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)