May 28, 1927 Gyorgy Ligeti, composer
May 28, 1927 Norman Ireland, CEO, Bowater
May 28, 1927 Robert Evans, CEO, British Gas
May 28, 1925 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Zehlendorf Germany, baritone, Doktor Faust
May 28, 1925 Martha Vickers, Ann Arbor, Michigan, actress, Alimony, Man I Love, Ruthless
May 28, 1924 Edward du Cann, CEO, Lonrho
May 28, 1924 Lord Rippon, British MP
May 28, 1924 Reginald Eyre, solicitor/MP
May 28, 1923 Gyorgy Ligeti, Dicsoszentmartin Transylvania Hungary composer
May 28, 1923 Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, India, film star, Patala Bhairavi
May 28, 1922 John Alderson, chief constable, Devon and Cornwall UK
May 28, 1922 Lou Duva, American Coach
May 28, 1919 Duke of Rutland, British land owner/multimillionaire
May 28, 1919 Frank Middlemass, actor, Island, Oliver Twist
May 28, 1919 John Eldridge, CEO, Matthews Wrightmson
May 28, 1917 "Papa" John Creach, violinist
May 28, 1917 Barry Commoner, born in Brooklyn, New York, biologist, Science and Survival
May 28, 1917 Gerald Cash, Governor-General, Bahamas
May 28, 1917 Marshall Reed, Englewood California, actor, Fred Asher-Lineup
May 28, 1917 Pape John Creech, rocker, Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane
May 28, 1916 Gerald McArthur, detective
May 28, 1916 Thora Hird, actress, Nightcomers, Kind of Loving
May 28, 1916 Walker Percy, Birmingham, Alabama, writer, Adventures of a Bad Catholic
May 28, 1916 C. Wright Mills, American Sociologist
May 28, 1915 Scott McKay, Pleasantville Iowa, actor, Stage Door
May 28, 1915 Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violinist
May 28, 1915 Joseph Greenberg, American Writer
May 28, 1914 W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot
May 28, 1913 Gordon Wolstenholme, physician
May 28, 1912 Leslie Monson, diplomat
May 28, 1912 Patrick White, Australia, novelist, Happy Valley, Nobel 1973
May 28, 1911 Bob Crisp, cricketer, South African pace bowler of 30's
May 28, 1911 Jean-Pierre Levy, resistance leader
May 28, 1911 Randolph Churchill, British Journalist
May 28, 1910 Rachel Kempson, actress, Captive Heart
May 28, 1910 Stuart Piggott, archaeologist
May 28, 1910 T-Bone Walker, Linden, Texas, blues guitarist, Funky Town, Well Done
May 28, 1909 John Schepens, [Jean Baudoux], Flemish journalist and writer, Polyfoto
May 28, 1908 Ian Lancaster Fleming, born in London, England, author, James Bond
May 28, 1907 Frederick George Emmison, archivist/historian
May 28, 1907 Henry Ritz, comedian/dancer, Ritz Brothers
May 28, 1907 Patrick Browne, British Lord justice of appeal
May 28, 1906 Mary Ralton, director, British WRAC
May 28, 1906 Phil Regan, singer, My Wild Irish Rose
May 28, 1904 Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer
May 28, 1903 Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer, Golden Sail
May 28, 1900 Owen Aisher, president, Marley
May 28, 1898 Andy Kirk, jazz musician
May 28, 1897 Henry Kendall, London, actor, Amazing Quest, Shadow, Rich and Strange
May 28, 1896 Marius Monnikendam, Dutch choir composer
May 28, 1896 Warren Giles, baseball's National League president
May 28, 1894 Sammy White, Rhode Island, actor, 711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off
May 28, 1892 Minna Gombell, Baltimore, actress, Bad Girl, Thin Man, Hello Sister
May 28, 1889 Jose Padilla, composer
May 28, 1888 James Francis Thorpe, Shawnee, Oklahoma, decathelete, Olympics gold 1912/>
May 28, 1888 Jim Thorpe, Shawnee, Oklahoma, decathelete, Olympics gold 1912
May 28, 1887 Hank Mann, New York City, actor, City Lights, Smoky, Dawn Trail, Fugitive Road
May 28, 1886 Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor, Seattle Symph
May 28, 1884 Edvard Benes, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, 1921-22, 35-48
May 28, 1884 Theo, door, van Reijn, Dutch sculptor/lithographer
May 28, 1883 George Dyson, composer
May 28, 1883 Luigi Perrachio, composer
May 28, 1879 Milutin Milankovic, Yugoslavian astronomer/meteorologist
May 28, 1874 G K Chesterton, writer
May 28, 1868 Claude Anet, [Jean Schopfer], French writer, Fille Perdue
May 28, 1865 Gerrit Grijns, Dutch physiologist, Vitamin E
May 28, 1863 Georg Adler, German state economist
May 28, 1862 Henry W. Slocum, Jr., tennis champ, U.S. Open-1888
May 28, 1851 ---- Barlow, cricketer, immortal England all-rounder of 1880's
May 28, 1844 Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer
May 28, 1841 Giovanni Sgambati, composer
May 28, 1838 Basil Wilson Duke, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1916
May 28, 1831 Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor