January 28

1706 John Baskerville, typeface inventor
1853 José Martí y Perez, after whom Havana's airport is named
1886 Artur Rubenstein, pianist
1912 Jackson Pollock, artist - when someone says "it's a load of Pollocks" this is about whom they speak
1918 Harry Corbett, the father of Sooty and Sweep
1933 Sacha Distel, crooner
1944 John Edmonds, GMB
1944 John Tavener, composer
1944, Bobby Ball, nothing without Tommy Cannon
1945 Nick Raynsford, Local Government Minister
1957 Frank Skinner, never the same without Baddiel

I have met one, and seen two of today's birthday boys