Anniversaries 28 January
Birth
![Emperor Taizong of Tang photo]()
emperor of the Tang Dynasty
598–649
![Henry VII of England photo]()
King of England, 1485–1509
1457–1509
![Alexander Mackenzie photo]()
2nd Prime Minister of Canada
1822–1892
![Sabine Baring-Gould photo]()
English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic sc…
1834–1924
![Henry Morton Stanley photo]()
Welsh journalist and explorer
1841–1904
![Katharine Pearson Woods photo]()
1853-1923 , author
1853–1923
![José Martí photo]()
Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader
1853–1895
![R. A. Torrey photo]()
American writer
1856–1928
![Lala Lajpat Rai photo]()
Indian author and politician
1865–1928
![Colette photo]()
1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi
1873–1954
![Arthur Rubinstein photo]()
Polish-American classical pianist
1887–1982
![Edwin C. Kemble photo]()
American physicist
1889–1984
![Alfred Barr photo]()
American art historian
1902–1981
![Jackson Pollock photo]()
American artist
1912–1956
![Alan Alda photo]()
actor and United States Army officer
1936
![Carlos Slim Helú photo]()
Mexican business magnate and investor
1940
![Robert X. Cringely photo]()
American technology journalist and columnist
1953
![Rick Warren photo]()
Christian religious leader
1954
![Nicolas Sarkozy photo]()
23rd President of the French Republic
1955
![Tim Flannery photo]()
Australian scientist and global warming activist
1956
![Sister Souljah photo]()
American hip hop-generation author, activist, recording art…
1964
![Sarah McLachlan photo]()
Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter
1968
![Anthony Hamilton photo]()
American singer, songwriter, and record producer
1971
![Jamie Carragher photo]()
English association football player
1978
![Gianluigi Buffon photo]()
Italian association football player
1978
![Nick Carter photo]()
singer from the United States
1980
![Thierry Baudet photo]()
Dutch writer and jurist
1983
![J. Cole photo]()
American Song Writer, Rapper and former Pro Basketball Play…
1985
Death
![Charlemagne photo]()
King of the Franks, King of Italy, and Holy Roman Emperor
748–814
![Henry VIII of England photo]()
King of England from 1509 until 1547
1491–1547
![Peter I of Russia photo]()
Tsar and 1st Emperor, founder of the Russian Empire
1672–1725
![William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell photo]()
British politician
1745–1836
![William H. Prescott photo]()
American historian and Hispanist
1796–1859
![Gustave de Molinari photo]()
Belgian political economist and classical liberal theorist
1819–1912
![Henri Murger photo]()
novelist and poet from France
1822–1861
![Elizabeth Stuart Phelps photo]()
American author, intellectual and feminist
1844–1911
![George Saintsbury photo]()
British literary critic
1845–1933
![W.B. Yeats photo]()
Irish poet and playwright
1865–1939
![Aurelia Henry Reinhardt photo]()
American educator and social activist
1877–1948
![Morris Raphael Cohen photo]()
American philosopher
1880–1947
![Zora Neale Hurston photo]()
American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
1891–1960
![Arnold Hauser photo]()
Hungarian art historian
1892–1978
![Ward Moore photo]()
American writer
1903–1978
![George Woodcock photo]()
Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anar…
1912–1995
![Jerry Siegel photo]()
American co-creator of Superman
1914–1996
![Cicely Tyson photo]()
American actress
1924–2021
![Gene Sharp photo]()
American political scientist
1928–2018
![Jim Morris (bodybuilder) photo]()
American bodybuilder
1935–2016
![Choekyi Gyaltsen photo]()
10th Panchen Lama of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism
1938–1989
![Sarah Caudwell photo]()
English barrister and writer
1939–2000
![Joseph Brodsky photo]()
Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature la…
1940–1996
![Dyanne Thorne photo]()
American actress
1943–2020
![Christa McAuliffe photo]()
American educator and astronaut
1948–1986
