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• (Stillborn) DE HAAN, Grootegast Groningen Netherlands († 1928)
• Bernice van 't Hul, Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa († 2011)
• Bernardus Albertus Henricus Peters, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2004)
• Anna Mae VanderHorst († 1983)
• Anna M. Davis, Colorado († 1986)
• van den Brink, Utrecht, Nederland († 1928)
• Alberdina Bosman, Amsterdamscheveld, Emmen († 2024)
• Alfons Jozef MAES, Melsele, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 2011)
• Albert Kooke, Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland († 2013)
• Alphonsius BERGHMANS, Geel Belgie († 2000)

• Carloman Franks, France or Rhineland, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
• Antonia WALVOORD (79), Prarrie View, Phillips, Kansas
• Berend Renssen (1), Olst
• Bart Stoffelsen (85), Putten
• Catharina VANDEBERGEN (53), Linden
• Bartholomeus Hendrik Adrianus Siegelaar (57), den haag
• Anna Dekker (22), Soest (U)
• (0), Ede
• Anna Passchier (62), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Smit (39), Jisp, Nederland

• 1926 » Jimmy Bryan, American race car driver († 1960)
• 1927 » Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter († 2001)
• 1927 » Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2010)
• 1927 » Ronnie Scott, English saxophonist († 1996)
• 1927 » Vera Williams, American author and illustrator († 2015)
• 1929 » Acker Bilk, English singer and clarinet player († 2014)
• 1929 » Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-American sculptor and illustrator
• 1929 » Edith M. Flanigen, American chemist
• 1929 » Nikolai Parshin, Russian footballer and manager († 2012)
• 1930 » Kurt Biedenkopf, German academic and politician, 54th President of the German Bundesrat

• 1912 » Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist and theorist (b. 1819)
• 1918 » John McCrae, Canadian soldier, physician, and author (b. 1872)
• 1921 » Mustafa Suphi, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1883)
• 1930 » Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano and poet (b. 1878)
• 1935 » Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1859)
• 1937 » Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and target shooter (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (b. 1909)
• 1939 » W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1942 » Edward Siegler, American gymnast and triathlete (b. 1881)
• 1945 » Roza Shanina, Russian sergeant and sniper (b. 1924)

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.
• January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
• 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.
• September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
• September 17 » The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
• November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.

The temperature on January 28, 1928 was between -3.1 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.