Anniversaries 28 May

Birth

William Pitt the Younger19

British politician 1759–1806

Thomas Moore108

Irish poet, singer and songwriter 1779–1852

Louis Agassiz8

Swiss naturalist 1807–1873

Frederic Dan Huntington8

American bishop 1819–1904

Ernst Cassirer1

German philosopher 1874–1945

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar24

Indian pro-independence activist,lawyer, politician, poet, … 1883–1966

Sepp Dietrich9

German SS commander 1892–1966

Ian Fleming44

English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer 1908–1964

Patrick White22

English-born Australian writer 1912–1990

Walker Percy55

Southern philosophical novelist 1916–1990

Barry Commoner2

American biologist, college professor and eco-socialist 1917–2012

N. T. Rama Rao4

Indian actor and Andhra Pradesh former chief minister 1923–1996

Bülent Ecevit1

former Prime Minister of Turkey (1925-2006) 1925–2006

Roger A. Caras6

American photographer 1928–2001

Frank Drake1

American astronomer and astrophysicist 1930

Carroll Baker3

American actress 1931

Varadaraja V. Raman23

American physicist 1932

Francesco Monterisi2

Italian cardinal 1934

Maeve Binchy10

Irish novelist 1940–2012

Rudy Giuliani29

American businessperson and politician, former mayor of New… 1944–2001

Patch Adams10

Physician, activist, diplomat, author 1945

William Shawcross1

British journalist 1946

Bosco Puthur1

Indian bishop 1946

Lynn Johnston1

Cartoonist 1947

Steve King3

US Representative for Iowa 1949

Silvana De Mari1

Italian children's writer 1953

John Waters (columnist)2

Irish columnist 1955

Laura Amy Schlitz3

children's author 1955

Khaled Mashal12

Palestinian terrorist 1956

Meg Wolitzer11

American writer 1959

Alan O. Ebenstein47

American political scientist, educator and author 1959

Mark Sanford4

115th Governor of South Carolina 1960

David Baddiel3

British comedian, novelist and television presenter 1964

Kylie Minogue3

Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter and actress 1968

Rob Ford6

Canadian politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto 1969–2016

Craig Nelson1

Scottish footballer 1971

Marco Rubio13

U.S. Senator from state of Florida, United States; politici… 1971

Monica Keena1

American actress 1979

Victoria Legrand4

singer 1981

Elijah Haahr2

1982

Death

Jonathan Richardson5

English painter 1667–1745

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues60

French writer, a moralist 1715–1747

Noah Webster6

lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling … 1758–1843

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell14

leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Min… 1792–1878

George Grove1

(1820–1900) English writer on music and director of the Roy… 1820–1900

Anne Brontë148

British novelist and poet 1820–1849

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury7

British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scienti… 1834–1913

Alfred Adler13

Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist… 1870–1937

Kees van Dongen3

Dutch painter 1877–1968

Edward VIII of the United Kingdom21

king of the United Kingdom and its dominions in 1936 1894–1972

Violette Leduc1

French writer 1907–1972

Taiichi Ohno12

Japanese businessman and engineer 1912–1990

Eugenia Price1

American writer 1916–1996

Ilya Prigogine17

physical chemist 1917–2003

Truman G. Madsen1

American educator 1926–2009

Włodzimierz Ptak21

immunologist 1928–2019

Maya Angelou247

American author and poet 1928–2014

David Lane (white nationalist)56

American white supremacist, convicted felon 1938–2007

Frank Deford3

American sportswriter 1938–2017

Jörg Immendorff2

German artist 1945–2007

Francisco Varela17

Chilean biologist 1946–2001

Phil Hartman17

Canadian American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and graphi… 1948–1998