January 28

Events

 * 1878 - The first commercial telephone exchange in the U.S. was installed

Births

 * 1886 -, Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976)
 * 1887 -, Polish pianist and conductor (d. 1982)
 * 1908 -, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998)
 * 1927 -, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner (d. 1996)
 * 1929 -, English jazz clarinetist
 * 1943 -, English musician (The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things)
 * 1944 -, English composer
 * 1945 -, English musician
 * 1950 -, American songwriter and musician
 * 1959 -, German-born composer
 * 1959 -, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm)
 * 1962 -, American singer
 * 1963 -, American musician, guitarist for Anthrax
 * 1968 -, American musician (Cypress Hill)
 * 1968 -, born William Michael Griffin Jr., American rapper
 * 1971 -, American soul singer
 * 1975 -, English singer
 * 1976 -, American drummer (Taproot)
 * 1977 -, American singer (*NSYNC)
 * 1977 -, American guitarist (Chimaira)