January 28
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Art and culture
- 1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
- 1813 - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
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Births
- 1706 - John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
- 1873 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
- 1875 - Donald McGill, English graphic artist (d. 1962)
- 1877 - Francis de Croisset, French playwright (d. 1927)
- 1879 - Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
- 1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)
- 1912 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
- 1924 - Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian poet, filmmaker and artist (d. 1976)
- 1927 - Ronnie Scott, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner (d. 1996)
- 1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
- 1929 - Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist (d. 2022)
- 1933 - Jack Hill, American film director
- 1935 - David Lodge, English author
- 1936 - Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director
- 1941 - King Tubby, dub pioneer (d. 1989)
- 1945 - Robert Wyatt, English musician
- 1953 - Chris Carter, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey)
- 1953 - Anicée Alvina, French singer and actress (d. 2006)
- 1956 - Suehiro Maruo, Japanese manga artist, illustrator, and painter
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Deaths
- 1861 - Henri Murger, French novelist and poet (Scènes de la Vie de Bohème) (b. 1822)
- 1868 - Adalbert Stifter, Austrian writer, poet, painter, (b. 1805)
- 1934 - Armand Rassenfosse, Belgian painter and lithographer (b. 1862)
- 1939 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer (b. 1865)
- 1980 - Kroger Babb, American film producer (b. 1906)
- 1984 - Hervey M. Cleckley, American psychiatrist (The Mask of Sanity) (b. 1903)
- 2002 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)
- 2023 - Tom Verlaine, American singer/guitarist of Television (b. 1949)
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