Anniversaries 28 May
Birth
![William Pitt the Younger photo]()
British politician
1759–1806
![Thomas Moore photo]()
Irish poet, singer and songwriter
1779–1852
![Louis Agassiz photo]()
Swiss naturalist
1807–1873
![Frederic Dan Huntington photo]()
American bishop
1819–1904
![Ernst Cassirer photo]()
German philosopher
1874–1945
![Vinayak Damodar Savarkar photo]()
Indian pro-independence activist,lawyer, politician, poet, …
1883–1966
![Sepp Dietrich photo]()
German SS commander
1892–1966
![Ian Fleming photo]()
English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer
1908–1964
![Patrick White photo]()
English-born Australian writer
1912–1990
![Walker Percy photo]()
Southern philosophical novelist
1916–1990
![Barry Commoner photo]()
American biologist, college professor and eco-socialist
1917–2012
![N. T. Rama Rao photo]()
Indian actor and Andhra Pradesh former chief minister
1923–1996
![Bülent Ecevit photo]()
former Prime Minister of Turkey (1925-2006)
1925–2006
![Roger A. Caras photo]()
American photographer
1928–2001
![Frank Drake photo]()
American astronomer and astrophysicist
1930
![Rudy Giuliani photo]()
American businessperson and politician, former mayor of New…
1944–2001
![Patch Adams photo]()
Physician, activist, diplomat, author
1945
![Steve King photo]()
US Representative for Iowa
1949
![Silvana De Mari photo]()
Italian children's writer
1953
![Khaled Mashal photo]()
Palestinian terrorist
1956
![Alan O. Ebenstein photo]()
American political scientist, educator and author
1959
![Mark Sanford photo]()
115th Governor of South Carolina
1960
![David Baddiel photo]()
British comedian, novelist and television presenter
1964
![Kylie Minogue photo]()
Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter and actress
1968
![Rob Ford photo]()
Canadian politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto
1969–2016
![Marco Rubio photo]()
U.S. Senator from state of Florida, United States; politici…
1971
Death
![Jonathan Richardson photo]()
English painter
1667–1745
![Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues photo]()
French writer, a moralist
1715–1747
![Noah Webster photo]()
lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling …
1758–1843
![John Russell, 1st Earl Russell photo]()
leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Min…
1792–1878
![George Grove photo]()
(1820–1900) English writer on music and director of the Roy…
1820–1900
![Anne Brontë photo]()
British novelist and poet
1820–1849
![John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury photo]()
British banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scienti…
1834–1913
![Alfred Adler photo]()
Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist…
1870–1937
![Edward VIII of the United Kingdom photo]()
king of the United Kingdom and its dominions in 1936
1894–1972
![Taiichi Ohno photo]()
Japanese businessman and engineer
1912–1990
![Eugenia Price photo]()
American writer
1916–1996
![Ilya Prigogine photo]()
physical chemist
1917–2003
![Truman G. Madsen photo]()
American educator
1926–2009
![Maya Angelou photo]()
American author and poet
1928–2014
![David Lane (white nationalist) photo]()
American white supremacist, convicted felon
1938–2007
![Frank Deford photo]()
American sportswriter
1938–2017
![Francisco Varela photo]()
Chilean biologist
1946–2001
![Phil Hartman photo]()
Canadian American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and graphi…
1948–1998
