List of Famous people born on January 28th
Vasily Chapayev
Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev or Chapaev was a celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War.
Andrew Jack
Andrew Jack was a British dialect coach and actor, from London who had worked on over 80 motion pictures since 1982.
Stephen Gostkowski
Stephen Carroll Gostkowski is an American football placekicker for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. One of just two kickers drafted, Gostkowski was the only rookie kicker to make an NFL roster that year. He has won three Super Bowls with the Patriots and played in six.
Michael Hastings
Michael Mahon Hastings was an American journalist, author, contributing editor to Rolling Stone and reporter for BuzzFeed. He was raised in New York, Canada, and Vermont, and he attended New York University. Hastings rose to prominence with his coverage of the Iraq War for Newsweek in the 2000s. After his fiancée Andrea Parhamovich was killed in an ambush, Hastings wrote his first book, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story (2008), a memoir about his relationship with Parhamovich and the insurgency that took her life.
Robert Stroud
Robert Franklin Stroud, known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was a convicted murderer, American federal prisoner and author who has been cited as one of the most notorious criminals in the United States. During his time at Leavenworth Penitentiary, he reared and sold birds and became a respected ornithologist, although regulations did not allow him to keep birds at Alcatraz, where he was incarcerated from 1942 to 1959. Stroud was never released from the federal prison system; he was imprisoned from 1909 to his death in 1963.
Jesse James Hollywood
Jesse James Hollywood is an American former drug dealer who kidnapped and ordered the murder of Nicholas Markowitz in 2000. He was arrested in 2005 and is serving life without parole at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, California.
Bernard Guetta
Bernard Guetta is a French journalist who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.
Sheamus
Stephen Farrelly is an Irish professional wrestler and actor. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Sheamus. Prior to joining WWE, he wrestled on the European independent circuit. After becoming part of WWE's main roster in 2009, he went on to become a four-time world champion, having held the WWE Championship three times and WWE's World Heavyweight Championship once. He is the first Irish world champion in WWE history, and is also a two-time United States Champion and a five-time tag team champion with his tag team partner Cesaro. In addition to these championships, he won the 2010 King of the Ring tournament, the 2012 Royal Rumble match, and the 2015 Money in the Bank ladder match, making him the second wrestler to achieve all three accomplishments. Brock Lesnar followed Sheamus and Edge in accomplishing all the three achievements in 2019.
Maitê Proença
Maitê Proença Gallo is a Brazilian actress, television presenter and writer.
Miguel Torres Gómez
Miguel Torres Gómez is a Spanish former professional footballer. Usually a right-back, he was equally at ease on the other flank.