January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 337 days remaining (338 in leap years).
- 1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, explorer, journalist (+ 1904)
- 1853 - Jose Marti, revolutionary (+ 1895)
- 1855 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator (+ 1898)
- 1873 - Colette, writer (+ 1954)
- 1879 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet (+ 1953)
- 1884 - Auguste Piccard, physicist (+ 1962)
- 1887 - Artur Rubinstein[?], musician, conductor (+ 1982)
- 1891 - Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada
- 1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, film director (+ 1947)
- 1900 - Heinrich Kesten[?], author (+ 1996)
- 1912 - Jackson Pollock, painter, initiator of Dripping painting[?] (+ 1956)
- 1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara[?], director
- 1929 - Claes Oldenbourg, artist
- 1929 - Acker Bilk, musician
- 1933 - Susan Sontag[?], novelist, philosopher, essayist, director, playwright
- 1936 - Alan Alda, actor
- 1945 - Marthe Keller[?], actress
- 1968 - Sarah McLachlan, singer
- 1977 - Joey Fatone[?], musician
- 1980 - Nick Carter, musician
- 1981 - Elijah Wood, actor
- 814 - Charlemagne
- 1547 - King Henry VIII of England
- 1596 - Sir Francis Drake, explorer, soldier
- 1939 - William Butler Yeats, writer
- 1949 - Jean-Pierre Wimille[?], race car driver
- 1965 - Maxime Weygand, soldier
- 1977 - Freddie Prinze, actor
- 1986 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger: Francis R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Greg Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe
- 1996 - Jerry Seigel[?], cartoonist, creator of "Superman"
- 2002 - Astrid Lindgren, author
See Also: January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December
January 27 - January 29 - December 28 - February 28 - Historical anniversaries