About the day » Monday January 28, 1991Calender converter

• Brandon James Westmaas, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1991)
• Andrew Jay Oakeson, Salt Lake City

• Catharina Christina Petronella (Trien) HOEIJMAKERS (71), Sevenum, Limburg, Netherlands
• Bertha Woutrina Gerdina van der Raaij- (74)
• Anna Cornelia Maria Lases (84), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Doris M. Wieberdink (59), Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
• Delphine Leonia Sophia Munichmann (88), Amsterdam
• Catharina Christina Petronella Hoeijmakers (71), Sevenum
• Antoon Paul Eugeen WERCK (77), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Dieuw van Baar (77), Hoogkarspel
• Basilica, Salvadora, Rivero Beltzer (86)
• Arend Kisteman (87), Rouveen

• 1985 » Daniel Carcillo, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 » J. Cole, American singer
• 1986 » Asad Shafiq, Pakistani cricketer
• 1986 » Jessica Ennis-Hill, English heptathlete and hurdler
• 1986 » Nathan Outteridge, Australian sailor
• 1988 » Paul Henry, English footballer
• 1988 » Seiya Sanada, Japanese wrestler
• 1989 » Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer
• 1991 » Carl Klingberg, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1992 » Sergio Araujo, Argentinian footballer

• 1983 » Billy Fury. English pop star (b. 1940)
• 1983 » Frank Forde, Australian educator and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
• 1986 » Space Shuttle Challenger crew
• 1988 » Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and politician (b. 1911)
• 1989 » Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (b. 1938)
• 1993 » Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer and academic (b. 1905)
• 1996 » Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist and author (b. 1911)
• 1996 » Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator, co-created Superman (b. 1914)
• 1996 » Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)
• 1998 » Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1938)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
• March 31 » Georgian independence referendum: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
• April 4 » Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
• April 29 » The 7.0 M_w  Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people.
• August 29 » Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
• August 30 » Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
• November 12 » Santa Cruz massacre: Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.

The temperature on January 28, 1991 was between -2.4 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.