July 28 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on July 28, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♌︎ Leo
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Birth stone
Ruby
Birth flower
Larkspur
How common
#115 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous July 28 birthdays
Ludwig Feuerbach · German philosopher and anthropologist1804
Edward Drinker Cope · American paleontologist, geologist, and biologist1840
Beatrix Potter · British children's writer and illustrator1866
Marcel Duchamp · French painter, sculptor, and chess player1887
Karl Popper · Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e1902
Pavel Cherenkov · Soviet physicist1904
Charles H. Townes · 20th-century American physicist1915
Baruch Samuel Blumberg · American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner1925
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis · First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 19631929
Bud Luckey · American animator1934
Jim Davis · American cartoonist1945
Santiago Calatrava · Spanish-Swiss engineer, architect, and artist1951
Vajiralongkorn · King of Thailand since 20161952
Hugo Chávez · Venezuelan politician, 56th president of Venezuela1954
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi · Leader of the Islamic State1971
Elizabeth Berkley · American actress1972
Alexis Tsipras · Prime Minister of Greece1974
Michael Carrick · English footballer and manager1981
Juan Guaidó · Venezuelan politician and former President of the National Assembly1983
Harry Kane · English association football player1993
On this day in history
1866Aged 18, Vinnie Ream became the youngest artist and first woman to receive a United States government commission for a statue—that of Abraham Lincoln currently in the Capitol rotunda.
1915U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince to begin a nineteen-year occupation of Haiti.
1917In New York City, the NAACP and church and community leaders organized a silent march of at least 8,000 people to protest violence directed towards African Americans.
2005Britain's costliest tornado struck Birmingham, injuring 39 people and causing £40 million of damage across the city.
1940At the Salzburg Conference, Adolf Hitler demanded the replacement of much of Slovakia's cabinet.
1965Vietnam War: U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
1996The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
2001At the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Australian Ian Thorpe became the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single FINA world championship.
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