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January 28th Holidays and Observances

Catholicism - Feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas
World Leprosy Day
January 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Ashura

January 28th Birthdays

1988	Henry Mortensen (actor)	American actor
1986	Jessica Ennis	English heptathlete
1984	Andre Iguodala	American basketball player
1981	Rick Razzano	American football player
1981	Elijah Wood	American actor
1980	Nick Carter	American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1979	Pixie	English model
1979	Ali Boulala	Swedish skateboarder
1978	Gianluigi Buffon	Italian footballer
1978	Jamie Carragher	English footballer
1978	Papa Bouba Diop	Senegalese footballer
1977	Daunte Culpepper	American football player
1977	Joey Fatone	American singer (*NSYNC)
1977	Matt DeVries	American guitarist (Chimaira)
1977	Takuma Sato	Japanese Formula One driver
1977	Lyle Overbay	American baseball player
1976	Mark Madsen	American basketball player
1976	Jarrod Montague	American drummer (Taproot)
1976	Lee Ingleby	British actor
1976	Miltiadis Sapanis	Greek footballer
1976	Emiko Kado	Japanese professional wrestler
1975	David Zingler	American writer
1975	Anne Montminy	Canadian Olympic diver
1975	Lee Latchford-Evans	English singer
1975	Junior Spivey	American baseball player
1975	Terri Colombino	American Actress
1974	Tony Delk	American basketball player
1974	Jermaine Dye	American baseball player
1974	Magglio Ordonez	Venezuelan baseball player
1972	Nicky Southall	English footballer
1969	Kathryn Morris	American actress
1969	Mo Rocca	American writer and comedian
1969	Linda Sanchez	American politician
1968	Sarah McLachlan	Canadian singer and songwriter
1968	DJ Muggs	American musician (Cypress Hill)
1968	Rakim	American rapper
1965	Lynda Boyd	American actress
1963	Dan Spitz	American musician, guitarist for Anthrax
1962	Sam Phillips	American singer
1961	Normand Rochefort	Canadian ice hockey player
1960	Robert von Dassanowsky	American cultural historian, writer, and producer
1959	Frank Darabont	American filmmaker
1959	Randi Rhodes	American personality
1959	Dave Sharp	Welsh guitarist (The Alarm)
1957	Mark Napier	Canadian ice hockey player
1955	Nicolas Sarkozy	President of France
1954	Rick Warren	American pastor and author
1953	Colin Campbell	Canadian ice hockey player and executive
1951	Brian Bilbray	American politician
1951	Leonid Kadeniuk	Ukrainian cosmonaut
1950	Barbi Benton	American actress
1950	Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah	King of Bahrain
1948	Mikhail Baryshnikov	Russian dancer
1948	Charles Taylor	President of Liberia
1945	Robert Wyatt	English musician
1944	John Tavener	English composer
1943	Paul Henderson	Canadian ice hockey player
1941	Joel Crothers	American actor
1938	Leonid Zhabotynsky	Ukrainian weightlifter
1936	Ismail Kadare	Albanian writer
1936	Alan Alda	American actor, writer, and director
1935	David Lodge	English author
1934	Juan Manuel Bordeu	Argentine racing driver
1934	Mitr Chaibancha	Thai actor
1933	Jack Hill	American film director
1929	Acker Bilk	English jazz clarinetist
1929	Claes Oldenburg	Swedish-born artist
1927	Ronnie Scott	British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner
1927	Hiroshi Teshigahara	Japanese director
1922	Robert W. Holley	American biochemist, Nobel Laureate
1912	Jackson Pollock	American painter
1910	John Banner	Austrian actor
1910	Arnold Moss	American actor
1908	Paul Misraki	French composer and songwriter
1903	Aleksander Kaminski	Polish writer
1899	Elias Simojoki	Finnish clergyman and politician
1897	Valentin Kataev	Russian writer
1892	Ernst Lubitsch	German-born film director
1891	Bill Doak	American baseball player
1890	Robert Stroud	American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz
1887	Arthur Rubinstein	Polish pianist and conductor
1886	Marthe Bibesco	Romanian writer
1884	Auguste Piccard	Swiss physicist
1880	Herbert Strudwick	English cricketer
1879	Francis Picabia	French-born painter and poet
1874	Vsevolod Meyerhold	Russian theatre director
1873	Colette	French writer
1865	Lala Lajpat Rai	Indian freedom fighter
1865	Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg	first president of Finland
1864	Charles W. Nash	co-founder of Nash Motors, which would become American Motors as well as co-founder of Buick
1864	Herbert Akroyd Stuart	English engineer - inventor of the first compression ignition engine
1855	William Seward Burroughs I	American inventor
1853	José Martí	Cuban revolutionary
1841	Henry Morton Stanley	Welsh-born explorer and journalist
1833	Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon	British soldier and administrator
1822	Alexander Mackenzie	2nd Prime Minister of Canada
1784	George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1755	Samuel Thomas von Sömmering	German physician
1719	Johann Elias Schlegel	German critic and poet
1717	Mustafa III	Ottoman Sultan
1712	Tokugawa Ieshige	Japanese shogun
1706	John Baskerville	English printer
1701	Charles Marie de La Condamine	French mathematician and geographer
1622	Adrien Auzout	French astronomer
1611	Johannes Hevelius	astronomer
1608	Giovanni Alfonso Borelli	Italian physiologist and physicist
1600	Pope Clement IX	(d. 1669)
1582	John Barclay	Scottish writer
1540	Ludolph van Ceulen	German mathematician
1457	King Henry VII of England	(d. 1509)