In the year 1928, the first east-west transatlantic flight takes place, from Ireland to Canada (Apr 12), the first regular schedule of television programming begins in Schenectady, New York (May 7), The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia commences operations (May 15), British inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates the world’s first color television transmission (Jul 3), Richard E. Byrd leaves New York for the Arctic (Sep 1), Alexander Fleming discovers what later becomes known as penicillin (Sep 28), Joseph Stalin launches the first five-year-plan (Oct 1), Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the first animated sound film (Nov 18), Maurice Ravel’s Boléro premiers at the Paris Opéra (Nov 22), Eliot Ness begins to lead the prohibition unit in Chicago - and all these fine people were born:

1928-0101 John Attenborough* executive in the motor industry/financial advisor/brother of David Attenborough - Isleworth, Middlesex, England (2012/84) 1928-0105 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto* Pakistani politician - Ratodero Taluka, British India (1979/51) 1928-0105 Walter Mondale* politician - Ceylon, MN USA (2021/93) 1928-0107 William Peter Blatty* writer/filmmaker - New York, NY USA (2017/89) 1928-0110 1928-0111 Åke Lindman* (b Järvinen) actor/film director - Helsinki, Finland (2009/81) 1928-0115 Joanne Linville* actress - Bakersfield, CA USA (2021/93) 1928-0116 Manfred Schukowski* astronomer/ teacher - Stralsund, Weimar Republic (2025/97) 1928-0117 1928-0120 Peter Donat* actor - Kentville, NS Canada (2018/90) 1928-0123 Jeanne Moreau* actress - Paris, France (2017/89) 1928-0125 Eduard Shevadrnadze* politician - Mamati, Transcaucasian, Soviet Union (2014/86) 1928-0126 Roger Vadim* screenwriter/film director/producer - Paris, France (2000/72) 1928-0127 Hans Modrow* politician/the last communist premier of East Germany - Jasenitz, Prussia, Nazi Germany (2023/95) 1928-0130 Harold Prince* theatrical producer/director - Manhattan, NY USA (2019/91) 1928-0130 Kihnu Virve* (b Haavik ) Estonian folk singer - Pärnu, Estonia, Soviet Union (2022/94) 1928-0131 1928-0201 1928-0202 Philippe Chatrier* tennis player/journalist/sports administrator - Créteil, France (2000/72) 1928-0205 Tage Danielsson* actor/film director - Linköping, Sweden (1985/57) 1928-0208 Osian Ellis* harpist/ composer/teacher - Ffynnongroew, Flintshire, Wales (2021/92) 1928-0209 George Brady* Holocaust survivor/businessman in Canada - Nove Mesto na Morave, Czechoslovakia (2019/90) 1928-0211 Conrad Janis* jazz trombonist/actor - Manhattan, NY USA (2022/94) 1928-0217 Margot Heuman* German-American Holocaust survivor/marketer - Hellenthal, Germany (2022/94) 1928-0218 Eeva Kilpi* (b Salo) writer/ feminist/environmentalist - Hiitola, Karelia, Finland ***** 1928-0220 Jean Kennedy Smith* diplomat/ humanitarian/sister of JFK - Boston, MA USA (2020/92) 1928-0301 1928-0302 Katharine Whitehorn* journalist/ author/radio presenter - Hendon, London, England (2021/92) 1928-0303 Gudrun Pausewang* German author - Mladkow, Czechoslovakia (2020/91) 1928-0310 James Earl Ray* allegedly MLK Jr. killer - Alton, IL USA (1998/70) 1928-0311 Albert Salmi* actor/w Finnish parents - Brooklyn, NY USA (1990/62) 1928-0313 Eunice Gayson* actress/the first official Bond girl - Croydon, Surrey, England (2018/90) 1928-0316 Christa Ludwig* German opera singer - Berlin, Weimar Republic (2021/93) 1928-0316 Victor Maddern* actor - Ilford, Essex, England (1993/65) 1928-0317 André Chagnon* businessman/founder of Vidéotron/philanthropist - Montreal, QC Canada (2022/94) 1928-0319 Patrick McGoohan* actor - Astoria, NY USA (2009/80) 1928-0320 Fred Rogers* minister/television host (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood) - Latrobe, PA USA (2003/74) 1928-0325 James “Jim” Lowell* astronaut - Cleveland, OH USA ***** 1928-0326 1928-0327 Douglas Applegate* politician - Steubenville, OH USA (2021/93) 1928-0331 Gordie Howe* “Mr Hockey” hockey player (NHL 100) - Floral, SK Canada (2016/88) 1928-0401 George Grizzard* actor - Roanoke Rapids, NC USA (2007/79) 1928-0403 Kevin Hagen* actor (Little House on the Prairie) - Chicago, IL USA (2005/77) 1928-0403 Kerstin Meyer* opera singer - Stockholm, Sweden (2020/92) 1928-0404 Maya Angelou* poet/writer/activist - St.Louis, MO USA (2014/86) 1928-0404 Monty Norman* (b Noserovitch) singer/film composer (the James Bond Theme) - Stepney, London, England (2022/94) 1928-0407 James Garner* actor - Norman, OK USA (2014/86) 1928-0412 Rene Carpenter* columnist/television personality/wife of astronaut Scott Carpenter - Clinton, IA USA (2020/92) 1928-0412 Hardy Krüger* actor /author - Wedding, Prussia, Weimar Republic (2022/93) 1928-0415 1928-0416 1928-0418 Howard S. Becker* sociologist - Chicago, IL USA (2023/95) 1928-0418 William Bramley* actor - New York City, NY USA (1985/57) 1928-0418 Mikio Sato* 佐藤 幹夫 mathematician - Tokyo, Japan (2023/94) 1928-0422 Barbara Sansoni* Sri Lankan designer/ entrepreneur/writer - Kandy, British Ceylon (2022/94) 1928-0423 Shirley Temple* actress/ambassador - Santa Monica, CA USA (2014/85) 1928-0424 Tommy Docherty* football player/manager - Glasgow, Scotland (2020/92) 1928-0428 Frank Horvat* photographer active in France - Abbazia, Italy (2020/92) 1928-0501 1928-0504 Thomas Kinsella* poet/ translator/publisher - Inchicore, Ireland (2021/93) 1928-0504 Hosni Mubarak* military leader/P - Kafr-El Meselha, Egypt (2020/91) 1928-0510 1928-0511 Andrew van der Bijl* a.k.a. Brother Andrew/missionary/founder of the Christian organization Open Doors - Sint Pancras, Netherlands (2022/94) 1928-0512 Burt Bacharach* composer/ songwriter/singer - Kansas City, MO USA (2023/94) 1928-0521 Hellmut Stern* violinist - Berlin, Germany (2020/91) 1928-0524 Cristina Calderón* ethnographer/ writer/cultural activist/the last remaining native speaker of the Yaghan language - Robalo, Puerto Williams, Chile (2022/93) 1928-0525 1928-0530 Agnès Varda* French film director - Ixelles, Belgium (2019/90) 1928-0604 Ruth Westheimer* sex therapist/media personality - Karlstadt, Germany (2024/96) 1928-0614 José Bonaparte* paleontologist - Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina (2020/91) 1928-0614 Ernesto “Che” Guevara* Marxist revolutionary - Rosario, Argentina (1967/39) 1928-0615 Joan Croll* physician/radiologist - Sydney, NSW Australia (2022/93) 1928-0615 Kalevi Viskari* Finnish gymnast/coach - Enso/Svetogorsk, Soviet Union (2018/90) 1928-0617 Larry Kwong* hockey player - Vernon, BC Canada (2018/94) 1928-0620 Martin Landau* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA (2017/89) 1928-0620 Jean-Marie Le Pen* politician - La Trinité-sur-Mer, France (2025/96) 1928-0 1928-0621 Lillian Michelson* film scholar/research librarian - USA Los Angeles Times **** 1928-0622 1928-0625 Pierre “Peyo” Culliford* cartoonist/creator of The Smurffs - Brussels, Belgium (1992/64) 1928-0628 Harold Evans* British-American journalist/writer - Eccles, England (2020/92) 1928-0701 Birgitta Ulfsson* actress - Helsinki, Finland (2017/89) 1928-0705 Juris Hartmanis* Latvian-American computer scientist/computational theorist - Riga, Latvia (2022/94) 1928-0710 1928-0713 Bob Crane* actor/drummer/radio host - Waterbury, CT USA (1978/49) 1928-0723 Vera Rubin* astronomer - Philadephia, PA USA (2016/88) 1928-0723 Hubert Selby Jr.* writer - Brooklyn, NY USA (2004/75) 1928-0723 Cy Young* athlete (javelin/OG) - Modesto, CA USA (2017/89) 1928-0726 Joe Jackson* talent manager - Fountain Hill, AR USA (2018/89) 1928-0726 Stanley Kubrick* film director - New York, NY USA (1999/70) 1928-0727 Joseph Kittinger* pilot/ record skydiver - Tampa, FL USA (2022/94) 1928-0730 Vernel Fournier* jazz drummer - New Orleans, LA USA (2000/72) 1928-0802 Luigi Colani* German industrial designer - Berlin, Weimar Republic (2019/91) 1928-0804 Flóra Kádár* Hungarian actress - Budapest, Hungary (2003/74) 1928-0806 Andy Warhol* artist/director/producer - Pittsburgh, PA USA (1987/58) 1928-0807 James Randi* magician/illusionist/skeptic - Toronto, ON Canada (2020/92) 1928-0807 Helen Vita* chanson singer/actress/comedian - Hohenschwangau, Switzerland (2001/72) 1928-0810 Eddie Fisher* singer/ actor - Philadelphia, PA USA (2010/82) 1928-0816 Ann Blyth* (b Blythe) singer/ actress - Mount Kisco, NY USA **** 1928-0819 Queen Ratna of Nepal* Queen Mother until 2008 - Kathmandu, Nepal **** 1928-0821 Art Farmer* jazz trumpeter/flugelhorn player - Council Bluffs, IA USA (1999/71) 1928-0821 Addison Farmer* jazz bassist/twin of Art - Council Bluffs, IA USA (1963/34) 1928-0821 Gillian Sheen* fencer/OG - Willesden, London, England (2021/92) 1928-0825 1928-0827 Mangosuthu Buthelezi* Zulu prince/South African politician - Mahlabathini, Natal (2023/95) 1928-0828 Reino Markkula* musician - Kurkijoki, Finland (1997/69) 1928-0830 Seppo Wallin* actor/ film director - Tampere, Finland (2003/74) 1928-0831 James Coburn* actor - Laurel, NE USA (2002/74) 1928-0901 George Maharis* actor/singer/artist - Queens, NY USA (2023/94) 1928-0902 Horace Silver* jazz pianist/composer/arranger - Norwalk, CT USA (2014/85) 1928-0904 Matti Kekkonen* jurist/poltician/son of Urho Kekkonen - Helsinki, Finland (2013/84) 1928-0904 Taneli Kekkonen* diplomat/ son of Urho Kekkonen - Helsinki, Finland (1985/56) 1928-0904 Dick York* actor (Bewitched) - Fort Wayne, IN USA (1992/63) 1928-0910 Jean Vanier* Canadian Catholic philosopher/ humanitarian - Geneva, Switzerland (2019/90) 1928-0911 Reubin Askew* politician/ Governor of Florida - Muskogee, OK USA (2014/85) 1928-0914 Alberto Korda* photographer - Havana, Cuba (2001/72) 1928-0915 Cannonball Adderley* jazz saxophonist - Tampa, FL USA (1975/46) 1928-0916 Beatriz Barba* anthropologist/archaeologist - Mexico City, Mexico (2021/92) 1928-0917 Roddy McDowall* actor - Herne Hill, London, England (1998/70) 1928-0918 Franco Franchi* (b Benenato) actor/ comedian/singer - Palermo, Kingdom of Italy (1992/64) 1928-0918 F. D. Reeve* writer/academic/father of Christopher Reeve - Philadelphia, PA USA (2013/84) 1928-0918 Eero Saari* hockey player/the first to score a goal against Canada/architect - Tampere, Finland (2023/94) 1928-0919 Adam West* actor (Batman) - Walla Walla, WA USA (2017/88) 1928-0920 1928-0930 Elie Wiesel* writer/professor/activist - Sighet, Kingdom of Romania (2016/87) 1928-1001 Laurence Harvey* (b Zvi Mosheh Skikne) Lithuanian-British actor/film director - Joniškis, Lithuania, Soviet Union (1973/45) 1928-1002 Ted Nichols* (b Sflotsos) composer (Hanna-Barbera Productions)/ conductor/educator - Missoula, MT USA **** 1928-1003 Richard Stolley* journalist (Life)/inaugural editor of People  - Pekin, IL USA (2021/92) 1928-1004 Jorma Valkama* athlete (l_ong jump/OB_) - Viipuri, Finland (1962/34) 1928-1008 Bill Maynard* actor (Heartbeat) - Heath End, Surrey, England (2018/89) 1928-1009 Einojuhani Rautavaara* composer - Helsinki, Finland (2016/87) 1928-1023 June Bacon-Bercey* (b Griffin) engineer/ meteorologist - Wichita, KS USA (2019/90) 1928-1025 Jeanne Cooper* actress - Taft, CA USA (2013/84) 1928-1027 Charles J. Urstadt* real estate executive/ investor/co-developer of Battery Park City - Manhattan, NY USA (2020/91) 1928-1031 1928-1101 1928-1103 Nick Holonyak* engineer/educator/co-inventor of the light-emitting diode (LED) - Zeigler, IL USA (2022/93) 1928-1103 Lew Palter* actor/ theater teacher - Brooklyn, NY USA (2023/94) 1928-1110 Ennio Morricone* composer/conductor - Rome, Kingdom of Italy (2020/91) 1928-1111 Carlos Fuentes* novelist/essayist - Panama City, Panama (2012/83) 1928-1117 Arman* (b Armand Fernandez) French-American artist - Nice, France (2005/76) 1928-1117 Rance Howard* (b Beckenholdt) actor/father of Ron Howard - Newkirk, OK USA (2017/89) 1928-1119 Ina van Faassen* actress/comedian - Amsterdam, Netherlands (2011/82) 1928-1119 Dara Singh* wrestler/ actor/politician - Dharmuchak, Punjab, British India (2012/83) 1928-1120 Aleksey Batalov* actor - Vladimir, Russia, Soviet Union (2017/88) 1928-1128 Toaripi Lauti* politician/the first prime minister of Tuvalu - Gulf Province, Territory of Papua (2014/85) 1928-1130 Takako Doi* 土井 たか子 politician/the first female Opposition Leader in Japan - Kobe, Empire of Japan (2014/85) 1928-1130 Steele Hall* politician/PM - Balaklava, SA Australia (2024/95) 1928-1130 Karin Söder* politician/one of the first female foreign ministers in the world - Kil, Sweden (2015/87) 1928-1202 Jörg Demus* classical pianist/composer - St. Pölten, Austria (2019/90) 1928-1206 Gunnar Hellström* actor/film director - Alnön, Sweden (2001/72) 1928-1207 Noam Chomsky* philosopher/ historian/ social critic - Philadelphia, PA USA****** 1928-1211 Peter Firmin* artist/puppet maker - Harwich, England (2018/89) 1928-1212 Manuel Felguárez* abstract artist - Zacatecas, Mexico (2020/91) 1928-1212 Ernst-Hugo Järegård* actor/ horror host - Ystad, Sweden (1998/69) 1929-1213 Joe Messina* guitarist - Detroit, MI USA (2022/93) 1928-1213 Jack Tramiel* (b Idek Trzmiel) Polish-American businessman/founder of  the Commodore International /to U.S. at age 18 - Łódź, Second Polish Republic (2012/83) 1928-1217 Leonid Bronevoy* Russian actor - Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union (2017/88) 1928-1221 Ed Nelson* actor (Peyton Place) - New Orleans, LA USA (2014/85) 1928-1222 Naresh Kumar* tennis player - Lahore, Punjab, British India (2022/93) 1928-1226 Malathi Chendur* Telugu writer/novelist/ columnist - Nuzvid, Madras, British India (2013/84) 1928-1226 Martin Cooper* engineer/ inventor/pioneer in the wireless communications industry - Chicago, IL USA***** 1928-1229 Bernard Cribbins* actor/ singer - Oldham, Lancashire, England (2022/93) 1928-1231 Hugh McElhenny* athlete (halfback)/color commentator - Los Angeles, CA USA (2022/93) 1928-1231 Veijo Meri* writer - Viipuri, Finland (2015/86) 1928-0 1928-0 1928-0 Updated 2025-0412 Helsinki-Stockholm-Tallinn-Tampa Search for another year here