May 28 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 28, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#338 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 28 birthdays
Louis Agassiz · Swiss-American naturalist1807
Edvard Beneš · Czechoslovak politician1884
Jim Thorpe · American track and field athlete and baseball player1888
Patrick White · English-born Australian writer1912
Joseph Greenberg · American linguist1915
Bülent Ecevit · 16th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey1925
Frank Drake · American astronomer and astrophysicist1930
Carroll Baker · American actress1931
Jerry West · American basketball player and executive1938
Stanley B. Prusiner · American neurologist and biochemist1942
Rudy Giuliani · American attorney and politician1944
John Fogerty · American musician1945
Kylie Minogue · Australian singer and actress1968
Marco Rubio · 72nd United States Secretary of State since 20251971
Carey Mulligan · British actress1985
Colbie Caillat · American singer1985
Seth Rollins · American professional wrestler and actor1986
Kyle Walker · English association football player1990
Cameron Boyce · American actor1999
Phil Foden · English footballer2000
On this day in history
1754French and Indian War: Led by 22-year-old George Washington, a company of Virginia colonial militiamen ambushed a force of 35 Canadiens at the Battle of Jumonville Glen.
1830U.S. president Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, authorizing him to negotiate with Native Americans for their removal from their ancestral homelands.
1892Scottish-American preservationist John Muir founded the environmental organization Sierra Club in California.
2002An independent commission appointed by the Football Association voted two-to-one to allow Wimbledon F.C. to relocate from London to Milton Keynes.
1937The rise of Neville Chamberlain culminated with his accession as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, being summoned to Buckingham Palace to "kiss hands".
1940Second World War: Belgium surrendered to Nazi Germany, ending the Battle of Belgium.
1987Mathias Rust, a West German aviator, flew his Cessna 172 from Helsinki, Finland, through Soviet air defences, landing illegally near Red Square in Moscow.
1996U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
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