Today In History - Saturday, January 28th
1991
Calum Worthy, Canadian actor and musician.
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1988
Henry Mortensen, American actor
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1986
Jessica Ennis, British athlete
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Shruti Haasan, Indian actress
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1985
Daniel Carcillo, Canadian hockey player
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Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
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1984
Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
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Stephen Gostkowski, American football player
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1981
Rick Razzano, American football player
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Elijah Wood, American actor
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1980
Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
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Jesse James Hollywood, American drug dealer and fugitive
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1979
Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder
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1978
Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
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Jamie Carragher, English footballer
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Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
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1977
Daunte Culpepper, American football player
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Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira)
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Joey Fatone, American singer (NSYNC)
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Lyle Overbay, American baseball player
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Takuma Sato, Japanese Formula One driver
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1976
Lee Ingleby, British actor
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Emiko Kado, Japanese wrestler (d. 1999)
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Mark Madsen, American basketball player
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Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot)
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Rick Ross (rapper), Rapper
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Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
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1975
Terri Colombino, American Actress
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Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer
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Anne Montminy, Canadian Olympic diver
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Junior Spivey, American baseball player
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David Zingler, American writer
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1974
Tony Delk, American basketball player
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Jermaine Dye, American baseball player
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Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player
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1972
Nicky Southall, English footballer
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1971
Anthony Hamilton, American soul singer
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1969
Kathryn Morris, American actress
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Mo Rocca, American writer and comedian
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Linda Sanchez, American politician
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1968
Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter
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DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill)
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Rakim (William Michael Griffin Jr.), American rapper
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1967
Jan Lamb, Chinese disc jockey & comedian
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1965
Lynda Boyd, American actress
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1963
Dan Spitz, American musician, guitarist (Anthrax)
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1962
Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor
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Creflo Dollar, American televangelist
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Sam Phillips, American singer
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1961
Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player
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1960
Robert von Dassanowsky, American historian, writer, and producer
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1959
Burkhard Dallwitz, German-born composer
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Frank Darabont, American filmmaker
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Randi Rhodes, radio personality
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Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm)
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1957
Mark Napier, Canadian ice hockey player
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Frank Skinner English comedian
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1955
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
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1954
Rick Warren, American pastor and author
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1953
Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
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Chris Carter, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey)
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1951
Brian Bilbray, American politician
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Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut
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1950
Barbi Benton, American actress
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David C. Hilmers, NASA astronaut
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Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain
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Bob Hay, American songwriter and musician
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1949
Gregg Popovich, American basketball coach
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1948
Charles Taylor, President of Liberia
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1947
Jeanne Shaheen, American politician
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1945
John Perkins, American author and activist
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Robert Wyatt, English musician
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1944
Susan Howard, American actress
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John Tavener, English composer
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1943
Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player
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Dick Taylor, English musician (The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things)
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1941
Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985)
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1940
Carlos Slim Helú, Mexican businessman
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1939
John M. Fabian, NASA astronaut
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1938
Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter
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1936
Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director
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Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
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1935
David Lodge, English author
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1934
Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990)
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Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)
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1933
Jack Hill, American film director
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1929
Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist
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Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist
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1927
Ronnie Scott, British tenor saxophonist and club owner (d. 1996)
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Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
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1925
Scotty Bloch, American stage and television actress
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1922
Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1993)
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1919
Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (d. 2002)
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1918
Harry Corbett, English puppeteer (Sooty) (d. 1989)
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Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (d. 2004)
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1912
Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
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1910
John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)
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Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989)
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1909
John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931)
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1908
Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998)
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1904
Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (d. 1979)
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1903
Aleksander Kamiński, Polish writer (d. 1978)
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1900
Alice Neel, American artist (d. 1984)
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1899
Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)
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1897
Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986)
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1892
Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)
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1891
Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
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1890
Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963)
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1887
Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist and conductor (d. 1982)
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1886
Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973)
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Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976)
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1884
Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962)
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1880
Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970)
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1874
Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (d. 1940)
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1873
Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
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1865
Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928)
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Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first president of Finland (d. 1952)
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1864
Charles W. Nash, American automobile entrepreneur (d. 1948)
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Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English inventor (d. 1927)
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1863
Ernst William Christmas, Australian painter (d. 1918)
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1855
William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (d. 1898)
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1853
José Martí, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)
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1841
Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d. 1904)
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1833
Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d. 1885)
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1822
Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
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1818
George S. Boutwell, 20th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
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1784
George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the UK (d. 1860)
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1755
Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (d. 1830)
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1719
Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)
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1717
Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1774)
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1712
Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
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1706
John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
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1701
Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
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1622
Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)
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1611
Johannes Hevelius, Polish-born astronomer (d. 1687)
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1608
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
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1600
Pope Clement IX, Pope (d. 1669)
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1582
John Barclay, Scottish writer (d. 1621)
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1540
Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)
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1457
Henry VII, King of England (d. 1509)
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1312
Queen Joan II of Navarre, Queen of Navarre (d. 1349)
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1225
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint (d. 1274)
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