Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 28
Births
[edit]- 1887 - Marcel Duchamp, French painter (d. 1968)
- 1902 - Karl Popper, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
- 1938 - Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru
- 1951 - Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
- 1952 - Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist
- 1954 - Steve Morse, American guitarist
- 1954 - Hugo Chávez, (pictured) President of Venezuela (d. 2013)
- 1958 - Terry Fox, Canadian athlete (d. 1981)
- 1976 - Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach)
Deaths
[edit]- 450 - Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (b. 401)
- 1741 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
- 1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)
- 2004 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)