January 28
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Art and culture
- 1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
- 1813 - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
Births
- 1706 - John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
- 1873 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
- 1879 - Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
- 1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)
- 1912 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
- 1927 - Ronnie Scott, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner (d. 1996)
- 1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
- 1929 - Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist
- 1933 - Jack Hill, American film director
- 1935 - David Lodge, English author
- 1936 - Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director
- 1945 - Robert Wyatt, English musician
- 1953 - Chris Carter, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey)
Deaths
- 1939 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer (b. 1865)
- 2002 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)
Notes
- 1706 - Marcel Broodthaers (January 28 1924–January 28 1976) was a Belgian poet, filmmaker and artist with a highly literate and often witty approach to creating art works.
- 1706 - Armand Rassenfosse (6 August 1862 - 28 January 1934) was a Belgian painter and lithographer, born in Liège.
- 1706 - Adalbert Stifter Adalbert Stifter (23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was an Austrian writer, poet, painter,
- 1706 - Hervey M. Cleckley Dr. Hervey Milton Cleckley (1903 - January 28, 1984) was an American psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of psychopathy. He is the author of The Mask of Sanity and co-author of The Three Faces of Eve.
- 1706 - Suehiro Maruo Maruo Suehiro (Maruo Suehiro), born January 28, 1956 in Nagasaki, Japan, is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator, and painter.
- 1706 - Henri Murger Henri Murger (March 27 1822- Paris, January 28, 1861) was a French novelist and poet, born at Paris.
He is chiefly distinguished as the author of Scènes de la Vie de Bohème, f
- 1706 - Anicée Alvina January 28 1953, Boulogne-Billancourt, France to a French mother and an Iranian father - d. November 10 2006, Boncourt, Eure et Loir, France from cancer) was a French singer and actress.
- 1706 - Émile Cohl
- 1706 - Kroger Babb
- 1706 - Francis de Croisset
- 1706 - Donald McGill
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