October 28 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 28, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♏︎ Scorpio
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#236 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 28 birthdays
James Brendan Connolly · American triple jumper1868
Elsa Lanchester · British-American actress1902
Evelyn Waugh · British writer and journalist1903
Francis Bacon · Irish-born British figurative painter1909
Jonas Salk · Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine1914
Garrincha · Brazilian association football player1933
Lenny Wilkens · American basketball player and coach1937
Jane Alexander · American actress1939
Caitlyn Jenner · American media personality and retired decathlete1949
Bill Gates · American businessman, investor, and philanthropist1955
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad · 6th President of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 2005 to 20131956
Lauren Holly · American actress1963
Eros Ramazzotti · Italian musician1963
Julia Roberts · American actress1967
Joaquin Phoenix · American actor1974
Jawed Karim · American entrepreneur, co-founder of YouTube1979
Milan Baroš · Czech association football player1981
Matt Smith · English actor1982
Troian Bellisario · American actress1985
Frank Ocean · American singer, songwriter, and rapper1987
On this day in history
1776American Revolutionary War: As George Washington's Continental Army retreated northward from New York City, the British Army captured the village of White Plains.
1886In New York Harbor, U.S. president Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France commemorating the Declaration of Independence.
1919The U.S. Congress passed the Volstead Act over president Woodrow Wilson's veto, reinforcing Prohibition in the United States.
1965In St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., the 630-foot (190 m)-tall steel catenary Gateway Arch was completed.
1971Prospero (flight spare pictured), the first British satellite launched on a British rocket, lifted off from Launch Area 5B in Woomera, South Australia.
1992Hans-Adam II threatened to dismiss the Landtag of Liechtenstein over disagreements on the date of a referendum for the country's accession to the EEA.
2007In the Argentine general election, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became the first woman to be elected president of Argentina.
2009NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.
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