Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 28

Births

 * 1784 - George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)
 * 1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d. 1904) (pictured)
 * 1873 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
 * 1912 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
 * 1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer
 * 1981 - Elijah Wood, American actor

Deaths

 * 814 - Charlemagne (b. 742)
 * 1547 - King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
 * 1596 - Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier
 * 1939 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1865)
 * 1960 - Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b. 1891)
 * 1986 - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger:
 * Greg Jarvis (b. 1944)
 * Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948)
 * Ronald McNair (b. 1950)
 * Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946)
 * Judith Resnik (b. 1949)
 * Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939)
 * Michael J. Smith (b. 1945)