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1928
1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-May
June-September
October-December
Unknown dates
Year in topic
Births
January
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January 5 - Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator, Democratic presidential nominee in 1984
- January 5 - Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979)
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January 7 - William Peter Blatty, screenwriter
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January 8 - Sander Vanocur , journalist
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January 11 - David L. Wolper , producer
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January 16 - William Kennedy, author
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January 17 - Jean Barraqué, composer (d. 1973)
- January 17 - Vidal Sassoon, cosmetologist
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January 23 - Jeanne Moreau, actress
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January 24 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer
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January 26 - Roger Vadim, film director (d. 2000)
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January 30 - Hal Prince, stage producer, director
February
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February 5 - Andrew Greeley, priest, novelist
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February 9 - Frank Frazetta, illustrator
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February 9 - Roger Mudd, journalist
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February 11 - Conrad Janis , actor
- February 11 - Archibald Forster , CEO (Esso, United Kingdom)
- February 11 - Gerry Alexander , West Indies cricket player
- February 11 - Raoul Cita , rocker
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February 23 - Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut (d. 1990)
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February 26 - Fats Domino, musician
- February 26 - Anatoli Filipchenko, cosmonaut
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February 27 - Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel
- February 27 - Alfred Hrdlicka , sculptor and graphic artist
March-April
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March 3 - France Križanič , Slovene mathematician (d. 2002)
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March 4 - Alan Sillitoe, writer
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March 6 - Gabriel García Márquez, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
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March 8 - Gerald Bull, engineer (d. 1990)
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March 10 - James Earl Ray, assassin (d. 1998)
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March 12 - Edward Albee, U.S. dramatist
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March 16 - Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
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March 19 - Hans Küng, theologian
- March 19 - Patrick McGoohan, actor
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March 20 - Fred Rogers, children's television host (d. 2003)
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March 24 - Byron Janis, American pianist
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March 25 - Jim Lovell, astronaut
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March 28 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, United States National Security Advisor
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March 31 - Gordie Howe, ice hockey player
- March 31 - Lefty Frizzell, country music performer
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April 1 - Jane Powell, dancer, actress, singer
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April 2 - Serge Gainsbourg, singer (d. 1991)
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April 4 - Maya Angelou, poet, novelist
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April 6 - James D. Watson, geneticist
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April 7 - James Garner, actor
- April 7 - Alan J. Pakula, producer, director (d. 1998)
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April 9 - Tom Lehrer, satirical songwriter
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April 12 - Jean-François Paillard, French conductor
May-September
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May 4 - Hosni Mubarak, president of Egypt
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May 8 - Theodore Sorenson, political operative, writer
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May 9 - Colin Chapman, engineer, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982)
- May 9 - Pancho Gonzalez, tennis player (d. 1995)
- May 9 - Barbara Ann Scott, figure skater
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May 12 - Burt Bacharach, composer
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May 16 - Billy Martin, baseball player, coach (d. 1989)
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May 18 - Pernell Roberts, actor
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May 23 - Nigel Davenport , actor
- May 23 - Rosemary Clooney, singer, actress (d. 2002)
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May 26 - Jack Kevorkian, assisted suicide advocate
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June 1 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut
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June 19 - Nancy Marchand, actress (The Sopranos) (d. 2000)
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July 5 - Warren Oates, Character actor (d. 1982)
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July 11 - Bobo Olson, American world champion boxer (d. 2002)
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July 16 - Robert Sheckley, science fiction writer
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July 26 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)
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July 26 - Bernice Rubens, British novelist (d. 2004)
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August 6 - Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
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August 10 - Eddie Fisher, American singer
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August 12 - Bob Buhl, Major League Baseball player (d. 2001)
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August 15 - Nicolas Roeg, film director
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August 18 - Marge Schott, former owner of MLB's Cincinnati Reds (d. 2004)
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September 14 - The Rt Hon Sir Angus Ogilvy KCVO, husband of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent (d. 2004)
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September 15 - Julian Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist
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September 19 - Adam West, actor
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September 22 - James Lawson, civil rights activist, minister
October-December
Unknown date
Deaths
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January 1 - Loie Fuller, dancer
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January 6 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete
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January 11 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
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January 29 - Douglas Haig, British soldier
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February 1 - Hughie Jennings, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1869)
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February 4- Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
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February 15 - Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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February 16 - Eddie Foy, vaudevillian
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June 4 - Chang Tso-lin, Chinese warlord
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August 12 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer
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August 30 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist (b. 1864)
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October 22 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia
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December 1 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
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Robert Abbe, American surgeon
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