1928
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Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1928
January
February
March
April
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June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Undated
Births
January
- January 2 – Robert Goralski – American journalist (d. 1988)
- January 2 – Daisaku Ikeda – Japanese religious leader
- January 2 – Dan Rostenkowski - American politician; disgraced former high-ranking Congressman from Illinois
- January 5 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979)
- January 5 – Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator, Vice President and Presidential candidate
- January 6 – George H. Ross, American businessman
- January 7 – William Peter Blatty, American writer (The Exorcist)
- January 9 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer, songwriter, actor and politician (d. 1994)
- January 10 – Philip Levine, American poet
- January 11 – David L. Wolper, American television producer
- January 15 – Joanne Linville, American actress
- January 16 – William Kennedy, American author
- January 17 – Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)
- January 17 – Vidal Sassoon, English hairdresser
- January 22 – Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (d. 2004)
- January 23 – Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)
- January 23 – Jeanne Moreau, French actress
- January 24 – Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007)
- January 24 – Desmond Morris, English anthropologist and writer
- January 25 – Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgean politician, former president
- January 26 – Roger Vadim, French film director (d. 2000)
- January 27 – Hans Modrow, East German Premier
- January 30 – Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
February
- February 1 – Tom Lantos, American Congressman (d. 2008)
- February 3 – Frankie Vaughan, British singer (d. 1999)
- February 4 – Kim Yong-nam, North Korean politician
- February 5 – Andrew Greeley, American Catholic priest and novelist
- February 8 – Gene Lees, Canadian biographer and lyricist
- February 9 – Frank Frazetta, American illustrator
- February 9 – Roger Mudd, American journalist (CBS News)
- February 22 – Bruce Forsyth, English entertainer
- February 23 – Vasili Lazarev, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1990)
- February 23 – Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 1973)
- February 26 – Fats Domino, American musician (Blueberry Hill)
- February 26 – Anatoli Filipchenko, Russian cosmonaut
- February 27 – Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel
March
- March 3 – Gudrun Pausewang, German writer
- March 4 – Samuel Adler, American composer
- March 4 – Alan Sillitoe, English writer
- March 8 – Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (d. 1990)
- March 10 – Kiyoshi Atsumi, Japanese actor (d. 1996)
- March 10 – James Earl Ray, American assassin (d. 1998)
- March 12 – Edward Albee, American dramatist
- March 12 – Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (d. 2007)
- March 16 – Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
- March 16 – Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler
- March 19 – Hans Küng, Swiss Catholic theologian
- March 19 – Patrick McGoohan, Irish actor (The Prisoner) (d. 2009)
- March 20 – Fred Rogers, American children's television host (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood) (d. 2003)
- March 24 – Byron Janis, American pianist
- March 25 – Jim Lovell, American astronaut
- March 28 – Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born U.S. National Security Advisor
- March 28 – Alexander Grothendieck, German-born Jewish-French mathematician.
- March 29 – Vincent Gigante, Italian-American mafia (d. 2005)
- March 31 – Gordie Howe, Canadian hockey player
- March 31 – Lefty Frizzell, American country music performer
April
- April 1 – George Grizzard, American actor (d. 2007)
- April 2 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (d. 1991)
- April 4 – Maya Angelou, African-American poet and novelist
- April 4 – Estelle Harris, American actress
- April 6 – James D. Watson, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- April 7 – James Garner, American actor (The Rockford Files)
- April 7 – Alan J. Pakula, American producer and director (d. 1998)
- April 7 – James White, Irish writer (d. 1999)
- April 8 – Eric Porter, English actor (d. 1995)
- April 9 – Tom Lehrer, American songwriter (We Will All Go Together When We Go)
- April 12 – Jean-François Paillard, French conductor
- April 14 – Ezra Fleischer, Romanian dissident, later Israeli writer (d. 2006)
- April 19 – Alexis Korner, British musician (d. 1984)
- April 19 – Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak, King of Malaysia
- April 20 – Robert Byrne, American chess player
- April 23 – Shirley Temple, American actress and politician
- April 25 – Cy Twombly, American artist
- April 28 – Yves Klein, French artist (d. 1962)
May
- May 1 – Desmond Titterington, Irish race car driver (d. 2002)
- May 3 – Dave Dudley, American singer (d. 2003)
- May 4 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter (d. 2006)
- May 4 – Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt
- May 8 – Theodore Sorenson, American lawyer and speechwriter
- May 8 – Gregory Scarpa Sr., American mobster
- May 9 – Colin Chapman, English automotive engineer (d. 1982)
- May 9 – Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995)
- May 9 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater
- May 10 – Mel Lewis, American jazz drummer and band leader (d. 1990)
- May 10 – Lothar Schmid, German chess player
- May 12 – Burt Bacharach, American composer (Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head)
- May 13 – Jim Shoulders, American rodeo cowboy (d. 2007)
- May 16 – Billy Martin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1989)
- May 18 – Pernell Roberts, American actor (Bonanza)
- May 23 – Jeannie Carson, English actress and comedian
- May 23 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (Come On A' My House) (d. 2002)
- May 24 – Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer and cutter
- May 26 – Jack Kevorkian, American physician, right-to-die advocate
June
- June 1 – Georgi Dobrovolski, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1971)
- June 1 – Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host (d. 2003)
- June 3 – Donald Judd, American artist (d. 1994)
- June 10 – Maurice Bernard Sendak, American children's author/illustrator
- June 12 – Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter
- June 13 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics
- June 14 – Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna aka Che Guevara, Argentine-born revolutionary (d. 1967)
- June 19 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
- June 20 – Eric Dolphy, American Jazz musician (d. 1964)
- June 25 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 26 – Jacob Druckman, American composer (d. 1996)
- June 26 – Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
- June 28 – Hans Blix, Swedish diplomat and politician
- June 28 – Harold Evans, British newspaper editor
July
- July 5 – Warren Oates, American actor (d. 1982)
- July 6 – Nestor de Villa, Filipino actor (d. 2004)
- July 10 – Moshe Greenberg, American Bible scholar
- July 11 – Bobo Olson, American boxer (d. 2002)
- July 12 – Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 13 – Tommaso Buscetta, Italian mafioso (d. 2000)
- July 13 – Leroy Vinnegar, American musician (d. 1999)
- July 16 – Robert Sheckley, American writer (d. 2005)
- July 25 – Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
- July 25 – Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (d. 1988)
- July 26 – Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician, 8th President
- July 26 – Stanley Kubrick, American film director (2001: A Space Odyssey) (d. 1999)
- July 26 – Bernice Rubens, British novelist (d. 2004)
- July 30 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player (d. 2007)
- July 31 – Gilles Carle, Canadian film director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
August
- August 3 – Henning Moritzen, Danish actor
- August 5 – Bogdan Maglich, American physicist
- August 6 – Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
- August 7 – James Randi, Canadian magician
- August 9 – Bob Cousy, American basketball player
- August 10 – Eddie Fisher, American singer
- August 12 – Bob Buhl, American baseball player (d. 2001)
- August 15 – Nicolas Roeg, English film director
- August 18 – Marge Schott, American baseball team owner (d. 2004)
- August 22 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
- August 25 – Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 26 – Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist (d. 2006)
- August 31 – Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic cardinal (d. 2005)
- August 31 – James Coburn, American actor (Our Man Flint) (d. 2002)
September
- September 3 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007)
- September 4 – Dick York, Bewitched character (d. 1992)
- September 5 – Albert Mangelsdorff, German Jazz musician (d. 2005)
- September 6 – Robert M. Pirsig, American philosopher and author
- September 6 – Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (d. 2002)
- September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American artist (d. 2007)
- September 11 – William Kienzle, American author (d. 2001)
- September 12 – M. V. Rajasekharan, Indian member of Rajya Sabha
- September 13 – Robert Indiana, American contemporary artist
- September 15 – Julian Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (d. 1975)
- September 19 – Adam West, American actor (Batman)
- September 20 – Donald Hall, American poet and U.S. Poet Laureate
- September 22 – James Lawson, African-American civil rights activist and minister
- September 28 – Koko Taylor, American singer (d. 2009)
- September 30 – Elie Wiesel, Romanian Holocaust survivor, writer, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October
- October 1 – George Peppard, American actor (The A-Team) (d. 1994)
- October 7 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (d. 1980)
- October 8 – Bill Maynard, British actor
- October 9 – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
- October 9 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentinean guerrilla leader.
- October 15 – Paul Giambarba, American graphic designer
- October 20 – Li Peng, former Premier of the People's Republic of China
- October 21 – Whitey Ford, American baseball player
- October 23 – Johnny Kitagawa, American-born Japanese businessman in the entertainment industry
- October 30 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999)
November
- November 3 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (d. 1989)
- November 3 – George Yardley, American basketball player (d. 2004)
- November 9 – Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
- November 10 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
- November 11 – Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer
- November 17 – Arman, French artist (d. 2005)
- November 17 – Rance Howard, American actor
- November 17 – Anna Meyer, American female professional baseball player
- November 18 – Inge Bandekow, wife of German industrialist Harald Quandt (d. 1978)
- November 18 – Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer
- November 22 – Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (d. 2008)
- November 22 – Pat Smythe, British showjumper and author (d. 1996)
- November 29 – Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (d. 2003)
- November 30 – Takako Doi, Japanese politician
- November 30 – Joe B. Hall, American basketball coach
December
Unknown date
Deaths
January–June
- January 1 – Loie Fuller, American dancer (b. 1862)
- January 3 – Emily Stevens, American actress (b. 1882)
- January 6 – Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876)
- January 11 – Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
- January 21 – Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b.1880)
- January 28 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish novelist and screenwriter(b. 1867)
- January 29 – Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
- January 30 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1867)
- February 1 – Hughie Jennings, American baseball player (b. 1869)
- February 4 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
- February 15 – Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
- February 16 – Eddie Foy, American vaudevillian (b. 1856)
- March 7 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)
- April 2 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
- April 5 – Roy Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1890)
- April 19 – Dorus Rijkers, famous Dutch sailor and savior of over 500 men, women and children (b. 1847)
- April 25 – Floyd Bennett, American aviator (b. 1890)
- May 8 – Clara Williams, American actress (b. 1888)
- May 18 – Big Bill Haywood, American Labor leader (b. 1869)
- May 19 – Max Scheler, German philosopher (b. 1874)
- May 22 – Francisco López Merino, Argentine poet (b. 1904)
- June 4
- June 16 – Mark Keppel, Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools (b. 1867)
- June 18 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1872)
- June 19 – Nora Bayes, American singer and actress (b. 1880)
- June 22
- June 24 – Holbrook Blinn, American actor (b. 1872)
July–December
- July 17 – Álvaro Obregón, President of Mexico (assassinated) (b. 1880)
- July 21 – Ellen Terry, British stage actress (b. 1847)
- August 8 – Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (b. 1871)
- August 12 – Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b. 1854)
- August 30 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
- October 8 – Larry Semon, American film actor (b. 1889)
- October 13 – Dagmar of Denmark, later Maria Fyodorovna, wife of Tsar Alexander III and Empress Consort of Russia (b. 1847)
- October 22 – Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
- October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist (b. 1863)
- October 30 – Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1864)
- October 31 – John William Wood Sr., North Carolinian politician, founder of Benson, North Carolina (b. 1855)
- November 4 – Arnold Rothstein, Jewish/American business man and gangster (b. 1882)
- November 13 – Enrico Cecchetti, Italian ballet dancer (b. 1850)
- November 18 – Mauritz Stiller, Finnish screenwriter and director (b. 1883)
- December 1 – Arthur Gore, British tennis player (b. 1868)
- December 1 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
- December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect (b. 1868)
- December 11 – Lewis Latimer, American inventor (b. 1848)
- December 14 – Theodore Roberts, American actor (b. 1861)
- December 16 – Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist (b. 1885)
- December 17 – Eglantyne Jebb, English co-founder of Save the Children, and champion of children's human rights (b. 1876)
- December 25 – Fred Thomson, American silent film actor (b. 1890)
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