Anniversaries 28 September

Birth

Agnolo Firenzuola8

Italian poet and litterateur 1493–1543

William Jones12

Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India 1746–1794

Prosper Mérimée1

French writer, historian, and translator 1803–1870

Francis Turner Palgrave21

English poet and critic 1824–1897

Frances Willard2

American suffragist 1839–1898

Georges Clemenceau33

French politician 1841–1929

Kate Douglas Wiggin4

American writer 1856–1923

Evelyn Beatrice Hall12

English writer 1868–1956

Pietro Badoglio17

Italian general during both World Wars and a Prime Minister… 1871–1956

Fred P. Cone1

American politician 1871–1948

George Van Horn Moseley1

United States Army general 1874–1960

Carl Clauberg1

German general 1898–1957

Otis Hamilton Lee3

American philosopher 1902–1948

Max Schmeling4

German boxer 1905–2005

Diosdado Macapagal1

the 9th President of the Philippines 1910–1997

Ellis Peters3

British writer 1913–1995

Dwight Waldo13

American political scientist 1913–2000

Jules Sedney1

Prime Minister of Suriname (1922-2020) 1922–2020

Tuli Kupferberg2

American anarchist, poet, publisher and musician. 1923–2010

Marcello Mastroianni2

Italian actor 1924–1996

Martin David Kruskal1

American mathematician 1925–2006

Seymour Cray2

Applied mathematician, computer scientist, and electrical e… 1925–1996

Thomas J. J. Altizer4

American radical theologian 1927–2018

Lata Mangeshkar6

Indian singer 1929

Immanuel Wallerstein6

economic historian 1930–2019

Víctor Jara2

Pro teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, and… 1932–1973

Jeremy Isaacs2

British opera manager 1932

Brigitte Bardot35

French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist 1934

Rosario Ferré2

Puerto Rican writer 1938–2016

Stuart Kauffman14

American biophysicist 1939

George W. S. Trow23

American writer 1943–2006

Robert Barro18

American classical macroeconomist 1944

Pieter-Dirk Uys5

South African comedian 1945

Thomas A. Kochan10

American academic 1947

Sheikh Hasina20

Prime Minister of Bangladesh 1947

Georges C. Benjamin1

american public health official 1952

Jerry Stahl1

American writer 1953

Stéphane Dion2

Canadian politician 1955

Luis Arce1

President of Bolivia 1963

Janeane Garofalo31

comedian, actress, political activist, writer 1964

Naomi Watts2

British actress and film producer 1968

Carré Otis1

American actress and model 1968

Gwyneth Paltrow26

American actress, singer, and food writer 1972

Dita Von Teese9

American burlesque dancer, model and actress 1972

Ana Brnabić3

Prime Minister of Serbia 1975

Dana Loesch4

American conservative political commentator 1978

St. Vincent (musician)73

American singer-songwriter 1982

Phoebe Robinson2

American comedian 1984

Laurie Penny16

English journalist 1986

Hilary Duff18

American actress and singer 1987

Death

Pompey3

Roman general -106–-48 BC

Francesco Sansovino2

Italian writer 1521–1583

Joshua Sylvester2

English poet 1563–1618

Jean Baptiste Massillon11

French Catholic bishop and famous preacher 1663–1742

Herman Melville144

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet 1818–1891

Louis Pasteur46

French chemist and microbiologist 1822–1895

William Harrison Moreland1

British civil servant in India and historian 1868–1938

T. E. Hulme17

English Imagist poet and critic 1883–1917

Harpo Marx8

American comedian 1888–1964

Edwin Hubble7

American astronomer 1889–1953

John Dos Passos25

novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, painter 1896–1970

André Breton70

French writer 1896–1966

Lillian Smith (author)4

American author, social critic 1897–1966

Crawford Greenewalt2

American chemical engineer 1902–1993

Gregg Toland2

American cinematographer 1904–1948

Mulk Raj Anand5

Indian writer 1905–2004

Elia Kazan2

Greek-American film and theatre director, film and theatric… 1909–2003

Peter de Vries11

American editor and novelist 1910–1993

Pope John Paul I10

263rd Pope of the Catholic Church 1912–1978

Ferdinand Marcos23

former President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986 1917–1989

Gamal Abdel Nasser15

second president of Egypt 1918–1970

Pierre Trudeau53

15th Prime Minister of Canada 1919–2000

Dannie Abse4

Welsh poet and physician 1923–2014

Shimon Peres15

Israeli politician, 8th prime minister and 9th president of… 1923–2016

Claude Kirk1

American politician 1926–2011

Miles Davis30

American jazz musician 1926–1991

R. J. Hollingdale3

British Author 1930–2001

Frank Martinus Arion1

writer and poet 1936–2015

José José6

Mexican singer 1948–2019

Gloria Naylor6

American writer 1950–2016