What happened on January 28 ?

814 - Charlemagne (b. 742)

1061 - Duke Spytihn?v II of Bohemia (b. 1031)

1271 - Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)

1443 - Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France

1547 - King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)

1596 - Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier

1613 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545)

1621 - Pope Paul V (b. 1550)

1681 - Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619)

1672 - Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588)

1687 - Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (b. 1611)

1697 - John Fenwick, English conspirator

1725 (O.S.) - Tsar Peter I of Russia, (b. 1672)

1754 - Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (b. 1684)

1832 - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769)

1864 - ÿmile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)

1903 - Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847)

1912 - Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)

1915 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)

1935 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859)

1938 - Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driber (b. 1909)

1939 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)

1949 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)

1953 - James Scullin, ninth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)

1960 - Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b. 1891)

1965 - Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)

1965 - Maxime Weygand, French soldier (b. 1867)

1971 - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)

1973 - John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910)

1983 - Frank Forde, fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)

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)

1988 - Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (b. 1911)

1991 - Red Grange, American football player (b. 1903)

1994 - Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)

1996 - Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)

1996 - Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)

1999 - Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b. 1918)

1999 - Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (b. 1908)

2001 - Curt Blefary, baseball player (b. 1943)

2002 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)

2004 - Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer (b. 1927)

2004 - Don Cholito, Puerto Rican radio host (b. 1923)

2004 - Elroy Hirsch, American football player (b. 1923)

2005 - Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter (b. 1944)

2005 - Karen Lancaume, French actress (suicide) (b. 1973)

2006 - Yitzchak Kadouri, Jewish rabbi (b. around 1900)

2006 - Henry McGee, English comedian (b. 1929)