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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 28 is the 28th day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
337 days remain until the end of the year (338 in leap years). Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
814 The death
of Charlemagne, the
first Holy Roman Emperor,
brings about the accession of his son Louis the Pious as ruler of the Frankish Empire.[1] ·
1069 Robert de Comines,
appointed Earl of Northumbria by William the
Conqueror, rides into Durham, England, where he is defeated and
killed by rebels.[2] This incident leads to
the Harrying of the
North. ·
1077 Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV,
Holy Roman Emperor, is lifted after he humbles himself
before Pope Gregory VII at
Canossa in Italy.[3] ·
1521 The Diet of Worms begins, lasting
until May 25.[4] ·
1547 Edward VI,
the nine-year-old son of Henry VIII,
becomes King of England on his father's death. ·
1568 The Edict of Torda prohibited the
persecution of individuals on religious ground in John Sigismund
Zαpolya's Eastern
Hungarian Kingdom. ·
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. ·
1671 Original city
of Panama (founded in 1519) was destroyed
by a fire when privateer Henry Morgan sacked and set fire to it.
The site of the previously devastated city is still in ruins (see Panama Viejo). ·
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 United Kingdom. ·
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
independent 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'ιtat against the administrative dictatorship of Prime
Minister Joγo Franco. ·
1909 United States
troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay
Naval Base after being there since the SpanishAmerican 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 national
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 disintegrates
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 94. ·
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[edit]
·
1312 Joan II,
queen of Navarre (d. 1349) [5] ·
1368 Razadarit, king of Hanthawaddy (d. 1421)[6] ·
1457 Henry VII,
king of England (d. 1509) [7] ·
1533 Paul Luther, German scientist (d. 1593) [8] ·
1540 Ludolph van Ceulen,
German-Dutch mathematician and academic (d. 1610) [9] ·
1582 John Barclay,
French-Scottish poet and author (d. 1621) [10] ·
1600 Clement IX, pope of the Catholic Church (d.
1669) [11] ·
1608 Giovanni Alfonso
Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679) [12] ·
1611 Johannes Hevelius,
Polish astronomer and politician (d. 1687)[13] ·
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 shōgun (d.
1761) ·
1717 Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1774) ·
1719 Johann Elias
Schlegel, German poet and critic (d. 1749) ·
1726 Christian Felix
Weiίe, German poet and playwright (d. 1802) ·
1755 Samuel
Thomas von Sφmmerring, 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 Josι Martν, 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 Juliαn 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) ·
1865 Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and
politician (d. 1928) ·
1865 Kaarlo Juho
Stεhlberg, 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 Juliαn 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) ·
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) ·
1903 Kathleen Lonsdale,
Irish crystallographer and 1st female FRS (d. 1971) ·
1906 Pat O'Callaghan, Irish athlete (d. 1991)[14] ·
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) ·
1910 John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973) ·
1911 Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic
and author, Yad Vashem recipient
(d. 2018) ·
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, LithuanianAmerican
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 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) ·
1935 David Lodge,
English author and critic ·
1936 Alan Alda, American actor, director, and
writer ·
1937 Karel Čαslavskύ,
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 Rosalνa Mera, Spanish businesswoman,
co-founded Inditex and Zara (d. 2013) ·
1944 John Tavener, English composer (d. 2013) ·
1945 Frank Doubleday,
American actor (d. 2018) ·
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 Barbi Benton, American actress, singer and
model ·
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 ·
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, Zimbabwean-South African golfer ·
1957 Frank Skinner, English comedian, actor, and
author ·
1959 Frank Darabont, American director and
producer ·
1960 Loren Legarda, Filipino journalist and
politician ·
1961 Normand Rochefort,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1962 Sam Phillips,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1964 David Lawrence,
English cricketer ·
1966 Seiji Mizushima, Japanese director and
producer ·
1967 Billy Brownless, Australian footballer and
sportscaster ·
1968 Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer-songwriter,
pianist, and producer ·
1968 Rakim, American rapper[15] ·
1969 Giorgio Lamberti, Italian swimmer ·
1969 Mo Rocca, American comedian and television
journalist ·
1969 Linda Sαnchez, American lawyer and
politician ·
1972 Mark Regan, English rugby player ·
1972 Nicky Southall, English footballer and
manager ·
1972 Lιon van Bon, Dutch cyclist ·
1974 Tony Delk, American basketball player and
coach ·
1974 Jermaine Dye, American baseball player ·
1974 Ramsey Nasr, Dutch author and poet ·
1974 Magglio Ordσρez,
Venezuelan baseball player and politician ·
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 Bukevics,
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 ·
1978 Stephen Farrelly, Irish professional
wrestler[16] ·
1978 Big Freedia, New Orleans musician,
"Queen of Bounce"[17] ·
1980 Nick Carter,
American singer-songwriter and actor ·
1980 Yasuhito Endō, Japanese footballer ·
1980 Michael
Hastings, American journalist and author (d. 2013) ·
1980 Brian Fallon, American singer-songwriter ·
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 J. Cole, American singer ·
1985 Daniel Carcillo, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1985 Lauris
Dārziņ, 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 Asad Shafiq, Pakistani cricketer ·
1988 Paul
Henry, English footballer ·
1988 Seiya Sanada, Japanese wrestler ·
1989 Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer ·
1991 Carl Klingberg, Swedish ice hockey player ·
1992 Sergio Araujo, Argentinian footballer ·
1998 Ariel Winter, American actress Deaths[edit]
·
592 Guntram, French king (b. 532) ·
814 Charlemagne, Holy Roman emperor
(pleurisy;[18] b. 742) ·
919 Zhou Dewei, Chinese general ·
929 Gao Jixing, founder of Chinese Jingnan (b. 858) ·
947 Jing Yanguang, Chinese general (b. 892) ·
1061 Spytihněv
II, Duke of Bohemia (b. 1031) ·
1142 Yue Fei, Chinese general (b. 1103)[19] ·
1256 William II, Count
of Holland, King of Germany (b. 1227) ·
1271 Isabella
of Aragon, Queen of France (b. 1247)[20] ·
1290 Dervorguilla of
Galloway, Scottish noble, mother of king John Balliol of Scotland (b. c. 1210)[21] ·
1443 Robert le Maηon,
French diplomat (b. 1365) ·
1501 John
Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham, English baron and Lord High Treasurer
(b. 1433)[22] ·
1547 Henry VIII,
king 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 Sιguier,
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) ·
1688 Ferdinand Verbiest,
Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (b. 1623) ·
1697 Sir John
Fenwick, 3rd Baronet, English general and politician (b. 1645) ·
1754 Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian-Danish historian
and philosopher (b. 1684) ·
1782 Jean
Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer and cartographer
(b. 1697) ·
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 Ιmile Clapeyron,
French physicist and engineer (b. 1799) ·
1873 John
Hart, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of
South Australia (b. 1809)[23] ·
1903 Augusta Holmθs,
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) ·
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) ·
1973 John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910) ·
1976 Marcel Broodthaers,
Belgian painter and poet (b. 1924) ·
1978 Ward Moore, American author (b. 1903) ·
1983 Billy Fury. English pop star (b. 1940) ·
1983 Frank Forde, Australian educator and
politician, 15th Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1890) ·
1986 Space Shuttle
Challenger crew o Gregory Jarvis, American captain, engineer,
and astronaut (b. 1944) o Christa McAuliffe,
American educator and astronaut (b. 1948) o Ronald McNair, American physicist and
astronaut (b. 1950) o Ellison Onizuka, American engineer and
astronaut (b. 1946) o Judith Resnik, American colonel, engineer,
and astronaut (b. 1949) o Dick Scobee, American colonel, pilot, and
astronaut (b. 1939) o 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)[24] ·
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) ·
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 Mel Pritchard, English drummer (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
Fernαndez, Cuban-American boxer and coach (b. 1936) ·
2013 Hattie N. Harrison,
American educator and politician (b. 1928) ·
2013 Oldřich
Kulhαnek, 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 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) ·
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) ·
2017 Geoff Nicholls, British musician (b. 1948) ·
2019 Pepe Smith, Filipino rock musician (b. 1947)[25] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o January
28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
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