On This Day — December 28
3845 noted people were born and 2025 died on December 28 in our archive, including Arthur Eddington, Thomas James Henderson and Trip Hawkins.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on December 28
Arthur Eddington
1882 – 1944
Thomas James Henderson
1798 – 1844
Trip Hawkins
b. 1953
Vladimir Steklov
1863 – 1926
Archibald Geikie
1835 – 1924
Athanase Dupré
1808 – 1869
Cajetan von Textor
1782 – 1860
Carl Remigius Fresenius
1818 – 1897
Carl-Gustaf Rossby
1898 – 1957
Emrys G. Bowen
1900 – 1983
Eric Youngstrom
b. 1968
Frank Kelly
b. 1950
Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence
1871 – 1961
Han Seung-soo
b. 1936
Henrik Samuel Nyberg
1889 – 1974
Ian Buruma
b. 1951
John von Neumann
1903 – 1957
Josef Beran
1888 – 1969
Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne
b. 1943
Judith Wechsler
b. 1940
Kristian Erslev
1852 – 1930
Leonardo Torres Quevedo
1852 – 1936
Linus Torvalds
b. 1969
Liu Xiaobo
1955 – 2017
Maarten Schmidt
1929 – 2022
Mamphela Ramphele
b. 1947
Maurice Prou
1861 – 1930
Max Hastings
b. 1945
Max Huber
1874 – 1960
Michael E. Mann
b. 1965
Quim Torra
b. 1962
Quincy Wright
1890 – 1970
Richard Bergh
1858 – 1919
Robert Calderbank
b. 1954
Roberto Longhi
1890 – 1970
Sandra Faber
b. 1944
Sano Tsunetami
1822 – 1902
Szymon Askenazy
1866 – 1935
Ted Hill
b. 1943
Thomas-Étienne Hamel
1830 – 1913
Vasiliy Grabin
1899 – 1980
Woodrow Wilson
1856 – 1924
Agnès Le Brun
b. 1961
Akihiko Hoshide
b. 1968
Alasdair Gray
1934 – 2019
Aleksander Oinas
1887 – 1942
Alison Quentin-Baxter
1929 – 2023
Ana Pauker
1893 – 1960
Anatoly Vershik
1933 – 2024
Andrej E. Skubic
b. 1967
Angelika Glazkova
b. 1968
Anouk Ricard
b. 1970
Antonio G. Solalinde
1892 – 1937
Aníbal Torres
b. 1942
Arthur Schüller
1874 – 1957
Arun Jaitley
1952 – 2019
Attilio Celant
b. 1942
Attilio Ruffini
1924 – 2011
August Pfluger
b. 1978
Barbara Judge
1946 – 2020
Ben Stephens
b. 1954
Birendra of Nepal
1945 – 2001
Birgitt Bender
b. 1956
Boris Kravtsov
b. 1922
Carl Gustav Fleischer
1883 – 1942
Carlos Hernández Quero
b. 1990
Chang Ya-chung
b. 1954
Charles Denis Mee
1927 – 2023
Chen Yi-ming
b. 1956
Christiane Tretter
b. 1964
Clifford Cocks
b. 1950
Dalbir Singh Suhag
b. 1954
David Peterson
b. 1943
Deddy Corbuzier
b. 1974
Diethard Hellmann
1928 – 1999
Dirce Tutu Quadros
1943 – 2014
Dominika Chorosińska
b. 1978
Douglas J.J. Peters
1963 – 2023
Edna B. Foa
1937 – 2026
Edward Babiuch
1927 – 2021
Efraím Basílio Krevey
1928 – 2012
Elfyn Richards
1914 – 1995
Ellis Clarke
1917 – 2010
Emmanuel Drake del Castillo
1855 – 1904
Erich Mielke
1907 – 2000
Ernst af Klercker
1881 – 1955
Faik Haddad
1914 – 2001
Flaminio Piccoli
1915 – 2000
Frank William Taussig
1859 – 1940
George Murry
1948 – 2020
Gordon Dean
1905 – 1958
Henning Matzen
1840 – 1910
Henri de Régnier
1864 – 1936
Henry Grey, 3rd Earl Grey
1802 – 1894
Hubert Saleur
b. 1960
Hugh Beard
b. 1967
Huno Rätsep
1927 – 2026
Igor Kalinin
b. 1959
Inglês de Sousa
1853 – 1918
Isambard Owen
1850 – 1927
Ivan Hrynokh
1907 – 1994
James Benning
b. 1942
James Caan
b. 1960
Javier Arenas Bocanegra
b. 1957
Jean MacArthur
1898 – 2000
Jeb Spaulding
b. 1952
Jennifer McClellan
b. 1972
Jiang Ping
1930 – 2023
Joan Ruddock
b. 1943
John Coates
1932 – 2018
John Lesinski, Jr.
1914 – 2005
John Ross Robertson
1841 – 1918
Joseph Pholien
1884 – 1968
Juan Zorrilla de San Martín
1855 – 1931
Julius Rietz
1812 – 1877
Kary Mullis
1944 – 2019
Lawrence E. Imhoff
1895 – 1988
Lee Hsiu-fen
1910 – 1985
Lionel Bowen
1922 – 2012
Manuel Aguirre de Tejada
1827 – 1911
Margaret Burnham
b. 1944
Marie Torhorst
1888 – 1989
Mark James Mwandosya
b. 1949
Marlene Wind
b. 1963
Mary Anne White
b. 1953
Mike Hopkins (astronaut)
b. 1968
Mikhail Malinin
1899 – 1960
Mortimer J. Adler
1902 – 2001
Mykhailo Kosiv
b. 1934
Naftali Tishby
1952 – 2021
Nahum Slouschz
1872 – 1966
Natan Rakhlin
1905 – 1979
Nefeli Mousoura
b. 1988
Nicholas Bacon
1510 – 1579
Oleg Artemyev
b. 1970
Oleksandr Vasyuk
b. 1994
Otto von Bülow
1827 – 1901
Oybek
1904 – 1968
Paul Guermonprez
1908 – 1944
Pedro Cayuqueo
b. 1975
Peter M. Neumann
1940 – 2020
Philippe de Gaulle
1921 – 2024
Pierre Roques
1856 – 1920
Raimond Castaing
1921 – 1998
Rob Klose
b. 1977
Robert Storr
b. 1949
Roger Brent
b. 1955
Roger Sessions
1896 – 1985
Roy Hattersley
1932 – 2026
Ryszard Karpiński
1935 – 2024
Salim Zanoun
1933 – 2022
Salomon van Til
1643 – 1713
Samir Kumar Saha
b. 1955
Samson Eitrem
1872 – 1966
Sara Hobolt
b. 1977
Shen Congwen
1902 – 1988
Stanislav Hazheev
b. 1941
Sten Lindroth
1914 – 1980
Stephen Born
1824 – 1898
Stephen Cave
1820 – 1880
Tadeusz Zwiefka
b. 1954
Tetsuya Watari
1941 – 2020
Teuvo Aura
1912 – 1999
Thomas A. Scott
1823 – 1881
Thomas Degos
b. 1971
Thomas Ewing
1789 – 1871
Torahiko Terada
1878 – 1935
Vincent Meriton
b. 1960
Väino Reinart
b. 1962
Väinö Valve
1895 – 1995
Wayne Martin
b. 1952
Werner Römisch
b. 1947
Wilbur Cortez Abbott
1869 – 1947
Willem Frederik Reinier Suringar
1832 – 1898
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
1857 – 1943
William Draper Harkins
1873 – 1951
William Robert Poage
1899 – 1987
Yehoram Gaon
b. 1939
Yngve Slettholm
b. 1955
Zeynab Khanlarova
b. 1936
A. J. Walton
b. 1990
A. K. Antony
b. 1940
Aaron Augenblick
b. 1975
Adam Peaty
b. 1994
Ahmad Fazlur Rahman
1889 – 1945
Alba Flores Robla
b. 1992
Albert Mechelynck
1854 – 1924
Alberto Forchielli
b. 1955
Alberto Vassallo di Torregrossa
1865 – 1959
Alejandro Posadas
1870 – 1902
Aleksandr Robak
b. 1973
Aleksandras Abišala
b. 1955
Alfred L. Pearson
1838 – 1903
Alfred Romer
1894 – 1973
Allar Levandi
b. 1965
Aloisea Inyumba
1964 – 2012
Ambrosе (Gudko)
1867 – 1918
Ana Navarro
b. 1971
Anatoly Voronovsky
b. 1966
Andreas Osiander
1498 – 1552
… and 3,645 more
Died on December 28
Georges Loinger
1910 – 2018
Josephine Barnes
1912 – 1999
Alexander Cassatt
1839 – 1906
Alfred Baring Garrod
1819 – 1907
Arne Rettedal
1926 – 2001
Charles Malik
1906 – 1987
Claudius Regaud
1870 – 1940
Franz Xaver Kraus
1840 – 1901
Georges Huisman
1889 – 1957
Halton Arp
1927 – 2013
Ian Murdock
1973 – 2015
Isaak Kikoin
1908 – 1984
Johannes Rydberg
1854 – 1919
John Henry Pratt
1809 – 1871
Louisa Aldrich-Blake
1865 – 1925
Marcel Aubert
1884 – 1962
Mineichirō Adachi
1870 – 1934
Ouang Te Tchao
1905 – 1998
René Leriche
1879 – 1955
Stanisław Estreicher
1869 – 1939
Sung Shu Chien
1883 – 1965
William Arthur White
1824 – 1891
Yahia Boushaki
1935 – 1960
Adam Wilson
1814 – 1891
Alfred Dudley Ward
1905 – 1991
Algernon Phillips Withiel Thomas
1857 – 1937
Amarnath Sehgal
1922 – 2007
Amos Oz
1939 – 2018
Andrew Jacobs Jr.
1932 – 2013
Ante Pavelić
1889 – 1959
Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond
1927 – 2001
Arata Isozaki
1931 – 2022
Arianna W. Rosenbluth
1927 – 2020
Arthur Anthony Macdonell
1854 – 1930
Bengt Rosenius
1918 – 1979
Billy Taylor
1921 – 2010
Björn Kurtén
1924 – 1988
Carl Friedrich Rammelsberg
1813 – 1899
Carl Theodore Liebermann
1842 – 1914
Charles Franquet de Franqueville
1840 – 1919
Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley
1794 – 1888
Clara Eaton Cummings
1855 – 1906
Clarence Day
1874 – 1935
Clayton Moore
1914 – 1999
Corneliu Baba
1906 – 1997
Daniel Brélaz
1950 – 2025
David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie
1893 – 1968
Debbie Reynolds
1932 – 2016
Denis Dutton
1944 – 2010
Dieter Sauberzweig
1925 – 2005
Edgar Hovhannisyan
1930 – 1998
Edward Merewether
1858 – 1938
Ernesto de la Cárcova
1866 – 1927
Francesco Maria Grimaldi
1618 – 1663
Frank McManus
1905 – 1983
George Washington Baines
1809 – 1882
Georgy Baydukov
1907 – 1994
Gerard van Leijenhorst
1928 – 2001
H. Jack Geiger
1925 – 2020
Habib Bourguiba, Jr.
1927 – 2009
Harry Reid
1939 – 2021
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
1780 – 1850
Henry Winneke
1908 – 1985
Henry de Vere Vane, 9th Baron Barnard
1854 – 1918
Herbert R. Temple Jr.
1928 – 2024
Horst Schumann
1924 – 1993
Ian Malcolm
1868 – 1944
James Cayne
1934 – 2021
James H. Strauss, Jr.
1950 – 2021
Jean Marcadé
1920 – 2012
Jessie Cooper
1914 – 1993
Johann Friedrich Gronovius
1611 – 1671
Johann von Staupitz
1465 – 1524
John Bayley Darvall
1809 – 1883
John N. Heiskell
1872 – 1972
Joseph Garat
1872 – 1944
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
1656 – 1708
Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
1896 – 1988
Kazimierz Świtalski
1886 – 1962
Lawrence C. Gorman
1898 – 1953
Leo Loeb
1869 – 1959
Luis Rebolledo de Palafox y Melzi
1772 – 1843
Lynn Thorndike
1882 – 1965
Madeleine Barot
1909 – 1995
Manfred R. Schroeder
1926 – 2009
Martin Karplus
1930 – 2024
Michael R. Clifford
1952 – 2021
Michel Déon
1919 – 2016
Michel-Jean Borch
1753 – 1810
Moshe Brawer
1919 – 2020
Mustafa Mardanov
1894 – 1968
Nilcéia Freire
1953 – 2019
Paul Hindemith
1895 – 1963
Paul Wilwertz
1905 – 1979
Pavel Kurochkin
1900 – 1989
Pedro José Pidal, 1st Marquis of Pidal
1799 – 1865
Pierre de Labriolle
1874 – 1940
Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat
1936 – 2024
Robert Montgomery
1809 – 1887
Sam Levene
1905 – 1980
Samuel Abraham Goldblith
1919 – 2001
Sergei Zhebelev
1867 – 1941
Sergey Tolstov
1907 – 1976
Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt
1661 – 1727
Stevo Žigon
1926 – 2005
Stewart Cheifet
1938 – 2025
Susan Sontag
1933 – 2004
Theodore Caldwell Janeway
1872 – 1917
Theodore Newcomb
1903 – 1984
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
1800 – 1859
Vasiliy Rakov
1909 – 1996
Victor Anfuso
1905 – 1966
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
1869 – 1947
Yuri Tolubeyev
1906 – 1979
A. J. Liebling
1904 – 1963
Abdelmalek Benhabyles
1921 – 2018
Abubakar Siddique
1934 – 2023
Achyut Kanvinde
1916 – 2002
Adam Crooks
1827 – 1885
Albert Ingman
1871 – 1948
Alda Grimaldi
1919 – 2023
Alexander Christian Møller
1762 – 1847
Alexander G. Barry
1892 – 1952
Alexander Iwanowitsch Jakowlew
1863 – 1909
Alexander Shaler
1827 – 1911
Alexandre de Serpa Pinto
1846 – 1900
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1879 – 1952
Alexei Kirichenko
1908 – 1975
Alexei Lvov
1798 – 1870
Alfred Earle
1827 – 1918
Alfred Edwin McKay
1892 – 1917
Alfredo Barrera Vásquez
1900 – 1980
Allan Dwan
1885 – 1981
Alton Lennon
1906 – 1986
Andrzej Trzebicki
1607 – 1679
Antonin Idrac
1849 – 1884
Antonio Caldara
1670 – 1736
Antonio Ferri
1912 – 1975
Antonio Saverio De Luca
1805 – 1883
Aroldo Tieri
1917 – 2006
Arthur Chaussy
1880 – 1945
Augustus d'Este
1794 – 1848
Benjamin Thurman Hacker
1935 – 2003
Bertram Schmiterlöw
1920 – 2002
Bill Anderson
1911 – 1997
Boris Stegmann
1898 – 1975
Brian Hooker
1880 – 1946
Brigitte Bardot
1934 – 2025
Cal Holman
1931 – 2007
Carl Hintze
1851 – 1916
Carlo Agostini
1888 – 1952
Charles Burney
1757 – 1817
Charles Hambro
1872 – 1947
Charles Igwe Arizechukwu
1958 – 2025
Charles Malo François Lameth
1757 – 1832
Charles Marley Anderson
1845 – 1908
Charles P. Hutchins
1872 – 1938
Charles de Lardemelle
1867 – 1935
Clarence Josef McLin Jr.
1921 – 1988
Constantin Karadja
1889 – 1950
Crisp Gascoyne
1700 – 1761
Curt von François
1852 – 1931
Cyril Wyche
1632 – 1707
Dan Kraus
1923 – 2012
David L. Stone
1876 – 1959
Dennis Miller Bunker
1861 – 1890
Dick Marty
1945 – 2023
Dietrich Möller
1937 – 2024
Du Xigui
1875 – 1933
Ebadollah S. Mahmoodian
1943 – 2024
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
1872 – 1961
Eduard Adorno
1920 – 2000
Eduard Strauss
1835 – 1916
Edward Carey Walker
1820 – 1894
Edward Carfagno
1907 – 1996
Edward J. Connelly
1876 – 1960
Edwin Bidwell Wilson
1879 – 1964
Eiji Kimizuka
1952 – 2015
Einar Oscar Schou
1877 – 1966
Eloy Inos
1949 – 2015
Ernest Noirot
1851 – 1913
Ernest Radlov
1854 – 1928
Erzsébet Szőnyi
1924 – 2019
Ethelene Crockett
1914 – 1978
Fou Ts'ong
1934 – 2020
Francis Greenwood Peabody
1847 – 1936
Francis de Sales
1567 – 1622
František Kreuzmann sr.
1895 – 1960
Fred Richmond
1923 – 2019
Frederik Adeler
1700 – 1766
Fritz Fischer
1898 – 1947
Frédéric Weisgerber
1868 – 1946
Gaspar de Borja y Velasco
1580 – 1645
Georg Thilenius
1868 – 1937
George Henry White
1852 – 1918
George Rankin
1887 – 1957
George XII of Georgia
1746 – 1800
Georges Rivollet
1888 – 1974
Georgi Rikov
1946 – 2002
Gerrit Smith
1797 – 1874
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