** Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Postmaster General ; was falsely implicated.

** Herbert Marcuse –

** Herbert Block

** Herbert

** Herbert Kappler escapes from the Caelian Hill military hospital in Rome.

** Don Herbert, American television personality ( Mr. Wizard ) ( d. 2007 )

** Herbert Lom, Czech-born British actor ( d. 2012 )

** Herbert Mataré, German physicist and European co-inventor of the transistor ( d. 2011 )

** Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st President of the United States, succeeding Calvin Coolidge.

** U. S. presidential candidate George Herbert Walker Bush defeats Robert Dole in numerous Republican primaries and caucuses on " Super Tuesday ".

** At a scientific meeting in Honolulu, Herbert Boyer and Stanley N. Cohen conceive the concept of recombinant DNA.

** U. S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.

** Herbert Zangs, German artist

** Herbert A. Simon, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2001 )

** Herbert Bullmore, Scottish Rugby Union international, grandfather of Kerry Packer ( b. 1874 )

** Herbert Biberman, Jewish-American screenwriter and film director ( b. 1900 )

** Frank Herbert, American author ( b. 1920 )

** U. S. president Herbert Hoover supports armament limitations.

** Robert Herbert McElroy, Canadian politician and merchant ( d. 1920 )

** Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter ( b. 1905 )

** Herbert Stanley, Governor of Northern Rhodesia, Ceylon and Southern Rhodesia ( b. 1872 )

** U. S. President Herbert Hoover is succeeded by Franklin D. Roosevelt ( FDR ), who in reference to the Great Depression, proclaims " The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself " in his inauguration speech.

** Henry Herbert, English official ( d. 1673 )

** Thomas Herbert, English traveller and historian ( d. 1682 )

** edited by Leonhard von Spengel, with commentary in Latin, Leipzig, 1847 ( online )

** Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach-( Middle High German )

** Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1797 )

** Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( part 1 1806, part 2 c. 1833 )

** Vice president ( since 1992 ): Wilhelm von Gottberg

** the King of Bohemia ( král český, König von Böhmen )

** the Margrave of Brandenburg ( Markgraf von Brandenburg )

** the Duke of Saxony ( Herzog von Sachsen )

** Die Witwe von Ephesus

** K. G. von Wächter, Beiträge zur deutschen Geschichte, insbesondere des deutschen Strafrechts ( Tübingen, 1845 )

** Max Ritter von Müller, German World War I fighter ace ( b. 1887 )

** Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet ( d. 1886 )

** John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician ( b. 1903 )

** Claus von Bülow, British socialite

** In a response to Georges Bonnet's speech of January 26, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938 accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are " now off limits ".

** German surrender of Paris: General Dietrich von Choltitz surrenders Paris to the Allies in defiance of Hitler ’ s orders to destroy it.

** U. S. Ordnance troops find the coffins of Frederick Wilhelm I, Frederick the Great, Paul von Hindenburg, and his wife.

** Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and 120 members of his team surrender to U. S. forces ( later going on to help to start the U. S. space program ).

** Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

** Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister ( b. 1893 )

** Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter ( b. 1906 )

** John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician ( d. 1957 )

** Franz von Hipper, German admiral ( d. 1932 )

** Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American engineer and physicist ( b. 1881 )