About the day » Sunday January 15, 1928Calender converter

• Constantia Pauwels, Borgerhout (B) († 1928)
• Betty Louise March, Eldred Green, Illinois († 1988)
• Antonius Johannes Schoenmakers, Chaam († 2003)
• Clazina Wilhelmina Aggelen van, Loosduinen Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• Christina Johanna Cornelia Verheij, AMSTERDAM, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1929)
• Anna Theresia Boon, Schiedam
• Agneta Maria STUIT, Winschoten,, Groningen, Nederland († 2013)
• Cornelia Johanna Damen, Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1996)
• Cornelis van Beelen († 2021)
• Catharina Wilhelmina Damave († 2005)

• Alida Marie George (36), Houplines (Frankrijk)
• Adriaan Willem van Everdingen (74), Terneuzen
• Anna Louisa Laman Trip (77), 's-Gravenhage
• Antonie Harps (63), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonia Jacoba den Hertog (65), Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrecht, NL
• Adrianus SLUIS (67), Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aleida Johanna Everink (60), Groenlo
• Adriaantje Klaasdr Schelling (76), Rotterdam (IJsselmonde),, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Johanna Schneijderberg (8), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Zoutendijk (47), Rotterdam

• 1924 » George Lowe, New Zealand-English mountaineer and explorer († 2013)
• 1925 » Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor
• 1925 » Ruth Slenczynska, American pianist and composer
• 1926 » Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress († 2005)
• 1927 » Phyllis Coates, American actress
• 1928 » W. R. Mitchell, English journalist and author († 2015)
• 1929 » Earl Hooker, American guitarist († 1970)
• 1929 » Martin Luther King, Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (assassinated in 1968)
• 1930 » Eddie Graham, American wrestler and promoter († 1985)
• 1931 » Lee Bontecou, American painter and sculptor

• 1909 » Arnold Janssen, German priest and missionary (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright and translator (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
• 1919 » Rosa Luxemburg, German economist, theorist, and philosopher (b. 1871)
• 1926 » Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1929 » George Cope, American painter (b. 1855)
• 1936 » Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, English cricketer and politician, 7th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866)
• 1937 » Anton Holban, Romanian author, theoretician, and educator (b. 1902)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist (b. 1865)
• 1948 » Josephus Daniels, American publisher and diplomat, 41st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1862)

• 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.
• January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
• January 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
• April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
• May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
• June 4 » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
• November 18 » Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.

The temperature on January 15, 1928 was between 2.9 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.