Famous people died on January 28

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Tom Verlaine 17

American Musician

Christa McAuliffe 31

American Educator

George Ayittey 27

Ghanaian Economist

Jim Capaldi 17

British Musician

Paul Kantner 23

American Musician

Joseph Brodsky 40

American Poet

Bharati Mukherjee 20

Indian Writer

Dyanne Thorne 3

American Actress

Wong Shun Leung 23

Artist

Gene Sharp 1

Professor

Cicely Tyson 15

American Actress

Lennart Nilsson 7

Swedish Photographer

Jerry Siegel 7

George Woodcock 27

Canadian Writer

Klaus Fuchs 14

German Physicist

John Banner 2

Austrian Actor

Astrid Lindgren 7

Swedish Author

Red Grange 5

American Athlete

Arnold Hauser 30

Zora Neale Hurston 118

African Dramatist

Morris Raphael Cohen 20

Russian Philosopher

John McCrae 3

Canadian Poet

William Butler Yeats 381

Irish Poet

John Buchanan Robinson 24

American Politician

George Saintsbury 24

English Writer

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward 7

American Writer

Fyodor Dostoyevsky 210

Russian Novelist

Gustave de Molinari 26

Belgian Economist

William H. Prescott 3

American Historian

William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell 4

British Judge

Peter I of Russia 3

Francis Drake 7

English Sailor

Henry VIII of England 6

Meister Eckhart 107

German Philosopher

Charlemagne 10

Roman Royalty

See also: Famous people born on January 28