About the day » Thursday January 28, 1954Calender converter

• Jan Johannes de Jong, Zwolle († 1954)
• Véronique Geneviève Lucienne DOMKEN, Heusy, 4802, Liège, Belgique
• Bertha Johanna Wormgoor († 2003)
• Peter John ter Veer, Chatham, Ontario, Canada († 2017)
• N.N. Overvliet, Alkmaar
• Jacobus Prummel, Emmen (NL) († 2004)
• Jürgen Witter, Schönbrunn († 2013)
• Cornelia Henriëtte Maria Hoogervorst, IJmuiden († 2003)
• Heimen Hendrik van de Ridder, Putten († 2023)
• Johannes Franciscus Clemens van Leeuwen, Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Anna Maria Roes (71), Maastricht (Limburg)
• Anje Mellema (89), Zoutkamp, Groningen, Nederland
• Constant Eugène Pierre de Wijs (37), Tilburg (Brabant)
• Aartje Metzger (76), Avereest
• ALBERTUS VAN DER STOELEN (57), SINT-PAUWELS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Charles Jerôme RAMON (72), Wervik, 33029, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Charles TITMUSS (71), Pirton, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
• Alice Cevilla Blizzard (87), Darke Co., OH
• Adriana Dijksman (89), Rotterdam
• Bertie Jean Gore (17)

• 1951 » Brian Bilbray, American politician
• 1952 » Richard Glatzer, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2015)
• 1953 » Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1954 » Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager († 2013)
• 1954 » Peter Lampe, German theologian and historian
• 1954 » Rick Warren, American pastor and author
• 1955 » Nicolas Sarkozy, French lawyer and politician, 23rd President of France
• 1955 » Vinod Khosla, Indian-American businessman, co-founded Sun Microsystems
• 1956 » Peter Schilling, German singer-songwriter
• 1956 » Richard Danielpour, American composer and educator

• 1945 » Roza Shanina, Russian sergeant and sniper (b. 1924)
• 1947 » Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan-French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1875)
• 1948 » Hans Aumeier, German SS officer (b. 1906)
• 1949 » Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
• 1950 » Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1883)
• 1953 » James Scullin, Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
• 1953 » Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher and poet (b. 1879)
• 1959 » Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899)
• 1960 » Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (b. 1891)
• 1963 » Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
• January 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
• January 10 » BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
• April 8 » South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
• July 20 » Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
• September 30 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSNautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
• October 11 » In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.

The temperature on January 28, 1954 was between -11.3 °C and -5.0 °C and averaged -8.6 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.