Anniversaries 28 September
Birth
![Agnolo Firenzuola photo]()
Italian poet and litterateur
1493–1543
![William Jones photo]()
Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India
1746–1794
![Prosper Mérimée photo]()
French writer, historian, and translator
1803–1870
![Francis Turner Palgrave photo]()
English poet and critic
1824–1897
![Frances Willard photo]()
American suffragist
1839–1898
![Georges Clemenceau photo]()
French politician
1841–1929
![Kate Douglas Wiggin photo]()
American writer
1856–1923
![Pietro Badoglio photo]()
Italian general during both World Wars and a Prime Minister…
1871–1956
![Fred P. Cone photo]()
American politician
1871–1948
![George Van Horn Moseley photo]()
United States Army general
1874–1960
![Otis Hamilton Lee photo]()
American philosopher
1902–1948
![Diosdado Macapagal photo]()
the 9th President of the Philippines
1910–1997
![Dwight Waldo photo]()
American political scientist
1913–2000
![Jules Sedney photo]()
Prime Minister of Suriname (1922-2020)
1922–2020
![Tuli Kupferberg photo]()
American anarchist, poet, publisher and musician.
1923–2010
![Martin David Kruskal photo]()
American mathematician
1925–2006
![Seymour Cray photo]()
Applied mathematician, computer scientist, and electrical e…
1925–1996
![Thomas J. J. Altizer photo]()
American radical theologian
1927–2018
![Immanuel Wallerstein photo]()
economic historian
1930–2019
![Víctor Jara photo]()
Pro teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, and…
1932–1973
![Jeremy Isaacs photo]()
British opera manager
1932
![Brigitte Bardot photo]()
French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist
1934
![Rosario Ferré photo]()
Puerto Rican writer
1938–2016
![Stuart Kauffman photo]()
American biophysicist
1939
![George W. S. Trow photo]()
American writer
1943–2006
![Robert Barro photo]()
American classical macroeconomist
1944
![Pieter-Dirk Uys photo]()
South African comedian
1945
![Sheikh Hasina photo]()
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
1947
![Georges C. Benjamin photo]()
american public health official
1952
![Luis Arce photo]()
President of Bolivia
1963
![Janeane Garofalo photo]()
comedian, actress, political activist, writer
1964
![Naomi Watts photo]()
British actress and film producer
1968
![Carré Otis photo]()
American actress and model
1968
![Gwyneth Paltrow photo]()
American actress, singer, and food writer
1972
![Dita Von Teese photo]()
American burlesque dancer, model and actress
1972
![Ana Brnabić photo]()
Prime Minister of Serbia
1975
![Dana Loesch photo]()
American conservative political commentator
1978
![St. Vincent (musician) photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1982
![Hilary Duff photo]()
American actress and singer
1987
Death
![Pompey photo]()
Roman general
-106–-48 BC
![Jean Baptiste Massillon photo]()
French Catholic bishop and famous preacher
1663–1742
![Herman Melville photo]()
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
1818–1891
![Louis Pasteur photo]()
French chemist and microbiologist
1822–1895
![William Harrison Moreland photo]()
British civil servant in India and historian
1868–1938
![T. E. Hulme photo]()
English Imagist poet and critic
1883–1917
![Harpo Marx photo]()
American comedian
1888–1964
![Edwin Hubble photo]()
American astronomer
1889–1953
![John Dos Passos photo]()
novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, painter
1896–1970
![Lillian Smith (author) photo]()
American author, social critic
1897–1966
![Crawford Greenewalt photo]()
American chemical engineer
1902–1993
![Gregg Toland photo]()
American cinematographer
1904–1948
![Elia Kazan photo]()
Greek-American film and theatre director, film and theatric…
1909–2003
![Peter de Vries photo]()
American editor and novelist
1910–1993
![Pope John Paul I photo]()
263rd Pope of the Catholic Church
1912–1978
![Ferdinand Marcos photo]()
former President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
1917–1989
![Gamal Abdel Nasser photo]()
second president of Egypt
1918–1970
![Pierre Trudeau photo]()
15th Prime Minister of Canada
1919–2000
![Dannie Abse photo]()
Welsh poet and physician
1923–2014
![Shimon Peres photo]()
Israeli politician, 8th prime minister and 9th president of…
1923–2016
![Claude Kirk photo]()
American politician
1926–2011
![Miles Davis photo]()
American jazz musician
1926–1991
![Frank Martinus Arion photo]()
writer and poet
1936–2015
![Gloria Naylor photo]()
American writer
1950–2016
