1 : September 28
2 : Events
3 : Births
4 : Deaths
5 : Holidays and observances
September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years). There are 94 days remaining.
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Events
Births
- 1746 - Sir William Jones, linguist (d. 1794)
- 1803 - Prosper Mérimée, author (d. 1870)
- 1824 - Francis Turner Palgrave, British critic and poet (d. 1897)
- 1841 - Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)
- 1856 - Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children's author (d. 1923)
- 1887 - Avery Brundage, Olympic Games president (d. 1975)
- 1901 - Ed Sullivan, TV show host (d. 1974)
- 1901 - William S. Paley, television pioneer (d. 1990)
- 1905 - Max Schmeling, boxer
- 1909 - Al Capp, cartoonist (d. 1979)
- 1915 - Ethel Rosenberg, spy (d. 1953)
- 1916 - Peter Finch, actor (d. 1977)
- 1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, actor (d. 1996)
- 1925 - Seymour Cray, computer scientist (d. 1996)
- 1926 - Jerry Clower, country music entertainer
- 1934 - Brigitte Bardot, actress
- 1935 - KoKo Taylor, blues singer
- 1937 - Rod Roddy, television announcer (d. 2003)
- 1937 - Alice Mahon, English politician and trade unionist
- 1938 - Ben E. King, singer, songwriter
- 1939 - Stuart Kauffman, biologist
- 1947 - Jeffrey Jones, actor
- 1950 - John Sayles, director, screenwriter
- 1952 - Sylvia Kristel, actress
- 1962 - Grant Fuhr, hockey goalie
- 1964 - Janeane Garofalo, actress, comedian
- 1968 - Naomi Watts, actress
- 1967 - Moon Unit Zappa, singer, actress
- 1967 - Mira Sorvino, actress
- 1968 - Mika Häkkinen, Finnish auto racing driver
- 1970 - Isabelle Brasseur, figure skating champion
- 1972 - Gwyneth Paltrow, actress
- 1987 - Hilary Duff, actress (Lizzie McGuire, ''Agent Cody Banks'')
Deaths
- 876 - Louis the German, grandson of Charlemagne, ruler of Eastern Francia
- 1197 - Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1891 - Herman Melville, novelist
- 1895 - Louis Pasteur, scientist
- 1902 - Emile Zola, novelist and critic
- 1918 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist
- 1953 - Edwin Hubble, astronomer
- 1964 - Harpo Marx, comedian and actor (b. 1888)
- 1966 - André Breton, French poet
- 1970 - John Dos Passos, novelist
- 1970 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, first president of Egypt
- 1978 - Pope John Paul I
- 1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist
- 1989 - Ferdinand Marcos, former president of the Philippines
- 1991 - Miles Davis, musician
- 2000 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 80, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada
- 2003 - Althea Gibson, African-American tennis pioneer
- 2003 - Yukichi Chuganji, 114 years
- 2003 - Elia Kazan, movie and theatre director
Holidays and observances
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