Anniversaries 28 January

Birth

Emperor Taizong of Tang1

emperor of the Tang Dynasty 598–649

Henry VII of England1

King of England, 1485–1509 1457–1509

John Tobin2

playwright 1770–1804

Alexander Mackenzie35

2nd Prime Minister of Canada 1822–1892

Sabine Baring-Gould2

English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic sc… 1834–1924

Henry Morton Stanley10

Welsh journalist and explorer 1841–1904

Katharine Pearson Woods1

1853-1923 , author 1853–1923

José Martí103

Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader 1853–1895

R. A. Torrey2

American writer 1856–1928

Lala Lajpat Rai6

Indian author and politician 1865–1928

Colette59

1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi 1873–1954

Donald McGill11

British artist 1875–1962

Arthur Rubinstein15

Polish-American classical pianist 1887–1982

Edwin C. Kemble1

American physicist 1889–1984

Alfred Barr1

American art historian 1902–1981

Jackson Pollock33

American artist 1912–1956

David Lodge7

writer 1935

Alan Alda12

actor and United States Army officer 1936

Ismail Kadare7

Albanian writer 1936

Carlos Slim Helú1

Mexican business magnate and investor 1940

John Perkins5

American author 1945

Jeanne Shaheen5

American politician 1947

Robert X. Cringely4

American technology journalist and columnist 1953

Rick Warren90

Christian religious leader 1954

Nicolas Sarkozy13

23rd President of the French Republic 1955

Lou Barletta3

American politician 1956

Tim Flannery10

Australian scientist and global warming activist 1956

Mark Slouka9

author 1958

Justin Fox2

American journalist 1964

Sister Souljah11

American hip hop-generation author, activist, recording art… 1964

Sarah McLachlan28

Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter 1968

Susan Choi2

American novelist 1969

Anthony Hamilton3

American singer, songwriter, and record producer 1971

Amy Coney Barrett2

American judge 1972

Carrie Vaughn6

American writer 1973

Jamie Carragher1

English association football player 1978

Gianluigi Buffon3

Italian association football player 1978

Nick Carter8

singer from the United States 1980

Elijah Wood2

American actor 1981

Thierry Baudet5

Dutch writer and jurist 1983

Ashley Purdy1

American musician 1984

J. Cole1

American Song Writer, Rapper and former Pro Basketball Play… 1985

Pierce Brown33

American writer 1988

Calum Worthy1

Canadian actor 1991

Death

Charlemagne8

King of the Franks, King of Italy, and Holy Roman Emperor 748–814

Henry VIII of England6

King of England from 1509 until 1547 1491–1547

Peter I of Russia3

Tsar and 1st Emperor, founder of the Russian Empire 1672–1725

William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell4

British politician 1745–1836

Thomas Tredgold2

engineer 1788–1829

William H. Prescott3

American historian and Hispanist 1796–1859

Gustave de Molinari28

Belgian political economist and classical liberal theorist 1819–1912

Fyodor Dostoyevsky155

Russian author 1821–1881

Henri Murger2

novelist and poet from France 1822–1861

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps2

American author, intellectual and feminist 1844–1911

George Saintsbury14

British literary critic 1845–1933

W.B. Yeats255

Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

Aurelia Henry Reinhardt7

American educator and social activist 1877–1948

Morris Raphael Cohen5

American philosopher 1880–1947

Zora Neale Hurston74

American folklorist, novelist, short story writer 1891–1960

Arnold Hauser34

Hungarian art historian 1892–1978

Аллен Сондерс1

1899–1986

Ward Moore1

American writer 1903–1978

Dino Buzzati1

Italian writer 1906–1972

George Woodcock21

Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anar… 1912–1995

Jerry Siegel7

American co-creator of Superman 1914–1996

Cicely Tyson2

American actress 1924–2021

Gene Sharp1

American political scientist 1928–2018

Jim Morris (bodybuilder)4

American bodybuilder 1935–2016

Wong Shun Leung22

martial artist 1935–1997

Choekyi Gyaltsen4

10th Panchen Lama of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism 1938–1989

Sarah Caudwell2

English barrister and writer 1939–2000

Joseph Brodsky17

Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature la… 1940–1996

Dyanne Thorne3

American actress 1943–2020

Christa McAuliffe6

American educator and astronaut 1948–1986