History of Today 28 September: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 28 September in History

28 Sep 2023: The 2023 Rotterdam shootings occurred, during which two people were killed in a shooting and arson incident at a residence in Delfshaven, Rotterdam. Additionally, one person lost their life in a classroom at the Erasmus University Medical Center. Read more
28 Sep 2022: Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cayo Costa State Park, Florida as a category four hurricane, killing 169 and doing $113 billion in damage, becoming Florida's costliest hurricane and the deadliest in 89 years. Read more
28 Sep 2018: The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured. Read more
28 Sep 2016: The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas. Read more
28 Sep 2014: The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing. Read more
28 Sep 2012: Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants. Read more
28 Sep 2012: Sita Air Flight 601 crashes in Madhyapur Thimi, Nepal, killing all 19 passengers and crew. Read more
28 Sep 2009: The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1,400 people. Read more
28 Sep 2008: Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit by the RatSat mission. Read more
28 Sep 2008: The Singapore Grand Prix is held as Formula One's inaugural night race, with Fernando Alonso winning the event. Almost a year later it was revealed that Alonso's team-mate Nelson Piquet Jr. had been ordered to crash his car to help bring out the safety car and give Alonso the advantage and win. Read more
28 Sep 2006: Typhoon Xangsane passes over Manila after impacting parts of Southern Luzon and Eastern Visayas, becoming the strongest to affect the Philippine capital in 11 years. Read more
28 Sep 2000: Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Read more
28 Sep 1995: Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup. Read more
28 Sep 1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Read more
28 Sep 1994: The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people. Read more
28 Sep 1992: A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew. Read more
28 Sep 1986: The Democratic Progressive Party becomes the first opposition party in Taiwan. Read more
28 Sep 1983: John Pat, a 16-year old Aboriginal Australian boy, dies of injuries sustained by four off-duty police officers in Roebourne, a catalyst to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Read more
28 Sep 1975: The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London. Read more
28 Sep 1973: The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile. Read more
28 Sep 1970: Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo. Read more
28 Sep 1961: A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria. Read more
28 Sep 1958: Fernando Rios, a Mexican tour guide in New Orleans, dies of injuries sustained in an incident of gay bashing. Read more
28 Sep 1951: CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later. Read more
28 Sep 1944: World War II: Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia. Read more
28 Sep 1941: World War II: The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins. Read more
28 Sep 1941: Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better. Read more
28 Sep 1939: World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland. Read more
28 Sep 1939: World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end. Read more
28 Sep 1928: Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin. Read more
28 Sep 1924: The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army. Read more
28 Sep 1919: Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Read more
28 Sep 1918: World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins. Read more
28 Sep 1912: The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill. Read more
28 Sep 1912: Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash. Read more
28 Sep 1901: Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own. Read more
28 Sep 1892: The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal. Read more
28 Sep 1889: The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a metre. Read more
28 Sep 1871: The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves. Read more
28 Sep 1868: The Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France. Read more
28 Sep 1867: Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796. Read more
28 Sep 1844: Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden. Read more
28 Sep 1821: The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is drafted. It will be made public on 13 October. Read more

Famous Births on 28 September

28 Sep 2004: Isack Hadjar, French-Algerian racing driver Isack Alexandre Hadjar is a French and Algerian racing driver who competes under the French flag in Formula One for Red Bull Racing. Read more
28 Sep 2000: Frankie Jonas, American actor, singer, and songwriter Franklin Nathaniel Jonas is an American singer and actor. Jonas voiced Sōsuke in the English dub of the 2008 film Ponyo and was a recurring character in the Disney Channel series Jonas. He also appeared in a minor role in the Disney Channel original film Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam. He has also made appearances on Married to Jonas on E! which follows the life of his brother Kevin Jonas. In 2009, Jonas won "Choice Breakout TV Star – Male" at the Teen Choice Awards. In 2023, he launched a music career as a singer and songwriter. He has released two singles and one extended play, Sewer Rat. Since 2025, he has released music with his band, Franklin Jonas & The Byzantines. Read more
28 Sep 1999: Kayla Day, American tennis player Kayla Day is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 84 by the WTA, reached in April 2024. As a junior, she won the 2016 US Open in singles and was a finalist in doubles, partnering with Caroline Dolehide. Read more
28 Sep 1998: Panna Udvardy, Hungarian tennis player Panna Udvardy is a Hungarian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 59, achieved on 25 May 2026, and a best doubles ranking of No. 65, achieved in October 2022. Read more
28 Sep 1996: Aiden Moffat, British race car driver Aiden Robert Moffat is a British racing driver who is currently driving in the British Touring Car Championship for LKQ Euro Car Parts with Power Maxed Racing. He became the youngest driver ever to compete in the BTCC when he made his debut at the Knockhill round of the 2013 season. Read more
28 Sep 1995: Juancho Hernangómez, Spanish basketball player Juan Alberto "Juancho" Hernangómez Geuer is a Spanish professional basketball player for Panathinaikos of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. He was selected by the Denver Nuggets with the 15th overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft and spent seven seasons in the NBA before returning to Europe. He is an All-EuroLeague Second Team selection and won the EuroLeague in 2024. Read more
28 Sep 1995: Caleb Martin, American basketball player Caleb Martin is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the NC State Wolfpack and the Nevada Wolf Pack. He was named the Mountain West Conference Player of the Year for the 2017–18 season by the league's coaches. He is the identical twin brother of Cody Martin. Read more
28 Sep 1995: Cody Martin, American basketball player Cody Lee Martin is an American professional basketball player for the Mexico City Capitanes of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the NC State Wolfpack and the Nevada Wolf Pack. He is the identical twin brother of Caleb Martin. He was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets in the second round of the 2019 NBA draft. Read more
28 Sep 1995: Jason Williams, English footballer Jason Norrel Williams is a former English footballer. Read more
28 Sep 1993: Jodie Williams, English sprinter Jodie Alicia Williams is a British retired sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres, having begun her career concentrating on 100 and 200 metres. Read more
28 Sep 1992: Khem Birch, Canadian basketball player Khem Xavier Birch is a Canadian professional basketball player for Aris Thessaloniki of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroCup. He played college basketball for the Pittsburgh Panthers and the UNLV Runnin' Rebels. Read more
28 Sep 1992: Keir Gilchrist, Canadian actor and musician Keir David Peters Gilchrist is a Canadian actor. On television, he portrayed Marshall Gregson on the Showtime comedy-drama United States of Tara (2009–2011) and the headlining role of Sam Gardner on the Netflix comedy-drama Atypical (2017–2021). His film roles include the comedy-drama It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010) and the supernatural horror It Follows (2014). Outside of his acting career, Gilchrist is the vocalist of grindcore band Whelm and death metal band Phalanx. Read more
28 Sep 1992: Alex Landi, American actor Alex Landi is an American actor and model of Korean-Italian descent, best known for his role as Dr. Nico Kim on ABC's Grey's Anatomy and Station 19. Read more
28 Sep 1992: Paula Ormaechea, Argentine tennis player Paula Ormaechea is an Argentine tennis player based in Italy. She has won sixteen singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 21 October 2013, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 59. Read more
28 Sep 1992: Adam Thompson, English-Northern Irish footballer Adam Lee Thompson is a professional footballer who plays for Enfield Town as a defender. A graduate of Watford's youth academy, he made his professional debut for Watford in 2010, and his senior international debut for Northern Ireland the following year. Read more
28 Sep 1992: Kōko Tsurumi, Japanese gymnast Kōko Tsurumi is a retired Japanese artistic gymnast. She is the 2009 World all-around bronze medalist, uneven bars silver medalist, and a two-time Olympian. Read more
28 Sep 1991: Eddie Rosario, Puerto Rican baseball player Eddie Manuel Rosario, Jr. is a Puerto Rican professional baseball left fielder who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, Washington Nationals, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Read more
28 Sep 1991: Elvyonn Bailey, American sprinter Elvyonn Bailey is an American former sprinter specializing in the 400 metres and the 2016 World Athletics Indoor Championships gold medalist in the 4 × 400 m relay by virtue of running in the heats. Before that moment, Bailey was an All American runner for the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers in the relays and finished 3rd in the 400 m at the 2016 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Read more
28 Sep 1990: Phoenix Battye, Australian rugby player Phoenix Battye is an Australian rugby union player. He currently plays in the French Pro D2 competition but started his professional career with the Western Force. His usual position is lock. Read more
28 Sep 1989: Çağla Büyükakçay, Turkish tennis player Çağla Büyükakçay is a Turkish professional tennis player. She won her first title at her home tournament in Istanbul, becoming the first Turkish woman to lift a WTA Tour title. Read more
28 Sep 1989: Darius Johnson-Odom, American basketball player Darius "Darjo" Earvin Johnson-Odom is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Astros de Jalisco of the Mexican CIBACOPA. In 2009, he transferred to Marquette University from Hutchinson Community College. As a senior, Johnson-Odom was named first-team All-Big East. Read more
28 Sep 1989: Mark Randall, English footballer Mark Leonard Randall is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for NIFL Premiership club Larne. Read more
28 Sep 1988: Marin Čilić, Croatian tennis player Marin Čilić is a Croatian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 3 in men's singles by the ATP, achieved in January 2018. Čilić has won 21 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including the 2014 US Open. He was also finalist at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships and the 2018 Australian Open. Read more
28 Sep 1988: Esmée Denters, Dutch singer-songwriter Esmée Denters is a Dutch singer and YouTuber. Denters started promoting herself as a musician online in 2006, covering songs by artists including Justin Timberlake and Natasha Bedingfield. Denters was signed by Timberlake as the first artist to his label Tennman Records. In May 2009, she released her debut studio album, Outta Here, and toured the United States with Timberlake. After the label dropped her, Denters moved to London, where she competed in BBC One's The Voice UK. Read more
28 Sep 1988: Jason Jordan, American wrestler Nathan Everhart is an American retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he works as the lead producer for Raw and SmackDown. He is best known for performing with WWE under the ring name Jason Jordan from 2011 to 2018. Read more
28 Sep 1988: Olivia Jordan, American actress, model, television host, and beauty pageant titleholder Olivia Jordan Thomas is an American actress and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss USA 2015. Jordan later represented the United States at Miss Universe 2015, where she was finished as the second runner-up. She had been crowned Miss Oklahoma USA 2015, and is the first and only woman from Oklahoma to win Miss USA. Read more
28 Sep 1988: Hana Mae Lee, American actress, model, and fashion designer Hana Mae Lee is an American actress, singer, model, comedian and fashion designer. She portrayed Lilly Onakurama in the musical comedy Pitch Perfect film series (2012–2017) and Sonya in the horror comedy film The Babysitter (2017) and its 2020 sequel. Lee also owns the fashion line Hanamahn. Read more
28 Sep 1988: Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer Aleksandar "Aleks" Vrteski is a former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Stirling Lions. Born in Australia, he represented Australia internationally before switching to represent Macedonia. Read more
28 Sep 1988: Worakls, French DJ and electronic musician Kevin Rodrigues, known by his stage name Worakls, is a French electronic musician and composer. He is known for blending orchestral and electronic instrumentation with rock and pop influences. On tour, he performs solo, with a small group of instrumentalists, or with a much larger touring orchestra. Read more
28 Sep 1987: Pierre Becken, German footballer Pierre Dominik Becken is a German footballer who plays as a centre-back or defensive midfielder for VfB Lübeck. Read more
28 Sep 1987: Gary Deegan, Irish footballer Gary Richard Deegan is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Beginning his career in his native Ireland, he played in the Scottish Premiership for Hibernian and various clubs in all three divisions of the English Football League. Read more
28 Sep 1987: Hilary Duff, American singer-songwriter and actress Hilary Erhard Duff is an American actress, singer-songwriter, businesswoman, and author. Duff began her acting career at a young age, and was soon labeled a teen idol after playing the title character in the Disney Channel comedy series Lizzie McGuire (2001–2004) and the film based on the series, The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003). Thereafter, she appeared in numerous mainstream films such as Cadet Kelly (2002), Agent Cody Banks (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), A Cinderella Story (2004), and Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005).
In 2026, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Read more
28 Sep 1987: Chloë Hanslip, English violinist Chloë Elise Hanslip is a British classical violinist. Read more
28 Sep 1987: Viktoria Leks, Estonian high jumper Viktoria Leks is an Estonian high jumper and National Indoor Champion 2006–2007. Read more
28 Sep 1986: Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer José Andrés Guardado Hernández is a Mexican professional football manager and former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Read more
28 Sep 1986: Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (died 2013) Meskerem Legesse was an Ethiopian distance runner. She participated in the 1,500 meters at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Legesse turned professional and participated in a number of U.S. events at various distances. Read more
28 Sep 1986: Daniel Platzman, American musician Daniel James Platzman is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and composer. He is best known as the former drummer for the pop rock band Imagine Dragons. Read more
28 Sep 1986: Dominic Waters, American basketball player Dominic Wayne Waters is an American professional basketball player, who lastly played for Ironi Nahariya of the Israeli Premier League. Standing at 1.85 m, he plays at the point guard position. In 2013, he was the Israeli Premier League Assists Leader. Read more
28 Sep 1985: Shindong, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer Shin Dong-hee, known professionally as Shindong, is a South Korean rapper, singer, dancer, host, radio personality, and video director. He is best known as a member of Super Junior and its subgroups Super Junior-T, Super Junior-H, and Super Junior-L.S.S. Read more
28 Sep 1985: Alina Ibragimova, Russian-English violinist Alina Rinatovna Ibragimova is a Russian-British violinist. Read more
28 Sep 1984: Jenny Omnichord, Canadian singer-songwriter Jenny Mitchell, better known by the stage name Jenny Omnichord, is a Canadian indie rock musician. She has released three solo albums and an EP as a solo artist, and also records and performs with the bands The Barmitzvah Brothers and The Burning Hell. Read more
28 Sep 1984: Luke Pomersbach, Australian cricketer Luke Anthony Pomersbach is a former Australian cricketer. He played mainly for Western Australia and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Citing mental health issues, he retired from the game in June 2014. Read more
28 Sep 1984: Naim Terbunja, Kosovan-Swedish boxer Naim Terbunja is a Swedish professional boxer of Kosovar-Albanian descent who qualified for the 2008 Olympics at middleweight. Read more
28 Sep 1984: Melody Thornton, American singer-songwriter and dancer Melody Thornton is an American singer and television personality. After graduating high school, Thornton became one of the main vocalists of the girl group the Pussycat Dolls and released the albums PCD (2005) and Doll Domination (2008) becoming one of the world's best-selling girl groups. As part of the group, she has received a Grammy Award nomination. Read more
28 Sep 1984: Mathieu Valbuena, French footballer Mathieu Valbuena is a French professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Maltese Challenge League club St. Lucia. He occasionally plays as a winger and is known for his pace, technical ability, and tenacious style of play. He is described by his former coach at Libourne Saint-Seurin, Didier Tholot, as "an explosive player who is capable of quickly taking two opponents out of the game to create space, above all due to his dribbling skills." Due to his small stature, Valbuena is nicknamed le petit vélo, which translates to "the little bike". Read more
28 Sep 1984: Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player Ryan Wallace Zimmerman is an American former professional baseball infielder who spent his entire 17-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Washington Nationals. Zimmerman was primarily a third baseman before moving to first base in 2015. He was twice selected as an MLB All-Star, won one Gold Glove and two Silver Slugger awards, and was member of the Nationals team that won the 2019 World Series. Read more
28 Sep 1983: Stefan Moore, English footballer Stefan Leroy Moore is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. Read more
28 Sep 1983: John Schwalger, New Zealand rugby player John Schwalger is a former New Zealand rugby union player who played at the prop position. Read more
28 Sep 1982: Aleksandr Anyukov, Russian footballer Aleksandr Gennadyevich Anyukov is a Russian association football coach and a former player, who played as a right-back. He is an assistant coach with FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. Read more
28 Sep 1982: Abhinav Bindra, Indian target shooter Abhinav Bindra is an Indian former sport shooter and a businessman. He is an Olympic gold medalist as well as the first and one of only two Indians to win an individual Olympic gold medal. Bindra is also the first Indian to have held concurrently the World and Olympic titles for the men's 10-metre air rifle event, having earned those honours at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2006 World Championships. Bindra has won seven medals at the Commonwealth Games and three medals at the Asian Games. Read more
28 Sep 1982: Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2018) Raymond Robert Emery was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was a goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL) for eleven seasons, between 2003 and 2015. Emery was chosen 99th overall by the Ottawa Senators in the 2001 NHL entry draft. During the 2006–07 season, he gained the starting job and backstopped his team to the Stanley Cup Final, the first appearance in the final for the current Senators' franchise. However, in the subsequent season, he lost his place as the team's starting goaltender due to an injury. He won a Stanley Cup championship with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2013. Read more
28 Sep 1982: Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor and director Ranbir Raj Kapoor is an Indian actor who works in Hindi-language films. He has received several accolades, including seven Filmfare Awards, and is known for his work across a range of film genres. Kapoor has featured in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list and was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world in 2026 Read more
28 Sep 1982: Nolwenn Leroy, French singer-songwriter and actress Nolwenn Le Magueresse, known by her stage name Nolwenn Leroy, is a French singer-songwriter and actress. Read more
28 Sep 1982: Emeka Okafor, American basketball player Chukwuemeka Ndubuisi "Emeka" Okafor is an American former professional basketball player. Okafor attended Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas and the University of Connecticut, where in 2004 he won a national championship. In his first season in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 2004–05, Okafor played for the Charlotte Bobcats and was named Rookie of the Year. He was traded to the New Orleans Hornets in 2009 and was then dealt to the Washington Wizards in 2012. However, a herniated disc in his neck caused Okafor to miss four consecutive seasons from 2013 to 2017 before being medically cleared to play. Read more
28 Sep 1982: Dustin Penner, Canadian ice hockey player Dustin Penner is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Anaheim Ducks, Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings and Washington Capitals. Undrafted by any NHL team, in 2004, Penner signed with Anaheim after playing college hockey at the University of Maine in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Penner won the Stanley Cup in his first full season with Anaheim in 2007, before adding a second Stanley Cup in his first full season with Los Angeles in 2012. Read more
28 Sep 1982: Aivar Rehemaa, Estonian skier Aivar Rehemaa is an Estonian cross-country skier. He competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. He represented Estonia at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. His best finish at the Winter Olympics is 8th in the 4×10 km relay in 2006. Read more
28 Sep 1982: Anderson Varejão, Brazilian basketball player Anderson França Varejão is a Brazilian former professional basketball player who is currently a player development consultant and global ambassador for the Cleveland Cavaliers, where he spent 13 of his 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). With a career that spanned four professional leagues, Varejão also played for Franca and the Flamengo of the Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB), Barcelona of the EuroLeague and Liga ACB, and has been a regular member of the Brazilian national team, winning a gold medal in 2003 at the Pan American Games. Read more
28 Sep 1982: St. Vincent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Anne Erin Clark, known professionally as St. Vincent, is an American musician and singer-songwriter. Her guitar-playing has been praised for its melodic style and use of distortion. In 2023, Rolling Stone named Clark the 26th-greatest guitarist of all time. Read more
28 Sep 1981: Greg Anderson, American pianist and composer Greg Anderson is an American pianist, composer, video producer, and writer. According to his website, Anderson's mission is to "make classical piano music a relevant and powerful force in society." Read more
28 Sep 1981: Willy Caballero, Argentine footballer Wilfredo Daniel Caballero Lazcano is an Argentine professional football coach and former goalkeeper who is first-team coach for Premier League club Manchester City. Read more
28 Sep 1981: José Calderón, Spanish basketball player José Manuel Calderón Borrallo is a Spanish basketball executive and former player who is a special advisor for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played professionally for 21 years including 14 seasons in the NBA, primarily with the Toronto Raptors
with whom he set an NBA record for the highest free throw percentage in a season. With the Spain national team, he won a FIBA World Cup title in 2006, two Olympic silver medals in 2008 and 2012, as well as a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He also won a EuroBasket title in 2011, two silver medals in 2003 and 2007 as well as a bronze in 2013. Calderón earned an All-EuroBasket Team selection in 2007. Read more
28 Sep 1981: Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer Jorge Daniel Guagua Tamayo is an Ecuadorian retired professional footballer who played as a defender. He is currently a sporting director of Club 9 de Octubre. Read more
28 Sep 1981: Jerrika Hinton, American actress Jerrika Hinton is an American actress, best known for her role as Dr. Stephanie Edwards in the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy. Read more
28 Sep 1981: Iracema Trevisan, Brazilian bass player Iracema Trevisan Carneiro, also known as Ira, is a Brazilian designer. She was the bassist for Brazilian indie-electro band CSS. Read more
28 Sep 1980: Marlon Parmer, American basketball player Marlon Palmer is an American former professional basketball player. Read more
28 Sep 1979: Bam Margera, American skateboarder, actor, and stuntman Brandon Cole "Bam" Margera is an American professional skateboarder, stunt performer, television personality, and filmmaker. He rose to prominence in the early 2000s as one of the stars of the MTV reality stunt show Jackass and subsequent films. He also created the spin-off shows Viva La Bam (2003–2006), Bam's Unholy Union (2007), Bam's World Domination (2010), and Bam's Bad Ass Game Show (2014), and co-wrote and directed the films Haggard (2003) and Minghags (2009). Read more
28 Sep 1979: Taki Tsan, American-Greek rapper and producer Panagiotis Stravalexis, also known by his stage names Waze-Taki-Tsan Timvorihos, Pedi Thavma, and Taki Tsan; is a Greek music producer, tattoo artist and rapper. He is a founding member of the group Zontanoi Nekroi and a member of the rap duet Tigre Sporakia. Read more
28 Sep 1978: Peter Cambor, American actor Peter Cambor is an American actor, writer, and producer. He is best known for his portrayal of Barry on Grace and Frankie and operational psychologist Nate Getz on the CBS show NCIS: Los Angeles. Read more
28 Sep 1978: Ben Edmondson, Australian cricketer Ben Matthew Edmondson is an Australian cricketer who has played for the Western Warriors, Southern Redbacks and Gloucestershire. He is a right-arm fast-medium bowler born at Southport, Queensland. Read more
28 Sep 1977: Pak Se-ri, South Korean golfer Pak Se-ri or Se-ri Pak is a South Korean former professional golfer. She played on the LPGA Tour from 1998 to 2016. She was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2007. Read more
28 Sep 1977: Young Jeezy, American rapper Jay Wayne Jenkins, known by his stage name Jeezy, is an American rapper. He is credited, alongside fellow Georgia-based rappers T.I. and Gucci Mane, with pioneering the hip hop subgenre trap music for mainstream audiences. Jenkins began his career in 2001, releasing two independent albums until signing with Def Jam Recordings to release his major label debut, Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 (2005). The album peaked at number two on the Billboard 200, sold 172,000 copies in its first week, and received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA); its lead single, "Soul Survivor", peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and remains his highest-charting song. Read more
28 Sep 1976: Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist and politician Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko is a Russian former professional mixed martial artist (MMA), sambist, judoka and politician. Emelianenko was the PRIDE Heavyweight Champion from 2003 to the organisation's closure in 2007, a four-time combat sambo world champion, a seven-time combat sambo national champion, and two-time Russian national judo bronze medalist, among other championships and accolades. He also competed in RINGS, Strikeforce, M-1 Global, Rizin, and Bellator MMA, and is regarded as the most prominent fighter never to compete in the UFC. Emelianenko is widely considered to be one of the greatest MMA fighters of all time, consistently ranked as the top heavyweight fighter from 2003 until 2010, and the best fighter of the 2000s. Emelianenko's career helped popularize the sport of MMA in his home country of Russia after gaining attention in Japan, South Korea, the United States, and worldwide. Read more
28 Sep 1976: Bonzi Wells, American basketball player Gawen DeAngelo "Bonzi" Wells is an American basketball player and coach. He was an assistant coach at Georgia Tech and previously was head coach at LeMoyne-Owen. He played college basketball at Ball State University and was drafted in the 1998 NBA draft. In the NBA, Wells played for five teams from 1998 to 2008: the Portland Trail Blazers, Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento Kings, Houston Rockets, and New Orleans Hornets. Read more
28 Sep 1975: Stuart Clark, Australian cricketer and manager Stuart Rupert Clark is an Australian former cricketer who played for New South Wales and the Australian team. He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler. His nickname "Sarfraz" originates from the similarities of his bowling style to Sarfraz Nawaz.
Clark was also a member of the Australian team that won the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Read more
28 Sep 1975: Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic (died 2013) Isamu Jordan was an American journalist, musician, and professor. When he was 15 years old, he joined the staff of The Spokesman-Review, where he wrote articles for Our Generation, the teen section of the newspaper. After earning a Bachelor's degree in English and Journalism, he returned to the paper, where he wrote articles about music and pop culture. He also wrote and edited articles for the weekly news magazine Spokane7, which provided coverage on local entertainment, art and culture, dining, and sporting events. As a musician, he was a member of the band The Dead Casuals and was known for establishing the hip hop orchestra, Flying Spiders, in which he was the lead vocalist. As the creator, producer, and director of The Som Show, Jordan provided booking support and concert promotions for local bands and music artists, while his multimedia music website featured artist profiles, events, and venues, along with videos and concert reviews. Spokane's Online Music Awards, known as The Sommy Awards, honored local bands and musicians through nominations made through his website. In addition to his background in journalism and music, Jordan was an adjunct professor and Program Director of Intercultural Student Services at Whitworth University. Read more
28 Sep 1975: Lenny Krayzelburg, Russian-American swimmer Lenny Krayzelburg is an American former backstroke swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and former world record holder. He swam in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, winning a total of four Olympic gold medals. Read more
28 Sep 1974: Marco Di Loreto, Italian footballer and manager Marco Di Loreto is an Italian former footballer turned manager. He has played over 200 matches at Italian Serie A since his debut at age 26. Read more
28 Sep 1974: Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer Mariya Aleksandrovna Kiselyova is a female synchronised swimmer from Russia. She competes in synchronised swimming and has won three Olympic golds and three golds in the world championships. In Russia, she is currently known as a TV show presenter and a politician for the ruling United Russia party. She is currently a member of the Moscow City Duma. Read more
28 Sep 1974: Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer and coach Joonas Einari Kolkka is a Finnish retired professional footballer who played as a left winger most of his career, but could also play on the right wing. Having started his career in his native Finland, he went on to play for several clubs in the Netherlands, Greece, Germany, England, and the USA. Read more
28 Sep 1974: Shane Webcke, Australian rugby league player and coach Shane Webcke is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, who spent his entire club career playing for the Brisbane Broncos. Webcke represented Queensland in the State of Origin 21 times and also captained the side. He made 26 test appearances for Australia. His position was prop forward and at his peak he was renowned as the best front rower in the world. Alongside Glenn Lazarus and Arthur Beetson, Webcke is considered by many to have been one of the finest post-war front-rowers to play the game. Read more
28 Sep 1973: Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player Brian Christopher Rafalski is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New Jersey Devils and Detroit Red Wings, in the SM-liiga for HPK and HIFK, in the Elitserien for Brynäs IF, and in the ECHL for the Florida Everblades. Read more
28 Sep 1972: Leila McKinnon, Iranian-Australian journalist and television host Leila McKinnon is an Australian journalist and television presenter. Read more
28 Sep 1972: Dita Von Teese, American model and dancer Heather Renée Sweet, known professionally as Dita Von Teese, is an American vedette, burlesque dancer, model, actress, and businesswoman. She is credited with re-popularizing burlesque performance, earning the moniker "Queen of Burlesque". Read more
28 Sep 1971: Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Joseph Lyburn Arthur is an American singer-songwriter and artist from Akron, Ohio. He is best known for his solo material, and as a member of Fistful of Mercy and RNDM. Arthur has built his reputation over the years through critically acclaimed releases and constant touring; his unique solo live performances often incorporate the use of a number of distortion and loop pedals, and his shows are recorded live at the soundboard and made available to concertgoers immediately following the show on recordable media. Read more
28 Sep 1971: George Eustice, English lawyer and politician Charles George Eustice is a British politician and former public relations executive who held office as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs between 2020 and 2022. A former UKIP member, he later joined the Conservative Party, where he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Camborne and Redruth from 2010 to 2024. Read more
28 Sep 1971: Braam van Straaten, South African rugby player Abraham Johannes Jacobus van Straaten is a South African former professional rugby union footballer. He was capable of playing either at fly-half or centre, and played for the South Africa national team in 21 tests between 1999 and 2001, scoring 221 points. Read more
28 Sep 1971: Alan Wright, English footballer and manager Alan Geoffrey Wright is an English professional football manager and former player who is currently the assistant head coach of the Manchester United Under-21s. Read more
28 Sep 1970: Kimiko Date, Japanese tennis player Kimiko Date is a Japanese former professional tennis player. She reached the semifinals of the 1994 Australian Open, the 1995 French Open and the 1996 Wimbledon Championships, and won the Japan Open a record four times. She reached a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in 1995, and first retired from professional tennis in November 1996. Read more
28 Sep 1970: Mike DeJean, American baseball player Michael Dwain DeJean is an American former right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. Read more
28 Sep 1970: Gualter Salles, Brazilian race car driver Gualter Salles, is an open wheel race car driver. He raced in the 1997-2000 and 2003 CART seasons, as well as one Indy Racing League event, totalling 49 IndyCar starts overall. He also competed in Stock Car Brasil between 2001 and 2007. Read more
28 Sep 1969: Kerri Chandler, electronic music producer and DJ Kerri Camar Chandler is an American DJ and record producer. He has been dubbed a pioneer within house music, a genre in which he has an "eclectic brand". Read more
28 Sep 1969: Marcel Dost, Dutch decathlete Henk Marcel Dost is a retired decathlete from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. There he finished in 18th place in the men's decathlon competition, earning a total number of 8.111 points. The other competitor from the Netherlands, Jack Rosendaal, ended up in 21st place. Read more
28 Sep 1969: Ben Greenman, American journalist and author Ben Greenman is an American novelist, magazine journalist, and publisher who has written nearly thirty fiction and non-fiction books, including collaborations with pop-music artists like Questlove, George Clinton, Brian Wilson, Gene Simmons, Steven Van Zandt, Sly Stone, and others. His books have been translated into many other languages, including Italian, Japanese, Dutch, and Spanish. From 2000 to 2014, he was an editor at The New Yorker. He now serves as executive editor of Auwa Books, an imprint founded by Questlove in collaboration with Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Read more
28 Sep 1969: Piper Kerman, American author and memoirist Piper Eressea Kerman is an American author. She was indicted in 1998 on charges of felonious money-laundering and drug-trafficking activities, and sentenced to 15 months' detention in a federal correctional facility, of which she served 13 months. Her memoir of her prison experiences, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (2010), was adapted into the critically acclaimed Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013). Since leaving prison, Kerman has spoken widely about women in prison and problems with the federal prison system. She now works as a communication strategist for non-profit organizations. Read more
28 Sep 1969: Éric Lapointe, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player Éric Lapointe is a Francophone lead singer and guitarist for his eponymous band. His band is characterized by a heavy metal style containing elements of punk, grunge, pop, and hard rock. Lapointe has released eight studio albums, three compilation albums, and two live albums. Read more
28 Sep 1969: Sascha Maassen, German race car driver Sascha Maassen is a veteran sports car driver. Read more
28 Sep 1969: Angus Robertson, Scottish politician Angus Struan Carolus Robertson is a Scottish politician who served as the Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture between 2021 and 2026. Formerly Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 2016 to 2018, he served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Edinburgh Central from 2021 to 2026 and as a Westminster MP for Moray from 2001 to 2017, where he served from 2007 to 2017 as the Leader of the SNP in the House of Commons. Read more
28 Sep 1969: Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer Nico-Jos Theodoor Vaesen is a Belgian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He retired from football shortly after joining Lierse, but returned to the game in 2008 with K.F.C. Verbroedering Geel for one season where his contract wasn't renewed. Read more
28 Sep 1968: Francois Botha, South African boxer and mixed martial artist Francois "Frans" Botha is a South African former professional boxer and kickboxer. He competed in boxing from 1990 to 2014, and is perhaps best known for winning the IBF heavyweight title against Axel Schulz in 1995, but this was later stripped after he failed a drug test. He challenged twice for world heavyweight titles in 2000 and 2002. Botha has competed against former Heavyweight Champions Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Michael Moorer and Evander Holyfield late in their respective careers. Botha competed once in mixed martial arts in 2004. Read more
28 Sep 1968: Mika Häkkinen, Finnish race car driver Mika Pauli Häkkinen is a Finnish former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1991 to 2001. Nicknamed "the Flying Finn", Häkkinen won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 1998 and 1999 with McLaren, and won 20 Grands Prix across 11 seasons. Read more
28 Sep 1968: Trish Keenan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011) Patricia Anne Keenan was an English musician and singer. She was the lead vocalist and founding member of the electronic band Broadcast, which she formed in 1995. The band released a total of five studio albums, including The Noise Made by People (2000), Haha Sound (2003) and Tender Buttons (2005), and earned a cult following. Read more
28 Sep 1968: Sean Levert, American R&B singer-songwriter and actor (died 2008) Sean Edward Levert was an American singer-songwriter and actor. Levert was best known as a member of the R&B vocal group LeVert. Levert was the son of O'Jays lead singer Eddie Levert and younger brother of singer Gerald Levert. Read more
28 Sep 1968: Rob Moroso, American race car driver (died 1990) Robert James Moroso was an American NASCAR racing driver who was champion of the NASCAR Busch Series in 1989, and was posthumously awarded the 1990 NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year award. A promising young driver, he and another driver were killed when Moroso was driving under the influence at excessive speeds on roads near his hometown of Terrell, North Carolina. Read more
28 Sep 1968: Naomi Watts, English-Australian actress and producer Naomi Ellen Watts is a British actress. Known for her work predominantly in independent films, she has received various accolades, including an Actor Award, a Critics' Choice Award and two Saturn Awards as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. Read more
28 Sep 1967: Mira Sorvino, American actress Mira Katherine Sorvino is an American actress. She rose to stardom with her performance as a sex worker in the comedy film Mighty Aphrodite (1995), which won her both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Read more
28 Sep 1967: Moon Zappa, American actress and author Moon Unit Zappa is an American actress, singer, and author. She is a daughter of musician Frank Zappa. Read more
28 Sep 1966: Scott Adams, American football player (died 2013) Scott Alexander Adams was an American professional football player who played guard for a six-season career, in-which he played for the Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Atlanta Falcons. Read more
28 Sep 1966: Maria Canals-Barrera, Cuban-American actress Maria Pilar Canals-Barrera is an American actress. She is known for starring as Theresa Russo in the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place (2007–2012) and recurring in Wizards Beyond Waverly Place (2025-2026), Connie Torres in Camp Rock (2008), Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010), Camp Rock 3 (2026), and Daniela in the ABC comedy series Cristela (2014–2015). Read more
28 Sep 1966: Puri Jagannadh, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter Petla "Puri" Jagannadh is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer, who works primarily in the Telugu film Industry. He made his directorial debut in 2000 with the Telugu film Badri starring Pawan Kalyan, Renu Desai and Ameesha Patel. In 2006, he directed the Telugu film Pokiri, premiered at the 7th IIFA Film Festival held in Dubai. The film was later re-made into several Indian languages, and brought Puri widespread Indian recognition. He made his Hindi film debut in 2004, with the film Shart: The Challenge. In 2011, he directed the Hindi film Bbuddah… Hoga Terra Baap starring Amitabh Bachchan, which was archived in the Oscar library. Read more
28 Sep 1965: B.G., the Prince of Rap, American rapper (died 2023) Bernard Greene, also known as B.G. the Prince of Rap, was an American rapper and singer. He experienced modest success in Germany, where he lived after being posted by the U.S. Army. Read more
28 Sep 1964: Claudio Borghi, Argentinian footballer and manager Claudio Daniel Borghi Bidos, nicknamed Bichi, is an Argentine and Chilean football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. Read more
28 Sep 1964: Gregor Fisken, Scottish race car driver Gregor Callander Fisken is a British racing driver and businessman who currently races historic and modern-day sportscars. He is one of only a handful of racing drivers to have driven in all four classes at the famous Le Mans 24 Hours motor race. Read more
28 Sep 1964: Janeane Garofalo, American comedian, actress, and screenwriter Janeane Garofalo is an American comedian and actress. The accolades she has received include nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Read more
28 Sep 1964: Paul Jewell, English footballer and manager Paul Jewell is an English football manager and former player, who was most recently director of football at Swindon Town. Read more
28 Sep 1964: Mārtiņš Roze, Latvian lawyer and politician (died 2012) Mārtiņš Roze was a Latvian politician. From 2002 till 2009 he was Minister for Agriculture of Latvia. He was member of Latvian Farmers' Union. He graduated from the University of Latvia. Read more
28 Sep 1963: Steve Blackman, American wrestler and martial artist Steve Blackman is an American martial arts instructor and former professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation from 1997 to 2002, where he was a frequent challenger for the promotion's mid-card titles. He held the WWF Hardcore Championship six times and holds the record for most combined days as champion, a total of 172 days. Read more
28 Sep 1963: Érik Comas, French race car driver Érik Gilbert Comas is a French former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1991 to 1994. In Japanese motorsport, Comas won the All-Japan GT Championship in 1998 and 1999 with Nismo. Read more
28 Sep 1963: Johnny Dawkins, American basketball player and coach Johnny Earl Dawkins Jr. is an American basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the UCF men's basketball team. From 2008 to 2016, he was the head coach of Stanford. He was a two-time All-American and national player of the year as a senior in 1986 while at Duke from 1982 to 1986. Dawkins subsequently played nine seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the San Antonio Spurs (1986–1989), Philadelphia 76ers (1989–1994), and Detroit Pistons (1994–1995). From 1998 to 2008, he served as an assistant basketball coach at his alma mater, Duke. Read more
28 Sep 1963: Greg Weisman, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter Greg Weisman is a Jewish-American writer, producer and voice actor. He is best known as the creator of the animated series Gargoyles, The Spectacular Spider-Man and Young Justice and as a producer for the second season of W.I.T.C.H. and the first season of Star Wars Rebels. Read more
28 Sep 1962: Grant Fuhr, Canadian ice hockey player and coach Grant Scott Fuhr is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played 19 seasons as a goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL), 10 of them for the Edmonton Oilers, with whom he won five Stanley Cup championships in 14 postseason campaigns. He also won the Canada Cup two times with Canada, his first as the backup goaltender for the team in 1984, and his second as the starting goaltender in 1987 as well as finishing second in the World Championships in 1989. Fuhr is widely regarded as one of the best goaltenders of his era. He was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2003. In 2017, he was named by the league as one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players". Read more
28 Sep 1962: Laurie Rinker, American golfer Laurie Anne Rinker is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. Read more
28 Sep 1962: Dietmar Schacht, German footballer and manager Dietmar "Didi" Schacht is a German football coach and former player who most recently was in charge of SV Straelen. Read more
28 Sep 1962: Chuck Taylor, American journalist Chuck Taylor is an American music journalist. He served as a reporter, senior writer, columnist and senior editor at Billboard magazine from 1995 to 2009. There, he held the titles of Senior Editor/Talent, Senior Writer, Radio Editor, host of the online "Billboard Radio Countdown," "AirWaves" columnist and Single Reviews Editor; as well as Managing Editor of Top 40/AC for affiliated publication Billboard Radio Monitor, and Senior Editor/Features and AC format editor for Billboard sister Radio & Records. Read more
28 Sep 1961: Helen Grant, English lawyer and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics Helen Grant is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone and Malling, formerly Maidstone and The Weald, since 2010. A member of the Conservative Party, she succeeded Ann Widdecombe, who was first elected in 1987. Read more
28 Sep 1961: Gregory Jbara, American actor and singer Gregory Jbara is an American actor and director. He is known for his roles as Deputy Commissioner Garrett Moore in the CBS police procedural Blue Bloods (2010–2024), Dan O'Keefe in the Fox sitcom Grounded for Life, and for his performance as Jackie Elliot in Billy Elliot the Musical (2009), for which he earned a Tony Award. Read more
28 Sep 1961: Quentin Kawānanakoa, American lawyer and politician Quentin Kūhiō Kawānanakoa is an American politician and member of the House of Kawānanakoa. Kawānanakoa is an organizer of the Republican Party of Hawaii. He is also an heir to the James Campbell estate. Read more
28 Sep 1961: Anne White, American tennis player Anne White is an American former professional tennis player from Charleston, West Virginia. She is most famous for wearing a white body suit at Wimbledon in 1985. Read more
28 Sep 1960: Gary Ayres, Australian footballer and coach Gary James Ayres is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is currently the senior coach for the Warragul Football Club in the Gippsland League (GL). Ayres' playing career is honoured by the existence of the Gary Ayres Award, an annual award given to the player judged best-afield by the AFL Coaches Association throughout each AFL finals series. Read more
28 Sep 1960: Tom Byrum, American golfer Thomas Elliott Byrum is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour Champions. Read more
28 Sep 1960: Frank Hammerschlag, German footballer and manager Frank Hammerschlag is a German football manager and former player. Read more
28 Sep 1960: Gus Logie, Trinidadian cricketer Augustine Lawrence Logie, commonly known as Gus Logie, is a former West Indies and Trinidad and Tobago cricketer and is currently an international cricket coach. He coached the West Indies to win the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, the first major world cricket title the team won since winning the 1979 Cricket World Cup. As a player, he was a part of the West Indian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1983 Cricket World Cup. Read more
28 Sep 1960: Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford, English politician Kamlesh Kumar Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford, is a member of the House of Lords. Having been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1999 Birthday Honours, he was created a life peer as Baron Patel of Bradford, of Bradford in the County of West Yorkshire on 8 June 2006. He currently sits as a non-affiliated peer, as of 20 March 2018, but has previously sat as a crossbench (2006–2008), Labour (2008–2012) and Labour and Co-operative (2012–2018) peer. Read more
28 Sep 1960: Jennifer Rush, American singer-songwriter Jennifer Rush is an American pop and rock singer. She achieved initial success during the mid-1980s with several singles and studio albums, including the million-selling single "The Power of Love", which she co-wrote and released in 1984. Her initial greatest success came in Europe, especially the United Kingdom. Her other successful singles from that period include "Ring of Ice", "Destiny", "I Come Undone", "You're My One and Only", "Higher Ground", "25 Lovers", "If You're Ever Gonna Lose My Love", "Heart over Mind", and "Flames of Paradise", a duet with Elton John. In the 1990s she had several charting singles, including "Tears in the Rain". Read more
28 Sep 1960: Socrates Villegas, Filipino archbishop Sócrates Buenaventura Villegas, O.P. is a Filipino prelate, and a professed member of the Dominican Order. He is the fifth and current Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan in Pangasinan since November 4, 2009, and is the former president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines from December 1, 2013 to November 30, 2017, previously serving as the vice president of the episcopal conference from 2011 to 2013. Read more
28 Sep 1959: Laura Bruce, American artist Laura Bruce is an American contemporary artist living in Berlin. Read more
28 Sep 1959: Ron Fellows, Canadian race car driver Ronald Charles Fellows CM is a Canadian former auto racing driver. A long-term Corvette factory driver, Fellows won the 24 Hours of Daytona overall in 2001, the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice in class and the 12 Hours of Sebring four times in class. He is a three-time American Le Mans Series champion, winning the GTS title back-to-back in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Read more
28 Sep 1957: Bill Cassidy, American politician and physician William Morgan Cassidy is an American politician and physician who is the senior United States senator from Louisiana, a seat he has held since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the Louisiana State Senate from 2006 to 2009 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015. Cassidy has chaired the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee since 2025. Read more
28 Sep 1955: Stéphane Dion, Canadian sociologist and politician, 15th Canadian Minister of the Environment Stéphane Maurice Dion is a Canadian diplomat, academic and former politician who served as the Canadian ambassador to France and Monaco from 2022 to 2025 and special envoy to the European Union from 2017 to 2025. He previously was leader of the Opposition and leader of the Liberal Party from 2006 to 2008. He served in cabinets as intergovernmental affairs minister (1996–2003), environment minister (2003–2006), and foreign affairs minister (2015–2017). Read more
28 Sep 1955: Mercy Manci, Xhosa sangoma and HIV activist from South Africa Mercy Manci is a Xhosa sangoma and HIV activist from South Africa. She has participated and presented at conferences in a.o. Cameroon, Nigeria, and Italy. Read more
28 Sep 1955: Kenny Kirkland, American pianist (died 1998) Kenneth David Kirkland was an American jazz pianist and keyboardist. Read more
28 Sep 1954: Steve Largent, American football player and politician Stephen Michael Largent is an American former professional football wide receiver and politician who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons with the Seattle Seahawks. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district from 1994 to 2002. He was also the Republican nominee in the 2002 Oklahoma gubernatorial election. Largent is regarded as one of the greatest wide receivers of all time. Read more
28 Sep 1954: George Lynch, American guitarist and songwriter George Lynch is an American guitarist, best known for his work with the hard rock/heavy metal band Dokken and his post-Dokken solo band Lynch Mob. He is regarded as one of the most renowned and influential metal guitarists of the 1980s, noted for his distinctive playing style and sound. Read more
28 Sep 1954: John Scott, English rugby player John Scott is a former rugby union international who represented England from 1978 to 1984. Read more
28 Sep 1954: Margot Wallström, Swedish politician and diplomat, 42nd Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Margot Elisabeth Wallström is a Swedish politician of the Swedish Social Democratic Party who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2019 and Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 2016 to 2019. Read more
28 Sep 1953: Otmar Hasler, Liechtensteiner educator and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein Otmar Hasler is a former politician from Liechtenstein who served as Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 2001 to 2009. He was previously the President of the Landtag of Liechtenstein in 1995 and served in the Landtag from 1989 to 2001. Read more
28 Sep 1952: Christopher Buckley, American satirical novelist Christopher Taylor Buckley is an American author and political satirist. He also served as chief speechwriter to Vice President George H. W. Bush. He is known for writing God Is My Broker, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, The White House Mess, No Way to Treat a First Lady, Wet Work, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir, and The Judge Hunter. Read more
28 Sep 1952: Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou, Greek basketball player and coach Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou is a Greek former professional basketball coach. Read more
28 Sep 1952: Sylvia Kristel, Dutch model and actress (died 2012) Sylvia Maria Kristel was a Dutch actress and model who appeared in over 50 films. She was the eponymous character in five of the seven Emmanuelle films, including originating the role with Emmanuelle (1974). Read more
28 Sep 1952: Andy Ward, English drummer Andrew John Ward is an English progressive rock drummer. Read more
28 Sep 1951: Jim Diamond, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician (died 2015) James Aaron Diamond was a Scottish singer-songwriter, best known for his three top 5 hits: "I Won't Let You Down" (1982), as the lead singer of PhD; and his solo performances "I Should Have Known Better", a United Kingdom No. 1 in 1984, and "Hi Ho Silver", the theme song from Boon, which reached No. 5 on the UK singles chart in 1986. Read more
28 Sep 1950: Paul Burgess, English drummer Paul Burgess is an English rock drummer, notable for his association with a wide range of British rock bands. In addition to extensive session work, he has been a member of 10cc, Jethro Tull, Camel, Magna Carta, and The Icicle Works. Read more
28 Sep 1950: Christina Hoff Sommers, American author and philosopher Christina Marie Hoff Sommers is an American author and philosopher. Specializing in ethics, she is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Sommers is known for her critique of contemporary feminism. Her work includes the books Who Stole Feminism? (1994) and The War Against Boys (2000). She also hosts a video blog called The Factual Feminist. Read more
28 Sep 1950: John Sayles, American novelist, director, and screenwriter John Thomas Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist. He is known for writing and directing the films The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Matewan (1987), Eight Men Out (1988), Passion Fish (1992), The Secret of Roan Inish (1994), Lone Star (1996), Men with Guns (1997), Sunshine State (2002), and Silver City (2004). Read more
28 Sep 1949: Jim Henshaw, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter Jim Henshaw is a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film and television producer. Read more
28 Sep 1949: Vernee Watson-Johnson, American actress Vernee Christell Watson is an American actress, author, and acting coach. Watson-Johnson is known for her recurring roles as Vernajean Williams on Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979), as Viola "Vy" Smith on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996), playing the mother of Will Smith's character, and head nurse Gloria Tyler on Bob Hearts Abishola (2019–2024). She is often featured in guest or recurring roles as a nurse. Since 2017 she has played Stella Henry on General Hospital. Read more
28 Sep 1947: Bob Carr, Australian journalist and politician, 37th Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Robert John Carr is an Australian retired politician and journalist who served as the 39th premier of New South Wales from 1995 to 2005, as the leader of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party. He later entered federal politics as a New South Wales senator, and served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2013. Following his departure from politics, he served as the director of the Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) from 2014 to 2019 at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Read more
28 Sep 1947: Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Wazed is a Bangladeshi politician who twice served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001 and again from 2009 until her resignation in 2024. She is Bangladesh's longest-serving prime minister and the longest-serving female head of government in history. A daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first President of Bangladesh, she has also served as president of the Awami League since 1981. Read more
28 Sep 1947: Jon Snow, English journalist and academic Jonathan George Snow is an English journalist and television presenter. He is best known as the longest-running presenter of Channel 4 News, which he presented from 1989 to 2021. On 29 April 2021, Snow announced his retirement from the role; his final programme aired on 23 December 2021. Although Channel 4's news programming is produced by ITN, Snow was employed directly by the broadcaster. Read more
28 Sep 1947: Rhonda Hughes, American mathematician and academic Rhonda Jo Hughes is an American mathematician, the Helen Herrmann Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College. Read more
28 Sep 1946: Tom Bower, English journalist and author Thomas Michael Bower is a British writer and former BBC journalist and television producer. He is known for his investigative journalism and for his unauthorised biographies, often of business tycoons and newspaper proprietors. Read more
28 Sep 1946: Jeffrey Jones, American actor Jeffrey Duncan Jones is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus (1984), Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice (1988), Dr. Skip Tyler in The Hunt for Red October (1990), Eddie Barzoon in The Devil's Advocate (1997), and A. W. Merrick in both Deadwood (2004–2006) and Deadwood: The Movie (2019). Read more
28 Sep 1946: Majid Khan, Indian-Pakistani cricketer Majid Jahangir Khan, nicknamed "Majestic Khan" by the British press, is a former cricketer, batsman and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. In his prime, he was considered to be one of the best batsmen in the world. Khan has been claimed as the best ever opening batsman against express pace, averaging over 50 each in test matches and World Cups when opening against the fearsome pace attacks of the 1970s West Indies and Australia, with all but 2 of these matches played away from home. In his first class cricket career spanning 18 years, from 1961 to 1985, Majid Khan played in 63 Test matches for Pakistan, scoring 3,931 runs with 8 centuries, scored over 27,000 first-class runs and made 73 first-class centuries, with 128 fifties. Majid played his last Test for Pakistan in January 1983 against India at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore and his last One Day International (ODI) was in July 1982 against England at Old Trafford, Manchester. Read more
28 Sep 1945: Marielle Goitschel, French skier Micheline Françoise Marielle Goitschel is a French former alpine skier. Marielle is the younger sister of Christine Goitschel, another champion skier of the time, and the aunt of speed skier Philippe Goitschel. Read more
28 Sep 1945: Manolis Rasoulis, Greek singer-songwriter and journalist (died 2011) Manolis Rasoulis, best known as the lyricist of famous songs, was a Greek music composer, singer, writer, and journalist. He is often regarded as one of the Greek lyricists of exceptional talent. Read more
28 Sep 1945: Fusako Shigenobu, Japanese activist, founded the Japanese Red Army Fusako Shigenobu is a Japanese communist activist, writer, and the founder and leader of the now-disbanded militant group Japanese Red Army (JRA). Read more
28 Sep 1944: Richie Karl, American golfer Richard Karl is an American professional golfer who is best known as the last golf club professional to win an official PGA Tour event. Read more
28 Sep 1944: Marcia Muller, American journalist and author Marcia Muller is an American author of mystery and thriller novels. Read more
28 Sep 1943: Warren Lieberfarb, American businessman Warren N. Lieberfarb is Chairman of Warren N. Lieberfarb & Associates, LLC (WNLA), a boutique consulting and investment firm based in Los Angeles focused on digital media technology and distribution. Read more
28 Sep 1943: George W. S. Trow, American novelist, playwright, and critic (died 2006) George William Swift Trow Jr. was an American essayist, novelist, playwright, and media critic. He worked for The New Yorker for almost 30 years, and wrote numerous essays and several books. He is best known for his long essay on television and its effect on American culture, "Within the Context of No Context," first published in The New Yorker on November 17, 1980, one of the few times the magazine devoted its central section to a single piece of writing. Read more
28 Sep 1943: Nick St. Nicholas, German-Canadian bass player Nick St. Nicholas is a German-born Canadian musician who was the bassist of the rock band Steppenwolf in the late 1960s. Read more
28 Sep 1942: Pierre Clémenti, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1999) Pierre André Clémenti was a French actor, filmmaker, and writer. He was known for his work with several prominent European auteurs during the 1960s and '70s, including Luis Buñuel, Jacques Rivette, Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Dušan Makavejev. He was regarded as something of a countercultural figure in his time, and one retrospective described him as the "ideal embodiment of all the adventures of cinematic modernity." Read more
28 Sep 1942: Edward "Little Buster" Forehand, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2006) Little Buster was an American soul and blues musician. He was born sighted, but developed glaucoma at the age of three. By the time his vision was completely gone, he was fluent on six instruments, including the guitar. Read more
28 Sep 1941: David Lewis, American philosopher and academic (died 2001) David Kellogg Lewis was an American philosopher. Lewis taught briefly at UCLA and then at Princeton University from 1970 until his death. He is closely associated with Australia, whose philosophical community he visited almost annually for more than 30 years. Read more
28 Sep 1941: Edmund Stoiber, German lawyer and politician, Minister President of Bavaria Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber is a German politician who served as the 16th minister-president of the state of Bavaria between 1993 and 2007 and chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU) between 1999 and 2007. In 2002, he ran for the office of Chancellor of Germany in the federal election, and in one of the narrowest elections in German history lost against Gerhard Schröder. On 18 January 2007, he announced that he would step down as minister-president and as party chairman by 30 September, after having been under fire in his own party for weeks. Read more
28 Sep 1941: Charley Taylor, American football player (died 2022) Charles Robert Taylor was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver for 13 seasons with the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils, he was selected by Washington in the first round of the 1964 NFL draft. With Taylor, the Redskins made the playoffs five times and reached the Super Bowl once (VII), after the 1972 season. A six-time All-Pro and eight-time Pro Bowl selection, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1984. Read more
28 Sep 1939: Stuart Kauffman, American biologist and academic Stuart Alan Kauffman is an American medical doctor, theoretical biologist, and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. He was a professor at the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Calgary. He is currently emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and affiliate faculty at the Institute for Systems Biology. He has a number of awards including a MacArthur Fellowship and a Wiener Medal. Read more
28 Sep 1938: Ben E. King, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2015) Benjamin Earl King was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He rose to prominence as one of the principal lead singers of the R&B vocal group the Drifters, singing the lead vocals on three of their biggest hit singles: "There Goes My Baby", "This Magic Moment", and "Save the Last Dance for Me". Read more
28 Sep 1937: Alice Mahon, English trade union leader and politician (died 2022) Alice Mahon was a British trade unionist and Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Halifax from 1987 until 2005. Read more
28 Sep 1937: Glenn Sutton, American country music songwriter and record producer (died 2007) Royce Glenn Sutton was an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, and an influence in the countrypolitan style of country music. Read more
28 Sep 1936: Emmett Chapman, American guitarist, invented the Chapman Stick (died 2021) Emmett Chapman was an American jazz musician best known as the inventor of the Chapman Stick and maker of the Chapman Stick family of instruments. Read more
28 Sep 1936: Eddie Lumsden, Australian rugby league player (died 2019) Edmund Lumsden was an Australian professional rugby league footballer. He was a wing with the St. George Dragons during their eleven-year premiership winning run from 1956 to 1966, playing in and winning nine grand finals. Lumsden is one of four brothers who all played for Country. Jack Lumsden played for Manly and Australia. Eddie Lumsden's twin, Richie, and his other brother, Ray, were both "bush footballers". Read more
28 Sep 1936: Robert Wolders, Dutch television actor (died 2018) Robert Wolders was a Dutch television actor known for his role in the US television series Laredo and appearing in series such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Bewitched and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. He was married to Merle Oberon, and was the longtime partner of Audrey Hepburn. Read more
28 Sep 1935: Bruce Crampton, Australian golfer Bruce Crampton is an Australian professional golfer. Read more
28 Sep 1935: David Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick, English diplomat, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations David Hugh Alexander Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick is a former British diplomat. Read more
28 Sep 1935: Ronald Lacey, English actor (died 1991) Ronald William Lacey was an English actor. He made numerous television and film appearances over a 30-year period. His roles included Harris in Porridge (1977), Frankie in the Bud Spencer comedy Charleston (1978), SD agent Sturmbannführer Arnold Ernst Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and the Bishop of Bath and Wells in Blackadder II (1986). Read more
28 Sep 1934: Brigitte Bardot, French actress and animal rights activist (died 2025) Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot, often referred to by her initials B.B., was a French actress, singer, model, and animal rights activist. She became one of the best-known symbols of the sexual revolution and gained international fame for portraying characters associated with hedonistic lifestyles. Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973, she remained a major pop culture icon. She appeared in 47 films, performed in several musicals, and recorded more than 60 songs. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985. Read more
28 Sep 1933: Joe Benton, English soldier and politician Joseph Edward Benton is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bootle from 1990 to 2015. Read more
28 Sep 1933: Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Spanish sculptor and educator (died 2006) Miguel Ortiz Berrocal was a Spanish figurative and abstract sculptor. He is best known for his puzzle sculptures, which can be disassembled into many abstract pieces. These works are also known for the miniature artworks and jewelry incorporated into or concealed within them, and the fact that some of the sculptures can be reassembled or reconfigured into different arrangements. Berrocal's sculptures span a wide range of physical sizes from monumental outdoor public works, to intricate puzzle sculptures small enough to be worn as pendants, bracelets, or other body ornamentation. Read more
28 Sep 1933: Johnny "Country" Mathis, American singer-songwriter (died 2011) "Country" Johnny Mathis was an American country music singer and songwriter. He was a successful solo performer and one half of the duo Jimmy & Johnny. Mathis is credited with penning more than 500 tunes over the course of his long career. Read more
28 Sep 1932: Jeremy Isaacs, Scottish screenwriter and producer Sir Jeremy Israel Isaacs is a Scottish television producer and executive, and an opera manager. Read more
28 Sep 1932: Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, poet, and director (died 1973) Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist. A committed Communist, he directed a wide range of theatrical works, from locally produced plays to world classics and experimental drama by writers such as Ann Jellicoe, and became one of the leading figures of the neo-folkloric movement that established the Nueva canción chilena. That movement fueled a resurgence of politically engaged popular music during the presidency of Salvador Allende. Read more
28 Sep 1930: Tommy Collins, American country music singer-songwriter (died 2000) Leonard Raymond Sipes, better known as Tommy Collins, was an American country music singer and songwriter. Read more
28 Sep 1930: Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist, author, and academic (died 2019) Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein was an American sociologist and economic historian. He is perhaps best known for his development in sociology of world-systems approach. He was a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University from 2000 until his death in 2019, and published bimonthly syndicated commentaries through Agence Global on world affairs from October 1998 to July 2019. Read more
28 Sep 1929: Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer and composer (died 2022) Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian subcontinent. Her contribution to the Indian music industry in a career spanning eight decades gained her honorific titles such as the "Queen of Melody" and "Voice of the Millennium". Read more
28 Sep 1928: Koko Taylor, American singer (died 2009) Koko Taylor was an American singer whose style encompassed Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues, and soul blues. Sometimes called "The Queen of the Blues", she was known for her rough, powerful vocals. Over the course of her career, she was nominated for 11 Grammy Awards, winning 1985's Best Traditional Blues Album for her appearance on Blues Explosion. Read more
28 Sep 1926: Jerry Clower, American soldier, comedian, and author (died 1998) Howard Gerald Clower was an American stand-up comedian. Born and raised in the state of Mississippi, Clower was best known for his stories of the rural South and was given the nickname "The Mouth of Mississippi". Read more
28 Sep 1926: Bonnie Leman, American art historian, writer, and publisher of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine (died 2010) Bonnie Lee Hale Leman was the founder of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, the first quilting-focused magazine in the United States. She was one of the first women magazine publishers in the country and was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in 1982. Read more
28 Sep 1925: Seymour Cray, American computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company (died 1996) Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research, which built many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing", Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry. Joel S. Birnbaum, then chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard, said of him: "It seems impossible to exaggerate the effect he had on the industry; many of the things that high performance computers now do routinely were at the farthest edge of credibility when Seymour envisioned them." Larry Smarr, then director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois said that Cray is "the Thomas Edison of the supercomputing industry." Read more
28 Sep 1925: Cromwell Everson, South African composer (died 1991) Cromwell Everson was primarily known as a composer during his lifetime. He was brought up as an Afrikaner by his mother, Maria De Wit and father, Robert Everson. He continued this tradition and all his children were brought up as Afrikaners. Read more
28 Sep 1925: Martin David Kruskal, American physicist and mathematician (died 2006) Martin David Kruskal was an American mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, ranging from plasma physics to general relativity and from nonlinear analysis to asymptotic analysis. His most celebrated contribution was in the theory of solitons. Read more
28 Sep 1924: Rudolf Barshai, Russian-Swiss viola player and conductor (died 2010) Rudolf Borisovich Barshai was a Soviet and Russian conductor and violist. Read more
28 Sep 1924: Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (died 1996) Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni was an Italian actor. He is generally regarded as one of Italy's most iconic male performers of the 20th century. He played leading roles for many of the country's top directors, in a career spanning 147 films between 1939 and 1996, garnering many international honours including two BAFTA Awards, two Cannes Film Festival Awards for Best Actor, two Volpi Cups, two Golden Globes, and three Academy Award nominations. Read more
28 Sep 1923: Tuli Kupferberg, American singer, poet, and writer (died 2010) Naphtali "Tuli" Kupferberg was an American counterculture poet, author, singer, editorial cartoonist, comic artist, columnist, publisher, and co-founder of the rock band The Fugs. Read more
28 Sep 1923: John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Selkirkshire (died 2007) Walter Francis John Montagu Douglas Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch and 11th Duke of Queensberry,, known as Lord Eskdaill from birth to 1935 and then as the Earl of Dalkeith from 1935 to 1973, was a Scottish peer, politician and landowner. He served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the Second World War, and represented Edinburgh North in the House of Commons for 13 years. Read more
28 Sep 1923: William Windom, American actor (died 2012) William Windom was an American actor. Known as a character actor of the stage and screen, he is famous for his recurring role as Dr. Seth Hazlitt alongside Angela Lansbury in the CBS mystery series Murder, She Wrote and his memorable guest role as Commodore Matt Decker in Star Trek. Read more
28 Sep 1922: Liv Dommersnes, Norwegian actress (died 2014) Liv Dommersnes was a Norwegian actress and reciter of poetry. She was a member of group that founded Studioteatret in 1945. Read more
28 Sep 1922: Larry Munson, American sportscaster (died 2011) Lawrence Harry Munson was an American sports announcer and talk show host. He was best known for handling radio play-by-play of the Georgia Bulldogs football games from 1966 to 2008. He also handled the play-by-play for UGA basketball and Atlanta Falcons radio broadcasts and hosted sports-related talk shows. Read more
28 Sep 1922: Jules Sedney, Prime Minister of Suriname (died 2020) Jules Sedney was a Surinamese politician, and Prime Minister of Suriname from 20 November 1969 to 24 December 1973. In 1980, he became governor of the Central Bank of Suriname, but had to flee the country in 1983 after a dispute with Dési Bouterse. Sedney returned to Suriname in 1989. Read more
28 Sep 1919: Doris Singleton, American actress (died 2012) Dorthea "Doris" Singleton was an American actress, perhaps best remembered as Lucy Ricardo's frenemy, Carolyn Appleby, in I Love Lucy. Read more
28 Sep 1918: Ángel Labruna, Argentinian footballer and manager (died 1983) Ángel Amadeo Labruna was an Argentine footballer and coach who played as a forward. With 323 goals scored in official matches, which include 295 league goals, Labruna is the all-time top scorer of Primera División. Labruna was also part of the celebrated River Plate offense, nicknamed La Máquina, and he was considered one of the best South-American footballers of his generation. In his career, Labruna scored 564 goals. Read more
28 Sep 1918: Arnold Stang, American actor (died 2009) Arnold Sidney Stang was an American actor and comedian. Recognized by his small stature and squawky, Brooklyn-accented speaking voice, he steadily worked on the stage, radio, and television and provided animation voice-over for 70 years. He was the voice of Top Cat in the cartoon series, Frank Sinatra's best friend in The Man with the Golden Arm, and one of the hapless gas station owners in the all-star comedy film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Perhaps he is most famous for his iconic commercials for the Chunky chocolate bar, "Chunky, what a chunk o' chocolate!" Read more
28 Sep 1917: Wee Chong Jin, Singaporean judge (died 2005) Wee Chong Jin was a Malayan-born Singaporean jurist who served as a chief justice of Singapore for 27 years, from 1963 to 1990, where he was the first Asian lawyer appointed as a judge to head the Supreme Court of Singapore, and the longest-serving chief justice in the Commonwealth. Read more
28 Sep 1916: Peter Finch, English-Australian actor (died 1977) Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch was an English and Australian actor. Read more
28 Sep 1916: Olga Lepeshinskaya, Ukrainian-Russian ballerina and educator (died 2008) Olga Vasilyevna Lepeshinskaya was a Soviet ballerina. She was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1951. Read more
28 Sep 1915: Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (died 1953) Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs. They were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 using New York's state execution chamber in Sing Sing in Ossining, New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to be executed during peacetime. Read more
28 Sep 1914: Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American refugee and singer (died 2014) Maria Agatha Franziska Gobertina 'Mitzi' von Trapp was the second-oldest daughter of Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp. She was a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives inspired the musical and film The Sound of Music. She was portrayed by Heather Menzies as the character "Louisa". She died at age 99, and was the last surviving sibling portrayed in the film. Read more
28 Sep 1913: Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (died 2007) Warja Lavater was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. She was a Swiss artist and illustrator noted primarily for working in the artist's books genre by creating accordion fold books that re-tell classic fairy tales with symbols rather than words. Read more
28 Sep 1913: Alice Marble, American tennis player (died 1990) Alice Irene Marble was an American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam championships between 1936 and 1940: five in singles, six in women's doubles, and seven in mixed doubles. She was ranked world No. 1 in 1939. Read more
28 Sep 1910: Diosdado Macapagal, Filipino lawyer and politician, 9th President of the Philippines (died 1997) Diosdado Pangan Macapagal Sr., also known colloquially as “Apung Dadong”, was the ninth president of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965. He served as the 5th vice president from 1957 to 1961 under Carlos P. Garcia. He also served as a member of the House of Representatives, and headed the Constitutional Convention of 1970. He was the father of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who followed his path as President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010. Diosdado Macapagal Sr is one of the few presidents with doctoral degrees, earning a Doctors of Civil Law degree and a PHD in Economics degree from University of Santo Tomas. Read more
28 Sep 1910: Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (died 1942) Wenceslao "Bintao" Quinito Vinzons Sr. was a Filipino patriot and leader of the Philippine armed resistance against the Japanese invasion in World War II. He was the youngest delegate to the 1935 Philippine Constitutional Convention. For leading demonstrations as a student leader, he was dubbed the "Father of Student Activism in the Philippines" when he, along with Narciso J. Alegre and future Senator and Vice President Arturo Tolentino, founded the Young Philippines Party. Read more
28 Sep 1909: Al Capp, American author and illustrator (died 1979) Alfred Gerald Caplin, better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner, which he created in 1934 and continued writing and drawing until 1977. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an' Slats and Long Sam (1954). He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award, posthumously for his "unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning". Read more
28 Sep 1907: Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast and physician (died 1997) Heikki Ilmari Savolainen was a Finnish artistic gymnast. He competed in five consecutive Olympics from 1928 to 1952 and won at least one medal in each of them. In 1928, he won a bronze on pommel horse, which was the first-ever medal in gymnastics for Finland. Winning his last medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he became the oldest gymnastics medalist, at 44 years old; he delivered the Olympic Oath in the opening ceremony of the 1952 games. In 1932, Savolainen and his teammate Einari Teräsvirta had the same score on horizontal bar, but the Finnish team voted to give the silver medal to Savolainen. In 1948, he again had the same score as teammates Veikko Huhtanen and Paavo Aaltonen on pommel horse, and the gold medal was shared among the three. Read more
28 Sep 1907: Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (died 1931) Bhagat Singh was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928 in what was intended to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist. He later took part in a largely symbolic bombing of the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi and a hunger strike in jail, which—on the back of sympathetic coverage in Indian-owned newspapers—turned him into a household name in the Punjab region, and, after his execution at age 23, a martyr and folk hero in Northern India. Borrowing ideas from Bolshevism and anarchism, the charismatic Bhagat Singh electrified a growing militancy in India in the 1930s and prompted urgent introspection within the Indian National Congress's nonviolent, and eventually successful, campaign for India's independence. Read more
28 Sep 1905: Max Schmeling, German boxer (died 2005) Maximilian "Max" Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in 1936 and 1938 were worldwide cultural events because of their national associations. Schmeling is the only boxer to win the world heavyweight championship on a foul. Read more
28 Sep 1903: Haywood S. Hansell, American general (died 1988) Haywood Shepherd Hansell Jr. was an American general officer in the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II, and later the United States Air Force. He became an advocate of the doctrine of strategic bombardment, and was one of the chief architects of the concept of daylight precision bombing that governed the use of airpower by the USAAF in the war. Read more
28 Sep 1901: William S. Paley, American broadcaster, founded CBS (died 1990) William Samuel Paley was an American businessman, primarily involved in the media, and best known as the chief executive who built the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) from a small radio network into one of the foremost radio and television network operations in the United States. Read more
28 Sep 1901: Ed Sullivan, American television host (died 1974) Edward Vincent Sullivan was an American television host, impresario, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. He was the creator and host of the television variety program Toast of the Town, which in 1955 was renamed The Ed Sullivan Show. Broadcast from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest-running variety show in U.S. broadcast history. "It was, by almost any measure, the last great American TV show", said television critic David Hinckley. "It's one of our fondest, dearest pop culture memories." Read more
28 Sep 1900: Isabel Pell, American socialite, fought as part of the French Resistance during WWII (died 1951) Isabel Townsend Pell was an American socialite and member of the French Resistance during World War II. She was subsequently decorated with the Legion of Honour. Read more
28 Sep 1898: Carl Clauberg, German Nazi physician (died 1957) Carl Clauberg was a German gynecologist who conducted medical experiments on Jewish and Romani women at Auschwitz concentration camp. He worked with Horst Schumann in X-ray sterilization experiments at Auschwitz concentration camp. Read more
28 Sep 1898: Mijo Mirković, Croatian economist and author (died 1963) Mijo (Miho) Mirković, also known by his pen name Mate Balota, was a prominent Croatian poet, novelist and economist. Considered one of the most prominent Croatian poets of the 20th century and often credited as the greatest Istrian poet, he was called "the greatest Istrian after Labin's Matija Vlačić" by Tone Peruško. Read more
28 Sep 1893: Hilda Geiringer, Austrian mathematician (died 1973) Hilda Geiringer, also known as Hilda von Mises and Hilda Pollaczek-Geiringer, was an Austrian mathematician. Read more
28 Sep 1893: Giannis Skarimpas, Greek author, poet, and playwright (died 1984) Giannis Skarimpas, Giannis Skarimbas, or Yiannis Skarimbas, was a Greek writer, dramatist, and poet. Read more
28 Sep 1892: Elmer Rice, American playwright (died 1967) Elmer Rice was an American playwright. He is best known for his plays The Adding Machine (1923) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of New York tenement life, Street Scene (1929). Read more
28 Sep 1890: Florence Violet McKenzie, Australian electrical engineer (died 1982) Florence Violet McKenzie, affectionately known as "Mrs Mac", was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC) and lifelong promoter of technical education for women. She campaigned successfully to have some of her female trainees accepted into the all-male Navy, thereby originating the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS). Some 12,000 servicemen passed through her signal instruction school in Sydney, acquiring skill in Morse code and visual signalling. Read more
28 Sep 1889: Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (died 1973) John Frank Fournier was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Robins, and Boston Braves from 1912 to 1927. Fournier was known for having outstanding batting abilities but subpar fielding abilities. Read more
28 Sep 1887: Avery Brundage, American businessman, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (died 1975) Avery Brundage was the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee, serving from 1952 to 1972, the only American and first non-European to attain that position. Brundage is remembered as a zealous advocate of amateurism and for his involvement with the 1936 and 1972 Summer Olympics, both held in Germany. Read more
28 Sep 1885: Emil Väre, Finnish wrestler, coach, and referee (died 1974) Emil Ernst Väre was a Finnish wrestler who won the gold medals in the lightweight class at the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics. Read more
28 Sep 1883: Albert Peyriguère, French priest, hermit and ethnologist (died 1959) Albert Peyriguère was a Catholic priest, hermit and ethnologist from Southern France. Following the example of Charles de Foucauld, he lived as a hermit in the Atlas mountains in Morocco. While the care for the local Berber population earned him their admiration, he became an expert on Berber languages and their culture. Read more
28 Sep 1882: Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer (died 1963) Mart Saar was an Estonian composer, organist and collector of folk songs. Read more
28 Sep 1881: Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (died 1950) Pedro de Cordoba was an American actor. Read more
28 Sep 1878: Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player (died 1962) Joseph Aloysius Ruddy Sr. was an American competition swimmer, water polo player and Coach who competed for the New York Athletic Club and represented the United States at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri. He spent the 1930's coaching swimming at the New York Athletic Club. Read more
28 Sep 1877: Albert Young, American boxer and promoter (died 1940) Albert Young was an American welterweight boxer who competed in the early twentieth century. He won a gold medal in boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics. Read more
28 Sep 1870: Florent Schmitt, French composer and critic (died 1958) Florent Schmitt was a French composer. He was part of the group known as Les Apaches. His most famous pieces are La tragédie de Salome and Psaume XLVII. He has been described as "one of the most fascinating of France's lesser-known classical composers". Read more
28 Sep 1867: Hiranuma Kiichirō, Japanese lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1952) Baron Kiichirō Hiranuma was a Japanese lawyer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan in 1939. Read more
28 Sep 1867: James Edwin Campbell, American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist (died 1896) James Edwin Campbell was an American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist. Campbell was the first principal of the West Virginia Colored Institute from 1892 until 1894, and is considered by the university as its first president. Read more
28 Sep 1866: Oscar Tschirky, Swiss-born American restaurateur (died 1950) Oscar Michel Tschirky colloquially known as Oscar of the Waldorf was a Swiss-born American restaurateur, hotelier, gentleman farmer and cookbook author who was primarily known as Maître d'hôtel of Delmonico's Restaurant and subsequently the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, New York. Read more
28 Sep 1865: Amélie of Orléans, Queen Consort of Carlos I of Portugal (died 1951) Amélie of Orléans was the last Queen of Portugal as the wife of Carlos I of Portugal. She was regent of Portugal during the absence of her husband in 1895. Read more
28 Sep 1860: Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist (died 1934) Paul Ulrich Villard was a French chemist and physicist. He discovered gamma rays in 1900 while studying the radiation emanating from radium. Read more
28 Sep 1856: Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (died 1923) Kate Douglas Wiggin was an American educator, author and composer. She wrote children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and composed collections of children's songs. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco, the Silver Street Free Kindergarten, in 1878. With her sister Nora during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labor. Read more
28 Sep 1852: Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1907) Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan was a French chemist and pharmacist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. Among his other contributions, Moissan discovered moissanite and contributed to the development of the electric arc furnace. Moissan was one of the original members of the International Atomic Weights Committee. Read more
28 Sep 1852: Isis Pogson, British astronomer and meteorologist (died 1945) Elizabeth Isis Pogson, was a British astronomer and meteorologist who was one of the first women to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Read more
28 Sep 1852: John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, British Army officer (died 1925) Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as the Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer. Read more
28 Sep 1844: Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1930) Sir Robert Stout was a New Zealand politician who was the 13th premier of New Zealand on two occasions in the late 19th century, and later Chief Justice of New Zealand. He was the only person to hold both these offices. He was noted for his support of liberal causes such as women's suffrage, and for his strong belief that philosophy and theory should always triumph over political expediency. Read more
28 Sep 1841: Georges Clemenceau, French journalist, physician, and politician, 85th Prime Minister of France (died 1929) Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman who was prime minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A physician turned journalist, he played a central role in the politics of the Third Republic, particularly amid the end of the First World War. He was a key figure of the Independent Radicals, advocating for the separation of church and state, as well as the amnesty of the Communards exiled to New Caledonia. Read more
28 Sep 1836: Thomas Crapper, English plumber, invented the ballcock (died 1910) Thomas Crapper was an English plumber and businessman. He founded Thomas Crapper & Co in London, a plumbing equipment company. His notability with regard to toilets has often been overstated, mostly due to the publication in 1969 of a tongue-in-cheek biography by New Zealand satirist Wallace Reyburn. Read more
28 Sep 1824: Francis Turner Palgrave, English poet and critic (died 1897) Francis Turner Palgrave was a British critic, anthologist and poet. Read more
28 Sep 1823: Alexandre Cabanel, French painter and educator (died 1889) Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. He was Napoleon III's preferred painter and, with Gérôme and Meissonier, was one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire." Read more
28 Sep 1821: Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician (died 1874) Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, II was an American Presbyterian minister who served as Secretary of State and Superintendent of Public Instruction of Florida, and, along with U.S. Congressman Josiah Thomas Walls, was among the most powerful black officeholders in the state during Reconstruction. An African American who served during the Reconstruction era, he was the first black Florida Secretary of State, holding the office over a century prior to the state's second black Secretary of State, Jesse McCrary, who served for five months in 1979. Read more
28 Sep 1819: Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer and publisher (died 1885) Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol was a Spanish lawyer, artist, journalist, newspaper publisher and engineer born in Figueres, Catalonia. He was the inventor of the first air-independent and combustion-engine-driven submarine. Read more
28 Sep 1809: Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (died 1899) Alvan Wentworth Chapman was an American physician and pioneering botanist in the study of flora of the American Southeast. He wrote Flora of the Southern United States, the first comprehensive description of U.S. plants in any region beyond the northeastern states. Read more
28 Sep 1803: Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist, historian, and author (died 1870) Prosper Mérimée was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, an important figure in the history of architectural preservation. He is best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera of the same name. He learned Russian, a language for which he had great affection, before translating the work of several notable Russian writers, including Pushkin and Gogol, into French. From 1830 until 1860 he was the inspector of French historical monuments, responsible for the protection of many historic sites, including the medieval citadel of Carcassonne and the restoration of the façade of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. Along with the writer George Sand, he discovered the series of tapestries called The Lady and the Unicorn, arranging for their preservation. He was instrumental in the creation of Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris, where the tapestries now are displayed. The official database of French monuments, the Base Mérimée, bears his name. Read more

Notable Deaths on 28 September

28 Sep 2024: Winfield Dunn, American politician, 43rd Governor of Tennessee (born 1927) Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn was an American businessman and politician who served as the 43rd governor of Tennessee from 1971 to 1975. He was the state's first Republican governor in fifty years. Dunn was an unsuccessful candidate for a second term in 1986, losing to Democrat Ned McWherter. He remained active in the Republican Party and the medical field from the end of his term as governor until his death. Read more
28 Sep 2024: Drake Hogestyn, American actor (born 1953) Donald Drake Hogestyn was an American actor best known for his long-running role as John Black on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives. Read more
28 Sep 2024: Kris Kristofferson, American singer, songwriter, and actor (born 1936) Kristoffer Kristofferson was an American musician, songwriter, and actor. He was a pioneering figure in the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, moving away from the polished Nashville sound and toward a more raw, introspective style. Some of his most famous songs include "Me and Bobby McGee" (1970), "For the Good Times" (1968), "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" (1969), and "Help Me Make It Through the Night" (1970), which were also recorded by and became hits for other artists. Read more
28 Sep 2022: Coolio, American rapper (born 1963) Artis Leon Ivey Jr., known by his stage name Coolio, was an American rapper, songwriter and record producer. He was best known for his single "Gangsta's Paradise" (1995), which won a Grammy Award, and was credited for changing the course of hip-hop by bringing it to a wider audience. Other singles included "Fantastic Voyage" (1994), "1, 2, 3, 4 " (1996), and "C U When U Get There" (1997). He released nine albums, the first three of which achieved mainstream success: It Takes a Thief (1994), Gangsta's Paradise (1995), and My Soul (1997). Coolio first achieved recognition as a member of the gangsta rap group WC and the Maad Circle. Coolio sold 4.8 million albums in the U.S. Read more
28 Sep 2019: José José, Mexican musician and singer (born 1948) José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz, known professionally as José José was a Mexican singer and actor. Dubbed as "El Príncipe de la Canción", his performance and vocal style have influenced many Latin pop artists in a career that spanned more than four decades. Due to his vocals and popularity, José José was considered by Latin audiences and media as an icon of Latin pop music and one of the most emblematic Latin singers of his time. Read more
28 Sep 2018: Predrag Ejdus, Serbian actor (born 1947) Predrag Ejdus was a Serbian actor of theater, film and television. His extensive body of work includes over 200 theater productions, 50 films and 30 television series. Read more
28 Sep 2017: Daniel Pe'er, Israeli television host and newsreader (born 1943) Daniel Pe'er was an Israeli television host and newsreader. Read more
28 Sep 2016: Agnes Nixon, American television writer and director (born 1922) Agnes Nixon was an American television writer and producer, and the creator of the ABC soap operas One Life to Live, All My Children, as well as Loving and its spin-off The City. Read more
28 Sep 2016: Gary Glasberg, American television writer and producer (born 1966) Gary Glasberg was an American television writer and producer. He was born in New York City. He was the showrunner on NCIS and creator of NCIS: New Orleans. Read more
28 Sep 2016: Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli statesman and politician, 9th President of Israel (born 1923) Shimon Peres was an Israeli politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the president of Israel from 2007 to 2014. He was a member of twelve cabinets and represented five political parties in a political career spanning 70 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and except for three months out of office in early 2006, served as a member of the Knesset continuously until he was elected president in 2007. Serving in the Knesset for 48 years, Peres is the longest serving member in the Knesset's history. At the time of his retirement from politics in 2014, he was the world's oldest head of state and was considered the last link to Israel's founding generation, as well as the last Prime Minister to make aliyah rather than being born on territory that would become Israel. Read more
28 Sep 2016: Gloria Naylor, American novelist (born 1950) Gloria Naylor was an American novelist, known for novels including The Women of Brewster Place (1982), Linden Hills (1985) and Mama Day (1988). Read more
28 Sep 2015: Alexander Faris, Irish composer and conductor (born 1921) Samuel Alexander "Sandy" Faris was a Northern Irish composer, conductor and writer, known for his television theme tunes, including the theme music for the 1970s TV series Upstairs, Downstairs. He composed and recorded many operas and musicals, and also composed film scores and orchestral works. As a conductor, he was especially known for his revivals of Jacques Offenbach and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Read more
28 Sep 2015: Walter Dale Miller, American rancher and politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (born 1925) Walter Dale "Walt" Miller was an American politician and member of the Republican Party. He served as the 29th governor of South Dakota from 1993 to 1995, having assumed the office upon the death of George S. Mickelson. He was, at age 67 upon taking office, the oldest person to serve as the governor of South Dakota. Read more
28 Sep 2015: Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (born 1939) Ignacio Zoco Esparza was a Spanish footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Read more
28 Sep 2014: Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (born 1923) Daniel Abse CBE FRSL was a Welsh poet and physician. His poetry won him many awards. As a medic, he worked in a chest clinic for over 30 years. Read more
28 Sep 2014: Joseph H. Alexander, American colonel and historian (born 1938) Joseph Hammond Alexander was a Colonel of the United States Marine Corps and historian. Read more
28 Sep 2014: Sheila Faith, English dentist and politician (born 1928) Irene Sheila Faith was a British politician and dental surgeon. She served one term each in the House of Commons and European Parliament as a Conservative. She was a native of Newcastle upon Tyne and attended Newcastle upon Tyne Central High School and the University of Durham. Read more
28 Sep 2014: Tim Rawlings, English footballer and manager (born 1932) Charles John "Tim" Rawlings was an English footballer. A half-back, he made 231 league appearances in a 15-year career in the Football League. He made the bulk of these appearances for Walsall between 1956 and 1963, but also had six years without a game at West Bromwich Albion, and also spent two years at Port Vale. He helped Walsall to win two consecutive promotions from the Fourth Division to the Second Division in 1959–60 and 1960–61. Read more
28 Sep 2014: Petr Skoumal, Czech pianist and composer (born 1938) Petr Skoumal was a Czech musician and composer. He is best known as a composer of music for films and theatre performances. Read more
28 Sep 2013: James Emanuel, American-French poet and scholar (born 1921) James Emanuel was a poet and scholar from Alliance, Nebraska. Emanuel, who is ranked by some critics as one of the best and most neglected poets of the 20th century, published more than 300 poems, 13 individual books, an influential anthology of African-American literature, an autobiography, and more. He is also credited with creating a new literary genre, jazz-and-blues haiku, often read with musical accompaniment. Read more
28 Sep 2013: Jonathan Fellows-Smith, South African cricketer and rugby player (born 1932) Jonathan Payn Fellows-Smith was a South African cricketer who played in four Tests in 1960. He played most of his first-class cricket in England. Read more
28 Sep 2013: George Amon Webster, American singer and pianist (born 1945) George Amon Webster was the baritone vocalist and the pianist with the Cathedral Quartet from 1969 through 1971, their pianist from 1973 through 1974, and their baritone vocalist and bassist from 1974 through 1979. George Webster wrote "Thanks For Loving Me" and the critically acclaimed song, "He Loves Me", during his second stint with the Cathedrals. Read more
28 Sep 2012: Avraham Adan, Israeli general (born 1926) Avraham "Bren" Adan was an Israeli major-general and author. Prior to Israel's independence, he served with the Palmach, an elite formation within the Haganah paramilitary force of the Yishuv community in British Mandatory Palestine. Adan fought under the Haganah and later under the newly formed Israel Defense Forces during the First Arab–Israeli War, and was photographed while raising the Israeli Ink Flag at the site of what is now Eilat to mark the end of the war. He served with the Israel Defense Forces from 1948 to 1977, and fought in all of the major Arab–Israeli wars that occurred during that period. Read more
28 Sep 2012: Chris Economaki, American journalist and sportscaster (born 1920) Christopher Constantine Economaki was a pioneering American motorsports journalist, publisher, reporter, and commentator known as "The Dean of American Motorsports Journalism." Working for, and later owning, National Speed Sport News, Economaki helped encourage the growth of American motorsports from a niche endeavor to a mainstream pursuit. Read more
28 Sep 2012: Brajesh Mishra, Indian politician and diplomat, 1st Indian National Security Advisor (born 1928) Brajesh Chandra Mishra was an Indian politician and diplomat from the Indian Foreign Service who is best known for serving as the first National Security Advisor of India from 1998 to 2004. He also served as the principal secretary of then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He received the Padma Vibhushan for his contributions. Read more
28 Sep 2010: Kurt Albert, German mountaineer and photographer (born 1954) Kurt Albert was a German climber and photographer, and the pioneer of the redpoint concept in free climbing. He started climbing at the age of 14. Before he committed himself to a career in climbing in 1986, he was a mathematics and physics teacher. Read more
28 Sep 2010: Arthur Penn, American director and producer (born 1922) Arthur Hiller Penn was an American filmmaker, theatre director, and producer. He was a three-time Academy Award nominee for Best Director, and a Tony Award winner. Among other accolades, he was also nominated for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Read more
28 Sep 2010: Dolores Wilson, American soprano and actress (born 1928) Dolores Mae Wilson was an American coloratura soprano who had an active international opera career from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. Beginning her career with major theatres in Europe, she performed in six seasons at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City during the 1950s. She is perhaps best known for originating the title role in the world premiere of Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe at the Central City Opera in 1956. After abandoning her opera career, she embarked on a second career as a musical theatre actress; making several appearances on Broadway in the following decades. Read more
28 Sep 2009: Guillermo Endara, Panamanian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Panama (born 1936) Guillermo David Endara Galimany was a Panamanian politician who served as the president of Panama from 1989 to 1994. Read more
28 Sep 2009: Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor and director (born 1956) Ulf Sigfrid "Uffe" Larsson was a Swedish actor, revue artist, comedian and stage director. Read more
28 Sep 2007: René Desmaison, French mountaineer (born 1930) René Desmaison was a veteran French mountaineer, climber and alpinist. Read more
28 Sep 2007: Wally Parks, American businessman, founded the National Hot Rod Association (born 1913) Wallace Gordon Parks was an American writer. He was the founder, president, and chairman of the National Hot Rod Association, better known as NHRA. He was instrumental in establishing drag racing as a legitimate amateur and professional motorsport. Read more
28 Sep 2005: Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1921) Constance Baker Motley was an American jurist and politician who served as a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. A key strategist of the civil rights movement, she was state senator, and Borough President of Manhattan in New York City before becoming a United States federal judge. Read more
28 Sep 2004: Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (born 1924) Geoffrey Beene was an American fashion designer. Beene was one of New York's most famous fashion designers, recognized for his artistic and technical skills, and for creating simple, comfortable, and dressy women's wear. Read more
28 Sep 2003: Althea Gibson, American tennis player and golfer (born 1927) Althea Neale Gibson was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first Black player to win a Grand Slam event. The following year she won both Wimbledon and the US Nationals, then won both again in 1958 and was voted Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press in both years. In all, she won 11 Grand Slam titles: five singles titles, five doubles titles, and one mixed doubles title. "She is one of the greatest players who ever lived," said Bob Ryland, a tennis contemporary and former coach of Venus and Serena Williams. "Martina [Navratilova] couldn't touch her. I think she'd beat the Williams sisters." Gibson was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971 and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame in 1980. In the early 1960s, she also became the first Black player to compete in the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Read more
28 Sep 2003: Elia Kazan, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1909) Elias Kazantzoglou, known as Elia Kazan, was a Greek-American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". Read more
28 Sep 2003: George Odlum, Saint Lucian politician and diplomat (born 1934) George Odlum was a Saint Lucian left-wing politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. Born in Castries, Odlum studied at Bristol University and Oxford University in the United Kingdom before returning to Saint Lucia as Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Trade. After working for the Commonwealth Secretariat and the West Indies Associated States, he formed the Saint Lucia Forum, a left-wing pressure group. This group merged with the Saint Lucia Labour Party in time for the 1974 elections; although the Party did not win, the progress they made allowed them to take power in 1979, with Odlum as Deputy Prime Minister. Read more
28 Sep 2002: Patsy Mink, American lawyer and politician (born 1927) Patsy Matsu Mink was an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Hawaii who served in the United States House of Representatives for 24 years as a member of the Democratic Party, initially from 1965 to 1977, and again from 1990 until her death in 2002. She was the first Woman of Color and first Asian-American woman elected to Congress, and is known for her work on legislation advancing women's rights and education. Read more
28 Sep 2002: Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician (born 1907) Hartland de Montarville Molson was an Anglo-Quebecer statesman, Canadian senator, military aviator, and a member of the Molson family of brewers. Read more
28 Sep 2000: Pierre Trudeau, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1919) Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was a Canadian politician, lawyer, jurist, academic, author, and journalist who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984. Between his non-consecutive terms as prime minister from 1979 to 1980, he served as the leader of the Opposition. He led the Liberal Party from 1968 until 1984. Read more
28 Sep 1999: Escott Reid, Canadian academic and diplomat (born 1905) Escott Graves Meredith Reid, CC, was a Canadian diplomat who helped shape the United Nations and NATO, author, international public servant and academic administrator. Read more
28 Sep 1994: Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (born 1953) Urmas Alender was an Estonian singer and musician, the vocalist of popular Estonian bands Ruja and Propeller. Read more
28 Sep 1994: José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of Guerrero (born 1946) José Francisco Ruiz Massieu was a Mexican political figure. He was governor of Guerrero from 1987 to 1993. He then served as the general secretary of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1994. His term ended with his assassination. Read more
28 Sep 1994: Harry Saltzman, Canadian production manager and producer (born 1915) Herschel "Harry" Saltzman was a Canadian theatre and film producer. He is best remembered for co-producing the first nine of the James Bond film series with Albert R. Broccoli. Apart from a ten-year stint living in St. Petersburg, Florida, he lived most of his life in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England. Read more
28 Sep 1994: K. A. Thangavelu, Indian film actor and comedian (born 1917) Karaikal Arunachalam Thangavelu popularly known as "Danaal Thangavelu", was an Indian actor and comedian popular in the 1950s to 1970s. Not known for physical, acrobatic comedy like his contemporaries J. P. Chandrababu and Nagesh, Thangavelu's humour is recognised for his impeccable timing in verbal agility and the characteristic twang of his delivery. He exclusively acted in Tamil films. Read more
28 Sep 1993: Peter De Vries, American editor and novelist (born 1910) Peter De Vries was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit. Read more
28 Sep 1993: Alexander A. Drabik, American sergeant (born 1910) Sgt. Alexander Albert Drabik was the first American soldier to cross the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen, Germany in World War II during the Battle of Remagen. He led two other enlisted men across the bridge, running 398 metres (1,306 ft) while under fire, knowing that the demolition charges attached to the bridge could be detonated at any moment. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his action. Read more
28 Sep 1991: Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (born 1926) Miles Dewey Davis III was an American trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and painter. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. In a career spanning nearly five decades, Davis was at the forefront of several major stylistic developments in jazz, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, third stream, modal jazz, avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion. His legacy extends into rock, funk, classical and hip-hop. Read more
28 Sep 1990: Larry O'Brien, American businessman and politician, 57th United States Postmaster General (born 1917) Lawrence Francis O'Brien Jr. was an American politician and commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1975 to 1984. He was one of the United States Democratic Party's leading electoral strategists for more than two decades. He was Postmaster General in President Lyndon Johnson's cabinet and chair of the Democratic National Committee. The NBA Championship Trophy is named after him. Read more
28 Sep 1989: Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Philippines (born 1917) Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the tenth president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. From 1972 to 1981, Marcos ruled the Philippines under martial law, embracing a policy of "constitutional authoritarianism." Following the lifting of martial law in 1981, a wide-ranging economic crisis, and the assassination of Ninoy Aquino, Marcos was deposed in 1986 by the People Power Revolution and was succeeded as president by Aquino's widow, Corazon Aquino. He was also the father of Bongbong Marcos, the incumbent president of the Philippines since 2022. Read more
28 Sep 1984: Cihad Baban, Turkish journalist, author, and politician (born 1911) Mustafa Cihad Baban was a Turkish journalist, author and politician. He was a parliamentary deputy in the 1950s and 1960s. Read more
28 Sep 1982: Mabel Albertson, American actress (born 1901) Mabel Ida Albertson was an American actress of television, stage, radio and film who portrayed Phyllis Stephens in the TV sitcom Bewitched. She also appeared in TV's The Time Tunnel. Read more
28 Sep 1981: Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan journalist and politician, President of Venezuela (born 1908) Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello, known as "The Father of Venezuelan Democracy", was a Venezuelan politician who served as the president of Venezuela, from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1964, as well as leader of the Democratic Action, Venezuela's dominant political party in the 20th century. Read more
28 Sep 1979: John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (born 1921) John Herbert Chapman was a Canadian space researcher. He started his career with his work on radio propagation and the ionosphere. Read more
28 Sep 1978: Pope John Paul I (born 1912) Pope John Paul I was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later. His reign is among the shortest in papal history, giving rise to the first year of three popes since 1605. John Paul I remains the most recent Italian-born pope, the last in a succession of such popes that started with Clement VII in 1523. He was the first pope to have been born in the 20th century, as well as the last pope to die in it. Read more
28 Sep 1970: John Dos Passos, American novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright (born 1896) John Roderigo Dos Passos was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy. Read more
28 Sep 1970: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Egypt (born 1918) Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 and introduced far-reaching land reforms the following year. Following a 1954 assassination attempt by a Muslim Brotherhood member, he cracked down on the organization, put President Mohamed Naguib under house arrest and assumed executive office. He was formally elected president in June 1956. Read more
28 Sep 1966: André Breton, French author and poet (born 1896) André Robert Breton was a French writer and poet, known as a principal theorist and co-founder of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism". Read more
28 Sep 1964: Harpo Marx, American comedian, actor, and singer (born 1888) Arthur "Harpo" Marx was an American comedian, actor and harpist, and the second-oldest of the Marx Brothers. In contrast to the mainly verbal comedy of his brothers Groucho and Chico, Harpo's comic style was visual, being an example of vaudeville, clown and pantomime traditions. In all of his movie appearances, he wore a curly reddish blonde wig and did not speak, instead blowing a horn or whistling to communicate. Marx frequently employed props such as a horn cane constructed from a lead pipe, tape, and a bulbhorn. Read more
28 Sep 1962: Roger Nimier, French soldier and author (born 1925) Roger Nimier was a French novelist. Read more
28 Sep 1959: Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (born 1901) Otto Wilhelm Rudolf Caracciola was a German racing driver. He won the European Drivers' Championship, the pre-1950 equivalent of the modern Formula One World Championship, an unsurpassed three times. He also won the European Hillclimbing Championship three times – twice in sports cars, and once in Grand Prix cars. Caracciola raced for Mercedes-Benz during their original dominating Silver Arrows period, named after the silver colour of the cars, and set speed records for the firm. He was affectionately dubbed Caratsch by the German public, and was known by the title of Regenmeister, or "Rainmaster", for his prowess in wet conditions. Read more
28 Sep 1957: Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan violinist and composer (born 1888) Luis Cluzeau Mortet was a Uruguayan composer and musician. Read more
28 Sep 1956: William Boeing, American businessman, founded the Boeing Company (born 1881) William Edward Böing was an American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed to Boeing a year later. The company is now the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value and among the largest aerospace manufacturers in the world. Read more
28 Sep 1953: Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and scholar (born 1889) Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology. Hubble proved that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way. He used the strong direct relationship between a classical Cepheid variable's luminosity and pulsation period for scaling galactic and extragalactic distances. Read more
28 Sep 1949: Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens (born 1881) Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens, born Charilaos Filippidis, was the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece between 1938 and 1941. Read more
28 Sep 1943: Sam Ruben, American chemist and academic (born 1913) Samuel Ruben was an American chemist who with Martin Kamen co-discovered the synthesis of the isotope carbon-14 in 1940. Read more
28 Sep 1943: Filippo Illuminato, Italian partisan, Gold Medal of Military Valour (born 1930) Filippo Illuminato was an Italian partisan who died attacking Nazi German troops during the Four days of Naples in World War II. He was posthumously awarded the Gold Medal of Military Valour, Italy's highest award for gallantry. Read more
28 Sep 1941: Marion Miley, American golfer, ranked No. 1 in the United States (born 1914) Marion Miley was an American amateur golfer. Active in the 1930s, she won dozens of amateur tournaments and was ranked as high as #1 in the United States. She was noted by the press as being one of the most photogenic golfers in the world and received international acclaim from her successes both nationally and abroad, bringing attention to the sport of women's golf in the era prior to the establishment of the LPGA. She was murdered in 1941 during a robbery of the country club where she and her mother lived, dying at the age of 27; her mother also died as a result of the crime. Read more
28 Sep 1938: Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (born 1861) Charles Edgar Duryea was an American engineer. He was the engineer of the second working American gasoline-powered car and co-founder of Duryea Motor Wagon Company. He was born near Canton, Illinois, a son of George Washington Duryea and Louisa Melvina Turner, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but spent most of his life working in Springfield, Massachusetts. Read more
28 Sep 1935: William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer, invented the Kinetoscope (born 1860) William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a British-American inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison. Read more
28 Sep 1925: Paul Vermoyal, French actor (born 1888) Pierre Paul Vermoyal was a French stage and film actor. Read more
28 Sep 1920: Yu Gwan-sun, Korean independence activist (born 1902) Yu Gwan-sun was a Korean independence activist. She was particularly notable for her role in South Chungcheong during the March 1st Movement protests against Japanese colonial rule. She has since become one of the most famous Korean independence activists and a symbol for the movement. Read more
28 Sep 1918: Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (born 1858) Georg Simmel was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic. A founding figure of sociology, his neo-Kantian approach helped establish sociological antipositivism, asking "What is society?" in analogy to Kant's "What is nature?". He pioneered analyses of individuality and social fragmentation. Read more
28 Sep 1918: Freddie Stowers, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1896) Freddie Stowers was an African-American corporal in the United States Army who was killed in action during World War I while serving in an American unit under 157th Infantry Division of the French Army, called the "Red Hand Division". Over 70 years later, he posthumously received the Medal of Honor and Purple Heart for his actions. Read more
28 Sep 1915: Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (born 1844) Hajime Saitō was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, who most famously served as the captain of the third unit of the Shinsengumi. He was one of the few core members who survived the numerous wars of the Bakumatsu period. He was later known as Fujita Gorō and worked as a police officer in Tokyo during the Meiji Restoration where he worked mostly undercover for them and for the Japanese government. Read more
28 Sep 1914: Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (born 1863) Richard Warren Sears was an American businessman who co-founded the department store Sears, Roebuck and Company with his partner Alvah Curtis Roebuck. Read more
28 Sep 1904: Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese historian and author (born 1850) Patrick Lafcadio Hearn was a Greek and Irish writer, translator, and teacher whose work played a significant role in the introduction of the culture and literature of Japan to the mainstream Western world. Read more
28 Sep 1902: John Marks Moore, American politician and attorney (born 1853) John Marks Moore was an American attorney, Democratic politician from Texas, a member of the Texas House of Representatives, and the Secretary of State of Texas during the term of Lawrence Sullivan Ross. Read more
28 Sep 1899: Giovanni Segantini, Austrian painter (born 1858) Giovanni Giovanni Battista Emanuele Maria Segantini was an Austrian-born stateless painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps. He was one of the most famous artists in Europe in the late 19th century, and his paintings were collected by major museums. In later life, he combined a Divisionist painting style with Symbolist images of nature. He was active first in Italy then in Switzerland during the last period of his life. Read more
28 Sep 1895: Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (born 1822) Louis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him. His research in chemistry led to remarkable breakthroughs in the understanding of the causes and prevention of diseases, which laid down the foundations of hygiene, public health and much of modern medicine. Pasteur's works are credited with saving millions of lives through the development of vaccines for rabies and anthrax. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern bacteriology and has been honored as the "father of bacteriology" and the "father of microbiology". Read more
28 Sep 1893: Annie Feray Mutrie, British painter (born 1826) Annie Feray Mutrie was a British still-life painter. She exhibited regularly and she and her sister Martha were considered the best flower painters in oils. Read more
28 Sep 1891: Herman Melville, American author and poet (born 1819) Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels. Read more
28 Sep 1882: Amunda Kolderup, Norwegian opera singer (born 1846) Amunda Bartholda Wilhelmine Mariane Kolderup was a Norwegian opera singer. Read more
28 Sep 1873: Émile Gaboriau, French journalist and author (born 1832) Étienne Émile Gaboriau was a French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction. Read more
28 Sep 1859: Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (born 1779) Carl Ritter was a German geographer. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, he is considered one of the founders of modern geography, as they established it as an independent scientific discipline. From 1825 until his death, he occupied the first chair in geography at the University of Berlin. Read more
28 Sep 1844: Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and politician (born 1769) Count Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy was a Russian general and statesman who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Read more
28 Sep 1829: Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and politician (born 1771) Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky or Rayevsky was a Russian general and statesman who achieved fame for his feats of arms during the Napoleonic Wars. His family left a lasting legacy in Russian society and culture. Read more
28 Sep 1805: Christoph Franz von Buseck, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (born 1724) Christoph Franz von Buseck was the Roman Catholic bishop of Bamberg and the last Prince-Bishop of Bamberg. Read more

Why is 28 September Important in History?

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