28 January: today's birthdays

• Gianluigi Buffon - Italian professional goalkeeper, best known as Gigi Buffon
• Heinz Flohe - Former German soccer player
• Josep Vicenç Foix i Mas - Catalan poet and writer best known as J.V. Foix
• ​Ismail Kadare - Albanian writer, poet, and screenwriter. He wrote The General of the Dead Army.
• Ernst Lubitsch - German-born American film director. He received an Honorary Oscar in 1946
• José Julián Martí - Cuban writer, poet, translator, painter and revolutionary philosopher. He is considered a national hero
• Sarah McLachlan - Canadian musician and singer-songwriter
• Giovanna Melandri - Italian politician born in the United States
• Jackson Pollock - American painter, one of the leading exponents of action painting, also called abstract expressionism
• Nicolas Sarkozy - French lawyer and politician, born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa. He served as the 23rd President of France 
• Elijah Wood - American actor. He was Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings film series
• Zhao Tao - Chinese actress married to Chinese film director Jia Zhangke