Anniversaries 28 July
Birth
![Ibn Arabi photo]()
Arab Andalusian Sufi mystic and philosopher
1165–1240
![Winthrop Mackworth Praed photo]()
British politician, poet
1802–1839
![Ludwig Feuerbach photo]()
German philosopher and anthropologist
1804–1872
![John Stuart Blackie photo]()
Scottish scholar and man of letters
1809–1895
![Beatrix Potter photo]()
English children's writer and illustrator
1866–1943
![J. Gresham Machen photo]()
American theologian
1881–1937
![Marcel Duchamp photo]()
French painter and sculptor
1887–1968
![Rudy Vallée photo]()
American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer
1901–1986
![Karl Popper photo]()
Austrian-British philosopher of science
1902–1994
![Charles Hard Townes photo]()
American Physicist
1915–2015
![Irving Copi photo]()
American logician
1917–2002
![Penaia Ganilau photo]()
President of Fiji
1918–1993
![Baruch Samuel Blumberg photo]()
American doctor
1925–2011
![John Ashbery photo]()
poet from the United States
1927–2017
![Mahdi Akef photo]()
Egyptian Islamist
1928–2017
![Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis photo]()
public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Ke…
1929–1994
![Natalie Babbitt photo]()
American children's writer and illustrator
1932–2016
![Robert Hughes photo]()
Australian critic, historian, writer
1938–2012
![Louis Portella Mbuyu photo]()
Congolese catholic bishop
1942
![Jim Davis photo]()
American cartoonist and creator of Garfield
1945
![Sally Struthers photo]()
Actress, spokesperson, activist
1947
![Su Tseng-chang photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1947
![Richard Koch photo]()
German medical historian and internist
1950
![Hugo Chávez photo]()
48th President of Venezuela
1954–2013
![Scott Pelley photo]()
American television journalist, news anchor
1957
![Mark Meadows photo]()
North Carolina politician and White House Chief of Staff to…
1959
![Federico Buffa photo]()
Italian journalist, writer and television sportscaster
1959
![Dana White photo]()
President of the UFC
1969
![Drew Karpyshyn photo]()
Author and game designer
1971
![Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi photo]()
leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
1971–2019
![Nick Cole photo]()
Player of American football
1984
![Emma Wareus photo]()
Miss Botswana 2010, 1st runner-up to Miss World 2010
1990
Death
![Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex photo]()
English statesman and chief minister to King Henry VIII of …
1485–1540
![Cyrano de Bergerac photo]()
French novelist, dramatist, scientist and duelist
1619–1655
![Antonio Vivaldi photo]()
Italian composer
1678–1741
![Johann Sebastian Bach photo]()
German late baroque era composer
1685–1750
![John Peter Zenger photo]()
American printer
1697–1746
![Maximilien Robespierre photo]()
French revolutionary lawyer and politician
1758–1794
![Louis Antoine de Saint-Just photo]()
military and political leader
1767–1794
![Bhimsen Thapa photo]()
Mukhtiyar and de facto ruler of Nepal from 1806 to 1837
1775–1839
![James Holman photo]()
Royal Navy officer
1787–1857
![Seba Smith photo]()
American humorist
1792–1868
![George Law Curry photo]()
American politician
1820–1878
![William James Mayo photo]()
American surgeon
1861–1939
![Margot Asquith photo]()
Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit
1864–1945
![Fred P. Cone photo]()
American politician
1871–1948
![Mary Ellen Chase photo]()
Educator, scholar, novelist
1887–1973
![Paul Eldridge photo]()
American writer
1888–1982
![James Burnham photo]()
American philosopher
1905–1987
![Frank Loesser photo]()
American songwriter
1910–1969
![Francis Crick photo]()
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; …
1916–2004
![Abraham Pais photo]()
American Physicist
1918–2000
![Theodore Van Kirk photo]()
Recipient of the Silver Star
1921–2014
![Isidore Isou photo]()
Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist
1925–2007
![Patrick Allen photo]()
Film, television and voice actor
1927–2006
![Margot Adler photo]()
author, Neopagan, and National Public Radio reporter
1946–2014
![David Gemmell photo]()
British author of heroic fantasy
1948–2006
