November 28 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on November 28, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Topaz
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
How common
#350 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous November 28 birthdays
Friedrich Engels · German philosopher, sociologist and economist1820
Alfonso XII · King of Spain from 1874 to 18851857
Stefan Zweig · Austrian writer1881
Claude Lévi-Strauss · French anthropologist and ethnologist1908
Konstantin Simonov · Soviet writer, poet, playwright and wartime correspondent1915
Gloria Grahame · American actress1923
Hope Lange · American actress1933
Tom Regan · American philosopher1938
Randy Newman · American singer-songwriter and pianist1943
Ed Harris · American actor and director1950
Russell Alan Hulse · American astronomer1950
Alfonso Cuarón · Mexican filmmaker1961
Jon Stewart · American comedian, writer, producer, activist, and television host1962
Anna Nicole Smith · American actress and television personality1967
Édouard Philippe · Prime Minister of France from 2017 to 20201970
Hiroshi Nanami · Japanese association football player and manager1972
Mary Elizabeth Winstead · American actress1984
Karen Gillan · Scottish actress and filmmaker1987
Hiroki Fujiharu · Japanese association football player1988
Chase Elliott · American stock car racing driver1995
On this day in history
1895The Chicago Times-Herald race, the first automobile race in the U.S., was held in Chicago.
1912At the All-Albanian Congress, the Assembly of Vlorë was constituted, which declared the independence of the Albanian Vilayet from the Ottoman Empire.
1925Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running radio broadcast in the United States, first aired on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee.
1967Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a "bit of scruff" in data from a radio telescope, which turned out to be from PSR B1919+21, the first discovered pulsar.
1914World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
1958First successful flight of SM-65 Atlas; the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family.
1964Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
1966In a military coup, Michel Micombero abolished the Burundian monarchy and declared the country a republic with himself as president.
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