January 28

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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). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56).

Events

661 – The Rashidun Caliphate was effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.

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.

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.

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 – Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.

1813 – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the UK.

1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.

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.

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: The Red Guard rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki; members of the Senate of Finland go underground.

1920 – Foundation of the Spanish Legion.

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 Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.

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 American television appearance.

1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.

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 are most affected.

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.

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 Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.

Births

676 – Toneri, Japanese prince (d. 735)

1312 – Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)

1406 – Guy XIV de Laval, French noble (d. 1486)

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 poet and playwright (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 lawyer 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)

1855 – 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 and academic, 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)

1873 – Monty Noble, Australian cricketer (d. 1940)

1874 – Alex Smith, Scottish golfer (d. 1930)

1875 – Julián Carrillo, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1965)

1878 – Walter Kollo, German composer and conductor (d. 1940)

1880 – Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer and coach (d. 1970)

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 and educator (d. 1982)

1890 – Robert Stroud, American ornithologist and murderer (d. 1963)

1897 – Valentin Kataev, Russian author and playwright (d. 1986)

1900 – Alice Neel, American painter (d. 1984)

1903 – Aleksander Kamiński, Polish author and educator (d. 1978)

1906 – Markos Vafiadis, Greek general and politician (d. 1992)

1908 – Paul Misraki, Turkish-French composer and historian (d. 1998)

1909 – John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931)

1911 – Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic and author, Yad Vashem recipient

1912 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)

1918 – Harry Corbett, English puppeteer, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1989)

1918 – Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (d. 2004)

1919 – Gabby Gabreski, American colonel and pilot (d. 2002)

1921 – Vytautas Norkus, Lithuanian–American basketball player (d. 2014)

1922 – Anna Gordy Gaye, American songwriter and producer, co-founded Anna Records (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)

1926 – Jimmy Bryan, American race car driver (d. 1960)

1927 – Eşref Kolçak, Turkish actor

1927 – Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)

1927 – Ronnie Scott, English saxophonist (d. 1996)

1927 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)

1927 – Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (d. 2015)

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

1929 – Edith M. Flanigen, American chemist

1930 – Kurt Biedenkopf, German academic and politician, 54th President of the German Bundesrat

1930 – Roy Clarke, English screenwriter, comedian and soldier

1933 – Jack Hill, American director and screenwriter

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

1936 – Alan Alda, American actor, director, and writer

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 and coach (d. 2016)

1939 – John M. Fabian, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut

1940 – Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman and philanthropist, founded Grupo Carso

1942 – Sjoukje Dijkstra, Dutch figure skater

1942 – Erkki Pohjanheimo, Finnish director and producer

1943 – Dick Taylor, English guitarist and songwriter

1944 – Tim Heald, English journalist and author

1944 – Rosalía Mera, Spanish businesswoman, co-founded Inditex and Zara (d. 2013)

1944 – John Tavener, English composer (d. 2013)

1945 – Frank Doubleday, American actor

1945 – Maxwell Fuller, Australian chess player (d. 2013)

1945 – Marthe Keller, Swiss actress and director

1945 – John Perkins, American author and activist

1947 – Jeanne Shaheen, American educator and politician, 78th Governor of New Hampshire

1948 – Bob Moses, American drummer

1948 – Charles Taylor, Liberian politician, 22nd President of Liberia

1949 – Mike Moore, New Zealand union leader and politician, 34th Prime Minister of New Zealand

1949 – Gregg Popovich, American basketball player and coach

1950 – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahraini king

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

1951 – Billy Bass Nelson, American R&B/funk bass player

1952 – Richard Glatzer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)

1953 – Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1953 – Chris Carter, English DJ and producer

1954 – Peter Lampe, German theologian and historian

1954 – Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager (d. 2013)

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 and educator

1956 – Peter Schilling, German singer-songwriter

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

1959 – Dave Sharp, English guitarist

1960 – Loren Legarda, Filipino journalist and politician

1961 – Arnaldur Indriðason, Icelandic author

1961 – Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1962 – Sam Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1964 – David Lawrence, English cricketer

1964 – Juergen Teller, German-English photographer

1966 – Seiji Mizushima, Japanese director and producer

1967 – Billy Brownless, Australian footballer and sportscaster

1968 – Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

1969 – Giorgio Lamberti, Italian swimmer

1969 – Mo Rocca, American comedian and television journalist

1969 – Linda Sánchez, American lawyer and politician

1972 – Mark Regan, English rugby player

1972 – Nicky Southall, English footballer and manager

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

1974 – Jermaine Dye, American baseball player

1975 – Tanya Chua, Singaporean singer-songwriter and producer

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 – Mark Madsen, American basketball player and coach

1976 – Rick Ross, American rapper and producer

1976 – Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer

1977 – Sandis Buškevics, Latvian basketball player and coach

1977 – Daunte Culpepper, American football player

1977 – Joey Fatone, American singer, dancer, and television personality

1977 – Takuma Sato, Japanese race car driver

1978 – Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer

1978 – Jamie Carragher, English footballer and sportscaster

1978 – Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer

1980 – Nick Carter, American singer-songwriter and actor

1980 – Yasuhito Endō, Japanese footballer

1980 – Michael Hastings, American journalist and author (d. 2013)

1981 – Elijah Wood, American actor and producer

1984 – Ben Clucas, English race car driver

1984 – Stephen Gostkowski, American football player

1984 – Andre Iguodala, American basketball player

1984 – Anne Panter, English field hockey player

1985 – Daniel Carcillo, Canadian ice hockey player

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 – Nathan Outteridge, Australian sailor

1986 – Antonis Petropoulos, Greek footballer

1986 – Asad Shafiq, Pakistani cricketer

1988 – Paul Henry, English footballer

1988 – Seiya Sanada, Japanese wrestler

1989 – Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer

1991 – Jordan Kahu, Australian rugby league player

1991 – Carl Klingberg, Swedish ice hockey player

1992 – Sergio Araujo, Argentinian footballer

1992 – Andrei Savchenko, Russian footballer

1993 – Richmond Boakye, Ghanaian footballer

1993 – Mitch Cornish, Australian rugby league player

1998 – Ariel Winter, American actress

Deaths

592 – Guntram, French king (b. 532)

814 – Charlemagne, Holy Roman emperor (b. 742)

1061 – Spytihněv II, Duke of Bohemia (b. 1031)

1256 – William II, Count of Holland, King of Germany

1271 – Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France (b. 1247)

1290 – Dervorguilla of Galloway, mother of king John Balliol of Scotland (b. c. 1210)

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)

1666 – Tommaso Dingli, Maltese architect and sculptor (b. 1591)

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)

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 and poet (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 and sniper (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, short story writer, and folklorist (b. 1891)

1963 – Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)

1965 – Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)

1965 – Maxime Weygand, Belgian-French general (b. 1867)

1971 – Donald Winnicott, English paediatrician and psychoanalyst (b. 1896)

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)

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 and academic (b. 1905)

1996 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, 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)

1999 – Markey Robinson, Irish painter and sculptor (b. 1918)

2001 – Ranko Marinković, Croatian author 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)

2003 – Mieke Pullen, Dutch runner (b. 1957)

2004 – Lloyd M. Bucher, American captain (b. 1927)

2004 – Elroy Hirsch, American football player (b. 1923)

2004 – Mel Pritchard, English drummer (Barclay James Harvest) (b. 1948)

2005 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer (b. 1944)

2007 – Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (b. 1929)

2007 – Robert Drinan, American priest, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920)

2007 – Yelena Romanova, Russian runner (b. 1963)

2007 – Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (b. 1938)

2009 – Billy Powell, American keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1952)

2012 – Roman Juszkiewicz, Polish astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1952)

2012 – Don Starkell, Canadian adventurer and author (b. 1932)

2013 – Florentino Fernández, Cuban-American boxer and coach (b. 1936)

2013 – Hattie N. Harrison, American educator and politician (b. 1928)

2013 – Oldřich Kulhánek, Czech painter, illustrator, and stage designer (b. 1940)

2014 – John Cacavas, American composer and conductor (b. 1930)

2014 – Harry Gamble, American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1930)

2014 – Dwight Gustafson, American composer and conductor (b. 1930)

2014 – Nigel Jenkins, Welsh poet, journalist, and geographer (b. 1949)

2014 – Gudō 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)

2015 – Lionel Gilbert, Australian historian, author, and academic (b. 1924)

2015 – Charles B. Peatross, American lawyer and judge (b. 1940)

2016 – Signe Toly Anderson, American singer (b. 1941)

2016 – Paul Kantner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)

2016 – Franklin Gene Bissell, American football player and coach (b. 1926)

2016 – Buddy Cianci, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Providence (b. 1941)

2016 – Bob Tizard, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 6th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1924)

2017 – Alexander Chancellor, British journalist (b. 1940)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Joseph Freinademetz

Julian of Cuenca

Thomas Aquinas

January 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Army Day (Armenia)

Data Privacy Day

References

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Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

References