About the day » Thursday January 5, 1928Calender converter

• Bood, Andijk († 1998)
• Banjamin Jozef Ruijgrok, Gouda († 1998)
• Cornelia KORPERSHOEK († 1995)
• Christina Jacoba Wilhelmina Fons, Schiedam
• Christianus Hogenes, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1952)
• Andrew Melville Cathcart Jr., Winnsboro, Fairfield County, South Carolina († 1991)
• Arend Pouls († 1991)
• Adriaantje Koorn, Den Oever († 2006)
• Coenraad Bulthuis, Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1930)
• Banjamin Jozef Ruijgrok, Gouda († 1998)

• Antonia Maria Fleuren (48), Mill en Sint Hubert
• Alberdina Pieternella Nieuwenhuijzen van (79), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Susanna Rosenstok (61), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Albertus Broekhof (84), Noordwijkerhout
• Aaffien UILDERSMA (46), Tjamsweer (Appingedam) Groningen Netherlands
• Amelia Maxine Davis (8), Durham, Durham, North Carolina
• Abram C. DeSmidt (57), Sheboygan, Wisconsin
• Antonius Johannes Tassenaar (6), Nijmegen, Nederland
• Adriana van den Boogaard (44), Schijndel
• Anna Catharina Wever (72), Zwaag

• 1926 » Hosea Williams, American businessman and activist († 2000)
• 1926 » Veikko Karvonen, Finnish runner († 2007)
• 1926 » W. D. Snodgrass, American poet († 2009)
• 1927 » Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, American guru and author, founded Iraivan Temple († 2001)
• 1928 » Imtiaz Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer († 2016)
• 1928 » Walter Mondale, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States
• 1928 » Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 4th President of Pakistan († 1979)
• 1929 » Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish footballer and manager († 2014)
• 1931 » Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist, poet, and author
• 1931 » Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer, founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater († 1989)

• 1904 » Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1917 » Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (b. 1865)
• 1922 » Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer (b. 1874)
• 1933 » Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
• 1942 » Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, and activist (b. 1896)
• 1943 » George Washington Carver, American botanist, educator, and inventor (b. 1864)
• 1951 » Andrei Platonov, Russian journalist and author (b. 1899)
• 1951 » Soh Jaipil, South Korean-American journalist and activist (b. 1864)
• 1952 » Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Scottish colonel and politician, 46th Governor-General of India (b. 1887)

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 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 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
• 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).
• October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.

The temperature on January 5, 1928 was between 2.7 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.