Famous people born on 28 January

• Jackson PollockAmerican painter · 1912–1956
  44 yrs
• José MartíCuban poet, philosopher and nationalist · 1853–1895
  42 yrs
• ColetteFrench novelist · 1873–1954
  81 yrs
• Ismail KadareAlbanian writer · 1936–2024
  88 yrs
• Clement IXPope from 1667, lived 1600-1669 · 1600–1669
  69 yrs
• Henry Morton StanleyBritish journalist and explorer · 1841–1904
  63 yrs
• Arthur RubinsteinPolish-American classical pianist · 1887–1982
  95 yrs
• Mustafa III26th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire · 1717–1774
  56 yrs
• Vladimir Solovyov ↗Russian philosopher · 1853–1900
  47 yrs
• George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ↗British politician · 1784–1860
  76 yrs
• Robert W. Holley ↗American biochemist · 1922–1993
  71 yrs
• Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg ↗President of Finland · 1865–1952
  87 yrs
• Frederick VI of Denmark ↗King of Denmark and Norway · 1768–1839
  71 yrs
• Livia ↗First Roman empress as consort to Augustus, as well as mother of emperor Tiberius · 59 BC–AD 29
  87 yrs
• Charles George Gordon ↗British army officer and administrator · 1833–1885
  51 yrs
• Lucia Bose ↗Italian-born Spanish actress · 1931–2020
  89 yrs
• Vasily Klyuchevsky ↗Russian historian · 1841–1911
  70 yrs
• David Lodge ↗English writer · 1935–2025
  89 yrs
• Alexander Mackenzie ↗2nd Prime Minister of Canada · 1822–1892
  70 yrs
• Auguste Piccard ↗Swiss physicist · 1884–1962
  78 yrs
• Claes Oldenburg ↗American sculptor and printmaker · 1929–2022
  93 yrs
• Giovanni Alfonso Borelli ↗Italian physicist · 1608–1679
  71 yrs
• Papa Bouba Diop ↗Senegalese footballer · 1978–2020
  42 yrs
• Valentin Kataev ↗Soviet writer, playwright, screenwriter, poet · 1897–1986
  89 yrs
• Charles Marie de La Condamine ↗French explorer, geographer, and mathematician · 1701–1774
  73 yrs
• Eugène Dubois ↗Dutch paleoanthropologist · 1858–1940
  82 yrs
• Kathleen Lonsdale ↗Irish crystallographer · 1903–1971
  68 yrs
• Lala Lajpat Rai ↗Indian author and politician · 1865–1928
  63 yrs
• Bairam Khan ↗Mughal military commander and statesman · 1501–1561
  60 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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