Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 28
- 1540 - Birth of Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)
- 1608 - Birth of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
- 1611 - Birth of Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d. 1687)
- 1622 - Birth of Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)
- 1687 - Death of Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (b. 1611)
- 1701 - Birth of Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
- 1724 - The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree. It was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917
- 1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway
- 1864 - Birth of Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer - inventor of the first compression ignition engine (d. 1927)
- 1864 - Death of Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)
- 1884 - Birth of Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962)
- 1915 - Death of Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)
- 1922 - Birth of Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
- 1950 - Death of Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)