About the day » Thursday January 5, 1928Calender converter

• Antonia Witte, Texel († 2014)
• Anthony Robert Kennedy, Barna, County Kilkenny, Ireland († 1979)
• Arend Pouls († 1991)
• Bernhard Johannes Rakers, Losser († 2003)
• Adriaantje Koorn, Den Oever († 2006)
• Annegien Kappen, Emmer-Erfscheidenveen, Emmen († 2024)
• Arnoldina Oomen, Egchel († 2001)
• Adriaan de ROO, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1980)
• Adrianus van Gils, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2008)
• Oerlemans, Haarlem († 1928)

• Anna Maria Torenvlied (96), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Broekhof (84), Noordwijkerhout
• Anna Susanna Rosenstok (61), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Dubbeldam (77), Hardinxveld
• Antje Gerardina Lengkeek (81), Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna de Hulle (62), Zuidzande
• Amelia Maxine Davis (8), Durham, Durham, North Carolina
• Albertus Hendrikus Derks (41), Olst
• Alberdina Pieternella van Nieuwenhuijzen (79), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Moerdijk, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands
• Oerlemans (0), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

• 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)

• 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.
• 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.
• May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
• September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
• December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.

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.