Born on Monday, 28th July – Famous Birthdays

28/07/2003

Malik Nabers, American football player

Malik Nabers is an American professional football wide receiver for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the LSU Tigers, finishing as their all-time leader in receiving yards and earning unanimous All-American honors in 2023. Nabers was selected sixth overall by the Giants in the 2024 NFL draft, and set numerous rookie wide receiver and franchise records.

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28/07/2000

Emile Smith Rowe, English footballer

Emile Smith Rowe is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club Fulham and the England national team.

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28/07/1999

GloRilla, American rapper

Gloria Hallelujah Woods, known professionally as GloRilla, is an American rapper from Memphis, Tennessee. She first became known for her 2022 single "F.N.F. ", which peaked within the top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for Best Rap Performance at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards. Its success led her to sign with fellow Memphis rapper Yo Gotti's record label, Collective Music Group, in July of that year.

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28/07/1996

Harriet Dart, British tennis player

Harriet Dart is a British professional tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 70 on 9 September 2024, and a career-high doubles ranking of No. 59, on 14 October 2024.

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28/07/1994

Walker Buehler, American baseball player

Walker Anthony Buehler is an American professional baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, and Philadelphia Phillies.

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Hyojung, South Korean singer

Choi Hyo-jung, better known mononymously as Hyojung is a South Korean singer. She is the leader of the South Korean girl group Oh My Girl.

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28/07/1993

Harry Kane, English footballer

Harry Edward Kane is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and captains the England national team. Regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation, he is Tottenham Hotspur's all-time top goalscorer (280), England's all-time top goalscorer (78), and the highest-scoring English player in the UEFA Champions League (50). He is also the Premier League's second-highest all-time goalscorer (213) and the 10th highest goalscorer for Bayern Munich (133). He has scored over 500 career goals for club and country.

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Evan Rodrigues, Canadian ice hockey player

Evan Rodrigues is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played for the Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins and Colorado Avalanche. Rodrigues won back-to-back Stanley Cups with the Florida Panthers in 2024 and 2025.

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Cher Lloyd, English singer

Cher Lloyd is an English singer. She participated on the seventh series of the television talent show The X Factor in 2010, where she finished in fourth place. Following the show, Lloyd was signed to Syco Music in the United Kingdom and Epic Records in the United States. She released her debut studio album, Sticks and Stones, in 2011, which had two releases: its standard edition and a US version. The album peaked at number four on the UK Albums Chart, while the latter version debuted at number nine in the US Billboard 200. It included the successful singles "Swagger Jagger", which entered at number one on the UK Singles Chart, "With Ur Love", and "Want U Back".

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28/07/1992

Spencer Boldman, American actor

Spencer Boldman is an American actor. He is known for his role as Adam Davenport on Disney XD's Lab Rats, and for playing Gio in the film Cruise.

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28/07/1990

Soulja Boy, American rapper, producer, and actor

DeAndre Cortez Way, known professionally as Soulja Boy, is an American rapper and record producer. He rose to prominence with his self-released 2007 debut single, "Crank That ", which peaked atop the US Billboard Hot 100 for seven non-consecutive weeks. After a commercial re-release by Collipark Music, an imprint of Interscope Records, the song and its follow-up, "Soulja Girl", both preceded his debut studio album, Souljaboytellem.com (2007). While critical reception was generally negative, the album peaked at number four on the US Billboard 200 and spawned the single "Yahhh!"

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Simone Pizzuti, Italian footballer

Simone Pizzuti is an Italian footballer who plays for Lega Pro Seconda Divisione club Lecco.

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28/07/1988

Gunnar Nelson, Icelandic professional fighter and mixed martial artist

Gunnar Lúðvík Nelson is an Icelandic professional mixed martial artist, currently competing in the Welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, which was awarded by Renzo Gracie after impressive results at the 2009 IBJJF Pan-Ams and the 2009 ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship. Nelson is a member of Mjölnir MMA in Iceland, and SBG Ireland.

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28/07/1987

Yevhen Khacheridi, Ukrainian-Greek footballer

Yevhen Hryhorovych Khacheridi is a Ukrainian former professional footballer.

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Pedro, Spanish footballer

Pedro Eliezer Rodríguez Ledesma, known as Pedro, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Serie A club Lazio.

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Christofer Ranzmaier, Austrian politician

Christofer Ranzmaier is an Austrian politician of the Freedom Party. He has been a member of the National Council since 2024, and was a member of the Tyrolean Landtag from 2018 to 2022.

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28/07/1986

Alexandra Chando, American actress

Alexandra Chando is an American actress and director. She is known for her role as Maddie Coleman in the CBS soap opera, As the World Turns and for her dual role as identical twins, Emma Becker and Sutton Mercer in the ABC Family drama series, The Lying Game.

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Lauri Korpikoski, Finnish ice hockey player

Lauri Korpikoski is a Finnish professional ice hockey left winger who is currently playing for HC TPS of the Liiga. Korpikoski has previously played in the NHL for the Arizona Coyotes, Edmonton Oilers, Dallas Stars, Columbus Blue Jackets and the New York Rangers, the organization that drafted him in the first round, 19th overall, at the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.

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28/07/1985

Mathieu Debuchy, French footballer

Mathieu Debuchy is a French former professional footballer who played as a right-back.

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Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter

Dustin Wallace Milligan is a Canadian actor best known as Jack Snowman in Hot Frosty, Ted Mullens on Schitt's Creek, Ethan Ward on 90210, Tom Cummings in X Company, and Josh Carter on Rutherford Falls.

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28/07/1984

Ali Krieger, American soccer player

Alexandra Blaire Krieger is an American former professional soccer player who played as a right back or center back. She made more than 100 appearances for the United States from 2008 to 2021, with which she won two FIFA Women's World Cups.

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Zach Parise, American ice hockey player

Zachary Justin Parise is an American former professional ice hockey player who was a left winger for the New Jersey Devils, Minnesota Wild, New York Islanders, and Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL) Parise captained the Devils to the 2012 Stanley Cup Final, where they lost to the Los Angeles Kings in six games. Parise was also an alternate captain for the American team at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

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DeMeco Ryans, American football player and coach

Demeco Ryans is an American professional football coach and former linebacker who is the head coach for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, where he was a unanimous All-American. Ryans was selected by the Texans in the second round of the 2006 NFL draft, where he was recognized as the Defensive Rookie of the Year. Ryans was selected to two Pro Bowls before being traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in 2012, where he spent four seasons before retiring.

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John David Washington, American actor and football player

John David Washington is an American actor and former professional football player. He started his career in college football at Morehouse College and signed with the St. Louis Rams as an undrafted free agent in 2006. Professionally, Washington spent four years as a running back for the United Football League's Sacramento Mountain Lions. He shifted to acting, and was part of the main cast of the HBO comedy series Ballers (2015–2019) and appeared in the western film The Old Man & the Gun (2018). Washington's breakthrough role came playing Ron Stallworth in Spike Lee's crime drama BlacKkKlansman (2018), for which he received Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.

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28/07/1983

Sam Dastyari, Iranian-Australian politician

Sam Dastyari is an Australian former politician, who from 2013 to 2018 represented New South Wales in the Australian Senate as a member of the Australian Labor Party. Dastyari was previously General Secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Labor Party. He was the first person of Iranian origin and Azerbaijani descent to sit in the Australian Parliament. As a Senator, Dastyari was the subject of a Chinese-related donations scandal, which eventually led to his resignation from the Senate on 25 January 2018.

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Cody Hay, Canadian figure skater

Cody Hay is a Canadian professional figure skating coach and former figure skater. With Anabelle Langlois, he is the 2008 Canadian national champion. He is now a coach with Langlois.

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Ilir Latifi, Swedish-Kosovar mixed martial artist

Ilir Latifi is a Swedish mixed martial artist who fights in the Heavyweight division, most recently in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A two-time national wrestling champion and a professional MMA competitor since 2008, Latifi has also competed in Shark Fights, Rumble of The Kings, and GLORY.

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28/07/1982

Cain Velasquez, Mexican-American mixed martial artist and wrestler

Cain Ramírez Velásquez is an American former professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. He is widely known for his time in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, where he competed in the heavyweight division and became a two-time UFC Heavyweight Champion.

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28/07/1981

Michael Carrick, English footballer and coach

Michael Carrick is an English professional football coach and former player who is currently the head coach of Premier League club Manchester United. He is known for his 12-year playing career with Manchester United, which he also captained in his final season there. Carrick was a defensive midfielder, but he was also used as an emergency centre-back under Alex Ferguson, David Moyes, Louis van Gaal and José Mourinho. His playing style was grounded in his passing ability.

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Willie Green, American basketball player and coach

William Julius Green is an American professional basketball coach and former player who was most recently the head coach for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played professionally in the NBA with the Philadelphia 76ers, New Orleans Hornets, Atlanta Hawks, Los Angeles Clippers and Orlando Magic. He was selected in the second round of the 2003 NBA draft by the Seattle SuperSonics and later acquired by the Philadelphia 76ers from Seattle in a draft-night trade for the draft rights to Paccelis Morlende and cash considerations.

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28/07/1979

Henrik Hansen, Danish footballer

Henrik Hallenberg Hansen is a Danish former professional football midfielder. He is currently an assistant coach of Danish Superliga club Brøndby IF.

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Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer-songwriter and producer

Birgitta Haukdal Brynjarsdóttir, known mononymously as Birgitta, is an Icelandic singer. She rose to domestic media prominence as the lead singer of pop band Írafár. She represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 with the song "Open Your Heart", tying in eighth place with the Spanish contestant Beth with 81 points.

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Lee Min-woo, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer

Lee Min-woo, also known by the stage name M, is a South Korean entertainer and singer. He is best known as a member of the South Korean boy band Shinhwa. Lee was the first Shinhwa member to debut as a solo artist in 2003, and has since released three studio albums.

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Alena Popchanka, Belarusian-French swimmer and coach

Alena Popchanka is a 4-time Olympic freestyle and butterfly swimmer originally from Belarus. She swam for Belarus at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics. At the 2008 Olympics she swam for France, after her marriage to Frenchman Frédéric Vergnoux in early 2005.

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28/07/1978

Kārlis Vērdiņš, Latvian poet

Kārlis Vērdiņš is a Latvian poet.

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Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist

Hitomi Yaida 矢井田瞳 is a Japanese pop/folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. She often goes by the nickname Yaiko. Yaida is an established musical artist in Japan and has also had minor club hits in the United Kingdom.

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28/07/1977

Aki Berg, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player

Aki-Petteri Arvid Berg is a Finnish former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was drafted third overall by the Los Angeles Kings in the 1995 NHL entry draft. He played both for the Kings and the Toronto Maple Leafs over nine seasons and has represented Team Finland twice at the Winter Olympics, winning a bronze medal at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, a silver medal at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey in which Finland lost in the finals to host Canada, and a silver medal at the 2006 Torino Olympics.

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Manu Ginóbili, Argentinian basketball player

Emanuel David "Manu" Ginóbili is an Argentine former professional basketball player. During a 23-year professional career, Ginóbili played in Argentina, in Italy, and in the NBA; he also represented Argentina in international competition. A shooting guard, he is best known for playing for the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA from 2002 to 2018. Ginóbili, Tim Duncan, and Tony Parker became known as the Spurs' "Big Three"; together, the trio won four NBA championships. In April 2022, Ginóbili was announced as a first-ballot inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Miyabiyama Tetsushi, Japanese sumo wrestler

Miyabiyama Tetsushi is a former sumo wrestler from Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. A former amateur champion, he turned professional in 1998. With the exception of two tournaments, he was ranked in the top division of professional sumo from 1999 until the end of his career in 2013, holding the second highest rank of ōzeki from 2000 to 2001. He won eight special prizes and was runner-up in four top division tournaments. He wrestled for Fujishima stable, where he worked as a coach until opening his own Futagoyama stable.

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28/07/1976

Jacoby Shaddix, American singer-songwriter

Jacoby Dakota Shaddix is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, and TV presenter. He is best known as a founding member and the continuous lead singer of the California-based rock band Papa Roach since the band's formation in 1993.

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28/07/1975

Leonor Watling, Spanish actress

Leonor Elizabeth Ceballos Watling is a Spanish film actress and singer.

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28/07/1974

Afroman, American rapper and comedian

Joseph Edgar Foreman, known by his stage name Afroman, is an American rapper, singer, and musician. His fourth album, The Good Times (2001), featured the singles "Because I Got High" and "Crazy Rap". "Because I Got High" was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2002 for Best Rap Solo Performance.

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Elizabeth Berkley, American actress

Elizabeth Berkley is an American actress. She played Jessie Spano in the Saved by the Bell television franchise and Nomi Malone in the controversial 1995 film Showgirls. She had supporting roles in the box office hits The First Wives Club and Any Given Sunday, as well as in The Curse of the Jade Scorpion and Roger Dodger.

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Alexis Tsipras, Greek engineer and politician, 186th Prime Minister of Greece

Alexis Tsipras is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2015 to 2019. A left-wing figure, Tsipras was leader of the Greek political party Syriza from 2008 to 2023. Tsipras is the fourth prime minister who has governed in the course of the 2010s Greek government-debt crisis. Originally an outspoken critic of the austerity policies implemented during the crisis, his tenure in office was marked by an intense austerity policy, mostly in the context of the third EU bailout to Greece (2015–18).

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28/07/1973

Marc Dupré, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Marc Dupré is a Canadian singer-songwriter and comedian from Quebec.

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Steve Staios, Canadian ice hockey player

Steve Staios is a Canadian ice hockey executive and former professional player. He currently serves as president of hockey operations and general manager for the Ottawa Senators. Staios played right defence in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Boston Bruins, Vancouver Canucks, Atlanta Thrashers, Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames, and New York Islanders during his career.

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28/07/1972

Robert Chapman, English cricketer

Robert James Chapman is an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire and Worcestershire between 1992 and 1998, and List A cricket for Lincolnshire in the early 21st century. He is the son of footballer Bob Chapman, who was often known as 'Sammy'.

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28/07/1971

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (died 2019)

Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri, commonly known by his nom de guerre Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was an Iraqi militant leader and former teacher who was the founder and first leader of the Islamic State (IS), who proclaimed himself caliph in 2014 and stayed in power until his suicide in an American operation in 2019.

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Ludmilla Lacueva Canut, Andorran writer

Ludmilla Lacueva Canut is an Andorran writer of both fiction and non-fiction works, as well as an opinion columnist for the newspaper Bondia.

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Stephen Lynch, American singer-songwriter and actor

Stephen Andrew Lynch is an American comedian, musician and actor who is known for his satirical songs mocking daily life and popular culture. Lynch has released four studio albums and four live albums along with a live DVD. This 2004 DVD, Live at the El Rey, was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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Annie Perreault, Canadian speed skater

Annie Perreault is a Canadian short track speed skater, who won medals in the 500 m and 3000 m relay at the 1998 Winter Olympics. She had already won a relay gold medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

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28/07/1970

Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist and songwriter

Michael Amott is a Swedish guitarist, founding member of the metal bands Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars and Carnage, as well as a former member of Carcass. He is the older brother of Christopher Amott.

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Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian figure skater

Isabelle Brasseur, is a Canadian former competitive pair skater. With her partner, Lloyd Eisler, she won two Olympic medals and the 1993 World Championships.

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Paul Strang, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach

Paul Andrew Strang is a Zimbabwean cricket coach and former international player. A leg-spinning all-rounder, he played in 24 Test matches and 95 One Day Internationals for Zimbabwe between 1994 and 2001. He played Test cricket alongside his brother, Bryan Strang; their father, Ronald Strang, was a first-class umpire and was TV umpire for two of Zimbabwe's Test matches in 1994/5.

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28/07/1969

Alexis Arquette, American actress (died 2016)

Alexis Arquette was an American actress and transgender activist.

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Garth Snow, American ice hockey player and manager

Garth E. Snow is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender and former general manager, president, and alternate governor of the New York Islanders of the NHL.

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Dana White, American businessman, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship

Dana Frederick White Jr. is an American businessman who is the CEO and president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a global mixed martial arts organization. In 2025, White's net worth was estimated at over $600 million by Forbes. Outside the UFC, he is the owner of Power Slap, a slap fighting promotion he founded in 2022. He is also a part of the TKO Group Holdings collection of board members and operating executives. Meta Platforms elected White to its board of directors in 2025.

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28/07/1967

Taka Hirose, Japanese bass player

Takashi Hirose is a Japanese musician who is the current bass guitarist for the rock band Feeder.

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28/07/1966

Sossina M. Haile, Ethiopian American chemist

Sossina M. Haile is an Ethiopian-American chemist, known for developing the first solid acid fuel cells. She is a professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University, Illinois, US.

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Miguel Ángel Nadal, Spanish footballer

Miguel Ángel Nadal Homar is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a versatile defender and midfielder.

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Jimmy Pardo, American stand-up comedian, actor, and host

James Ronald Pardo, Jr. is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and host of the comedy podcast Never Not Funny. From the show's inception until mid-2015, he performed as the Conan O'Brien program Conan's warm-up comedian and cast member, after which he received a general development deal with O'Brien's production company. He last hosted the game show Race to Escape on the Science Channel.

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Shikao Suga, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist

Shikao Suga is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter from Tokyo known for writing the theme songs for several anime, movies and commercial ads. His name in kanji is 菅 止戈男. He uses katakana as his professional name.

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28/07/1965

Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer

Priscilla Chan Wai Han is a Hong Kong singer. She is renowned for her contralto singing voice and her maturely clear, technically skilled, and emotion-rich vocals.

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28/07/1964

Lori Loughlin, American actress

Lori Anne Loughlin is an American actress. From 1988 to 1995, she played Rebecca Donaldson Katsopolis on the ABC sitcom Full House, and reprised the role for its Netflix sequel Fuller House (2016–2018). Loughlin is also known for her roles of Jody Travis in The Edge of Night (1980–1983), Debbie Wilson in The CW series 90210 (2008–2012), Jennifer Shannon in the Garage Sale Mystery television film series (2013–2018), and Abigail Stanton in When Calls the Heart (2013–2019). She was a co-creator, producer, and star of the two seasons of The WB series Summerland (2004–2005).

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28/07/1962

Rachel Sweet, American singer, television writer, and actress

Rachel Sweet is an American singer, television writer and actress.

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28/07/1961

Yannick Dalmas, French racing driver

Yannick Paul Marie Dalmas is a former racing driver from France. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans four times, each time with a different car manufacturer, a unique feature in the history of the race. Prior to this, he participated in 49 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 18 October 1987, but qualified for only 24 of them. His best result in F1 was a fifth place at the 1987 Australian Grand Prix, but he was not eligible for World Championship points at that race. His F1 career was blighted by his health issues, towards the end of 1988, Dalmas was diagnosed with Legionellosis which caused him to miss the final two races. He recovered before the start of 1989 but his illness had clearly affected him.

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28/07/1960

Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter

Luiz Fernando Carvalho is a Brazilian film and television director and screenwriter, known for works closely linked to literature that constitute a renovation in Brazilian audiovisual aesthetics. He has already brought to the screen works by Ariano Suassuna, Raduan Nassar, Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, Roland Barthes, Clarice Lispector, Milton Hatoum, José Lins do Rego, and Graciliano Ramos, among others.

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Jon J. Muth, American author and illustrator

Jon J Muth is an American writer and illustrator of children's books as well as graphic novels and comic books.

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Yōichi Takahashi, Japanese illustrator

Yōichi Takahashi is a Japanese cartoonist and manga artist, best known for his work Captain Tsubasa. Takahashi has published art books, manga, novels, and guides, most of which are about Captain Tsubasa. He is also known for his soccer series, Hungry Heart: Wild Striker. He currently chairman of Nankatsu SC.

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28/07/1959

William T. Vollmann, American novelist, short story writer and journalist

William Tanner Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction with the novel Europe Central.

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28/07/1958

Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist (died 1981)

Terrance Stanley Fox was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist. In 1980, having had one leg amputated due to cancer, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. The annual Terry Fox Run, first held in 1981, has grown to involve millions of participants in over 60 countries and is the world's largest one-day fundraiser for cancer research; over C$1 billion has been raised in his name through the Terry Fox Research Institute as of February 2026.

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Michael Hitchcock, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

Michael Hitchcock is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and television producer.

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28/07/1956

John Feinstein, American sportswriter and commentator (died 2025)

John Feinstein was an American sportswriter, author, and sports commentator. A long-time sports reporter at the Washington Post, he also wrote numerous books and was particularly known for A Season on the Brink, published in 1986, which chronicled a season with Bob Knight's Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team.

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Robert Swan, English explorer

Robert Charles Swan, OBE, FRGS is the first person to walk to both poles.

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28/07/1954

Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (died 2013)

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías was a Venezuelan politician, revolutionary, and military officer who was the president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which he led until his death.

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Gerd Faltings, German mathematician and academic

Gerd Faltings is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1986 for his proofs of the Mordell conjecture and several related conjectures. He won the Abel Prize in 2026 for these achievements.

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Steve Morse, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Steve J. Morse is an American guitarist and songwriter. A seven-time Grammy nominee, he is best known as the founder of the Dixie Dregs and as the longest serving guitarist for Deep Purple having joined in 1994. Morse also enjoyed a successful solo career and was a member of the group Kansas in the mid-1980s. Morse became a member of the supergroup Flying Colors in 2011.

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Mikey Sheehy, Irish footballer

Michael Sheehy is an Irish Gaelic football selector and former player. His league and championship career at senior level with the Kerry county team spanned fifteen seasons from 1973 to 1988.

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28/07/1952

Glenn A. Baker, Australian journalist and author

Glenn A. Baker is an Australian journalist, commentator, author and broadcaster known for his vast knowledge of rock music. He has written books and magazine articles on rock music and travel, interviewed celebrities, managed bands such as Ol' 55 and promoted tours of international stars. In the mid-1980s, Baker took the BBC's "Rock Brain of the Universe" crown three times. Baker was the Australian editor of Billboard for over 20 years. He won the inaugural Australian Travel Writer of the Year award in 1995 from the Australian Society of Travel Writers, and he won the award again in 2000.

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Vajiralongkorn, King of Thailand

Vajiralongkorn, also known by his regnal name Rama X, is King of Thailand, reigning since 2016. He is the tenth monarch of the Chakri dynasty, the reigning dynasty of Thailand since 1782.

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28/07/1951

Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect and engineer, designed the Athens Olympic Sports Complex

Santiago Calatrava Valls is a Spanish-Swiss architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms. His best-known works include the Olympic Sports Complex of Athens, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Turning Torso tower in Malmö, Sweden, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York City, the Auditorio de Tenerife in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, Texas, and his largest project, the City of Arts and Sciences and Opera House in his birthplace, Valencia. His architectural firm has offices in New York City, Doha, and Zurich.

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Doug Collins, American basketball player and coach

Paul Douglas Collins is an American basketball executive, former player, coach and television analyst in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played in the NBA from 1973 to 1981 for the Philadelphia 76ers, earning four NBA All-Star selections. He then became an NBA coach in 1986, and had stints coaching the Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons, Washington Wizards and Philadelphia 76ers. Collins also served as an analyst for various NBA-related broadcast shows. He is a recipient of the Curt Gowdy Media Award. In April 2024, Collins was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class of 2024 by the Contributors Committee.

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Gregg Giuffria, American rock musician and businessman

Gregg Giuffria is an American rock musician and businessman. He was the keyboardist for album-oriented rock bands Angel, House of Lords, and Giuffria.

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Ray Kennedy, English footballer (died 2021)

Raymond Kennedy was an English footballer who won every domestic honour in the game with Arsenal and Liverpool in the 1970s and early 1980s. Kennedy played as a forward for Arsenal and then played as a left-sided midfielder for Liverpool. He scored 148 goals in 581 league and cup appearances in a 15-year career in the English Football League. Also, he won 17 caps for England between 1976 and 1980, scoring three international goals.

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28/07/1950

Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian singer-songwriter

Shahyar Ghanbari, also spelled incorrectly as Shahryar Ghanbari is an Iranian poet, writer, lyricist, songwriter, and singer of Persian pop music. He is also a film director and radio-TV producer.

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Tapley Seaton, Kittitian politician, 4th Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (died 2023)

Sir Samuel Weymouth Tapley Seaton was the fourth governor-general of Saint Kitts and Nevis from 2015 to 2023.

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28/07/1949

Vida Blue, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2023)

Vida Rochelle Blue Jr. was an American professional baseball player. He was a left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1969 to 1986, most notably as an integral member of the Oakland Athletics dynasty that won three consecutive World Series championships from 1972 to 1974. He won the American League (AL) Cy Young Award and Most Valuable Player Award in 1971.

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Randall Wallace, American screenwriter and producer

Randall Wallace is an American screenwriter, film director and producer who came to prominence by writing the screenplay for the historical drama film Braveheart (1995). His work on the film earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Writers Guild of America Award in the same category. He has since directed films such as The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), We Were Soldiers (2002), Secretariat (2010) and Heaven Is for Real (2014).

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28/07/1948

Gerald Casale, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and director

Gerald Vincent Casale is an American musician. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder, co-lead vocalist and bass player of the new wave band Devo, which released a top 20 hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It". Casale is the main lyricist and one of the primary composers of Devo's music, as well as the director of most of the band's music videos. He is one of only two members who have been with Devo throughout its entire history. Casale's brother Bob also performed with the band until Bob's death in 2014.

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Eiichi Ohtaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (died 2013)

Eiichi Ohtaki was a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He first became known as a member of the rock band Happy End, but was better known for his solo work which began in 1972. In 2003, Ohtaki was ranked by HMV at number 9 on their list of the 100 most important Japanese pop acts. Patrick Macias referred to Ohtaki as Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, George Martin and Joe Meek "synthesized into a single human being," and called his work "an encyclopedia of everything that was great about pop music in the 20th century."

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28/07/1947

Peter Cosgrove, Australian general and politician, 26th Governor General of Australia

General Sir Peter John Cosgrove is an Australian retired senior Army officer who served as the 26th governor-general of Australia, in office from 2014 to 2019.

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Sally Struthers, American actress

Sally Anne Struthers is an American actress and activist. She is known for her portrayal of Gloria Stivic, the daughter of Archie and Edith Bunker on the sitcom All in the Family (1971–1978). For this role, Struthers received numerous accolades, including four Golden Globe Award nominations and five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, two of which she won for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

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28/07/1946

Jonathan Edwards, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Jonathan Edwards is an American country and folk singer-songwriter best known for his 1971 hit single "Sunshine".

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Linda Kelsey, American actress

Linda Kelsey is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Billie Newman on the CBS drama television series Lou Grant (1977–1982), which earned her three Golden Globe Award nominations and five Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

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Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani poet and activist (died 2018)

Fahmida Riaz was an Urdu writer, poet and activist from Pakistan. She authored many books, such as Godaavari, Khatt-e Marmuz, and Khana e Aab O Gil in addition to the first translation in rhyme of the Masnavi of Jalaluddin Rumi from Persian into Urdu. The author of more than 15 books of fiction and poetry, she remained at the center of controversies. When Badan Dareeda, her second collection of verses, appeared, she was accused of using erotic and sensual expressions in her work. The themes prevalent in her verse were, until then, considered taboo for women writers. She also translated the works of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai and Shaikh Ayaz from Sindhi to Urdu. Fleeing General Zia-ul Haq's religious tyranny, Riaz sought refuge in India and spent seven years there.

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28/07/1945

Jim Davis, American cartoonist, created Garfield

James Robert Davis is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as the creator of the comic strips Garfield and U.S. Acres. Published since 1978, Garfield is one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. Davis's other comics work includes T.K. Ryan's Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat, and Mr. Potato Head.

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28/07/1943

Mike Bloomfield, American guitarist and songwriter (died 1981)

Michael Bernard Bloomfield was an American blues guitarist and composer. Born in Chicago, he became one of the first popular music stars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess, as he rarely sang before 1969. Respected for his guitar playing, Bloomfield knew and played with many of Chicago's blues musicians before achieving his own fame and was instrumental in popularizing blues music in the mid-1960s. In 1965, he played on Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, including the single "Like a Rolling Stone", and performed with Dylan at that year's Newport Folk Festival.

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Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician

William Warren Bradley is an American politician and former professional basketball player. After playing in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 10 seasons with the New York Knicks, he served as a United States senator from New Jersey from 1979 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a candidate for the party's nomination for president in the 2000 election, losing to Vice President Al Gore.

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Richard Wright, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2008)

Richard William Wright was an English keyboardist, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd. He appeared on almost every Pink Floyd album and performed on all of their tours. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a member of Pink Floyd.

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28/07/1942

Tonia Marketaki, Greek director and screenwriter (died 1994)

Tonia Marketaki was a Greek film director and screenwriter. She was born in Pireas and spent many of her childhood years in the Zografou district of Athens. Her maternal origins are from Kardamyla, in the island of Chios.

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John Sattler, Australian rugby league player (died 2023)

John William Sattler was an Australian professional rugby league footballer played as a prop in the 1960s and 1970s. He captained South Sydney to four premiership victories from 1967 to 1971 and who played four Tests for Australia – three as national captain. Known as "Satts", he was one of the hardmen of Australian rugby league and was regarded as an aggressive on field player but a softly spoken gentleman off the field – hence his other nickname "Gentleman John". His son Scott Sattler also played professionally, winning a premiership with the Penrith Panthers in 2003.

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28/07/1941

Bill Crider, American author (died 2018)

Bill Crider was an American author of crime fiction among other work.

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Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor and educator

Riccardo Muti is an Italian conductor. He is current music director of the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini. Muti has previously held posts at the Maggio Musicale in Florence, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was named music director emeritus in Chicago in 2023.

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Susan Roces, Filipino actress and producer (died 2022)

Susan Roces was a Filipino actress. She rose to fame in mid-1950s and became the biggest box-office star of the 1960s. Known for playing wholesome and sweet characters in romantic comedies and musicals during her youth, she dabbled into horror and drama in the succeeding decades. She was dubbed the "Queen of Philippine Movies" and appeared in more than 130 films throughout her career that spanned over six decades.

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28/07/1938

Luis Aragonés, Spanish footballer, coach, and manager (died 2014)

Luis Aragonés Suárez was a Spanish football player and manager.

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Arsen Dedić, Croatian singer-songwriter and poet (died 2015)

Arsenije "Arsen" Dedić was a Yugoslav and Croatian singer-songwriter. He wrote and performed chansons, as well as film music. He was also an award-winning poet, and was one of the best-selling poets of former Yugoslavia and Croatia.

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Alberto Fujimori, Peruvian engineer, academic, and politician, President of Peru (died 2024)

Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto was a Peruvian politician, professor, and engineer who served as the president of Peru from 1990 to 2000. Born in Lima, Fujimori was the country's first president of Japanese descent, and was an agronomist and university rector prior to entering politics. Fujimori emerged as a politician during the midst of the internal conflict in Peru, the Peruvian Lost Decade, and the ensuing violence caused by the far-left guerrilla group Shining Path. Fujimori's role in the presidency was as a figurehead, with the head of the National Intelligence Service (SIN), Vladimiro Montesinos, being recognized as the power behind the throne. During his tenure, a series of military reforms were instituted and the Peruvian Armed Forces responded to the Shining Path with repressive and lethal force, halting the group's actions while also killing thousands of innocent civilians. He became known for his neoliberal political and economic ideology of Fujimorism, which pushed a free market economy and social conservatism. Fujimori's time in office was marked by severe authoritarian measures, excessive use of propaganda, entrenched political corruption, multiple cases of extrajudicial killings, and human rights violations.

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Chuan Leekpai, Thai lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Thailand

Chuan Leekpai MPCh MVM ThChW is a Thai politician who was Prime Minister of Thailand from 1992 to 1995, and from 1997 to 2001. He was President of the National Assembly of Thailand and speaker of the Thai House of Representatives from 2019 to 2023; he also held the latter role from 1986 to 1988.

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28/07/1937

Francis Veber, French director and screenwriter

Francis Paul Veber is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, and playwright. He has written and directed both French and American films. Nine French-language films with which he has been involved, as either writer or director or both, have been remade as English-language Hollywood films: Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire, L'emmerdeur, La Cage aux Folles, Le Jouet, Les Compères, La chèvre, Les Fugitifs, Le dîner de cons and La Doublure. He also wrote the screenplay for My Father the Hero, the 1994 American remake of the French-language film Mon père, ce héros.

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28/07/1936

Russ Jackson, Canadian football player and coach

Russell Stanley Jackson is a Canadian former professional football player. Jackson spent his entire 12-year professional football career with the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He is a member of the Order of Canada, the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, and has been described as the best Canadian-born quarterback to play in the CFL. In 2006, Jackson was voted one of the CFL's Top 50 players (#8) of the league's modern era by Canadian sports network TSN, the highest-ranked Canadian-born player on the list.

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Garfield Sobers, Barbadian cricketer

The Right Excellent Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, NH, AO, OCC, also known as Sir Gary or Sir Garry Sobers, is a Barbadian former cricketer who played for the West Indies between 1954 and 1974. A highly skilled and an aggressive batsman, a versatile bowler and an excellent fielder, he is widely considered to be cricket's greatest ever all-rounder and one of the greatest cricketers of all time.

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28/07/1935

Neil McKendrick, English historian and academic

Neil McKendrick MA FRHistS was the 40th Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is now a life fellow of the college.

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28/07/1934

Jacques d'Amboise, American dancer and choreographer (died 2021)

Jacques d'Amboise was an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and educator. He joined the New York City Ballet in 1949 and was named principal dancer in 1953, and throughout his time with the company he danced 24 roles for George Balanchine. He also made film appearances, including Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Carousel. He choreographed 17 ballets for the New York City Ballet and retired from performing in 1984.

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28/07/1933

Charlie Hodge, Canadian ice hockey player and scout (died 2016)

Charles Edward Hodge was a Canadian ice hockey player who played as a goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver Canucks, and Oakland Seals of the National Hockey League between 1954 and 1971.

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28/07/1932

Natalie Babbitt, American author and illustrator (died 2016)

Natalie Zane Babbitt was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Her 1975 novel, Tuck Everlasting, was adapted into two feature films and a Broadway musical. She received the Newbery Honor and Christopher Award, and was the U.S. nominee for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1982.

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Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, Brazilian colonel (died 2015)

Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra was a Brazilian army officer, politician and known and convicted torturer who served as a colonel in the Brazilian Army.

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28/07/1931

Alan Brownjohn, English poet and author (died 2024)

Alan Charles Brownjohn was an English poet and novelist. He also worked as a teacher, lecturer, critic and broadcaster.

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Darryl Hickman, American actor (died 2024)

Darryl Gerard Hickman was an American actor, screenwriter, television executive, and acting coach. He started his career as a child actor in the Golden Age of Hollywood and appeared in numerous television serials as an adult, including several episodes of the CBS series The Nanny. He appeared in films such as The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and Leave Her to Heaven (1945).

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Johnny Martin, Australian cricketer (died 1992)

John Wesley Martin was an Australian cricketer who played in eight Test matches from 1960 to 1967.

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28/07/1930

Firoza Begum, Bangladeshi singer (died 2014)

Firoza Begum was a Bangladeshi Nazrul Geeti singer. She was awarded the Independence Day Award in 1979 by the government of Bangladesh.

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Junior Kimbrough, American singer and guitarist (died 1998)

David Malone "Junior" Kimbrough Jr. was an American blues musician. His best-known works are "Keep Your Hands off Her" and "All Night Long". In 2023, he was inducted in the Blues Hall of Fame.

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Jean Roba, Belgian author and illustrator (died 2006)

Jean Roba was a Belgian comics author from the Marcinelle school. His best-known work is Boule et Bill.

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Ramsey Muir Withers, Canadian general (died 2014)

General Ramsey Muir Withers, CMM, CD was a Canadian Army Officer and Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest ranking position in the Canadian Forces, from 1980 to 1983. He died of a heart attack in 2014.

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28/07/1929

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist and socialite, 37th First Lady of the United States (died 1994)

Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis was the first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, as the wife of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States. She redefined the mostly ceremonial role into a platform for arts and culture, by hosting multiple high-profile events at the White House and leading its restoration into a historical site. Through her fashion and cultural literacy, she improved the global standing of the United States during the politically volatile Cold War. Her personal style became known as the "Jackie Look", which inspired worldwide fashion trends during the 1960s.

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Shirley Ann Grau, American novelist and short story writer (died 2020)

Shirley Ann Grau was an American writer. Born in New Orleans, she lived part of her childhood in Montgomery, Alabama. Her novels are set primarily in the Deep South and explore issues of race and gender. In 1965 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for her novel The Keepers of the House, set in a fictional Alabama town.

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28/07/1927

John Ashbery, American poet (died 2017)

John Lawrence Ashbery was an American poet and art critic.

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28/07/1926

Charlie Biddle, American-Canadian bassist (died 2003)

Charles Reed Biddle, was an American-Canadian jazz bassist. He lived most of his life in Montreal, organizing and performing in jazz music events.

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28/07/1925

Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)

Baruch Samuel Blumberg, known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the hepatitis B virus while an investigator at the NIH and at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death.

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28/07/1924

Luigi Musso, Italian racing driver (died 1958)

Luigi Musso was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1953 to 1958. Musso won the 1956 Argentine Grand Prix with Ferrari.

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28/07/1923

Ray Ellis, American conductor and producer (died 2008)

Ray Ellis was an American record producer, arranger, conductor, and saxophonist. He was responsible for the orchestration in Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin (1958).

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28/07/1922

Jacques Piccard, Belgian-Swiss oceanographer and engineer (died 2008)

Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed submarines for studying ocean currents. In the Challenger Deep, he and Lieutenant Don Walsh of the United States Navy were the first people to explore the deepest known part of the world's ocean, and the deepest known location on the surface of Earth's crust, the Mariana Trench, located in the western North Pacific Ocean.

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28/07/1920

Andrew V. McLaglen, English-American director and producer (died 2014)

Andrew Victor McLaglen was an American film and television director, known for Westerns and adventure films, often starring John Wayne or James Stewart.

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28/07/1916

David Brown, American journalist and producer (died 2010)

David Brown was an American film and theatre producer and writer who was best known for producing the 1975 film Jaws based on the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley.

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28/07/1915

Charles Hard Townes, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)

Charles Hard Townes was an American physicist. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices. He shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov. Townes was an adviser to the United States Government, meeting every US president from Harry S. Truman (1945) to Bill Clinton (1999).

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Dick Sprang, American illustrator (died 2000)

Richard W. Sprang was an American comic book artist and penciller, best known for his work on the superhero Batman during the period fans and historians call Golden Age of Comic Books. Sprang was responsible for the 1950 redesign of the Batmobile and the original design of the Riddler, who has appeared in film, television and other media adaptations. Sprang's Batman was notable for his square chin, expressive face and barrel chest.

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Frankie Yankovic, American polka musician (died 1998)

Frank John Yankovic was an American accordion player and polka musician. Known as "America's Polka King", Yankovic was considered the premier artist to play in the Slovenian style during his long career. He was not related to fellow accordionist "Weird Al" Yankovic, although the two collaborated.

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28/07/1914

Carmen Dragon, American conductor and composer (died 1984)

Carmen Dragon was an American conductor, composer, and arranger who in addition to live performances and recording, worked in radio, film, and television.

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28/07/1909

Aenne Burda, German publisher (died 2005)

Aenne Burda, born Anna Magdalene Lemminger, was a German publisher of the Burda Group, a media group based in Offenburg and Munich, Germany. She was one of the symbols of the German economic miracle.

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Malcolm Lowry, English novelist and poet (died 1957)

Clarence Malcolm Lowry was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list.

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28/07/1907

Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded Tupperware Brands (died 1983)

Earl Silas Tupper was an American businessman and inventor, best known as the inventor of Tupperware, an airtight plastic container for storing food, and for founding the related home products company that bears his name, Tupperware Plastics Company.

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28/07/1902

Albert Namatjira, Australian painter (died 1959)

Albert Namatjira was an Arrernte painter from the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia, widely considered one of the most notable Australian artists. As a pioneer of contemporary Indigenous Australian art, he was arguably one of the most famous Indigenous Australians of his generation. He was the first Aboriginal artist to receive popularity from a wide Australian audience.

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Sir Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (died 1994)

Sir Karl Raimund Popper was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification made possible by his falsifiability criterion, and for founding the Department of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. According to Popper, a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can be scrutinised with decisive experiments. Popper was opposed to the classical justificationist account of knowledge, which he replaced with "the first non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy", namely critical rationalism.

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28/07/1901

Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1979)

Frederick Landis Fitzsimmons was an American professional baseball right-handed pitcher, manager, and coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1925 to 1943 with the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers. Nicknamed Fat Freddie, and known for his mastery of the knuckle curve, Fitzsimmons' 217 wins were the third most by a National League (NL) right-hander in the period from 1920 to 1955, trailing only Burleigh Grimes and Paul Derringer. In 1940 he set an NL record, which stood until 1959, with a single-season winning percentage of .889 (16–2). He was an agile fielder in spite of his heavy build, holding the major league record for career double plays (79) from 1938 to 1964, and tying another record by leading the league in putouts four times; he ranked eighth in NL history in putouts (237) and ninth in fielding percentage (.977) when his career ended.

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Rudy Vallée, American actor, singer, and saxophonist (died 1986)

Hubert Prior Vallée, known professionally as Rudy Vallée, was an American singer, musician, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type.

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28/07/1898

Lawrence Gray, American actor (died 1970)

Lawrence Gray was an American actor of the 1920s and 1930s.

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28/07/1896

Barbara La Marr, American actress and screenwriter (died 1926)

Barbara La Marr was an American film actress and screenwriter who appeared in twenty-seven films during her career between 1920 and 1926. La Marr was also noted by the media for her beauty, dubbed as the "Girl Who Is Too Beautiful", as well as her tumultuous personal life.

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28/07/1893

Rued Langgaard, Danish organist and composer (died 1952)

Rued Langgaard was a late-Romantic Danish composer and organist. His then-unconventional music was at odds with that of his Danish contemporaries but was recognized 16 years after his death.

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28/07/1887

Marcel Duchamp, French-American painter and sculptor (died 1968)

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French American artist, chess player, and inventor who played a key role in the development of the avant-garde in the United States and in New York City, where he spent the last 25 years of his life.

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Willard Price, Canadian-American journalist and author (died 1983)

Willard DeMille Price was a Canadian-born American traveller, journalist and author.

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28/07/1879

Lucy Burns, American activist, co-founded the National Woman's Party (died 1966)

Lucy Burns was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. She was a passionate activist in the United States and the United Kingdom, who joined the militant suffragettes. Burns was a close friend of Alice Paul, and together they ultimately formed the National Woman's Party.

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Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter (died 1944)

Stefan Filipkiewicz pronounced [ˈstɛfan filipˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ] was a Polish painter and designer. He was born on 28 July 1879, Tarnów, Austria-Hungary, and died on 23 August 1944, in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, Nazi Germany, during the Holocaust. Notable for his landscapes inspired by the Young Poland movement, he was a leading representative of the Polish Art Nouveau style of painting.

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28/07/1874

Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic (died 1945)

Ernst Alfred Cassirer was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy. Trained within the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science.

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28/07/1872

Albert Sarraut, French journalist and politician, 106th Prime Minister of France (died 1962)

Albert-Pierre Sarraut was a French Radical politician, twice Prime Minister during the Third Republic.

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28/07/1867

Charles Dillon Perrine, American-Argentinian astronomer (died 1951)

Charles Dillon Perrine was an American astronomer at the Lick Observatory in California (1893-1909) who moved to Cordoba, Argentina to accept the position of Director of the Argentine National Observatory (1909-1936). The Cordoba Observatory under Perrine's direction made the first attempts to prove Einstein's theory of relativity by astronomical observation of the deflection of starlight near the Sun during the solar eclipse of October 10, 1912 in Cristina (Brazil), and the solar eclipse of August 21, 1914 at Feodosia, Crimea, Russian Empire. Rain in 1912 and clouds in 1914 prevented results.

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28/07/1866

Beatrix Potter, English children's book writer and illustrator (died 1943)

Helen Beatrix Heelis, usually known as Beatrix Potter, was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. She is best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which was her first commercially published work in 1902. Her books, including The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck and The Tale of Tom Kitten, have sold more than 250 million copies. An entrepreneur, Potter was a pioneer of character merchandising. In 1903, Peter Rabbit was the first fictional character to be made into a patented stuffed toy, making him the oldest licensed character.

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Albertson Van Zo Post, American fencer (died 1938)

Albertson Van Zo Post was an American fencer and writer. He earned two gold medals in the 1904 Summer Olympics as well as a silver and two bronze medals, and also competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

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28/07/1863

Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski, Russian general (died 1919)

Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski, or Nakhichevansky, francised spelling: Hussein Nahitchevansky, was a Russian Cavalry General of Azerbaijani origin. He was the only Muslim to serve as General Adjutant of the H. I. M. Retinue.

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28/07/1860

Elias M. Ammons, American businessman and politician, 19th Governor of Colorado (died 1925)

Elias Milton Ammons served as the 19th governor of Colorado from 1913 to 1915. He is perhaps best remembered for ordering National Guard troops into Ludlow, Colorado during the Colorado Coalfield War, which resulted in the Ludlow Massacre. He was also instrumental in starting the National Western Stock Show, which is still active. His son, Teller Ammons, was also governor of Colorado.

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Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (died 1922)

Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia was by birth member of the House of Romanov and a Grand Duchess of Russia and by marriage Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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28/07/1857

Ballington Booth, English-American activist, co-founded Volunteers of America (died 1940)

Ballington Booth was a British-born American Christian minister who co-founded Volunteers of America, a Christian charitable organization, and became its first General (1896-1940). He was a former officer in The Salvation Army.

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28/07/1849

James Edson White, American author and publisher, second son of Ellen G. White and James S. White

James Edson White, frequently known as Edson White, was an American author, publisher and the second son of two of the pioneers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, James S. White and Ellen G. White.

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28/07/1844

Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (died 1889)

Gerard Manley Hopkins was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame places him among the leading English poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovator, as did his praise of God through vivid use of imagery and nature.

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28/07/1815

Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian colonel (died 1889)

Stefan Dunjov was a Banat Bulgarian military figure and revolutionary known for participating in both the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the Italian unification (Risorgimento), as well as for being the first ethnic Bulgarian Colonel.

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28/07/1804

Ludwig Feuerbach, German anthropologist and philosopher (died 1872)

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach was a German philosopher and anthropologist who was a leading figure among the Young Hegelians. He is best known for his 1841 book, The Essence of Christianity, which argued that God is a projection of the essential attributes of humanity. His critique of religion formed the basis for his advocacy of atheism, materialism, and sensualism. In his later work, Feuerbach developed a more complex theory of religion arising from the human confrontation with nature. His thought served as a critical bridge between the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and that of Karl Marx.

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28/07/1796

Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian businessman, founded the Bösendorfer Company (died 1859)

Ignaz Bösendorfer was an Austrian musician and piano manufacturer, who in 1828 founded the Bösendorfer company in Vienna-Josefstadt.

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28/07/1783

Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, German army officer and writer (died 1860)

Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Bismarck was a German lieutenant general, diplomat and military writer. He wrote several major military-political works and military histories, which were very pro-Napoleon.

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28/07/1750

Fabre d'Églantine, French actor, playwright, and politician (died 1794)

Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine, commonly known as Fabre d'Églantine, was a French actor, dramatist, poet, and politician of the French Revolution.

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28/07/1746

Thomas Heyward, Jr., American judge and politician (died 1809)

Thomas Heyward Jr. was an American Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, and politician. Heyward was active politically during the Revolutionary Era. As a member of the Continental Congress representing South Carolina, he signed the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation. Heyward's imprisonment in Florida by the British for nearly a year and the loss of a considerable number of slaves led to his being proclaimed a martyr of the revolution.

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28/07/1659

Charles Ancillon, French jurist and diplomat (died 1715)

Charles Ancillon was a French jurist and diplomat.

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28/07/1645

Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, French princess (died 1721)

Marguerite Louise d'Orléans was a French princess who became grand duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici.

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28/07/1609

Judith Leyster, Dutch painter (died 1660)

Judith Jans Leyster was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, portraits, and still lifes. Her work was highly regarded by her contemporaries but largely forgotten after her death. Her entire oeuvre came to be attributed to Frans Hals or to her husband, Jan Miense Molenaer. In 1893, she was rediscovered and scholars began to attribute her works correctly.

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28/07/1516

William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, German nobleman (died 1592)

William of Jülich-Cleves-Berge, known as William the Rich, was a Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1539–1592).

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28/07/1458

Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist (died 1530)

Jacopo Sannazaro was an Italian poet, humanist, member and head of the Accademia Pontaniana from Naples.

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28/07/1347

Margaret of Durazzo, Queen of Naples and Hungary (died 1412)

Margaret of Durazzo was Queen of Naples and Hungary and Princess of Achaea as the spouse of Charles III of Naples. She was regent of Naples from 1386 until 1393 during the minority of her son Ladislaus of Naples.

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