About the day » Thursday January 28, 1993Calender converter

• Madison Kamp
• Samuel Jon Boekhoff († 1993)

• August Julius Wilhelm Schiefelbusch (80), 's-Hertogenbosch, Nederland
• Anne Pool (81)
• Berend Buntjer (75), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Berend Buntjer (75)
• Berengarius BRETAGNE, Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
• Anna ("Annie") Scholten (73), Breezand, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Veenstra (90), Winsum
• Anne (Jaspers) Pool (81)
• Arie Heijkoop Rietveld (85), enschede (overijssel)
• August Julius Willem Schieffelbusch (80), S-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

• 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
• 1998 » Ariel Winter, American actress

• 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)
• 1999 » Valery Gavrilin, Russian composer (b. 1939)
• 2001 » Ranko Marinković, Croatian author and playwright (b. 1913)

1. Jeroen
2. Thomas
3. Michael
4. Tim
5. Jan
6. Kevin
7. Bart
8. Robin
9. Dennis
10. Sander
11. Johannes
12. Mark
13. Jacob
14. Rick
15. Hendrik
16. Ruben

1. Iris
2. Lisa
3. Laura
4. Maria
5. Tessa
6. Melissa
7. Anna
8. Anne
9. Sanne
10. Sophie
11. Eline
12. Jessica
13. Sarah
14. Michelle
15. Kelly
16. Amanda

• 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 15.2 million citizens.
• January 13 » Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
• April 19 » The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.
• May 29 » The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war-torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.
• August 1 » The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
• August 10 » Two earthquakes affect New Zealand. A 7.0 M_w  shock (intensity VI (Strong)) in the South Island was followed nine hours later by a 6.4 M_w  event (intensity VII (Very strong)) in the North Island.
• December 15 » The Troubles: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.

The temperature on January 28, 1993 was between 2.6 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.