| 11371 | January 28 | Birth | 1903 – Aleksander Kamiński, Polish author and educator (d. 1978) |
| 11372 | January 28 | Birth | 1904 – Canuplin, Filipino magician and actor (d. 1979) |
| 11373 | January 28 | Birth | 1908 – Paul Misraki, Turkish-French composer and historian (d. 1998) |
| 11374 | January 28 | Birth | 1909 – John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931) |
| 11375 | January 28 | Birth | 1910 – John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973) |
| 11376 | January 28 | Birth | 1910 – Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989) |
| 11377 | January 28 | Birth | 1911 – Johan van Hulst, Dutch academic and politician |
| 11378 | January 28 | Birth | 1912 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956) |
| 11379 | January 28 | Birth | 1915 – Nien Cheng, Chinese-American author (d. 2009) |
| 11380 | January 28 | Birth | 1918 – Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (d. 2004) |
| 11381 | January 28 | Birth | 1919 – Gabby Gabreski, American colonel and pilot (d. 2002) |
| 11382 | January 28 | Birth | 1922 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993) |
| 11383 | January 28 | Birth | 1924 – Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter and poet (d. 1976) |
| 11384 | January 28 | Birth | 1925 – Raja Ramanna, Indian physicist and politician (d. 2004) |
| 11385 | January 28 | Birth | 1927 – Eşref Kolçak, Turkish actor |
| 11386 | January 28 | Birth | 1927 – Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010) |
| 11387 | January 28 | Birth | 1927 – Ronnie Scott, English saxophonist (The Jazz Couriers) (d. 1996) |
| 11388 | January 28 | Birth | 1927 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001) |
| 11389 | January 28 | Birth | 1929 – Acker Bilk, English singer and clarinet player (d. 2014) |
| 11390 | January 28 | Birth | 1929 – Nikolai Parshin, Russian footballer and manager (d. 2012) |
| 11391 | January 28 | Birth | 1929 – Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-American sculptor and illustrator |
| 11392 | January 28 | Birth | 1930 – Jasraj, Indian singer |
| 11393 | January 28 | Birth | 1930 – Kurt Biedenkopf, German academic and politician 54th President of the German Bundesrat |
| 11394 | January 28 | Birth | 1930 – Roy Clarke, English soldier and screenwriter |
| 11395 | January 28 | Birth | 1934 – Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1990) |
| 11396 | January 28 | Birth | 1934 – Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor and producer (d. 1970) |
| 11397 | January 28 | Birth | 1935 – David Lodge, English author and critic |
| 11398 | January 28 | Birth | 1935 – Nicholas Pryor, American actor |
| 11399 | January 28 | Birth | 1936 – Alan Alda, American actor, director, and screenwriter |
| 11400 | January 28 | Birth | 1936 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian author and poet |