| 11581 | January 28 | Death | 2005 – Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951) |
| 11582 | January 28 | Death | 2006 – Yitzhak Kaduri, Iraqi-Israeli rabbi |
| 11583 | January 28 | Death | 2006 – Henry McGee, English actor and singer (b. 1929) |
| 11584 | January 28 | Death | 2007 – Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (b. 1929) |
| 11585 | January 28 | Death | 2007 – Robert Drinan, American priest, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920) |
| 11586 | January 28 | Death | 2007 – Beatrice Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer (b. 1978) |
| 11587 | January 28 | Death | 2007 – Yelena Romanova, Russian runner (b. 1963) |
| 11588 | January 28 | Death | 2007 – Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (b. 1938) |
| 11589 | January 28 | Death | 2008 – Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens (b. 1939) |
| 11590 | January 28 | Death | 2009 – Billy Powell, American keyboard player and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952) |
| 11591 | January 28 | Death | 2012 – Keriman Halis Ece, Turkish pianist and model Miss Universe 1932 (b. 1913) |
| 11592 | January 28 | Death | 2012 – Roman Juszkiewicz, Polish astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1952) |
| 11593 | January 28 | Death | 2014 – Gudo Wafu Nishijima, Japanese priest and educator (b. 1919) |
| 11594 | January 28 | Death | 2014 – Jorge Obeid, Argentinian engineer and politician Governor of Santa Fe (b. 1947) |
| 11595 | January 28 | Death | 2015 – Suraj Abdurrahman, Nigerian general, architect, and engineer (b. 1954) |
| 11596 | January 28 | Death | 2015 – Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930) |
| 11597 | January 28 | Holiday and observance | Army Day (Armenia) |
| 11598 | January 28 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:January 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)Julian of CuencaSecond Feast of St. AgnesThomas Aquinas |
| 11599 | January 28 | Holiday and observance | Data Privacy Day |
| 11600 | January 29 | Event | 757 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang dynasty and emperor of Yan, is murdered by his own son, An Qingxu. |
| 11601 | January 29 | Event | 904 – Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. |
| 11602 | January 29 | Event | 1258 – First Mongol invasion of Đại Việt: Đại Việt defeats the Mongols at the battle of Đông Bộ Đầu, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country. |
| 11603 | January 29 | Event | 1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia. |
| 11604 | January 29 | Event | 1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne. |
| 11605 | January 29 | Event | 1819 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore. |
| 11606 | January 29 | Event | 1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute. |
| 11607 | January 29 | Event | 1845 – "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe |
| 11608 | January 29 | Event | 1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress. |
| 11609 | January 29 | Event | 1856 – Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War. |
| 11610 | January 29 | Event | 1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state. |