Anniversaries 28 April

Birth

James Monroe10

American politician, 5th President of the United States (in… 1758–1831

Robert Woodhouse7

English mathematician 1773–1827

Peter Guthrie Tait3

British mathematician 1831–1901

James Grant Wilson2

Union Army general 1832–1914

Antoni Lange11

Polish writer and philosopher 1862–1929

Karl Kraus94

Czech playwright and publicist 1874–1936

L. Onerva1

Finnish poet 1882–1972

António de Oliveira Salazar19

Prime Minister of Portugal 1889–1970

William Soutar4

British poet 1898–1943

Heinrich Müller6

German police official and head of the Gestapo 1900–1945

Jan Oort5

Dutch astronomer 1900–1992

Alexandre Kojève2

Russian-born French philosopher and statesman 1902–1968

George Kelly (psychologist)20

American psychologist and therapist 1905–1967

Kurt Gödel12

logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics 1906–1978

Oskar Schindler7

German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer 1908–1974

Ferruccio Lamborghini2

Italian industrialist 1916–1993

Robert Anderson2

American playwright, screenwriter, and theater producer 1917–2009

Kenneth Kaunda2

First President of Zambia 1924

Harper Lee142

American author 1926–2016

Yves Klein33

French artist 1928–1962

James Baker3

Former U.S. Secretary of State 1930

Michael H. Hart4

American astronomer 1932

Israel Shahak8

Israeli academic 1933–2001

Petero Mataca5

Catholic archbishop 1933–2014

Lois Duncan13

American young-adult and children's writer 1934–2016

James Robert Flynn4

New Zealand scholar 1934–2020

Tariq Aziz6

Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein 1936–2015

Saddam Hussein39

Iraqi politician and President 1937–2006

Fred Dibnah22

English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen… 1938–2004

K. Barry Sharpless4

American chemist 1941

Ann-Margret1

Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer 1941

Alice Waters1

American chef, restaurateur, activist, and author 1944

Terry Pratchett796

English author 1948–2015

Jay Leno35

American comedian, actor, writer, producer, voice actor and… 1950

Kim Gordon5

American musician, bassist of Sonic Youth 1953

Roberto Bolaño49

Chilean author 1953–2003

Scyld Berry1

English cricket journalist 1954

Saeb Erekat1

Palestinian diplomat 1955

Jón Páll Sigmarsson1

Icelandic strongman 1960–1993

Elena Kagan6

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1960

Ian Rankin3

Scottish crime writer 1960

Oby Ezekwesili7

Nigerian accountant, politician, human rights activist, con… 1963

Natasha Friend6

American writer 1972

Penélope Cruz4

Spanish actress 1974

Drew Scott2

Canadian actor, realtor, and entrepreneur 1978

Jessica Alba4

American model, free-diver and businesswoman; TV and film a… 1981

Samantha Akkineni3

Indian actress 1987

Death

Iltutmish17

Sultan of Mamluk Sultanate 1210–1236

Ludwig Tieck3

German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic 1773–1853

Charles Bell2

Scottish surgeon and artist (1774-1842) 1774–1842

George Washington Bethune1

American hymnwriter 1805–1862

Gustave Nadaud5

songwriter 1820–1893

George Boardman the Younger3

American theologian 1828–1903

Heinrich von Treitschke9

Historian, political writer 1834–1896

Josiah Willard Gibbs11

physicist 1839–1903

John Garland Pollard1

American politician 1871–1937

Antonie Pannekoek17

Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist 1873–1960

Jacques Maritain37

French philosopher 1882–1973

Benito Mussolini127

Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Le… 1883–1945

Alexandre Koyré4

French philosopher 1892–1964

Gavrilo Princip1

Bosnian assassin 1894–1918

Alessandro Pavolini8

Italian politician and writer 1903–1945

Francis Bacon (artist)2

Irish-born British painter 1909–1992

Penelope Fitzgerald4

British writer 1916–2000

Alf Ramsey4

English association football player and manager 1920–1999

Arthur Leonard Schawlow5

American physicist 1921–1999

Chairil Anwar5

Indonesian poet 1922–1949

Thomas Binkley1

lutenist 1931–1995

Conrad Burns5

United States Marine 1935–2016

James H. Cone32

American theologian 1938–2018

Jim Valvano1

American basketball player-coach 1946–1993

Jenny Diski1

British writer 1947–2016

Larry Harvey6

Founder of Burning Man 1948–2018