Anniversaries 28 July

Birth

Ibn Arabi1

Arab Andalusian Sufi mystic and philosopher 1165–1240

Jacopo Sannazaro4

Italian writer 1458–1530

Winthrop Mackworth Praed8

British politician, poet 1802–1839

Ludwig Feuerbach36

German philosopher and anthropologist 1804–1872

John Stuart Blackie3

Scottish scholar and man of letters 1809–1895

Gerard Manley Hopkins81

English poet 1844–1889

Beatrix Potter18

English children's writer and illustrator 1866–1943

J. Gresham Machen1

American theologian 1881–1937

Marcel Duchamp66

French painter and sculptor 1887–1968

Rudy Vallée1

American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer 1901–1986

Karl Popper82

Austrian-British philosopher of science 1902–1994

Malcolm Lowry27

British writer 1909–1957

Charles Hard Townes2

American Physicist 1915–2015

Irving Copi1

American logician 1917–2002

Penaia Ganilau1

President of Fiji 1918–1993

Baruch Samuel Blumberg1

American doctor 1925–2011

John Ashbery14

poet from the United States 1927–2017

Mahdi Akef3

Egyptian Islamist 1928–2017

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis50

public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Ke… 1929–1994

Alan Brownjohn3

British writer 1931

Natalie Babbitt14

American children's writer and illustrator 1932–2016

Robert Hughes37

Australian critic, historian, writer 1938–2012

Louis Portella Mbuyu1

Congolese catholic bishop 1942

Jim Davis8

American cartoonist and creator of Garfield 1945

Geoffrey Hodgson7

British economist 1946

Sally Struthers1

Actress, spokesperson, activist 1947

Su Tseng-chang8

Taiwanese politician 1947

Randall Wallace1

American filmmaker 1949

Richard Koch11

German medical historian and internist 1950

Vajiralongkorn5

King of Thailand 1952

Hugo Chávez60

48th President of Venezuela 1954–2013

Carol Higgins Clark1

Novelist 1956

Scott Pelley3

American television journalist, news anchor 1957

Sarah Schulman6

American writer 1958

Mark Meadows1

North Carolina politician and White House Chief of Staff to… 1959

Federico Buffa1

Italian journalist, writer and television sportscaster 1959

Edward M. Rice1

Catholic bishop 1960

Elizabeth Cheney5

American lawyer 1966

Dana White8

President of the UFC 1969

Drew Karpyshyn3

Author and game designer 1971

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi11

leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 1971–2019

Elizabeth Berkley1

American actress 1972

Ed Templeton1

artist 1972

Alexis Tsipras4

Greek politician 1974

Ksenia Svetlova1

Israeli journalist 1977

Nick Cole1

Player of American football 1984

Emma Wareus3

Miss Botswana 2010, 1st runner-up to Miss World 2010 1990

Death

Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex14

English statesman and chief minister to King Henry VIII of … 1485–1540

Abraham Cowley40

British writer 1618–1667

Cyrano de Bergerac57

French novelist, dramatist, scientist and duelist 1619–1655

Antonio Vivaldi1

Italian composer 1678–1741

Johann Sebastian Bach10

German late baroque era composer 1685–1750

John Peter Zenger1

American printer 1697–1746

Maximilien Robespierre78

French revolutionary lawyer and politician 1758–1794

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just25

military and political leader 1767–1794

Bhimsen Thapa3

Mukhtiyar and de facto ruler of Nepal from 1806 to 1837 1775–1839

James Holman1

Royal Navy officer 1787–1857

Seba Smith1

American humorist 1792–1868

George Law Curry1

American politician 1820–1878

Mortimer Collins3

British writer 1827–1876

William James Mayo1

American surgeon 1861–1939

Margot Asquith12

Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit 1864–1945

Fred P. Cone1

American politician 1871–1948

Otto Hahn1

German chemist 1879–1968

Mary Ellen Chase1

Educator, scholar, novelist 1887–1973

Paul Eldridge1

American writer 1888–1982

James Burnham16

American philosopher 1905–1987

Frank Loesser7

American songwriter 1910–1969

Francis Crick16

British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; … 1916–2004

Abraham Pais19

American Physicist 1918–2000

Theodore Van Kirk1

Recipient of the Silver Star 1921–2014

Zbigniew Herbert9

Polish writer 1924–1998

Isidore Isou13

Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist 1925–2007

Patrick Allen10

Film, television and voice actor 1927–2006

Margot Adler1

author, Neopagan, and National Public Radio reporter 1946–2014

David Gemmell195

British author of heroic fantasy 1948–2006