Anniversaries 28 April
Birth
![James Monroe photo]()
American politician, 5th President of the United States (in…
1758–1831
![Robert Woodhouse photo]()
English mathematician
1773–1827
![Peter Guthrie Tait photo]()
British mathematician
1831–1901
![James Grant Wilson photo]()
Union Army general
1832–1914
![Antoni Lange photo]()
Polish writer and philosopher
1862–1929
![Karl Kraus photo]()
Czech playwright and publicist
1874–1936
![António de Oliveira Salazar photo]()
Prime Minister of Portugal
1889–1970
![Heinrich Müller photo]()
German police official and head of the Gestapo
1900–1945
![Jan Oort photo]()
Dutch astronomer
1900–1992
![Alexandre Kojève photo]()
Russian-born French philosopher and statesman
1902–1968
![George Kelly (psychologist) photo]()
American psychologist and therapist
1905–1967
![Kurt Gödel photo]()
logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics
1906–1978
![Oskar Schindler photo]()
German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer
1908–1974
![Ferruccio Lamborghini photo]()
Italian industrialist
1916–1993
![Robert Anderson photo]()
American playwright, screenwriter, and theater producer
1917–2009
![Kenneth Kaunda photo]()
First President of Zambia
1924
![Harper Lee photo]()
American author
1926–2016
![James Baker photo]()
Former U.S. Secretary of State
1930
![Israel Shahak photo]()
Israeli academic
1933–2001
![Petero Mataca photo]()
Catholic archbishop
1933–2014
![Lois Duncan photo]()
American young-adult and children's writer
1934–2016
![James Robert Flynn photo]()
New Zealand scholar
1934–2020
![Tariq Aziz photo]()
Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein
1936–2015
![Saddam Hussein photo]()
Iraqi politician and President
1937–2006
![Fred Dibnah photo]()
English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen…
1938–2004
![Ann-Margret photo]()
Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer
1941
![Alice Waters photo]()
American chef, restaurateur, activist, and author
1944
![Jay Leno photo]()
American comedian, actor, writer, producer, voice actor and…
1950
![Kim Gordon photo]()
American musician, bassist of Sonic Youth
1953
![Scyld Berry photo]()
English cricket journalist
1954
![Saeb Erekat photo]()
Palestinian diplomat
1955
![Jón Páll Sigmarsson photo]()
Icelandic strongman
1960–1993
![Elena Kagan photo]()
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1960
![Ian Rankin photo]()
Scottish crime writer
1960
![Oby Ezekwesili photo]()
Nigerian accountant, politician, human rights activist, con…
1963
![Drew Scott photo]()
Canadian actor, realtor, and entrepreneur
1978
![Jessica Alba photo]()
American model, free-diver and businesswoman; TV and film a…
1981
Death
![Iltutmish photo]()
Sultan of Mamluk Sultanate
1210–1236
![Ludwig Tieck photo]()
German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic
1773–1853
![Charles Bell photo]()
Scottish surgeon and artist (1774-1842)
1774–1842
![George Washington Bethune photo]()
American hymnwriter
1805–1862
![George Boardman the Younger photo]()
American theologian
1828–1903
![Heinrich von Treitschke photo]()
Historian, political writer
1834–1896
![John Garland Pollard photo]()
American politician
1871–1937
![Antonie Pannekoek photo]()
Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist
1873–1960
![Jacques Maritain photo]()
French philosopher
1882–1973
![Benito Mussolini photo]()
Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Le…
1883–1945
![Alexandre Koyré photo]()
French philosopher
1892–1964
![Gavrilo Princip photo]()
Bosnian assassin
1894–1918
![Alessandro Pavolini photo]()
Italian politician and writer
1903–1945
![Francis Bacon (artist) photo]()
Irish-born British painter
1909–1992
![Alf Ramsey photo]()
English association football player and manager
1920–1999
![Arthur Leonard Schawlow photo]()
American physicist
1921–1999
![Chairil Anwar photo]()
Indonesian poet
1922–1949
![Conrad Burns photo]()
United States Marine
1935–2016
![James H. Cone photo]()
American theologian
1938–2018
![Jim Valvano photo]()
American basketball player-coach
1946–1993
![Larry Harvey photo]()
Founder of Burning Man
1948–2018
