Today's Birthday Horoscope — January 28, 2026
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
— Mark Twain
Your Year of Going First. This is the year you stop waiting for the room to catch up to you, because you have made peace with arriving early and odd. A bridge you rebuilt with someone who matters holds weight this spring, and you feel it hold the next time you lean on it. By midsummer a thing you said plainly, without softening it for the crowd, lands exactly where you meant it to. Someone close laughs at a notion no one else would have followed, and you remember how good it feels to be the strange one out loud. You do not need the whole room nodding to know you are right about the next move. So make it. The year belongs to the ones who start before the applause, and you have always been one of those.
Start strange, start early, start anyway.
Born Today
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Also Born January 28
- Vladimir Solovyov — Russian philosopher, poet, and critic (died 1900), born 1853
- Ronnie Scott — English saxophonist (died 1996), born 1927
- Hiroshi Teshigahara — Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2001), born 1927
- Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg — Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 1st President of Finland (died 1952), born 1865
- Kathleen Lonsdale — Irish crystallographer and 1st female FRS (died 1971)<ref></ref>, born 1903
- Robert W. Holley — American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1993), born 1922
- Hidetsugu Yagi — Japanese engineer and academic (died 1976), born 1886
- Monty Noble — Australian cricketer (died 1940), born 1873
- Vera Williams — American author and illustrator (died 2015), born 1927
- Trevor Skeet — New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (died 2004), born 1918
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