Famous Birthdays on January 28

211 people 598 – 2004

January 28 has seen 211 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 598 – 2004. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

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Maluma

1994 — Maluma

Colombian singer-songwriter, rapper, and actor

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His single "Hawái" reached number three on the Billboard Global 200, and became the first number one single on the Billboard Global Excl

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Arias released his debut album, Magia, a year later in 2012

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But, his breakthrough album was 2015's Pretty Boy, Dirty Boy, which led to successful collaborations with many artists

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He followed it with 11:11 in 2019, and Papi Juancho, surprise-released in 2020

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Selling more than 18 million records, Maluma is one of the best-selling Latin music artists


Taizong
emperor of the Tang dynasty (died 649)
Emperor Taizong of Tang, previously Prince of Qin, personal name Li Shimin, was the second emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, ruling from 626 to 649. He is traditionally regarded as a co-founder of the dynasty for…
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598
Joan II
queen of Navarre (died 1349)
Joan II was Queen of Navarre from 1328 until her death in 1349.
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1312
Razadarit
king of Hanthawaddy (died 1421)
Razadarit, personal name Pasoom-Paing-Cek, courtesy name Benya Noy, was king of Hanthawaddy Pegu from 1384 to 1421. He successfully unified his Mon-speaking kingdom, and fended off major assaults by the Burmese-speaking…
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1368
Henry VII
king of England (died 1509)
Henry VII, also known as Henry Tudor, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizure of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death in 1509. He was the first monarch of the House of Tudor.
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1457
Paul Luther
German scientist (died 1593)
Paul Luther was a German physician, medical chemist, and alchemist. He was the third son of the German Protestant Reformer Martin Luther and was successively physician to John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony; Joachim II…
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1533
Ludolph van Ceulen
German-Dutch mathematician and academic (died 1610)
Ludolph van Ceulen was a German-Dutch mathematician from Hildesheim known for the Ludolphine number, his calculation of the mathematical constant pi to 35 digits.
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1540
John Barclay
French-Scottish poet and author (died 1621)
John Barclay was a Scottish writer, satirist and Neo-Latin poet.
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1582
Clement IX
pope of the Catholic Church (died 1669)
Pope Clement IX, born Giulio Rospigliosi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 20 June 1667 to his death in December 1669.
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1600
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Italian physiologist and physicist (died 1679)
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli was a Renaissance Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician who is often described as the father of biomechanics. He contributed to the modern principle of scientific investigation by…
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1608
Johannes Hevelius
Polish astronomer and politician (died 1687)
Johannes Hevelius was a councillor and chairman of the city council of the Old Town, Gdańsk. As an astronomer, he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography", and described ten new constellations, seven of…
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1611
Adrien Auzout
French astronomer and instrument maker (died 1691)
Adrien Auzout French pronunciation: [ozu.(t‿)] was a French astronomer.
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1622
Austrian composer (died 1766)
Gregor Joseph Werner was an Austrian composer of the Baroque period, best known as the predecessor of Joseph Haydn as the Kapellmeister of the Hungarian Esterházy family. Few of Werner's works survive to the present…
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1693
Charles Marie de La Condamine
French mathematician and geographer (died 1774)
Charles Marie de La Condamine was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician. He spent ten years in territory which is now Ecuador, measuring the length of a degree of latitude at the equator and preparing the…
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1701
John Baskerville
English printer and typographer (died 1775)
John Baskerville was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and type designer. He was also responsible for inventing "wove paper", which was…
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1706
Tokugawa Ieshige
Japanese shōgun (died 1761)
Tokugawa Ieshige; 徳川 家重 was the ninth shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan.
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1712
Mustafa III
Ottoman sultan (died 1774)
Mustafa III was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1774. He was a son of Sultan Ahmed III (1703–30), and his consort Mihrişah Kadın. He was succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid I (1774–89). After years of…
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1717
German poet and critic (died 1749)
Johann Elias Schlegel was a German critic and dramatic poet.
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1719
Christian Felix Weiße
German poet and playwright (died 1802)
Christian Felix Weiße (1726–1804) was a German writer and pedagogue. Weiße was among the leading representatives of the Enlightenment in Germany and is regarded as the founder of German children's literature.
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1726
Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring
Polish-German physician, anthropologist, and paleontologist (died 1830)
Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring was a German medical doctor, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor. Sömmerring discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye. His investigations on the brain and the…
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1755
George Hamilton-Gordon
4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1860)
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British statesman, diplomat and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in foreign…
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1784
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Who was born on January 28?

Maluma — Colombian rapper, singer, songwriter and actor (born 1994)

FeaturedMaluma
Birth year1994
Known forBorn and raised in Medellín, he developed an interest in music at a young age, recording songs since age sixteen
Birthdays on this date211 (598 – 2004)

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