Anniversaries 28 November

Birth

William Blake249

English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827

Syed Ahmad Barelvi3

Muslim activist 1786–1831

Alfred Legoyt1

statistician and author 1812–1869

Friedrich Engels87

German social scientist, author, political theorist, and ph… 1820–1895

Leslie Stephen11

British author, literary critic, and first editor of the Di… 1832–1904

James Allen47

British philosophical writer 1864–1912

Stefan Zweig106

Austrian writer 1881–1942

Andrei Vyshinsky1

Soviet politician 1883–1954

George Bailey Sansom1

japanologist 1883–1965

Ernst Röhm12

German Nazi and military officer 1887–1934

Henry Hazlitt16

American journalist 1894–1993

Dawn Powell2

American writer 1896–1965

Nancy Mitford9

British writer 1904–1973

James Eastland30

American politician 1904–1986

Alberto Moravia8

Italian writer and journalist 1907–1990

Claude Lévi-Strauss35

French anthropologist and ethnologist 1908–2009

Umberto Veronesi6

Italian oncologist and politician 1925–2016

Abdul Halim of Kedah16

King of Malaysia 1927–2017

Carol Gilligan6

American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist 1936

Philippe Sollers3

French philosopher 1936

Théodore-Adrien Sarr1

Catholic cardinal 1936

Wilbur Ross2

39th and current United States Secretary of Commerce 1937

Tom Regan9

American philosopher 1938–2017

Eric Shinseki4

retired United States Army four-star general, seventh Unite… 1942

Rita Mae Brown38

Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist 1944

Joe Dante1

film director 1946

Gustav Hasford2

United States Marine 1947–1993

Dick Morris6

American political commentator and consultant 1947

Alan Lightman18

Physicist, science writer, essayist, novelist 1948

Sue Coe1

British artist 1951

David Zindell34

American writer 1952

Wendy Brown2

American political theorist 1955

Kuruvilla Pandikattu54

Indian philosopher 1957

Jonathan Pearce8

British football commentator 1959

Peter Beaumont (journalist)1

British journalist 1961

Pan Wen-chung2

Taiwanese educator and politician 1962

Jon Stewart121

American political satirist, writer, television host, actor… 1962

Dave Schatz1

American politician 1963

Brendan J. Cahill1

1963

Anna Nicole Smith4

American model, actress, and television personality 1967–2007

James E. McWilliams7

American historian 1968

Hans Kluge1

Belgian doctor, senior official of the WHO 1968

Menina Fortunato2

Canadian actress 1980

Sharon Needles1

American drag performer 1981

Mary Elizabeth Winstead9

American actress and singer 1984

Karen Gillan6

Scottish actress and former model 1987

Death

Bashō Matsuo46

Japanese poet 1644–1694

William Whipple2

American signatory of the Declaration of Independence 1730–1785

Samuel Vince4

British mathematician, astronomer and physicist 1749–1821

Washington Irving46

writer, historian and diplomat from the United States 1783–1859

Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet13

Lord Chief Justice 1802–1880

John Lyon (poet)4

Scottish Latter Day Saint poet and hymn writer 1803–1889

Orson Hyde2

American Mormon leader 1805–1878

Frédéric Bazille14

French painter 1841–1870

`Abdu'l-Bahá7

Son of Bahá'u'lláh and leader of the Bahá'í Faith 1844–1921

Talbot Baines Reed2

English author 1852–1893

William McDougall2

british psychologist 1871–1938

Pedro Muñoz Seca7

Spanish writer 1879–1936

Wilhelmina of the Netherlands6

Queen of the Netherlands 1898 - 1948 1880–1962

Boris Podolsky1

American physicist 1896–1966

Enid Blyton9

author 1897–1968

Enrico Fermi9

Italian physicist 1901–1954

Rosalind Russell3

actress from the United States 1907–1976

Розалинд Рассел1

1907–1976

Richard Wright130

African-American writer 1908–1960

Ian Serraillier1

British writer 1912–1994

Milton Sapirstein1

American psychiatrist 1914–1996

Samuel T. Cohen8

American physicist 1921–2010

Justo Gallego Martínez1

Ex-monk and sole builder of a cathedral in Spain 1925–2021

Zig Ziglar87

American motivational speaker 1926–2012

Thomas J. J. Altizer4

American radical theologian 1927–2018

Nakamura Kichiemon II2

Japanese kabuki actor (1944-2021) 1944–2021

Jeffrey Dahmer6

American serial killer, cannibal and necrophile 1960–1994