Deaths on 28 January
2000s
Ajit Pawar
2026
Indian politician (1959–2026)
Cicely Tyson
2021
American actress (1924–2021)
Pepe Smith
2019
Filipino-American musical artist (1947–2019)
Alexander Chancellor
2017
British journalist (1940–2017)
Geoff Nicholls
2017
British guitarist and keyboardist (1944–2017)
Signe Toly Anderson
2016
American singer (1941–2016)
Paul Kantner
2016
American rock musician (1941–2016)
Gene Bissell
2016
American football player and coach (1926–2016)
Buddy Cianci
2016
American politician and radio host (1941–2016)
Bob Tizard
2016
New Zealand politician
Suraj Abdurrahman
2015
Nigerian general (1954–2015)
Yves Chauvin
2015
French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Lionel Gilbert
2015
Australian historian
John Cacavas
2014
American composer and conductor (1930–2014)
Harry Gamble
2014
American football coach and executive
Dwight Gustafson
2014
American classical composer
Nigel Jenkins
2014
Anglo-Welsh poet (1949–2014)
Jorge Obeid
2014
Argentine politician
Florentino Fernández (boxer)
2013
Cuban boxer
Hattie N. Harrison
2013
American politician (1928–2013)
Oldřich Kulhánek
2013
Roman Juszkiewicz
2012
Polish astrophysicist
Don Starkell
2012
Canadian adventurer, diarist and author
Werner Flume
2009
German jurist (1908–2009)
Billy Powell
2009
American keyboardist (1952–2009)
Carlo Clerici
2007
Swiss cyclist (1929–2007)
Robert Drinan
2007
American priest and politician
Yelena Romanova
2007
Russian distance runner (1963-2007)
Karel Svoboda (composer)
2007
Czech composer (1938–2007)
Jim Capaldi
2005
English musician and songwriter (1944–2005)
Lloyd M. Bucher
2004
United States Navy officer
Mieke Pullen
2003
Dutch long-distance runner
Gustaaf Deloor
2002
Belgian cyclist
Astrid Lindgren
2002
Swedish children's writer (1907–2002)
Ayşe Nur Zarakolu
2002
Author, publisher, human rights activist (1946–2002)
Ranko Marinković
2001
Croatian novelist and dramatist
1900s
Valery Gavrilin
1999
Soviet and Russian composer (1939–1999)
Shotaro Ishinomori
1998
Japanese manga artist
Joseph Brodsky
1996
Russian poet (1940–1996)
Burne Hogarth
1996
American artist, educator, and cartoonist (1911–1996)
Jerry Siegel
1996
American comic book writer (1914–1996)
Helen Sawyer Hogg
1993
American-Canadian astronomer (1905–1993)
Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama
1989
10th Panchen Lama of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism (1938–1989)
Klaus Fuchs
1988
German-born British physicist and atomic spy (1911–1988)
Gregory Jarvis
1986
American engineer and astronaut (1944–1986)
Christa McAuliffe
1986
American teacher and astronaut (1948–1986)
Ronald McNair
1986
American astronaut and physicist (1950–1986)
Ellison Onizuka
1986
American astronaut and engineer (1946–1986)
Judith Resnik
1986
American engineer and astronaut (1949–1986)
Dick Scobee
1986
American astronaut (1939–1986)
Michael J. Smith
1986
American astronaut (1945–1986)
Billy Fury
1983
British rock and roll musician (1940–1983)
Frank Forde
1983
Prime Minister of Australia in 1945
Ward Moore
1978
American writer of fiction
Marcel Broodthaers
1976
Belgian poet, filmmaker and visual artist
John Banner
1973
Austrian-American actor (1910–1973)
Donald Winnicott
1971
English pediatrician and psychoanalyst (1896–1971)
Tich Freeman
1965
English cricketer (1888–1965)
Maxime Weygand
1965
French general (1867–1965)
Gustave Garrigou
1963
French cyclist
Zora Neale Hurston
1960
American author, anthropologist, filmmaker (1891–1960)
Walter Beall
1959
American baseball player
James Scullin
1953
Prime Minister of Australia from 1929 to 1932
Neyzen Tevfik
1953
Turkish poet and satirist (1879-1953)
Nikolai Luzin
1950
Russian mathematician
Jean-Pierre Wimille
1949
French racing driver (1908–1949)
Hans Aumeier
1948
German SS officer (1906–1948)
Reynaldo Hahn
1947
Venezuelan-French composer (1874–1947)
Roza Shanina
1945
Soviet World War II sniper (1924–1945)
Edward Siegler
1942
American gymnast
W. B. Yeats
1939
Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
Bernd Rosemeyer
1938
German racing driver (1909–1938)
Anastasios Metaxas
1937
Greek architect and sport shooter
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
1935
Russian composer
Emmy Destinn
1930
Czech operatic soprano (1878–1930)
Mustafa Subhi
1921
Turkish revolutionary
John McCrae
1918
Canadian poet and physician (1872–1918)
Gustave de Molinari
1912
Belgian political economist and classical liberal theorist (1819–1912)
Eloy Alfaro
1912
President of Ecuador
Augusta Holmès
1903
French composer (1847–1903)
1800s
John Hart (South Australian colonist)
1873
Australian politician
Émile Clapeyron
1864
French engineer and physicist
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
1859
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1827 to 1828
Augustin Daniel Belliard
1832
French general
Before 1800
Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
1782
French cartographer and geographer (1697–1782)
Ludvig Holberg
1754
Danish–Norwegian writer, philosopher and historian (1684–1754)
Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet
1697
Ferdinand Verbiest
1688
Flemish Jesuit missionary (1623–1688)
Johannes Hevelius
1687
Astronomer and chairman of the city council of the Old Town of Gdańsk (1611–1687)
Richard Allestree
1681
English Royalist churchman
Pierre Séguier
1672
French statesman (1588–1672)
Tommaso Dingli
1666
Maltese architect and sculptor (1591–1666)
Pope Paul V
1621
Head of the Catholic Church from 1605 to 1621
Thomas Bodley
1613
English diplomat and scholar
Henry VIII
1547
King of England from 1509 to 1547
John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham
1501
English peer and politician
Robert le Maçon
1443
Dervorguilla of Galloway
1290
Scottish noblewoman
Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France
1271
Queen of France from 1270 to 1271
William II of Holland
1256
King of Germany from 1247 to 1256
Yue Fei
1142
Song dynasty Chinese general (1103–1142)
Spytihněv II, Duke of Bohemia
1061
Duke of Bohemia from 1055 to 1061
Jing Yanguang
947
Gao Jixing
929
Ruler of Jingnan (Nanping) from 924 to 929
Zhou Dewei
919
Chinese general
Charlemagne
814
Carolingian emperor from 800 to 814
Yazid II
724
Umayyad caliph from 720 to 724