The 28t o Januar is the 28t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 337 days ti come (338 in lowp years).
Events
1841: Ross Ice Shelf
1958: Lego bricks
1986: Challenger disasterBirths
Ismail Kadare
Elijah Wood- 1457 - Henry VII o Ingland (d. 1509)
- 1582 - John Barclay, Scots poet (d. 1621)
- 1600 - Pape Clement IX (d. 1669)
- 1611 - Johannes Hevelius, Pols astronomer (d. 1687)
- 1717 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774)
- 1768 - Frederick VI o Denmark (d. 1839)
- 1784 - George Hamilton-Gordon, 4t Yerl o Aiberdeen, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1860)
- 1822 - Alexander Mackenzie, 2nt Prime meenister o Canadae (d. 1892)
- 1835 - Robert Herbert Story, Scots divine (d. 1907)
- 1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-American jurnalist an splorer (d. 1904)
- 1887 - Arthur Rubinstein, Pols-American clessical pianist (d. 1982)
- 1909 - John Thomson, Scots fitbawer (d. 1931)
- 1912 - Jackson Pollock, American penter (d. 1956)
- 1936 - Alan Alda, American actor
- 1936 - Ismail Kadare, Albanie writer
- 1940 - Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman
- 1944 - Alister Allan, Scots Olympic rifleman
- 1950 - Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King o Bahrain
- 1955 - Nicolas Sarkozy, umwhile Preses o Fraunce
- 1957 - Frank Skinner, Inglis comedian an telly presenter
- 1962 - Joan McAlpine, Scots jurnalist an politeecian
- 1964 - Dave McPherson, Scots fitbawer
- 1976 - Rick Ross, American rapper
- 1978 - Gianluigi Buffon, Italian goalkeeper
- 1980 - Yasuhito Endo, Japanese fitbawer
- 1981 - Elijah Wood, American actor
- 1986 - Jessica Ennis-Hill, Inglis athlete
- 1998 - Ariel Winter, American actress
Daiths
1290: Dervorguilla o Gallowa
1986: Crew o the Space Shuttle Challenger- 814 - Charlemagne
- 1290 - Dervorguilla o Gallowa (b. 1210)
- 1547 - Henry VIII o Ingland (b. 1491)
- 1591 - Agnes Sampson, Scots healer accuised o witchcraft
- 1596 - Francis Drake, Inglis splorer an politeecian (b. 1540)
- 1621 - Pape Paul V (b. 1550)
- 1687 - Johannes Hevelius, Pols astronomer (b. 1611)
- 1744 - Thomas Innes, Scots priest (b. 1662)
- 1859 - F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscoont Goderich, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1782)
- 1911 - John MacWhirter, Scots penter (b. 1839)
- 1939 - William Butler Yeats, Erse writer (b. 1865)
- 1978 - Archie Robertson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1929)
- 1986 - Astronauts kilt in the Challenger Disaster:
- Gregory Jarvis (b. 1944)
- Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948)
- Ronald McNair (b. 1950)
- Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946)
- Judith Resnik (b. 1949)
- Dick Scobee (b. 1939)
- Michael J. Smith (b. 1945)
- 1996 - Joseph Brodsky, Roushie poet (b. 1940)
- 2002 - Astrid Lindgren, Swadish writer (b. 1907)
- 2016 - Paul Kantner, American muisicker (b. 1941)
- 2016 - Dave Thomson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1938)
Halidays
- Data Privacy Day
- Airmy Day (Armenie)
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