January 28th
Holidays and Celebrations
World Leprosy Day
Ernie's Birthday (Sesame Street)
Anniversary of the Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion
Data Privacy Day
Death of King Henry VIII of England 1547 (b. 1491)
National Kazoo Day
Fun at Work Day
Clash Day
Thank A Plugin Developer Day
Rattle Snake Round-Up Day
Fun at Work Day
National Blueberry Pancake Day
Christian Feast Day of Julian of Cuenca
Christian Feast Day of St. Thomas Aquinas
* Chinese New Year Hong Kong - Late January/Early February - (3-3)
* Ati-Atihan (Phillipines) (12-14)
* Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado Cultural Festival (8of10) Alamos, Sonora the lilting strains of guitars, the pounding rhythms of rock bands and the echoing arias of opera stars.
* Big Day Out - (11of14)last 2 weeks in January, Big Day Out is a music festival that travels around Australia & New Zealand.
* Start of The Dubai shopping festival in 2010 is 28th January -> 28th February
* Carnival De Quebec AKA Quebec Winter Carnival - Quebec City, Canada (Jan 28th to Feb13th)
Peuplier Day Translation Poplar Day (French Republican) The Ninth day of the Month of Pluviôse in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Here's to women's kisses,
and to whiskey, amber clear;
Not as sweet as a woman's kiss,
but a darn sight more sincere!"
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Society
1 1/2 oz. Gin
1/2 oz. Vermouth, dry
1/4 tsp. Grenadine
Stir all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.
Wine of The Day
Irony 2008 Merlot
Style - Merlot
Napa Valley
$20
Beer of The Day
Centennial IPA
Brewer - Founders Brewing Co. ; Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Style - American-Style India Pale Ale
Joke of The Day
A man drinks a shot of whiskey every night before bed. After years of this, the wife wants him to quit; she gets two shot glasses, filling one with water and the other with whiskey.
After getting him to the table that had the glasses, she brings his bait box. She says "I want you to see this." She puts a worm in the water it, and it swims around.
She puts a worm in the whiskey, and the worm dies immediately. She then says, feeling that she has made her point clear, "what do you have to say about this experiment?"
He responds by saying: "If I drink whiskey, I won't get worms!"
Quote of the Day
Whisky of The Day
January Celebrations
Apple and Apricots MonthArtichoke and Asparagus Month
Be Kind to Food Servers
Bread Machine Baking Month
California Dried Plum Digestive Health Month
Carnival Season (Starting January 6th)
Celebration of Life Month
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
Cervical Cancer Screening Month
Cherry Blossom Festival in Okinawa, Japan, a very colorful festivals every January in Nago since 1928.
Coffee Gourmet International Month
Family Fit Lifestyle Month
Financial Wellness Month
First Binary Month (1of 3) (0s and 1s)
International Brain Teaser Month
International Change Your Stars Month
International Creativity Month
International New Years Resolutions Month for Businesses
International Quality of Life Month
International Wayfinding Month
International Wealth Mentality Month
National Bath Safety Month
National Be On-Purpose Month
National Birth Defects Prevention Mont
National Blood Donor Month
National Book Blitz Month
National Braille Literacy Month
National Candy Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Awareness Month
National Clean Up Your Computer Month
National Egg Month
National Get Organized Month
National Glaucoma Awareness Month
National Hobby Month
National Hot Tea Month
National Lose Weight, Feel Great Month
National Mail Order Gardening Month
National Meat Month
National Mentoring Month
National Oatmeal Month
National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month
National Polka Music Month
National Poverty in America Awareness Month
National Radon Action Month
National Skating Month
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
National Soup Month
National Stalking Awareness Month
National Thank You Month
National Volunteer Blood Donor Mont
National Wheat Bread Month
Prune Breakfast Month
Resolve to Eat Breakfast Month
National Returns Month
Rising Star Month
Self-Love Month
Self-help Group Awareness Month
Shape Up US Month
Thaipusam - Festival of Faith in Batu Caves, Malaysia
Thyroid Awareness Month
Tubers and Dried Fruit Month
World Buskers Festival in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Week Celebrations
No Name Calling Week Fourth Week of January
National Medical Group Practice Week Starting the 4th Monday in January
New York City Restaurant Week Winter January 25th - February 7th
International Printing Week Last Week of January
World Leprosy Week Last Week of January
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week (Elko, Nevada) Starting Last Saturday of January
Catholic Schools Week Starting the last Sunday in January
Meat Week Starting the last Sunday in January (http://www.meatweek.com/)
Historical Events on January 28th
1077 German king Henry IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness, Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV, The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted. Known as the Walk to Canossa
1099 1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria
1262 Flemish/Dutch coast ravaged by north western storm
1393 Fire during Royal Ball at Paris, 4 die (Ball of the Ardents)
1495 Pope gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France
1521 The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
1547 Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
1561 By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended
1573 Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
1581 Scotland's King James VI, who in 1603 would become England's James I, signed the Second Scottish Confession of Faith.
1613 Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
1624 Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
1689 English parliament ends king Charles II reign
1724 The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree. It was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
1754 Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
1760 Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
1787 Philadelphia's Free Africa Society organizes
1788 Captain Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Botany Bay, Sydney
1788 Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France
1807 London's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight
1813 Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
1814 Stendahl's 1st book is published
1819 Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore
1820 Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
1821 Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica
1822 Birth of William D. Longstaff, English philanthropist. A close acquaintance of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey, Longstaff is better remembered today as author of the hymn, "Take Time to Be Holy."
1824 William Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40)
1830 The opera "Fra Diavolo" is produced (Paris)
1834 Birth of Sabine Baring-Gould, Anglican clergyman and author. A man of widely diverging interests, he published numerous books on history, biography, poetry and fiction. He also penned the enduring hymns, "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "Now the Day is Over."
1846 The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
1848 King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution
1851 Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered
1855 The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
1858 John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry
1860 Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua
1864 Battle of New Bern, NC
1865 President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners
1871 Paris surrenders to Prussians in the Franco-Prussian War, the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
1878 1st telephone exchange (New Haven, CT)
1878 George W Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator
1878 Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
1881 Battle at Laing's Neck Natal: Boers beat superior powered British
1887 England all out for 45 vs Australia SCG, their lowest total ever
1887 In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
1893 Edward Mcdowell's "Hamlet & Ophelia," premieres in Boston
1896 Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent became the first person to be convicted of speeding. He is fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
1899 American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress
1902 The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
1904 1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on University of Chicago's football team are awarded blankets with letter "C" on them
1909 United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
1911 Frenchman Henri Rougier wins 1st Rally of Monte Carlo
1914 1st Millrose Games (athletics) held (New York City NY)
1914 Beverly Hills, California, is incorporated
1915 1st US ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK)
1915 An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard from Life Saving & Revenue Cutter services
1915 US President Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates
1916 German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain & France
1916 Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court, appointed by Wilson.
1916 The opera "Goyescas" is 1st performed (New York City NY)
1917 Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California.
1918 Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
1918 Strike on Berlin ammunition's factory
1918 Trotsky becomes leader of Reds
1921 A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honor the unknown dead of World War I.
1922 American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League"
1922 J E Clair turns Green Bay franchise back to NFL
1922 Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses.
1923 1st "Reichs Party" (NSDAP) forms in Munich
1923 Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent
1923 NSDAP 1st election in Munich
1925 -46°F (-43°C), Pittsburgh, New Hampshire (state record)
1927 Serbian-Croatian-Slavic government of Oezonowitsj falls
1928 Christopher Hornsrud chosen PM of Norway at age 101
1931 Bradman scores 220 New South Wales vs Victoria, 308 minutes, 13 fours
1932 1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted (Wisconsin)
1932 Japanese forces attack and occupy Shanghai.
1933 French government of Paul Boncour falls
1933 German government of Von Schleicher falls
1933 The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
1934 The first ski tow (rope) in the United States begins operation in Woodstock, Vermont.
1935 Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
1936 Pravda criticizes Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth" opera
1938 The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
1941 Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day in the French-Thai War.
1942 General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine
1942 German troops occupy Benghazi Libya
1943 Chicago Blackhawks beats New York Rangers 10-1, Max Bentley scores 4 goals
1943 Forward Doug Bentley sets NHL record with 5 points in a game
1944 683 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 Leonard Bernstein's "Jeremiah," premieres in Pittsburgh
1944 U-271 & U-571 sunk off Ireland
1945 Dutch airplanes dump pamphlets on Java
1945 General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell & truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China
1945 Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands
1945 Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road in World War II.
1947 "Bay Psalm" book auctioned for a record $151,000
1947 In NY City, a copy of the 1640 Bay Psalm Book was purchased at an auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries for $150,000 --the highest price ever paid to date for a single volume. (The original title of the book was: "The Whole Book of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre.")
1949 New York Giants sign their 1st black players, Monte Irvin & Ford Smith
1949 UN Security council condemns Dutch aggression in Indonesia
1950 Preston Tucker, auto maker, found not guilty of mail fraud
1951 "La Vie Commence Demain", which depicted artificial insemination & is the 1st X-rated movie, opened in London
1951 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 J Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins NBC's "Today Show"
1953 WJTV TV channel 12 in Jackson, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Brothers Stage Show)
1957 "Tonight! America After Dark" premieres, with Jack Lescoulie & Al (Jazzbo) Collins on NBC (between Steve Allen & Jack Paar)
1958 Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor
1958 Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in an automobile wreck
1958 The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
1959 Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US
1960 1st photograph bounced off Moon, Washington DC
1960 Goon Show's final episode on BBC
1960 NFL announces Dallas Cowboys (1960) & Minnesota Vikings (1961) franchises
1961 Republic of Rwanda proclaimed
1962 Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia & survives
1963 -34°F (-37°C), Cynthiana, Kentucky (state record)
1965 The Who make their 1st appearance on British TV
1965 The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
1967 Rolling Stones release "Let's Spend the Night Together"
1968 29th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Chandler Harper
1968 Goose Goslin & Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1969 2nd ABA All-Star Game: West 133 beats East 127 at Louisville
1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America
1970 Lubomír Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia
1972 Oral Roberts' Eddie Woods grabs 30 rebounds for 2nd consecutive game
1973 "Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV
1973 Henry Boucha, Detroit Red Wings, scores 6 sec into a game vs Mont
1973 Henry Boucha, Detroit Red Wings, scores 6 seconds into a game vs Montréal
1973 Mickey Welch, George Kelly & Billy Evans elected to Hall of Fame
1973 Mickey Welch, George Kelly & Billy Evans elected to Hall of Fame
1973 Ron Howard appears on M*A*S*H in "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet"
1974 Sam Thompson, Jim Bottomley, & Jocko Conlan elected to Hall of Fame
1975 8th ABA All-Star Game: East 151 beats West 124 at San Antonio
1976 Erapalli Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through New Zealand at Eden Park
1976 NBA Atlanta Hawks begin a 28 game road losing streak
1977 The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith published an 18-page document ruling out the admission of women to the Roman Catholic priesthood because women lacked a "natural resemblance which must exist between Christ and his ministers."
1977 The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977, which severely affects and cripples much of Upstate New York, but Buffalo, NY, Syracuse, NY, Watertown, NY, and surrounding areas are most affected, each area accumulating close to 10 feet of snow on this one day.
1978 "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV
1978 Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders
1978 Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife
1979 "Wiz" closes at Majestic Theater New York City NY after 1672 performances
1979 Arthur Kopit's "Wings" premieres in New York City NY
1980 37th Golden Globes: Dustin Hoffman & Sally Field wins
1980 USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
1981 "5 O'Clock Girl" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City NY for 12 performances
1981 Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision
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.
1981 William J Casey becomes the 13th director of CIA (until 1987)
1982 US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades of Padua Italy.
1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 41th Golden Globes: Thornbirds wins
1984 Los Angeles Kings stop Wayne Gretzky 51 game scoring streak
1984 Mr Glynn Wolfe marries for non-bigamous record 26th time, Las Vegas NV
1984 Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, West Germany
1985 12th American Music Award
1985 Charity single "We Are the World" is recorded by supergroup USA (Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie and other pop stars), to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
1986 "Uptown... It's Hot!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City NY for 24 performances
1986 25th Space Shuttle (51L)-Challenger 10 explodes 73 seconds after liftoff
1986 Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, DC
1986 Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.
1987 US Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo
1987 Wrestler Jim Neidhart indicted for assaulting a flight attendant
1988 "Saratina!" opens at Cort Theater New York City NY for 597 performances
1988 Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional
1989 46th Golden Globes: Rainman, Working Girl
1989 63rd Australian Open Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (64 64)
1989 Boon completes 7th Test century, 149 vs West Indies at SCG
1990 "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London
1990 78th Australian Men's Tennis Ivan Lendl beats Stefan Edberg (46 76 52-ret)
1990 East German agreement to form all-party government
1990 Super Bowl XXIV San Francisco 49ers beat Denver Broncos, 55-10 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Joe Montana, San Francisco, Quarterback
1991 "A Closer Look" with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV
1991 18th American Music Award: M C Hammer & Janet Jackson
1991 Boon completes ninth Test century, 121 v England at Adelaide
1991 Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule
1992 Boon completes twelfth Test century, 135 v India at Adelaide
1992 Stan Hansen beats Jumbo Tsuruta to win All Japan Triple Crown
1994 Actress Lorraine Bracco (39) weds actor Edward James Olmos (46)
1994 Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose California, 1 dead
1994 Inna Lassovskaja jumps ladies world record (14.78m)
1995 69th Australian Open Women's Tennis Mary Pierce beats Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (63 62)
1995 83rd Australian Open Men's Tennis Andre Agassi beats Pete Sampras (46 61 76 64)
1995 Memphis Mad Dogs granted CFL's 13th franchise
1996 "Hello Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City NY after 118 performances
1996 84th Australian Men's Tennis Boris Becker beats Michael Chang (62 64 26 62)
1996 Super Bowl XXX Dallas Cowboys beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17 in Tempe; Super Bowl MVP Larry Brown, Dallas, Defensive Back
1998 Michelangelo's "Christ & the Woman of Samaria", sold for $7.4 million
2002 TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
2010 Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh: Lieutenant Colonel Syed Faruq Rahman, Lieutenant Colonel Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Major AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed, Major Bazlul Huda and Lieutenant Colonel Mohiuddin Ahmed were hanged.
2011 Hundreds of thousands of protesters fill the Egyptian's streets against the Mubarak regime in demonstrations referred to as the "Friday of Anger"
2012 Death toll from coordinated bombing attacks in Kano, Nigeria, reaches 185
2013 10 people are killed and 11 are injured in after a freight train collides with a bus in Heihe City, China
2013 20 people are killed after a Bombardier CRJ200 airliner crashes outside Almaty, Kazakhstan
2013 Iran’s Pishgam rocket successfully completes a return trip of sending a monkey into space
2013 John Kerry is voted to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as the United States Secretary of State
2014 DNA analysis confirms that the 6th C Plague of Justinian was caused by a variant of Yersinia pestis (the same bacteria for the Black Death)
2014 Peter Cosgrove is named the next Governor-General of Australia
Born on January 28th
1225 Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)
1312 Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)
1457 Henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509) (d. 1509)
1540 Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)
1578 Cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39)
1582 John Barclay, Scottish writer (Euphormio's Satyricon, Argenis) (d. 1621)
1600 Clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope (1667-69) (d. 1669)
1608 Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
1611 Johannes Hevelius, Polish-born astronomer (star cataloger) (d. 1687)
1622 Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)
1627 Alfonso Marsh, composer
1645 Gottfried Vopelius, composer
1688 Jan Maurits Quinkhard, Dutch portrait painter
1691 Johann Balthasar Konig, composer
1693 Anna "Ivanovna", tsarina of Russia (1730-40)
1693 Gregor Joseph Werner, composer
1701 Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
1702 Hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch lawyer
1706 John Baskerville, English printer (typeface inventor) (d. 1775)
1712 Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
1714 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon)
1717 Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (1757-74) (d. 1774)
1719 Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)
1722 Johann Ernst Bach, composer
1755 Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (d. 1830)
1756 Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer
1757 Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer
1768 Frederick VI, Danish king (1808-39); lost Norway to Sweden (1814)
1784 George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the UK (d. 1860)
1791 Louis-J-Ferdinand Hérold France, opera composer (Zampa)
1815 Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1875
1818 George Sewall Boutwell, MC (Union), 20th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
1822 Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (1873-78) (d. 1892)
1825 George Edward Pickett, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
1828 Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor
1828 Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1868
1831 Henry Brevard Davidson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1832 Franz Wullner, composer
1833 Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator (China, Khartoum) (d. 1885)
1840 Édouard Vaillant French socialist politician/communard
1841 Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (found Livingston in Africa) (d. 1904)
1841 Viktor Ernst Nessler, composer
1853 Jose Martí y Perez, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)
1855 William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (recording adding machine) (d. 1898)
1861 Julián Felipe, Filipino musician (d. 1944)
1863 Ernst William Christmas, Australian painter (d. 1918)
1864 Charles W. Nash, American automobile entrepreneur (d. 1948)
1864 Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer inventor of the first compression ignition engine (d. 1927)
1865 Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first president of Finland (d. 1952)
1865 Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928)
1868 Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer
1868 Julian Aguirre, composer
1869 Ozaki Kôyô Japan, novelist/essayist/haiku poet (The Heart)
1873 "Sidonie Gabrielle" Colette Burgundy France, novelist (Cheri, Gigi)
1873 Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle), French writer (Gigi) (d. 1954)
1873 M A Noble, cricketer (great Australian all-rounder at turn of century)
1874 Ernst Rabel Austrian/US law historian (Grundzüge)
1874 Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (d. 1940)
1875 Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer
1878 Walter Kollo [Kollodziepski], German composer (Der Juxbaron)
1880 Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970)
1880 Mary Boland, Philadelphia PA, US, comedienne/actress (Ruggles of Red Gap)
1884 Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962)
1884 Jean Felix Piccard, Switzerland, scientist/explorer (balloonist)
1884 Lucien H d'Azambuja France, astronomer (chromosphere of sun)
1886 Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976)
1886 Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973)
1887 Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist (d. 1982)
1887 Artur Rubinstein, Lodz Poland, pianist
1887 Lily Theresa Strickland, composer
1890 Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963)
1891 Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
1891 Camille Melloy, [Paepe], Belgian poet (Parfum des Buis)
1891 Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer
1892 Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (Love Parade) (d. 1947)
1893 Elliot Griffis, composer
1897 Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986)
1897 Valentin Katayev, Odessa Ukraine, novelist/playwright (Embezzled)
1898 Vittorio Rieti, composer
1898 Wies Moens, Flemish writer/nazi
1899 Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)
1899 Zilner T Randolph, jazz trumpeter/arranger
1900 Alexandre AM Stols [Chl van Halsbeke], publisher (History of Ecuador)
1900 Alice Neel, American artist (d. 1984)
1900 Anni Holdmann, Germany, 100m runner (Olympic-1928)
1900 Hermann Kesten, German writer (Allert de Lange)
1900 Michael Dewar Head, composer
1903 Aleksander Kaminski, Polish writer (d. 1978)
1903 Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, crystallographer (1st woman in Royal Society)
1904 Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (d. 1979)
1905 Gaston Rébry Flemish cyclist
1906 Allan Walker, actor/writer (Red Buttons Show)
1906 Harry van Kruiningen, [Henri A Janssen], painter/graphic artist
1906 Henry Foley, cricketer (batted in New Zealand's 1st Test 1930)
1907 Constantin Regamey, composer
1908 Hans [Hendrik AJ] Tiemeijer, Dutch actor/director/writer (Fear)
1908 Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998)
1909 John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931)
1909 Lionel KP "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II-George Medal)
1910 Arnold Moss, American actor (Loves of Carmen, Kim, Quebec, Viva Zapata) (d. 1989)
1910 John Banner, Austrian actor (Sergeant Hans Schultz-Hogan's Heroes) (d. 1973)
1910 Verda Bryant, American author
1912 Jackson Pollock, American painter (Lavender Mist) (d. 1956)
1912 William "Bill" Henson, English diplomat (Prague 1939)
1913 Jan Masseus, composer
1913 Oliver Chesterton, chartered surveyor
1915 Nien Cheng, Chinese-born American writer (d. 2009)
1916 Peter Crossley-Holland, composer
1918 Harry M Corbett, English puppeteer (Sooty, Some People) (d. 1989)
1918 Suzanne Flon, Paris France, actress (One Deadly Summer, Moulin Rouge)
1918 Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (d. 2004)
1918 Vito Scotti, San Francisco CA, actor (Flying Nun, Barefoot in the Park)
1918 Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan politician/human rights worker
1919 Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (d. 2002)
1920 James Whyte, Moderator (General Assembly of Church of Scotland)
1921 Alfred Marks, actor/comedian (Desert Mice, Scream & Scream Again)
1922 Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel laureate, worked with RNA (Nobel '68) (d. 1993)
1924 Frank R Lautenberg, (Senator-D-NJ)
1924 Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter (d. 1976)
1925 Henry Harris, British professor of medicine
1925 Scotty Bloch, American stage and television actress
1927 Anthony Garner, director (Conservative Central Office)
1927 Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
1927 J D Hughes, Principal (Ruskin College-Oxford)
1927 James Callaghan, British MP
1927 Ronnie Scott, British tenor saxophonist and club owner (d. 1996)
1928 MG Falcon, CEO (Norwich Union Insurance Group)
1928 Martin Sinnatt, Major-General/secretary (Kennel Club)
1928 Slade Gorton (Senator-R-WA, 1981)
1929 Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist (Stranger on the Shore)
1929 Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist (Happenings, Alphabet/Good Humor)
1929 Richard Clement Charles Thomas, rugby international/journalist
1930 David Morris, British MEP
1930 Luis de Pablo, composer
1931 Timothy Kitson, former MP
1932 David Thompson, CEO (Gestetner Holdings)
1932 Thomas J Bliley Jr (Representative-R-VA, 1981)
1932 Thomas J Bliley Jr, (Rep-R-VA, 1981)
1932 W Parry O'Brien, California, shot putter (Olympics-2 gold/silver-52, 56, 60, 64)
1932 Windlesham, Lord
1933 Jack Hill, American film director
1933 Sacha Distel Paris France, French singer
1933 Susan Sontag New York City NY, essayist/novelist/film director (The Benefactor, 1966 Pol Award)
1934 BR White, principal (Regent's Park College-Oxford)
1934 Bill White US, 1st baseman (Cards)/announcer (Yanks)/president (NL)
1934 Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990)
1934 Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)
1935 David Lodge, English author (Soul & Bodies)
1935 Leonid Grabovsky, composer
1935 Manuel dos Santos Lima, Angolian revolutionary/poet (Pele do Diabo)
1935 Nicholas Pryor, actor (Beverly Hills 90210)
1936 Alan Alda (Alphonso D'Abruzzo), American actor, writer, and director (Hawkeye Pierce-M*A*S*H)
1936 Bill Jordan, British trade unionist
1936 Enid Castle, principal (Cheltenham Ladies' College)
1936 Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
1936 Jack Scott, vocalist (My True Love)
1936 Robert Suderburg, composer
1937 Ken Hill, playwright/director
1938 Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter
1939 John M. Fabian, NASA astronaut (STS 7, STS 51G)
1940 Carlos Slim Helú, Mexican businessman
1941 Joel Crothers, American actor (Dr Miles Cavanaugh-Edge of Night, Dark Shadows) (d. 1985)
1942 Hansdjürgen Bäumler Germany, pairs ice skater (Olympics-silver-1968)
1943 Dick Taylor, English musician (The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things)
1943 Jean Knight, rocker
1943 John Beck, Chic, actor (Mark-Dallas, Flamingo Road, Santa Barbara)
1943 Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player
1943 Susan Howard, Marshall Tx, actress (Donna-Dallas, Petrocelli)
1944 Arnold Muhren, Dutch pop bassist/singer (The Cats-Sailin' Home)
1944 Brian Keenan, New York City NY, rock drummer (Chamber Brothers-Time Has Come Today)
1944 James Cran, British MP
1944 John Edmonds, British trade unionist
1944 John Tavener, English composer (The Whale)
1944 Martin Fried, musician (Cyrkle-Red Rubber Ball)
1944 Susan Howard, American actress
1945 John Perkins, American author and activist
1945 Nick Raynsford, British MP
1945 Robert Wyatt, English musician
1946 Renne Jarrett, Brooklyn NY, actress (Nancy)
1946 Rick Allen, Arkansas, rock bassist (Box Tops-Letter)
1947 Jeanne Shaheen, American politician
1947 MJ Ainsworth, CEO (Institute of Chartered Secretaries)
1947 Valerie Bragg, principal (City Technology College-Kingshurst)
1948 Charles Taylor, President of Liberia
1948 Gareth Roscoe, legal adviser (BBC)
1948 Mamoru Mohri, Yoichi-machi Hokkaido Japan, astronaut (STS 47)
1949 Gregg Popovich, American (NBA) basketball coach
1949 Thomas J Downey, (Representative-D-NY, 1975)
1950 Barbi Benton, American actress, Playboy model (Hee Haw, Sugar Time!)
1950 Bob Hay, American songwriter and musician
1950 David C. Hilmers, NASA astronaut (STS 51-J, 26, 36, 42)
1950 Glyn Ford, British MEP
1950 Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain
1951 Brian Bilbray, American politician
1951 Gordon Prentice, British MP
1951 Leonid Konstantinovich Kadenyuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut (STS 87)
1951 Susan Buckner Seattle WA, actress (George-Hardy Boys)
1951 William Nelson Jr, US bassist (Connections & Disconnections)
1953 Chris Carter, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey)
1953 Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
1953 Debbie Steinbach, LPGA golfer
1953 Michael Day, musician
1954 Anicee Alvina, Paris France, actress (Friends)
1954 Rick Warren, American pastor and author
1954 Shawn Murray, rock drummer (Mink Deville)
1955 Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France (2007-)
1956 Peter Schilling Stuttgart, German musician (Major Tom-Coming Home)
1957 Frank Skinner English comedian
1957 Harley Jane Kozak, actress (Arachnophobia, Necessary Roughness)
1957 Mark Napier, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 Nick Price, Durban South Africa, PGA golfer (1991 Byron Nelson Classic)
1959 Burkhard Dallwitz, German-born composer
1959 Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm)
1959 Frank Darabont, American filmmaker
1959 Randi Rhodes, Nova M Radio personality
1960 John Caliri, Providence RI, actor (Vinnie-Square Pegs, Double Trouble)
1960 Robert von Dassanowsky, American historian, writer, and producer
1961 Arnaldur Indridason, Icelandic writer
1961 Luann L Lee, Santa Monica Ca, playmate (Jan, 1987)
1961 Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 Creflo Dollar, American televangelist
1962 Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor (Noah Keefer-All My Children)
1962 Michael Cage, NBA forward/center (Cleveland Cavaliers, New Jersey Nets)
1962 Sam Phillips, American singer (Die Hard with a Vengeance)
1963 Colleen Harp, Washington DC, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-9th-1994)
1963 Dan Spitz, American musician, guitarist (Anthrax)
1963 Denise Beillmann, Switzerland, figure skater (Olympics-4th-1980)
1964 Dwight Stone, NFL receiver/running back (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1964 Emlyn Aubrey, PGA golfer (1995 Nestles-25th)
1965 Lynda Boyd, American actress
1966 Jeff Uhlenhake, NFL center (New Orleans Saints, Washington Redskins)
1966 Michal Pivonka, Kladno Czechoslovakia, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1967 Jan Lamb, Hong Kong disc jockey & stand-up comedian
1967 Peter Hofstede, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC, FC Utrecht)
1967 Tom Hodson, NFL quarterback (New Orleans Saints)
1968 DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill)
1968 Henry Hering, Pointe-Claire Québec Canada, rower (Olympics-9-92, 96)
1968 Marnie McBean, Vancouver BC, rower (Olympics-gold-92, 96)
1968 Peter Hofstede, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC, FC Utrecht)
1968 Rakim (William Michael Griffin Jr.), American rapper
1968 Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter (Fumbling Towards Ecstasy)
1969 Giorgio Lamberti, Italian free style swimmer (world record 200m)
1969 John Veenhof, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen)
1969 Kathryn Morris, American actress
1969 Linda Sanchez, American politician
1969 Mo Rocca, American writer and comedian
1970 Barry Minter, NFL middle linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1970 Donald Tardy, US, death metal drummer (Obituary, Cause of Death)
1970 James Atkins, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 Mike Chalenski, NFL defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 Anthony Hamilton, American soul singer
1972 Carey Bender, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
1972 Elena Baranova, WNBA center (Utah Starzz)
1972 Frank Garcia, NFL center (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1972 Nicky Southall, English footballer
1973 Bronwyn Thompson, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1973 Jerome Allen, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1973 Joe Stephens, NBA forward (Houston Rockets)
1973 Rick Houghton, English radio/TV presenter
1973 Robert Braknis, Montréal Québec Canada, 100m backstroke/4 x 100 (Olympics-96)
1974 Derrick Mayes, NFL wide receiver (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl XXXI)
1974 Jermaine Dye, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves)
1974 Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player
1974 Tony Delk, American basketball player, NBA guard (SF Warriors)
1974 Vitaly Tregubov, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998)
1974 Zack Bronson, safety (San Francisco 49ers)
1975 Anne Montminy, Canadian diver, 10m diver (Olympics-17-92, 96)
1975 David Zingler, American writer
1975 Julian Dean, Waihi New Zealand, team pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
1975 Junior Spivey, American baseball player
1975 Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer
1975 Tanya Chua, Singaporean singer
1975 Terri Colombino, American Actress
1976 Emiko Kado, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1976 Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot)
1976 Lee Ingleby, British actor
1976 Mark Madsen, American basketball player
1976 Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
1976 Rick Ross, Rapper
1977 Daunte Culpepper, American football player
1977 Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC)
1977 Lyle Overbay, American baseball player
1977 Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira)
1977 Takuma Sato, Japanese Formula One driver
1978 Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
1978 Helga Bauer Salas, Miss Bolivia Universe (1997)
1978 Jamie Carragher, English footballer
1978 Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
1979 Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder
1980 Jesse James Hollywood, American drug dealer and fugitive
1980 Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1980 Yasuhito Endo, Japanese footballer
1981 Elijah Wood, American actor (Radio Flyer, Good Son)
1981 Rick Razzano, American football player
1984 Andre Iguodala, American basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers)
1984 Stephen Gostkowski, American football player
1985 Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
1985 Athina Onassis, daughter of Christina
1985 Daniel Carcillo, Canadian hockey player
1985 Libby Trickett, Australian swimmer
1986 Jessica Ennis, English heptathlete
1986 Shruti Haasan, Indian actress
1987 Chelsea Brummet, American actress
1988 Henry Mortensen, American actor
1991 Calum Worthy, Canadian actor and musician
Died on January 28th
814 Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814) (b. 742)
1061 Duke Spytihnev II of Bohemia (b. 1031)
1119 Gelasius II, [Giovannis Caetani], pope (1118-19), dies
1256 Willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22
1271 Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)
1393 Earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball
1443 Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France
1528 Philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies
1547 Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47) (b. 1491)
1549 Elia Levita, German-Yiddish writer (Habachur), dies at about 80
1560 John a Lasco, [John Laski], Polish nobleman/reformed theologist, dies
1595 Francis Drake, English pirate, Admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (Porto Bello West Indies), dies at 50
1599 Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
1606 Carolus Gallus, [Karel de Haan], Dutch lawyer/pastor/vicar, dies at 85
1612 Thomas Bodley, diplomat/founder (Bodleian Library), dies
1613 Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545)
1621 Paulus V, [Camillo Borghese], 233rd pope (1605-21), dies at 68
1621 Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
1672 Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
1681 Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619)
1687 Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (star cataloger) (b. 1611)
1697 John Fenwick, English conspirator
1725 Peter I "the Great" Romanov czar of Russia, dies at 52
1754 Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (Hendrig og Pernille) (b. 1684)
1768 John Wainwright, composer, dies at 44
1782 Jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer, dies at 84
1805 Mihály Csokonai Vitéz Hungarian (stage)poet (Dorottya), dies at 31
1810 Andrew Hofer, Tyrolian rebel against French & Bavarians, shot dead
1813 Jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41
1817 Friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen, composer, dies at 55
1829 William Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh
1832 Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769)
1838 Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33
1859 Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)
1864 Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)
1868 Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Witiko), commits suicide at 62
1869 Prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley, composer, dies at 72
1873 Henry Hugo Pierson, composer, dies at 57
1895 Francois Certain de Canrobert, French marshal, dies at 85
1896 Joseph Barnby, composer, dies at 57
1898 Alexandru Flechtenmacher, composer, dies at 74
1903 Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847)
1903 Jean Robert Planquette, composer, dies at 54
1910 Jose Garcia Robles, composer, dies at 74
1912 Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)
1915 Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)
1918 John McCrae, Canadian poet (b. 1872)
1924 Simon Abramsz, Dutch writer (Artist book), dies at 56
1930 Clarence Skelton Wimble, cricket (score pair in Test for South Africa), dies
1930 Ema Destinnová, Czech opera singer (b. 1878)
1932 Franz Xavier Arens, composer, dies at 75
1933 Theodor Birt [Beatus Rhenanus], German classicist/writer, dies at 80
1935 Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859)
1937 Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (b. 1862)
1938 Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (b. 1909)
1938 John Sharp, cricketer (England bat 1909, also soccer international), dies
1939 William Butler Yeats, Irish poet, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1865)
1942 Pablo Luna y Carne, composer, dies at 61
1945 Philip "Felix" Bekkers, actor (We Go on Trip), dies at 37
1947 Hans Aumeier, German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
1947 Reynaldo Hahn, French composer (b. 1875)
1947 Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (b. 1902)
1948 Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1901)
1949 Gustaf Lazarus Nordqvist, composer, dies at 62
1949 Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
1950 Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)
1951 Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of Finland (b.1867)
1953 Derek Bentley, British criminal (executed) (b. 1933)
1953 James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
1957 Fred Stein, TV panelist (Live Begins at 80), dies at 88
1959 Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israel Knesset (1949-59), dies at 73
1959 Viktor Joseph Keldorfer, composer, dies at 85
1959 Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899)
1960 Jacques de Menasce, composer, dies at 54
1960 Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b. 1891)
1963 Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)
1963 Jean Felix Piccard, swiss explorer, dies on his 79th birthday
1965 Jef van Durme, composer, dies at 57
1965 Johan Fiolet, Dutch actor/director, dies at 63
1965 Maxime Weygand, French soldier (b. 1867)
1965 Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
1967 Stanley Coen, cricket (2 Tests for South Africa, hs 41 not out, avg 50), dies
1970 Tommy Andrews, (Australia) 16 Tests 1921-26 cricketer (592 runs), dies
1971 Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
1972 Adriaan B "Jaap" Wagemaker, Dutch sculptor, dies at 66
1973 John Banner, Austrian actor (Schultz-Hogan's Heroes) (b. 1910)
1974 Dino Buzzati, writer, dies at 67
1975 Antonin Novótny Czechoslovakian President (1957-68), dies at 70
1975 Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
1976 Chris Kenner, rocker (I Like it Like That), dies
1976 Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter (b. 1924)
1977 Burt Mustin, actor (All in the Family, Andy Griffith Show), dies at 92
1979 Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet (b. 1901)
1980 Jimmy Durante New York City NY, comedian (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 86
1983 Billy Fury, British singer and actor (That'll Be the Day)(b. 1940)
1983 Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
1984 John Macvane, newscaster (United or Not), dies at 71
1986 Christa McAuliffe, astronaut/teacher, dies in Challenger disaster (b. 1948)
1986 Dr Judith Arlene Resnik Akron OH, astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster
1986 Ellison S Onizuka, Hawaii, Major USAF/astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster (b. 1946)
1986 Francis R. Scobee, USAF/astronaut,, commander of Space Shuttle Challenger, dies in Challenger disaster (b. 1939
1986 Gregory B. Jarvis, crew of Space Shuttle Challenger, payload specialist/astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster (b. 1944)
1986 Judith Resnik crew of Space Shuttle Challenger, dies in Challenger disaster (b. 1949)
1986 Michael J. Smith crew of Space Shuttle Challenger, dies in Challenger (b. 1945)
1986 Ronald McNair crew of Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster (b. 1950)
1988 Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (b. 1911)
1991 Dale Long, hit HRs in 8 consecutive games, dies at 66
1992 Clark Tippet, dancer/choreographer, dies at 37
1992 Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist (Discovering Jerusalem), dies at 86
1993 Aben Kandel, screenwriter (Dinner at 8), dies of heart failure at 96
1993 John Steadman, actor (Gator, Fade to Black), dies of lung ailment 83
1994 Hal Smith, American actor (Otis Campbell-Andy Griffith Show) (b. 1916)
1994 Hermanus P "Piet" Mulder, Dutch journalist (Het Parool), dies at 79
1994 William Levitt, builder (Levittown), dies of kidney failure at 86
1995 Barrie Wilson, academic, dies at 59
1995 Barrie Wilson academic, dies at 59
1995 George Woodcock, author, dies at 82
1995 James P Grant, US director of UNICEF (1980-95), dies at 72
1995 Jim Gilbert, artist, dies at 61
1995 Philip H Burton, Welsh producer/Richard Burton's teacher, dies at 80
1995 Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic, dies at 83
1996 Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
1996 Dan Duva, boxing promoter, dies at 44
1996 Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (Superman) (b. 1914)
1996 John Mosely, recording expert/entrepreneur, dies at 81
1996 Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Laureate (b. 1940)
1996 U San Yu, soldier, President of Burma in (1981-88), dies at 77
1996 Victor "Toby" Neuberg, teacher/writer, dies at 71
1997 James Colin Ross Welch, journalist, dies at 72
1997 Pietro Cavallero, bandit, dies at 68
1997 Vivien Signy, nurse, dies at 80
1999 Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b. 1918)
1999 Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (b. 1908)
2001 Curt Blefary, American baseball player (b. 1943)
2002 Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)
2004 Don Cholito, Puerto Rican radio host (b. 1923)
2004 Don Stansauk, American professional wrestler (b. 1936)
2004 Elroy Hirsch, American football player (b. 1923)
2004 Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937)
2004 Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer (b. 1927)
2005 Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951)
2005 Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
2005 Karen Lancaume, French actress (suicide) (b. 1973)
2006 Henry McGee, English comedian (b. 1929)
2006 Yitzchak Kaduri, rabbi (b. around 1900)
2007 Carlo Clerici, Swiss professional road racing cyclist (b. 1929)
2007 Emma Tillman, the world's oldest living person from January 24-28, 2007 (b. 1892)
2007 Father Robert Drinan, Roman Catholic Priest and American politician (b. 1920)
2007 Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (b. 1978)
2007 Karel Svoboda, Czech composer of popular music (b. 1938)
2007 Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (b. 1963)
2008 Bengt Lindström, Swedish artist (b. 1925)
2008 Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece (b. 1939)
2009 Billy Powell, American musician (b. 1952)
2013 Eddy Choong, Chinese badminton player
2015 Louise Lopez, American singer (Odyssey)
2016 Paul Kantner, rock singer/guitarist (Jefferson Airplane)
