| 11551 | January 28 | Death | 1963 – Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884) |
| 11552 | January 28 | Death | 1965 – Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888) |
| 11553 | January 28 | Death | 1965 – Maxime Weygand, Belgian-French general (b. 1867) |
| 11554 | January 28 | Death | 1967 – Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director (b. 1896) |
| 11555 | January 28 | Death | 1968 – Aleksander Maaker, Estonian bagpipe player (b. 1890) |
| 11556 | January 28 | Death | 1971 – Donald Winnicott, English paediatrician and psychoanalyst (b. 1896) |
| 11557 | January 28 | Death | 1973 – John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910) |
| 11558 | January 28 | Death | 1975 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887) |
| 11559 | January 28 | Death | 1976 – Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter and poet (b. 1924) |
| 11560 | January 28 | Death | 1978 – Ward Moore, American author (b. 1903) |
| 11561 | January 28 | Death | 1979 – Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (b. 1901) |
| 11562 | January 28 | Death | 1983 – Frank Forde, Australian educator and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890) |
| 11563 | January 28 | Death | 1983 – Billy Fury, English singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1940) |
| 11564 | January 28 | Death | 1986 – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger– Gregory Jarvis, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1944)– Christa McAuliffe, American educator and astronaut (b. 1948)– Ronald McNair, American physicist and astronaut (b. 1950)– Ellison Onizuka, America |
| 11565 | January 28 | Death | 1988 – Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and politician (b. 1911) |
| 11566 | January 28 | Death | 1989 – Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (b. 1938) |
| 11567 | January 28 | Death | 1993 – Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer (b. 1905) |
| 11568 | January 28 | Death | 1994 – Hal Smith, American actor and singer (b. 1916) |
| 11569 | January 28 | Death | 1996 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940) |
| 11570 | January 28 | Death | 1996 – Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist and author (b. 1911) |
| 11571 | January 28 | Death | 1996 – Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator co-created Superman (b. 1914) |
| 11572 | January 28 | Death | 1998 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1938) |
| 11573 | January 28 | Death | 1999 – Valery Gavrilin, Russian composer (b. 1939) |
| 11574 | January 28 | Death | 2001 – Ranko Marinković, Croatian novelist and playwright (b. 1913) |
| 11575 | January 28 | Death | 2002 – Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist and soldier (b. 1913) |
| 11576 | January 28 | Death | 2002 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author and screenwriter (b. 1907) |
| 11577 | January 28 | Death | 2002 – Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist (b. 1946) |
| 11578 | January 28 | Death | 2004 – Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937) |
| 11579 | January 28 | Death | 2005 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer (b. 1944) |
| 11580 | January 28 | Death | 2005 – Karen Lancaume, French porn actress (b. 1973) |