What happened on July 28 ?

1659 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1715)

1767 - James A. Bayard (elder), U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1815)

1804 - Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)

1844 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)

1857 - Ballington Booth, Salvation Army Officer and co-founder of Volunteers of America (d. 1940)

1863 - Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919)

1866 - Beatrix Potter, English author (d. 1943)

1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (d. 1951)

1872 - Albert Sarraut, French politician (d. 1962)

1874 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (d. 1945)

1887 - Marcel Duchamp, French painter (d. 1968)

1896 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926)

1901 - Rudy Vallee, American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer (d. 1986)

1902 - Karl Popper, Austrian-born philosopher of science (d. 1994)

1904 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)

1907 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)

1909 - Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (d. 1957)

1914 - Carmen Dragon, composer (d. 1984)

1915 - Charles Townes, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1915 - Frankie Yankovic, American musician (d. 1998)

1916 - David Brown, American film producer

1922 - Jacques Piccard, Belgian-born undersea explorer

1925 - Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1927 - John Ashbery, American poet

1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)

1930 - Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)

1934 - Jacques d'Amboise, American dancer and choreographer

1935 - Simon Dee, British television broadcaster

1936 - Garfield Sobers, West Indian cricketer

1938 - Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru

1940 - Philip Proctor, American comedian

1941 - Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor

1943 - Mike Bloomfield, American guitarist (d. 1981)

1943 - Bill Bradley, basketball player and U.S. Senator

1945 - Jim Davis, American cartoonist

1945 - Richard Wright English keyboard player (Pink Floyd)

1946 - Linda Kelsey, American actress

1948 - Georgia Engel, American actress

1948 - Sally Struthers, American actress

1949 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer and songwriter (d. 1980)

1951 - Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect

1952 - Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist

1952 - Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand

1954 - Steve Morse, American guitarist

1954 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela

1954 - Bruce Abbott, American actor

1955 - Nikolay Zimyatov, Russian cross-country skier

1958 - Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (d. 1981)

1962 - Rachel Sweet, American singer

1965 - Lori Loughlin, American actress

1968 - Taka Hirose, Japanese bassist, (Feeder)

1970 - Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist (Arch Enemy)

1971 - Stephen Lynch, American musician

1972 - Elizabeth Berkley, American actress

1972 - Ed Templeton, Professional skateboarder

1976 - Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach)

1977 - Tiago Andres Vaz, Brazilian composer

1977 - Emanuel Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player

1979 - Lee Minwoo, singer in korean group Shinhwa

1979 - Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer

1982 - Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actor