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January 28 Birthdays in History - January 28 Deaths - January 28 Events
January 28, 1985 Athina Onassis, daughter of Christina
January 28, 1981 Elijah Wood, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, actor, Radio Flyer, Good Son
January 28, 1981 Sienna Miller, American Actress
January 28, 1980 Nick Carter, singer, Backstreet Boys
January 28, 1978 Helga Bauer Salas, Miss Bolivia Universe 1997
January 28, 1978 John Legend, American Musician
January 28, 1978 Justin Guarini, American Musician
January 28, 1975 Anne Montminy, born in Montreal, Quebec, 10m diver, Olympics-17-92, 96
January 28, 1975 Julian Dean, Waihi NZ, team pursuit cyclist 1996 Olympics
January 28, 1974 Derrick Mayes, NFL wide reciever, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31
January 28, 1974 Jermaine Dye, born in Oakland California, outfielder, Atlanta Braves
January 28, 1974 Tony Delk, NBA guard, SF Warriors
January 28, 1974 Vitaly Tregubov, hockey defenseman, Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998
January 28, 1974 Zack Bronson, safety for the San Francisco 49ers
January 28, 1974 Joaquin Phoenix, American Actor
January 28, 1973 Bronwyn Thompson, Australian rower 1996 Olympics
January 28, 1973 Jerome Allen, NBA guard for the Minnesota Timberwolves
January 28, 1973 Joe Stephens, NBA forward for the Houston Rockets
January 28, 1973 Robert Braknis, born in Montreal, Quebec, 100m backstroke/4 x 100 1996 Olympics
January 28, 1972 Carey Bender, NFL running back for the Buffalo Bills
January 28, 1972 Elena Baranova, WNBA center for the Utah Starzz
January 28, 1972 Frank Garcia, NFL center, Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers
January 28, 1972 Brad Paisley, American Musician
January 28, 1970 Barry Minter, NFL middle linebacker for the Chicago Bears
January 28, 1970 Donald Tardy, U.S., death metal drummer, Obituary, Cause of Death
January 28, 1970 James Atkins, NFL tackle for the Seattle Seahawks
January 28, 1970 Mike Chalenski, NFL defensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles
January 28, 1969 Giorgio Lamberti, Italian free style swimmer, world record 200m
January 28, 1969 John Veenhof, Dutch soccer player, FC Groningen
January 28, 1969 Mo Rocca, American Writer
January 28, 1969 Ben Harper, American Musician
January 28, 1968 Henry Hering, Pointe-Claire Quebec, rower, Olympics-9-92, 96
January 28, 1968 Marnie McBean, Vancouver BC, rower, Olympics gold 92, 96
January 28, 1968 Peter Hofstede, Dutch soccer player, Roda JC, FC Utrecht
January 28, 1968 Sarah McLachlan, folk singer, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
January 28, 1967 Peter Hofstede, Dutch soccer player, Roda JC, FC Utrecht
January 28, 1967 Tom Hodson, NFL quarterback for the New Orleans Saints
January 28, 1967 Chris Ware, American Artist
January 28, 1966 Jeff Uhlenhake, NFL center, NO Saints, Washington Redskins
January 28, 1966 Michal Pivonka, Kladno Cze, NHL center for the Washington Capitals
January 28, 1964 Dwight Stone, NFL receiver/running back, Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers
January 28, 1964 Emlyn Aubrey, PGA golfer, 1995 Nestles-25th
January 28, 1963 Colleen Harp, Washington D.C., WPVA volleyballer, U.S. Open-9th-1994
January 28, 1963 Danny Spitz, heavy metal guitarist, Anthrax-Protest and Survive
January 28, 1963 Denise Beillmann, Switz, figure skater, Olympics-4th-1980
January 28, 1962 Keith Hamilton Cobb, Tarrytown, New York, actor, Noah Keefer-All My Children
January 28, 1962 Michael Cage, NBA forward and center, Cleveland Cavaliers, New Jersey Nets
January 28, 1962 Sam Phillips, singer and actress, Die Hard with a Vengeance
January 28, 1961 Luann L Lee, born in Santa Monica, California, playmate, Jan, 1987
January 28, 1960 John Caliri, born in Providence, Rhode Island, actor, Vinnie-Square Pegs, Double Trouble
January 28, 1960 John Galliano, British Designer
January 28, 1959 Dave Sharp, rock guitarist, Alarm-In the Summertime
January 28, 1959 Frank Darabont, American Director
January 28, 1959 Andy McNabb, British Novelist
January 28, 1957 Harley Jane Kozak, actress, Arachnophobia, Necessary Roughness
January 28, 1957 Nick Price, Durban South Africa, PGA golfer, 1991 Byron Nelson Classic
January 28, 1956 Peter Schilling, Stuttgart Germany, rocker
January 28, 1954 Anicee Alvina, Paris, France, actress, Friends
January 28, 1954 Shawn Murray, rock drummer, Mink Deville
January 28, 1954 Rick Warren, San Jose, California, Pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California
January 28, 1953 Debbie Steinbach, LPGA golfer
January 28, 1953 Michael Day, rocker
January 28, 1951 Gordon Prentice, British MP
January 28, 1951 Leonid Konstantinovich Kadenyuk, Kkishkov Ukraine, astronaut, STS 87
January 28, 1951 William Nelson, Jr., U.S. bassist, Connections and Disconnections
January 28, 1950 Barbi Benton, [Klein], California, Playboy model, Hee Haw, Sugar Time!
January 28, 1950 David Carl Hilmers, Iowa, Col USMC/astronaut, STS 51-J, 26, 36, 42
January 28, 1950 Glyn Ford, British MEP
January 28, 1949 Thomas J Downey, Rep-D-NY, 1975-
January 28, 1948 Gareth Roscoe, legal adviser, BBC
January 28, 1948 Mamoru Mohri, Yoichi-machi Hokkaido Japan, astronaut, STS 47
January 28, 1948 Dick Morris, American Author
January 28, 1947 MJ Ainsworth, CEO, Institute of Chartered Secretaries
January 28, 1947 Valerie Bragg, principal, City Technology College-Kingshurst
January 28, 1946 Renne Jarrett, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Nancy
January 28, 1946 Rick Allen, Arkansas, rock bassist, Box Tops-Letter
January 28, 1945 Nick Raynsford, British MP
January 28, 1945 Robert Wyatt, English Musician
January 28, 1944 Arnold Muhren, Dutch pop bassist/singer, The Cats-Sailin' Home
January 28, 1944 Brian Keenan, New York City, rock drummer, Chamber Bros-Time Has Come Today
January 28, 1944 James Cran, British MP
January 28, 1944 John Edmonds, British trade unionist
January 28, 1944 John Tavener, composer, The Whale
January 28, 1944 Martin Fried, rocker, Cyrkle-Red Rubber Ball
January 28, 1944 Kary Mullis, American Scientist
January 28, 1943 Dick Taylor, rock vocalist, Pretty Thing-Cry on Me
January 28, 1943 Jean Knight, rocker
January 28, 1943 John Beck, Chic, actor, Mark-Dallas, Flamingo Road, Santa Barbara
January 28, 1943 Susan Howard, Marshall, Texas, actress, Donna-Dallas, Petrocelli
January 28, 1942 Hansdjurgen Baumler, Germany, pairs ice skater, 1968 Olympics silver
January 28, 1942 Eric Shinseki, American Soldier
January 28, 1941 Joel Crothers, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, actor, Edge of Night
January 28, 1939 John M Fabian, Goosecreek, Texas, Col USAF/astronaut, STS 7, STS 51G
January 28, 1938 Michael Ritchie, American Director
January 28, 1937 Ken Hill, playwright/director
January 28, 1936 Alan Alda, [Alphonso D'Abruzzo], New York City, actor, Hawkeye Pierce-M*A*S*H
January 28, 1936 Bill Jordan, British trade unionist
January 28, 1936 Enid Castle, principal, Cheltenham Ladies' College
January 28, 1936 Jack Scott, vocalist, My True Love
January 28, 1936 Robert Suderburg, composer
January 28, 1936 Jim McDermott, American Politician
January 28, 1935 David John Lodge, English writer, Soul and Bodies
January 28, 1935 Leonid Grabovsky, composer
January 28, 1935 Manuel dos Santos Lima, Angolian revolutionary/poet, Pele do Diabo
January 28, 1935 Nicholas Pryor, actor, Beverly Hills 90210
January 28, 1935 David Lodge, British Author
January 28, 1934 BR White, principal, Regent's Park College-Oxford
January 28, 1934 Bill White, U.S., 1st baseman, Cards, /announcer, Yanks, /President, NL
January 28, 1933 Susan Sontag, New York City, author/film director, Benefactor, 1966 Pol Award
January 28, 1932 David Thompson, CEO, Gestetner Holdings
January 28, 1932 Thomas J Bliley, Jr., Rep-R-VA, 1981-
January 28, 1932 W Parry O'Brien, California, shot putter, Oly-2 gold/silver-52, 56, 60, 64
January 28, 1932 Windlesham, Lord
January 28, 1931 Timothy Kitson, former MP
January 28, 1930 David Morris, British MEP
January 28, 1930 Luis de Pablo, composer
January 28, 1929 Acker Bilk, singer, Stranger on the Shore
January 28, 1929 Claes Oldenburg, born in Stockholm, Sweden, U.S. pop artist, Alphabet/Good Humor
January 28, 1929 Richard Clement Charles Thomas, rugby international/journalist
January 28, 1929 Berry Gordy, American Businessman
January 28, 1928 MG Falcon, CEO, Norwich Union Insurance Group
January 28, 1928 Martin Sinnatt, Major-General/secretary, Kennel Club
January 28, 1928 Slade Gorton, Sen-R-WA, 1981-
January 28, 1927 Anthony Garner, director, Conservative Central Office
January 28, 1927 J D Hughes, Principal, Ruskin College-Oxford
January 28, 1927 James Callaghan, British MP
January 28, 1927 Ronnie Scott, jazz musician/club-owner
January 28, 1925 Henry Harris, British professor of medicine
January 28, 1925 Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet
January 28, 1922 Robert W. Holley, U.S., biochemist, worked with RNA, Nobel '68
January 28, 1921 Alfred Marks, actor/comedian, Desert Mice, Scream and Scream Again
January 28, 1920 James Whyte, Moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland
January 28, 1918 Harry M Corbett, Bradford, puppeteer/entertainer, Sooty, Some People
January 28, 1918 Suzanne Flon, Paris, France, actress, One Deadly Summer, Moulin Rouge
January 28, 1918 Trevor Skeet, British MP
January 28, 1918 Vito Scotti, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Flying Nun, Barefoot in the Park
January 28, 1918 Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan politician/human rights worker
January 28, 1916 Peter Crossley-Holland, composer
January 28, 1913 Jan Masseus, composer
January 28, 1913 Oliver Chesterton, chartered surveyor
January 28, 1912 Jackson Pollock, born in Cody, Wyoming, expressionist painter, Lavender Mist
January 28, 1912 William "Bill" Henson, English diplomat, Prague 1939
January 28, 1910 Arnold Moss, Brooklyn, actor, Loves of Carmen, Kim, Quebec, Viva Zapata
January 28, 1910 John Banner, Vienna Austria, actor, Sgt Hans Schultz-Hogan's Heroes
January 28, 1909 Lionel KP "Buster" Crabb, British diver, WW II-George Medal
January 28, 1908 Hans [Hendrik AJ] Tiemeijer, Dutch actor, director and writer, Fear
January 28, 1908 Harry Oppenheimer, South African Businessman
January 28, 1907 Constantin Regamey, composer
January 28, 1906 Allan Walker, actor and writer, Red Buttons Show
January 28, 1906 Harry van Kruiningen, [Henri A Janssen], painter/graphic artist
January 28, 1906 Henry Foley, cricketer, batted in New Zealand's 1st Test 1930
January 28, 1905 Gaston Rebry, Flemish cyclist
January 28, 1903 Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, crystallographer, 1st woman in Royal Society
January 28, 1900 Alexandre AM Stols [Chl van Halsbeke], publisher, History of Ecuador
January 28, 1900 Anni Holdmann, Germany, 100m runner, Olympic-1928
January 28, 1900 Hermann Kesten, German writer, Allert de Lange
January 28, 1900 Michael Dewar Head, composer
January 28, 1899 Zilner T Randolph, jazz trumpeter/arranger
January 28, 1898 Vittorio Rieti, composer
January 28, 1898 Wies Moens, Flemish writer/nazi
January 28, 1897 Valentin Katayev, Odessa Ukraine, novelist/playwright, Embezzled
January 28, 1896 Dawn Powell, American Writer
January 28, 1894 Henry Hazlitt, American Philosopher
January 28, 1893 Elliot Griffis, composer
January 28, 1892 Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, actor, Love Parade
January 28, 1891 Camille Melloy, [Paepe], Belgian poet, Parfum des Buis
January 28, 1891 Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer
January 28, 1887 Lily Theresa Strickland, composer
January 28, 1887 Arthur Rubinstein, American Musician
January 28, 1886 Artur Rubinstein, Lodz Poland, pianist
January 28, 1884 Auguste Piccard, Switzerland, scientist/explorer, balloonist
January 28, 1884 Jean Felix Piccard, Switzerland, scientist/explorer, balloonist
January 28, 1884 Lucien H d'Azambuja, France, astronomer, chromosome of sun
January 28, 1880 Herbert Strudwick, cricketer, England wicket-keeper before and after WW I
January 28, 1880 Mary Boland, Philadelphia, U.S., comedienne/actress, Ruggles of Red Gap
January 28, 1878 Walter Kollo [Kollodziepski], German composer, Der Juxbaron
January 28, 1875 Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer
January 28, 1874 Ernst Rabel, Austrian/US law historian, Grundzuge
January 28, 1873 Colette, writer
January 28, 1873 M. A. Noble, cricketer, great Australian all-rounder at turn of century
January 28, 1873 Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Burgundy France, novelist, Cheri, Gigi
January 28, 1872 Otto Braun, German Politician
January 28, 1869 Ozaki Koyo, Japan, novelist/essayist/haiku poet, The Heart
January 28, 1868 Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer
January 28, 1868 Julian Aguirre, composer
January 28, 1865 Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, 1st president of Finland, 1919-25
January 28, 1855 William Seward Burroughs, New York, inventor, recording adding machine
January 28, 1853 Jose Marti y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician
January 28, 1841 Henry Stanley, England, journalist/explorer, found Livingston in Africa
January 28, 1841 Viktor Ernst Nessler, composer
January 28, 1840 Edouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard
January 28, 1833 Charles George Gordon, London, general, China, Khartoum
January 28, 1832 Franz Wullner, composer
January 28, 1831 Henry Brevard Davidson, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1899
January 28, 1828 Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor
January 28, 1828 Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Mjr Gen Confederate Army, died in 1868
January 28, 1825 George Edward Pickett, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1875
January 28, 1822 Alexander MacKenzie, L, 2nd PM of Canada, 1873-78
January 28, 1818 George Sewall Boutwell, MC, Union, died in 1905
January 28, 1815 Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1875
January 28, 1791 Louis-J-Ferdinand Herold, France, opera composer, Zampa
January 28, 1784 George HG earl of Aberdeen, English Secretary of State
January 28, 1775 Peter the Great, Russia
January 28, 1768 Frederick VI, Danish king, 1808-39, ; lost Norway to Sweden, 1814
January 28, 1757 Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer
January 28, 1756 Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer
January 28, 1722 Johann Ernst Bach, composer
January 28, 1717 Mustapha III, Sultan of Turkey, 1757-74
January 28, 1714 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor, Child with Pigeon
January 28, 1706 John Baskerville, English printer, typeface inventor
January 28, 1702 Hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch lawyer
January 28, 1693 Anna "Ivanovna", tsarina of Russia, 1730-40, 2/7 NS
January 28, 1693 Gregor Joseph Werner, composer
January 28, 1691 Johann Balthasar Konig, composer
January 28, 1688 Jan Maurits Quinkhard, Dutch portrait painter
January 28, 1645 Gottfried Vopelius, composer
January 28, 1627 Alfonso Marsh, composer
January 28, 1611 Johannes Hevelius, Danzig, astronomer, star cataloger
January 28, 1608 Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer
January 28, 1600 Clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope, 1667-69
January 28, 1582 John Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet, Euphormio's Satyricon
January 28, 1578 Cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople, 1611-39
January 28, 1457 Henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England, 1485-1509



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