January 28:
Events
Births
- 1712 - Tokugawa Ieshige (d. 1761), shogun
- 1886 - Hidetsugu Yagi (d. 1976), engineer and academic
- 1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara (d. 2001), director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1952 - Tomokazu Miura, actor
- 1954 - Kaneto Shiozawa (d. 2000), voice actor
- 1966 - Seiji Mizushima, director and producer
- 1975 - Hiroshi Kamiya, voice actor and singer
- 1976 - Emiko Kado (d. 1999), wrestler
- 1977 - Takuma Sato, race car driver
- 1980 - Yasuhito Endō, footballer
- 1981 - Gen Hoshino, singer-songwriter, lyricist, actor, and voice actor
- 1988 - Seiya Sanada, wrestler
Deaths