January 28th, 1949

Born on January 28th, 1949

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 27,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 660 days, exactly on September 26th, 2025, people who were born on January 28th, 1949 will be 28,000 days old!

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What happened on January 28th?

January 28th, 0661

Ali, the fourth Islamic caliph, was assassinated, effectively ending the Rashidun Caliphate.

January 28th, 1986

The Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its tenth mission, killing all seven crew members.

January 28th, 1984

Tropical Storm Domoina made landfall in southern Mozambique, causing some of the most severe flooding recorded in the region.

January 28th, 1964

An unarmed U.S. Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission was shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19, killing all three aboard.

January 28th, 1958

The Lego Group, a Danish toy company, filed a patent in Denmark for the design of Lego bricks (pictured).

January 28th, 1941

The Uline Arena in Washington, D.C., opened to host the Ice Capades.

January 28th, 1933

Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet in which he called for the creation of a Muslim state in north-western India that he termed "Pakstan".

January 28th, 1922

The largest recorded snowstorm in the history of Washington, D.C., collapsed the Knickerbocker Theatre, killing 98 people.

January 28th, 1813

English author Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice was published, using material from an unpublished manuscript originally written between 1796 and 1797.

January 28th, 1754

Horace Walpole coined the word "serendipity" in a letter he wrote to a friend, saying that he derived the term from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip.

January 28th, 1547

Nine-year-old Edward VI, the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant, became king.

January 28th, 1393

King Charles VI of France was nearly killed when several dancers' costumes caught fire during a masquerade ball.

January 28th, 1142

Despite having saved the southern Song dynasty from attempts by the northern Jin dynasty to conquer it, Chinese general Yue Fei was executed by the Song government.

January 28th, 2023

Protests begin after police beat and kill Tyre Nichols.

January 28th, 2006

The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Poland collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 28th

Born on January 28th, 1949

71

Mike Moore

Prime Minister of New Zealand in 1990

*January 28th, 1949, Whakatāne †February 2nd, 2020, Auckland

68

Jim Wong-Chu

Canadian writer of Asian descent

*January 28th, 1949, British Hong Kong †July 11th, 2017, British Columbia

74

Masachika Ichimura

Japanese actor

*January 28th, 1949, Kawagoe

74

Thomas Downey

American politician

*January 28th, 1949, Ozone Park

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 28th?

75

Bennie Thompson

American politician (born 1948)

*January 28th, 1948, Bolton

49

Ty Olsson

Canadian actor (born 1974)

*January 28th, 1974, Halifax

68

Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

87

Alan Alda

American actor, director, and writer

*January 28th, 1936, Manhattan

45

Jamie Carragher

English footballer and sportcaster

*January 28th, 1978, Bootle

45

Gianluigi Buffon

Former Italian footballer (born 1978)

*January 28th, 1978, Carrara

83

Carlos Slim

Mexican business magnate and investor

*January 28th, 1940, Mexico City

51

Amy Coney Barrett

US Supreme Court justice since 2020 (born 1972)

*January 28th, 1972, New Orleans

73

Barbi Benton

American former model, actress and singer

*January 28th, 1950, New York City

65

Heinz Flohe

German footballer (1948-2013)

*January 28th, 1948, Euskirchen †June 15th, 2013, Euskirchen

43

Nick Carter

American singer (born 1980)

*January 28th, 1980, Jamestown

85

Tomas Lindahl

Nobel prize winning Swedish biologist

*January 28th, 1938, Stockholm

95

Arthur Rubinstein

Polish-American classical pianist (1887-1982)

*January 28th, 1887, Łódź †December 20th, 1982, Geneva

42

Elijah Wood

American actor

*January 28th, 1981, Cedar Rapids

78

John Perkins

American author

*January 28th, 1945, Hanover

44

Jackson Pollock

American artist (1912-1956)

*January 28th, 1912, Cody †August 11th, 1956, East Hampton

38

Eduardo Aranda

Paraguayan association football player

*January 28th, 1985, Asunción

51

Bettina Bush

American actress and singer

*January 28th, 1972, Boston

69

Rick Warren

American baptist pastor and writer

*January 28th, 1954, San Jose

80

Lewis Wilson

American actor (1920–2000)

*January 28th, 1920, New York City †August 9th, 2000, San Francisco

Same year
Born in 1949

70

Jahn Teigen

Norwegian singer, musician, and comedian (1949–2020)

*September 27th, 1949, Tønsberg Municipality †February 24th, 2020, Ystad

74

Joachim Witt

German rock musician

*February 22nd, 1949, Hamburg

74

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

74

David Rubenstein

American businessman

*August 11th, 1949, Baltimore

74

Gloria Gaynor

American singer

*September 7th, 1949, Newark

74

Åse Kleveland

Swedish-Norwegian singer and politician

*March 18th, 1949, Stockholm

74

Sherman Howard

American actor

*June 11th, 1949, Chicago

74

Alla Pugacheva

Soviet-Russian singer, composer and actress

*April 15th, 1949, Moscow

66

Garry Shandling

American comedian (1949–2016)

*November 29th, 1949, Chicago †March 24th, 2016, Los Angeles

74

António Guterres

Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2017

*April 30th, 1949, Lisbon

74

Egon Flaig

German university teacher, Historian of classical antiquity and writer

*May 16th, 1949, Oberstenfeld

74

Alan Menken

American composer (born 1949)

*July 22nd, 1949, New Rochelle

74

Alice Walton

American heiress to the fortune of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

*October 2nd, 1949, Newport

74

Sebastián Piñera

35th and 37th president of Chile

*December 1st, 1949, Santiago

74

Meryl Streep

American actress (born 1949)

*June 22nd, 1949, Summit

74

Judith Light

American actress

*February 9th, 1949, Trenton

74

Michael W. Young

American geneticist, chronobiologist

*March 28th, 1949, Miami

74

Victor Garber

Canadian actor and singer

*March 16th, 1949, London

74

Griselda Pollock

British art historian

*March 11th, 1949, Bloemfontein

68

Stanley Greene

American photographer (1949-2017)

*February 14th, 1949, Brooklyn †May 19th, 2017, Paris

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Public holidays on January 28th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on January 28th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on January 28th, 1949
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1949 is a normal year and no leap year.

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