About the day » Wednesday January 4, 1928Calender converter

• Bobbie Earl Bastin, Lincoln County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 1928)
• "Anne-Marie" Suzanne du Parc, Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France († 2012)
• Abraham VISKOPER, Amsterdam Noord-Holland Netherlands († 1943)
• Aart de Leeuw († 1996)
• "kind van vrouwelijk" de Boer, Den Helder († 1928)
• Bertus Duin, Velsen († 2015)
• Adrianus Franciscus van Iersel, Vught († 1972)
• Arie van NIELEN, Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Arie van den HEUVEL, haaften († 1984)
• Cornelia (Corrie) Verbeek, Zoeterwoude († 1981)

• Adriana Timmermans (75), Haaren
• Adriana Heeren (0), Rucphen, Nederland
• Anna van der Erve (63), Mijnsheerenland
• Antoinette van Boxtel (76), Deventer
• Aafke Taekes Looijenga (62), Het Bildt
• Aaltje Jans Pama (90), Smallingerland
• Jan de Klerck (92), Steenbergen
• Albert Beltman (1), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adaline Blackburn (76)
• Adriana HEEREN (0), Rucphen

• 1924 » Marianne Werner, German shot putter
• 1925 » Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish skier and technician († 2003)
• 1927 » Barbara Rush, American actress
• 1927 » Paul Desmarais, Canadian businessman and philanthropist († 2013)
• 1929 » Günter Schabowski, German journalist and politician († 2015)
• 1930 » Don Shula, American football player and coach († 2020)
• 1930 » Sorrell Booke, American actor and director († 1994)
• 1931 » Coşkun Özarı, Turkish footballer and coach († 2011)
• 1931 » Nora Iuga, Romanian poet, writer and translator
• 1931 » William Deane, Australian judge and politician, 22nd Governor-General of Australia

• 1919 » Georg von Hertling, German academic and politician, 7th Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1843)
• 1920 » Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish author and playwright (b. 1843)
• 1924 » Alfred Grünfeld, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1852)
• 1925 » Nellie Cashman, American nurse, restaurateur, entrepreneur, and gold prospector (b. 1845)
• 1927 » Süleyman Nazif, Turkish poet and civil servant (b. 1870)
• 1931 » Art Acord, American actor and stuntman (b. 1890)
• 1931 » Louise, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
• 1931 » Mohammad Ali Jouhar, Indian journalist, activist, and scholar (b. 1878)
• 1940 » Flora Finch, English-American actress and producer (b. 1867)
• 1941 » Henri Bergson, French philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Petrus
8. Gerrit
9. Adrianus
10. Jacob
11. Gerardus
12. Jacobus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Antonius
15. Arie
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Margaretha
14. Grietje
15. Aaltje
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
• March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
• April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
• June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
• September 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
• October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
• December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.

The temperature on January 4, 1928 was between -1.4 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.