Famous People Born on January 28
Famous people born on January 28 include Nicolas Sarkozy (1955), Jackson Pollock (1912) and Gianluigi Buffon (1978).
BORN ON THIS DAY
Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France 2007–2012
Jackson Pollock
Action painting, abstract expressionism
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Gianluigi Buffon
Italian footballer (born 1978)
José Martí
Cuban national hero (1853–1895)
Colette
French novelist (1873–1954)
Ismail Kadare
Albanian writer (1936–2024)
Elijah Wood
American actor and producer (born 1981)
Carlos Slim
Mexican business oligarch (born 1940)
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Emir/King of Bahrain since 1999
Arthur Rubinstein
Polish pianist (1887–1982)
Mustafa III
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1774
Alan Alda
American actor (born 1936)
Jamie Carragher
English footballer and analyst (born 1978)
Johannes Hevelius
Astronomer from Danzig (1611–1687)
Vladimir Solovyov
Russian philosopher and Christian mystic (1853–1900)
Yasuhito Endō
Japanese footballer (born 1980)
Tomas Lindahl
Swedish-British scientist
DIED ON THIS DAY
Charlemagne
Father of Europe, crowned Emperor of the Romans in 800
Henry VIII
King of England, six wives
Sir Francis Drake
English sea captain, circumnavigator
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
W. B. Yeats
Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
Joseph Brodsky
Russian poet (1940–1996)
Astrid Lindgren
Swedish author and screenwriter (1907–2002)
Pope Paul V
Head of the Catholic Church from 1605 to 1621
Zora Neale Hurston
American author, anthropologist, filmmaker (1891–1960)
Johannes Hevelius
Astronomer from Danzig (1611–1687)
Ludvig Holberg
Danish–Norwegian writer, philosopher and historian (1684–1754)
Yves Chauvin
French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Cicely Tyson
American actress (1924–2021)
Émile Clapeyron
French engineer and physicist (1799–1864)
Sources
- January 28 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Nicolas Sarkozy — Wikipedia
- Jackson Pollock — Wikipedia
- Charlemagne — Wikipedia
- Henry VIII — Wikipedia
- Francis Drake — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths