Year
1928 (
MCMXXVIII) was a
leap year starting on Sunday
(link will display full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1928
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Undated
Births
January
- January 2 – Robert Goralski – American journalist (d.
1988)
- January 2 – Daisaku Ikeda – Japanese religious leader
- January 5 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d.
1979)
- January 5 – Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator, Vice President
and Presidential candidate
- January 6 – George H. Ross,
American businessman
- January 7 – William Peter Blatty, American writer
(The Exorcist)
- January 9 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer,
songwriter, actor and politician (d. 1994)
- January 10 – Philip Levine, American poet
- January 11 – David L. Wolper, American television producer
- January 15 – Joanne Linville, American actress
- January 16 – William Kennedy, American
author
- January 17 – Jean Barraqué, French composer (d.
1973)
- January 17 – Vidal Sassoon, English hairdresser
- January 22 – Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (d.
2004)
- January 23 – Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d.
2005)
- January 23 – Jeanne Moreau, French actress
- January 24 – Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007)
- January 24 – Desmond Morris, English anthropologist and
writer
- January 25 – Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgean
politician, former president
- January 26 – Roger Vadim, French film director (d. 2000)
- January 27 – Hans Modrow, East German
Premier
- January 30 – Hal Prince, American stage producer and
director
February
- February 1 – Tom Lantos, American Congressman (d. 2008)
- February 3 – Frankie Vaughan, British singer (d. 1999)
- February 4 – Kim Yong-nam, North Korean politician
- February 5 – Andrew Greeley, American Catholic priest and
novelist
- February 8 – Gene Lees, Canadian biographer and lyricist
- February 9 – Frank Frazetta, American illustrator
- February 9 – Roger Mudd, American journalist (CBS
News)
- February 22 – Bruce Forsyth, English entertainer
- February 23 – Vasili Lazarev, Russian cosmonaut (d.
1990)
- February 23 – Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver
(d. 1973)
- February 26 – Fats Domino, American musician (Blueberry
Hill)
- February 26 – Anatoli Filipchenko, Russian
cosmonaut
- February 27 – Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel
March
- March 3 – Gudrun Pausewang, German writer
- March 4 – Samuel Adler, American composer
- March 4 – Alan
Sillitoe, English writer
- March 8 – Gerald
Bull, Canadian engineer (d. 1990)
- March 10 – Kiyoshi Atsumi, Japanese actor (d. 1996)
- March 10 – James Earl Ray, American assassin (d.
1998)
- March 12 – Edward Albee, American dramatist
- March 12 – Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (d.
2007)
- March 16 – Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
- March 16 – Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo
wrestler
- March 19 – Hans Küng, Swiss Catholic theologian
- March 19 – Patrick McGoohan, Irish actor (The
Prisoner) (d. 2009)
- March 20 – Fred
Rogers, American children's television host (Mister Rogers'
Neighborhood) (d. 2003)
- March 24 – Byron
Janis, American pianist
- March 25 – Jim
Lovell, American astronaut
- March 28 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born U.S.
National Security Advisor
- March 28 – Alexander Grothendieck, German-born
Jewish-French mathematician.
- March 29 – Vincent Gigante, Italian-American mafia (d.
2005)
- March 31 – Gordie Howe, Canadian hockey player
- March 31 – Lefty Frizzell, American country music
performer
April
- April 1 – Jane
Powell, American dancer, actress, and singer
- April 1 – George Grizzard, American actor (d. 2007)
- April 2 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (d.
1991)
- April 4 – Maya
Angelou, African-American poet and novelist
- April 6 – James D. Watson, American geneticist, recipient of
the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine
- April 7 – James
Garner, American actor (The Rockford Files)
- April 7 – Alan
J. Pakula, American producer and
director (d. 1998)
- April 7 – James White, Irish writer (d. 1999)
- April 8 – Eric
Porter, English actor (d. 1995)
- April 9 – Tom
Lehrer, American songwriter (We Will All Go Together When
We Go)
- April 12 – Jean-François Paillard, French
conductor
- April 19 – Alexis Korner, British musician (d. 1984)
- April 19 – Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak, King
of Malaysia
- April 20 – Robert Byrne, American chess player
- April 23 – Shirley Temple, American actress and
politician
- April 25 – Cy
Twombly, American artist
- April 28 – Yves
Klein, French artist (d. 1962)
May
- May 1 – Desmond Titterington, Irish race car
driver (d. 2002)
- May 3 – Dave
Dudley, American singer (d. 2003)
- May 4 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter
(d. 2006)
- May 4 – Hosni
Mubarak, President of
Egypt
- May 8 – Theodore Sorenson, American lawyer and
speechwriter
- May 8 – Gregory Scarpa Sr., American mobster
- May 9 – Colin
Chapman, English automotive engineer (d. 1982)
- May 9 – Pancho
Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995)
- May 9 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure
skater
- May 10 – Mel
Lewis, American jazz drummer and band leader (d. 1990)
- May 10 – Lothar
Schmid, German chess player
- May 12 – Burt
Bacharach, American composer (Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My
Head)
- May 13 – Jim
Shoulders, American rodeo cowboy (d. 2007)
- May 16 – Billy
Martin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1989)
- May 18 – Pernell Roberts, American actor
(Bonanza)
- May 23 – Jeannie Carson, English actress and
comedian
- May 23 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and
actress (Come On A' My House) (d. 2002)
- May 24 – Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer and
cutter
- May 26 – Jack
Kevorkian, American physician, right-to-die advocate
June
- June 1 – Georgi Dobrovolski, Russian cosmonaut (d.
1971)
- June 1 – Bob
Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (d. 2003)
- June 3 – Donald
Judd, American artist (d. 1994)
- June 10 – Maurice Bernard Sendak, American
children's author/illustrator
- June 12 – Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter
- June 13 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American
mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Economics
- June 14 – Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la
Serna aka Che Guevara, Argentine-born revolutionary (d.
1967)
- June 19 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
- June 20 – Eric
Dolphy, American Jazz musician (d. 1964)
- June 25 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov,
Russian physicist, Nobel
Prize laureate
- June 26 – Jacob Druckman, American composer (d.
1996)
- June 26 – Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
- June 28 – Hans
Blix, Swedish diplomat and politician
- June 28 – Harold
Evans, British newspaper editor
July
- July 5 – Warren
Oates, American actor (d. 1982)
- July 6 – Nestor de Villa, Filipino actor (d. 2004)
- July 10 – Moshe Greenberg, American Bible scholar
- July 11 – Bobo
Olson, American boxer (d. 2002)
- July 12 – Elias James Corey, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
- July 13 – Tommaso Buscetta, Italian mafioso (d.
2000)
- July 13 – Leroy Vinnegar, American musician (d.
1999)
- July 16 – Robert Sheckley, American writer (d.
2005)
- July 25 – Keter
Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
- July 25 – Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d.
1988)
- July 26 – Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician, 8th
President
- July 26 – Stanley Kubrick, American film director
(2001: A Space Odyssey) (d. 1999)
- July 26 – Bernice Rubens, British novelist (d. 2004)
- July 30 – Joe
Nuxhall, American baseball player (d. 2007)
- July 31 – Gilles
Carle, Canadian film director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
August
- August 5 – Bogdan Maglich, American physicist
- August 6 – Andy
Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
- August 7 – James
Randi, Canadian magician
- August 9 – Bob
Cousy, American basketball player
- August 10 – Eddie Fisher, American singer
- August 12 – Bob
Buhl, American baseball player (d. 2001)
- August 15 – Nicolas Roeg, English film director
- August 18 – Marge Schott, American baseball team owner (d.
2004)
- August 22 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer
(d. 2007)
- August 25 – Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
- August 26 – Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech
zoologist (d. 2006)
- August 31 – Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic
cardinal (d. 2005)
- August 31 – James Coburn, American actor (Our Man
Flint) (d. 2002)
September
- September 3 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician and Prime
Minister (d. 2007)
- September 4 – Dick York, Bewitched
character (d. 1992)
- September 5 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German Jazz
musician (d. 2005)
- September 6 – Robert M. Pirsig, American philosopher and
author
- September 6 – Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and
composer (d. 2002)
- September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American artist (d. 2007)
- September 11 – William Kienzle, American author (d.
2001)
- September 12 – M. V.
Rajasekharan, Indian member of
Rajya Sabha
- September 13 – Robert Indiana, American contemporary
artist
- September 15 – Julian Cannonball Adderley,
American saxophonist (d. 1975)
- September 19 – Adam West, American actor (Batman)
- September 20 – Donald Hall, American poet and U.S.
Poet
Laureate
- September 22 – James Lawson, African-American civil rights
activist and minister
- September 28 – Koko Taylor, American singer (d. 2009)
- September 30 – Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor,
writer, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October
- October 1 – George Peppard, American actor (The
A-Team) (d. 1994)
- October 7 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d.
1980)
- October 8 – Bill Maynard, British actor
- October 9 – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish
composer
- October 9 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinean guerrilla
leader.
- October 15 – Paul Giambarba, American graphic
designer
- October 20 – Li
Peng, former Premier of the
People's Republic of China
- October 21 – Whitey Ford, American baseball player
- October 23 – Johnny Kitagawa, American-born Japanese
businessman in the entertainment industry
- October 30 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine (d. 1999)
November
- November 3 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (d.
1989)
- November 3 – George Yardley, American basketball player
(d. 2004)
- November 9 – Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
- November 10 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
- November 11 – Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer
- November 17 – Arman, French artist (d. 2005)
- November 17 – Rance Howard, American actor
- November 18 – Inge Bandekow, wife of German industrialist
Harald Quandt (d. 1978)
- November 18 – Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer
- November 22 – Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (d.
2008)
- November 22 – Pat Smythe, British showjumper and author (d.
1996)
- November 29 – Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from
Illinois (d. 2003)
- November 30 – Takako Doi, Japanese politician
- November 30 – Joe B. Hall, American
basketball coach
December
Unknown date
Deaths
January–June
- January 1 – Loie Fuller, American dancer (b. 1862)
- January 6 – Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b.
1876)
- January 11 – Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
- January 21 – Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b.1880)
- January 28 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez,
Spanish novelist and screenwriter(b. 1867)
- January 29 – Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
- January 30 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger,
Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine (b. 1867)
- February 1 – Hughie Jennings, American baseball player
(b. 1869)
- February 4 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
- February 15 – Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom (b. 1852)
- February 16 – Eddie Foy, American vaudevillian (b. 1856)
- March 7 – Robert
Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)
- April 2 – Theodore William Richards,
American chemist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1868)
- April 5 – Roy
Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1890)
- April 19 – Dorus Rijkers, famous Dutch sailor and savior
of over 500 men, women and children (b. 1847)
- April 25 – Floyd Bennett, American aviator (b. 1890)
- May 8 – Clara
Williams, American actress (b. 1888)
- May 18 – Big
Bill Haywood, American Labor leader (b. 1869)
- May 19 – Max
Scheler, German philosopher (b. 1874)
- May 22 – Francisco López Merino,
Argentine poet (b. 1904)
- June 4
- June 16 – Mark
Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools (b.
1867)
- June 18 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b.
1872)
- June 19 – Nora
Bayes, American singer and actress (b. 1880)
- June 22
- June 24 – Holbrook Blinn, American actor (b. 1872)
July–December
- July 17 – Álvaro Obregón, President of Mexico (assassinated) (b.
1880)
- July 21 – Ellen
Terry, British stage actress (b. 1847)
- August 8 – Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (b.
1871)
- August 12 – Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b.
1854)
- August 30 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
- October 8 – Larry Semon, American film actor (b. 1889)
- October 13 – Dagmar of Denmark,
later Maria Fyodorovna, wife of Tsar Alexander III and Empress
Consort of Russia (b. 1847)
- October 22 – Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1862)
- October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist (b.
1863)
- October 30 – Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State (b.
1864)
- October 31 –
John William Wood Sr., North
Carolinian politician, founder of Benson, North Carolina
(b. 1855)
- November 4 – Arnold Rothstein, Jewish/American business
man and gangster (b. 1882)
- November 13 – Enrico Cecchetti, Italian ballet dancer (b.
1850)
- November 18 – Mauritz Stiller, Finnish screenwriter and
director (b. 1883)
- December 1 – Arthur Gore, British tennis player (b.
1868)
- December 1 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian
writer (b. 1888)
- December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh,
Scottish architect (b. 1868)
- December 11 – Lewis Latimer, American inventor (b. 1848)
- December 14 – Theodore Roberts, American actor (b.
1861)
- December 16 – Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist (b.
1885)
- December 17 – Eglantyne Jebb, English co-founder of
Save the Children, and champion of children's human rights
(b. 1876)
- December 25 – Fred Thomson, American silent film actor (b.
1890)
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currency from the mark to the kroon.
, previously drained in 1843
(and planted with grass), is completely refilled by a tidal
wave.
; he assumes
a status of passive resistance.
.
, Switzerland
.
.
after the
general
election.
becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio
Commission.
becomes a
British dominion.
, the St. Francis Dam
north of Los Angeles
fails, killing 400.
flight.
(first named the National Academy of
Art).
are preceded by assassinations and
bombings.
, Ireland
to Greenly, Canada
.
and Plovdiv
destroy more than 21000 buildings in Bulgaria
and kill almost 130 persons.
.
, China
.
, New
York
by the General
Electric's television station W2XB
(the station
is popularly known as WGY Television, after its sister radio
station WGY
).
kills 22 and injures 43.
; one of the occupants is Italian general Umberto Nobile.
.
.
.
.
.
aviator Emilio Carranza dies in a solo plane crash
in the New
Jersey Pine Barrens
, while returning from a goodwill flight to New York City
.
recalls its troops from China
.
and
Ethiopia
sign the Italo-Ethiopian
Treaty.
; he is crowned September
1.
(the first
treaty to outlaw aggressive war).
's WMAK
station
starts broadcasting in Buffalo, New York
.
.
.
prison for the 1927 murder of
Marion Parker.
.
, Arnold Rothstein,
New York
City
start a
tradition of eating Gustavus
Adolphus pastries to commemorate the old warrior
king.
opens in Boston
.
.
, a seaplane sent to greet
Alberto Santos-Dumont crashes
near Cap Arcona, killing all on
board.
.
.
is
rediscovered.
switches
from the Arabic to the Latin-based modern Turkish
alphabet.
to Julius Edgar
Lilienfeld.
.
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