Famous people and celebrities who died in January 1928

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in January 1928. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

Jan. 6 Alvin Kraenzlein
American hurdler and long jumper (b. 1876)
Jan. 6 Wilhelm Ramsay
Finnish geologist and professor (b. 1865)
Jan. 8 Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu
Composer dies at 61
Jan. 11 Thomas Hardy
British writer and architect, hardy is also a poet and one the greatest late victorian novelists in england. hardy's brooding novels about death and change, as well as loss and decay, reshaped victorian values. they were set in dorset, england. hardy gave up on his attempt to become an architect in 1874 and turned his attention to writing. he wrote …
Jan. 12 Ruth Snyder
American homicide. henry gray was her accomplice in the murder of her husband. henry gray was her partner and she began a passionate affair with him. this led to her husband being bound and gagged by the police and her husband being killed. gray and she did an extremely inept job staging a alleged burglary and murder. on 4/25/1927, an …
Jan. 13 Johan Peter Koch
Danish officer/explorer dies at the age of 57.
Jan. 13 Mara Buneva
Bulgarian revolutionary (born 1902)
Jan. 21 George Washington Goethals
American general and engineer (b. 1858)
Jan. 21 George Goethals
The panama canal was co-designed by an american engineer and general.
Jan. 27 Marie Verstraete
Actress (froufrou / nora), is killed at 74
Jan. 29 Douglas Haig
British senior officer during World War I, best known for commanding the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front.
Jan. 30 Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger
Nobel Prize laureate for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma
Jan. 30 Johannes Fibiger
MED - Danish physician and academic, nobel prize laureate (b. 1867)