihnev II of Bohemia (Born 1031) |
| 28th of January 1271 | DEATH | Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (Born 1247) |
| 28th of January 1443 | DEATH | Robert le Macon, Chancellor of France |
| 28th of January 1547 | DEATH | King Henry VIII of England (Born 1491) |
| 28th of January 1613 | DEATH | Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (Born 1545) |
| 28th of January 1621 | DEATH | Pope Paul V (Born 1550) |
| 28th of January 1672 | DEATH | Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France (Born 1588) |
| 28th of January 1681 | DEATH | Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (Born 1619) |
| 28th of January 1687 | DEATH | Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (Born 1611) |
| 28th of January 1697 | DEATH | John Fenwick, English conspirator |
| 28th of January 1754 | DEATH | Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (Born 1684) |
| 28th of January 1832 | DEATH | Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (Born 1769) |
| 28th of January 1859 | DEATH | Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1782) |
| 28th of January 1864 | DEATH | Emile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (Born 1799) |
| 28th of January 1903 | DEATH | Augusta Holmes, French composer (Born 1847) |
| 28th of January 1912 | DEATH | Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (Born 1819) |
| 28th of January 1915 | DEATH | Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (Born 1846) |
| 28th of January 1918 | DEATH | John McCrae, Canadian poet (Born 1872) |
| 28th of January 1930 | DEATH | Ema Destinnova, Czech opera singer (Born 1878) |
| 28th of January 1935 | DEATH | Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (Born 1859) |
| 28th of January 1937 | DEATH | Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (Born 1862) |
| 28th of January 1938 | DEATH | Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (Born 1909) |
| 28th of January 1939 | DEATH | William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1865) |
| 28th of January 1947 | DEATH | Reynaldo Hahn, French composer (Born 1875) |
| 28th of January 1948 | DEATH | Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (Born 1902) |
| 28th of January 1948 | DEATH | Hans Aumeier, German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant (Born 1906) |
| 28th of January 1948 | DEATH | Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp (Born 1901) |
| 28th of January 1949 | DEATH | Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (Born 1908) |
| 28th of January 1950 | DEATH | Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (Born 1883) |
| 28th of January 1951 | DEATH | Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of Finland (Born 1867) |
| 28th of January 1953 | DEATH | James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (Born 1876) |
| 28th of January 1953 | DEATH | Derek Bentley, British criminal (Born 1933) |
| 28th of January 1959 | DEATH | Walter Beall, American baseball player (Born 1899) |
| 28th of January 1960 | DEATH | Zora Neale Hurston, American author (Born 1891) |
| 28th of January 1963 | DEATH | Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (Born 1884) |
| 28th of January 1965 | DEATH | Tich Freeman, English cricketer (Born 1888) |
| 28th of January 1965 | DEATH | Maxime Weygand, French soldier (Born 1867) |
| 28th of January 1971 | DEATH | Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (Born 1896) |
| 28th of January 1973 | DEATH | John Banner, Austrian actor (Born 1910) |
| 28th of January 1975 | DEATH | Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (Born 1887) |
| 28th of January 1976 | DEATH | Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter (Born 1924) |
| 28th of January 1979 | DEATH | Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (Born 1901) |
| 28th of January 1983 | DEATH | Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (Born 1890) |
| 28th of January 1983 | DEATH | Billy Fury, British singer (Born 1940) |
| 28th of January 1986 | DEATH | Greg Jarvis : crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (Born 1944) |
| 28th of January 1986 | DEATH | Christa McAuliffe : crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (Born 1948) |
| 28th of January 1986 | DEATH | Ronald McNair : crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (Born 1950) |
| 28th of January 1986 | DEATH | Judith Resnik : crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (Born 1949) |
| 28th of January 1986 | DEATH | Ellison Onizuka : crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (Born 1946) |
| 28th of January 1986 | DEATH | Francis R. Scobee : commander of Space Shuttle Challenger (Born 1939) |
| 28th of January 1986 | DEATH | Michael J. Smith : crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (Born 1945) |
| 28th of January 1988 | DEATH | Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (Born 1911) |
| 28th of January 1989 | DEATH | Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Tibetan religious figure (Born 1938) |
| 28th of January 1994 | DEATH | Hal Smith, American actor (Born 1916) |
| 28th of January 1996 | DEATH | Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Laureate (Born 1940) |
| 28th of January 1996 | DEATH | Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist (Born 1911) |
| 28th of January 1996 | DEATH | Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (Born 1914) |
| 28th of January 1999 | DEATH | Markey Robinson, Irish painter (Born 1918) |
| 28th of January 1999 | DEATH | Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (Born 1908) |
| 28th of January 2001 | DEATH | Curt Blefary, American baseball player (Born 1943) |
| 28th of January 2002 | DEATH | Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (Born 1907) |
| 28th of January 2002 | DEATH | Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist (Born 1913) |
| 28th of January 2004 | DEATH | Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer (Born 1927) |
| 28th of January 2004 | DEATH | Don Cholito, Puerto Rican radio host (Born 1923) |
| 28th of January 2004 | DEATH | Don Stansauk, American professional wrestler (Born 1936) |
| 28th of January 2004 | DEATH | Elroy Hirsch, American football player (Born 1923) |
| 28th of January 2004 | DEATH | Joe Viterelli, American actor (Born 1937) |
| 28th of January 2005 | DEATH | Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter (Born 1944) |
| 28th of January 2005 | DEATH | Karen Lancaume, French actress (Born 1973) |
| 28th of January 2005 | DEATH | Jacques Villeret, French actor (Born 1951) |
| 28th of January 2006 | DEATH | Yitzchak Kaduri, rabbi |
| 28th of January 2006 | DEATH | Henry McGee, English comedian (Born 1929) |
| 28th of January 2007 | DEATH | Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (Born 1978) |
| 28th of January 2007 | DEATH | Carlo Clerici, Swiss road racing cyclist (Born 1929) |
| 28th of January 2007 | DEATH | Father Robert Drinan, Roman Catholic priest and American politician (Born 1920) |
| 28th of January 2007 | DEATH | Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (Born 1963) |
| 28th of January 2007 | DEATH | Karel Svoboda, Czech composer of popular music (Born 1938) |
| 28th of January 2008 | DEATH | Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and All Greece (Born 1939) |
| 28th of January 2009 | DEATH | Billy Powell, American musician (Born 1952) |