June 28 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on June 28, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♋︎ Cancer
Jun 21 – Jul 22
Birth stone
Pearl
Birth flower
Rose
How common
#66 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous June 28 birthdays
Luigi Pirandello · Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer and poet1867
Alexis Carrel · French surgeon and biologist1873
Pierre Laval · French politician1883
Richard Rodgers · American composer of songs and Broadway musicals1902
Maria Goeppert Mayer · German-born American theoretical physicist1906
P. V. Narasimha Rao · Prime Minister of India1921
Mel Brooks · American comedian, filmmaker, and actor1926
F. Sherwood Rowland · American chemist1927
Pat Morita · Japanese-American actor1932
Leon Panetta · American politician, Secretary of Defense 2011–20131938
Muhammad Yunus · Bangladeshi banker1940
Klaus von Klitzing · German physicist1943
Bruce Davison · American actor1946
Kathy Bates · American film actress and director1948
Georgi Parvanov · 4th President of Bulgaria 2002-20121957
John Cusack · American actor, producer, and screenwriter1966
Elon Musk · American businessman1971
Fabien Barthez · French footballer1971
Markiplier · American YouTuber and Internet personality1989
Kevin De Bruyne · Belgian association football player1991
On this day in history
1895The U.S. Court of Private Land Claims ruled that James Reavis's claim to 18,600 sq mi (48,000 km2) of land in present-day Arizona and New Mexico was "wholly fictitious and fraudulent".
1969In response to a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, groups of gay and transgender people began demonstrations, a watershed event for the worldwide gay rights movement.
1989President Slobodan Milošević gave a speech at Gazimestan in which he described the possibility of "armed battles" in the future of Serbia's national development.
2012The United States Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius.
1964Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
1978The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, bars quota systems in college admissions.
1990Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, was found guilty of copyright infringement for using Lotus 1-2-3's look-and-feel interface in its own spreadsheet program.
2004Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
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