Historical Birthdays

🎂 Famous Historical Birthdays - October 28, 2026

1902 Elsa Lanchester, Lewisham London, actress (Bride of Frankenstien)

1879 Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer

1934 Jim Beatty, track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile)

1915 Richard Michael Fraser, political Administrator

1968 Stan Thomas, NFL tackle (Houston Oilers)

1960 Robert Pukalovic, hockey defenseman (Team Slovakia 1998)

1942 Sharron Moran, LPGA golfer

1948 Telma Hopkins, Louisville, singer (Tony Orlando, Family Matters)

1935 Folke Rabe, composer

1966 Benoit Hogue, Repentigny, NHL center (Dallas Stars)

1938 Peter Carlstein, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1958-64)

1970 Bracey Walker, NFL safety (Cin Bengals, Miami Dolphins)

1789 Johann Schneider, composer

1944 Dennis Franz, Maywood Ill, actor (Buntz-Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue)

1969 Denny Fercho, Ventura Calif, team handball circle (Olympics-1996)

1964 Lenny Harris, Miami FL, infielder (Cin Reds)

1952 Annie Potts, Nashville TN, actress (Mary Jo-Designing Women)

1948 Valeri Viktorovich Baberdin, Russian colonel/cosmonaut

1804 Pierre F Verhulst, Belgium, mathematician (logistic curve)

1927 Cleo Laine, Middlesex England, actress/singer (Flesh to a Tiger)

1925 Wim Keja, Dutch MP (VVD)

1973 Frank Juric, Australian soccer goalie (Olyroos, Olympics-96)

1869 Ramўn M del Valle-Incl n, Spanish playwright (Corte de Amor)

1510 Francisco Borgia, great grandson of pope Alexander VI/theologist/saint

1966 Juan Guzman, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)

1914 Jonas Salk, NYC, medical reseacher (polio vaccine)

1907 Edith Head, fashion designer (MGM)

1972 Terrell Davis, NFL running back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)

1968 Rodney Thomas, NFL running back (Houston Oilers)

1970 Rob Hitchcock, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)

1945 Wayne Fontana, Manchester England, rocker (Groovy Kind of Love)

1936 Horst Antes, German painter

1939 Jane Alexander, [Quigley], Boston, actress (Betsy, Kramer vs Kramer)

1963 Lisa Bettio, Cleveland, WPVA volleyballer (Ft Myers Beach-17th-1992)

1937 Lenny Wilkins, NBA player/coach (Seattle, Cleveland, Atlanta)

1945 Dennis Lillie [sic], cricketer (Queensland leg-spinner 1965-66/80-82)

1971 Tracy Hanson, Coeur D'Alene ID, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Heartland-4th)

1925 Leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist (Little Orphan Annie)

1928 Wim van Heumen, coach of Dutch field hockey team

1963 Robert Bailey, cricketer (England batsman in four Tests 1988-90)

1929 Joan Plowright, Brigg England, actress (Brimstone & Treacle)

1936 Charlie Daniels, Wilmington NC, singer (Devil Went Down to Georgia)

1966 Andy Richter, Yorkville IL, writer/sidekick (Conan O'Brien)

1905 Harry Broadhurst, airman

1963 Kevin Dineen, Quebec City, NHL right wing (Hartford Whalers)

1941 Curtis Lee, rocker

1892 Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Night Watch)

1966 Kaylynn Hick, Australian rower (Olympics-96)

1957 Stephen Morris, English pop drummer (Joy Division-Atmosphere)

1944 Coluche, [Michel Colucci] France, comedian (My Best Friend's Girl)

1948 Ricki Lee Reynolds, country singer (Black Oak Arkansas)

1798 Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer

1885 V Chlebnikov, writer

1856 Franz Xavier Arens, composer

1959 Neville Henry, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)

1910 Marie Dollinger, Germany, dropped bataan in 1936 Olympic sprint

1926 Bowie Kuhn, baseball commissioner (1969-1984)

1966 Steve Atwater, NFL safety (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)

1972 Calvin Jackson, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins)

1017 Henry III, Roman Catholic German emperor (1046-56)

1930 John Henry Mayer, composer

1969 Troy Ridgley, WLAF defensive tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)

1916 Jessie Kesson, author

1930 Harry Gilbert Trythall, composer

1915 Dody Goodman, Columbus Ohio, comedienne (Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan)

1921 Peggy Kirk Bell, LPGA golfer

1965 Jami Gertz, Chicago, actress (Less the Zero, Crossroads, Solarbabies)

1919 Bernhard Wicki, St Polten Austria, director/actor (Crime & Passion)

1876 Albert E Michotte van den Berck, Belgian psychologist

1969 Pete Shufelt , WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)

1974 Henri Crockett, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)

1966 Lauren Holly, actress (All My Children, Maxine-Picket Febces)

1949 Bruce Jenner, Mt Kisco NY, decathalete (Olympic-gold-1976)

1893 Otto E Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor-in-chief (Negro Worker)

1910 Arthur Altman, songwriter

1968 Chris Oldham, cornerback (Pittsburgh Steelers)

1914 Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, British bio-chemist (Nobel 1952)

1972 Chad Folk, CFL cornerback (Toronto Argonauts)

1855 Ivan V Mitshurin, Russian botanist (new types of fruit)

1793 Eliphalet Remington, US gun maker

1949 Robert Mellors, gay activist

1968 Glenn Clear, soccer player (Vitesse)

1918 Harold Sheperdson, soccer trainer

1795 Leonardus A Lightenvelt, minister of RC Worship (1848 . .53)

1947 Tom Fitzsimmons, SF Calif, actor (Franklin-Paper Chase)

1801 Karl Georg Lickl, composer

1892 Eduard J Dijksterhuis, Dutch mathematician/historian (Fall & Throw)

1746 John V clav Stich, [Giovanni Punto], Bohemian horn player/composer

1965 Mark Carrier, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers)

1896 Howard Hanson, Wahoo Nebraska, composer/conductor (Nordic)

1955 Bill [William Henry] Gates, Seattle Wash, billionaire CEO (Microsoft)

1960 Mark Derwin, Park Forest Ill, actor (AC Mallet-Guiding Light)

1941 Hank Marvin, England, [Brian Rankin], rocker

1904 Louis de Meester, composer

1909 Francis Bacon, Ireland, painter (Study for a Pope)

1897 Hans Speidel, nazi chief-staff/NATO-supreme commander

1951 Ron & Don Gaylon, midwest US, siamese twins (Jerry Springer Show)

1689 Michel Mathieu, composer

1963 Eros Ramazotti, Italian pop musician/songwriter (Adesso Te)

1974 Braden Looper, Weatherford OK, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)

1952 Flavian Aponso, cricketer (rebel Sri Lankan 1982, Neth World Cup 1996)

1846 Auguste Escoffier, king of chefs & chef of kings

1942 Kees Verkerk, skater World Champion (1967)/(Olympics-gold-68)

1958 Jay Don Blake, St George UT, PGA golfer (1991 Shearson Lehman Open)

1940 Gennadi Mikhailovich Strekalov, cosmo (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11, TM-21)

1962 Peter Cantrell, cricketer (Queensland opening bat, Neth WC 1996)

1974 Joaquin Leaf Phoenix, PR, actor (Russkies, Space Camp)

1968 Shawna Molcak, Cardston Alberta, basketball guard (Olympics-96)

1886 Grigory K Ordzhonikidze, [Sergo], Russian revolutionary politician

1963 Lauren Holly, Bristol PA, actress (Picket Fences)

1909 Adolfs Skulte, composer

1884 Miloje Milojevic, composer

1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) [OS]

1953 Lauren Tewes, Trafford Pa, actress (Julie McCoy-Love Boat)

1810 Adley Hogan Gladden, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862

1733 Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer

1968 Aleksandr Koreshkov, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)

1929 ?, 1st child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl

1893 Christopher K Ingold, English chemist

1913 Peter Glenville, actor stage/screen director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket)

1929 Narotam Puna, cricketer (Bombay NZ off-spinner v England 1966)

1967 James Joseph, NFL running back (Cin Bengals)

1977 Lara Antunes, Miss Portugal Universe (1997)

1941 Glenn Moore, rocker

1971 John Coker, NBA center (Phoenix Suns)

1966 Tim Bogar, Indianapolis IN, infielder (NY Mets)

1964 Paul Wylie, figure skater (Olympic-silver)

1842 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War)

1890 Andres Isasi, composer

1903 Evelyn A Waugh, London, author (Brideshead Revisited, Scoop)

1805 John Thomson, composer

1962 Bobby Tate, fictional character on Soap

1962 Daphne Zuniga, SF CA, actress (Jo Reynolds-Melrose Place, Spaceballs)

1943 Randy Newman, rock vocalitst (Short People)

1974 Leaf Phoenix, PR, actor (Russkies, Space Camp)

1842 Charles Boissevain, editor Dutch Algemeen Handelsblad (1885-1908)

1924 Alfonso Montalva Montecino, composer

1963 Veronica Gamba, Buenos Aires Arg, playmate (November, 1983)

1971 Nicole Green, Springfield Ohio, 400m runner

1909 Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist

1967 Julia Roberts, Smyrna Georgia, actress (Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman)

1907 Lew Parker, actor (Lou Marie-That Girl)

1936 Ted Hawkins, singer/guitarist

1585 Cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader

1834 Dudley McIver DuBose, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883

1952 Tommy Dobeck, rock drummer (Michael Stanley Band)

1965 Eric Floyd, NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)

1968 Ernie Mills, NFL wide receiver (Pitts Steelers, Carolina Panthers)

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