September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years). There are 94 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1746 - Sir William Jones, linguist
- 1803 - Prosper Mérimée, author (+ 1870)
- 1841 - Georges Clemenceau, French politician (+ 1929)
- 1887 - Avery Brundage[?], Olympic Games president (+ 1975)
- 1901 - Ed Sullivan, TV show host (+ 1974)
- 1901 - William S. Paley[?], television pioneer (+ 1990)
- 1905 - Max Schmeling, boxer
- 1909 - Al Capp, cartoonist (+ 1979)
- 1915 - Ethel Rosenberg, spy (+ 1953)
- 1916 - Peter Finch, actor (+ 1977)
- 1924 - Marcello Mastoianni[?], actor (+ 1996)
- 1925 - Seymour Cray, computer scientist (+ 1996)
- 1926 - Jerry Clower[?], country music entertainer
- 1934 - Brigitte Bardot, actress
- 1935 - KoKo Taylor[?], jazz singer
- 1937 - Rod Roddy[?], television announcer
- 1938 - Ben E. King[?], singer, songwriter
- 1947 - Jeffrey Jones[?], actor
- 1950 - John Sayles, director, screenwriter
- 1952 - Sylvia Kristel[?], actress
- 1964 - Janeane Garofalo, actress, comedian
- 1968 - Naomi Watts[?], actress
- 1967 - Moon Unit Zappa[?], singer, actress
- 1967 - Mira Sorvino[?], actress
- 1970 - Isabelle Brasseur[?], figure skating champion
- 1972 - Gwyneth Paltrow, actress
Deaths
- 48 BC - Pompey the Great
- 1834 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet
- 1891 - Herman Melville, novelist
- 1895 - Louis Pasteur, scientist
- 1902 - Emile Zola, novelist and critic
- 1964 - Harpo Marx, comedian and actor
- 1970 - John Dos Passos, novelist.
- 1970 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, first president of Egypt
- 1978 - Pope John Paul I
- 1989 - Ferdinand Marcos, former president of the Philippines
- 1991 - Miles Davis, musician
- 2000 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 80, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada
Holidays and observances
September 27 -
September 29 -
August 28 -
October 28 - more
historical anniversaries
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December - more historical anniversaries
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