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Birthdays of Personalities on May 28

1371 : John, the Fearless, Burgundy France, Duke of Burgundy/warrior
1577 : Floris II van Pallandt, Dutch earl of Culemborg/politician
1660 : George I, King of England (1714-27)
1738 : Joseph Ignace Guillotin, France, physician/inventor (guillotine)
1759 : William Pitt, the Younger (C), English PM (1783-1801, 1804-06)
1782 : Wouter J van Troostwijk, Dutch painter
1789 : Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Tomorrow- og Aftensange)
1807 : Jan van Swieten, Dutch general/governor of West-Sumatra
1807 : Louis Agassiz, Switzerland, naturalist/geologist/teacher
1810 : Alexandre Calamo, Switz, painter/etcher/lithographer
1818 : Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, US Confederate gen (Hero of Sumter)
1819 : William Birney, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1907
1820 : Willem Doorenbos, [Keerom], literary/critic
1828 : Alpheus Baker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1828 : Bartel Wilton, machinefabrikant/ship builder
1830 : George Lucas Hartsuff, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1831 : Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor
1838 : Basil Wilson Duke, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1916
1863 : Georg Adler, German state economist
1865 : Gerrit Grijns, Dutch physiologist (Vitamin E)
1868 : Claude Anet, [Jean Schopfer], French writer (Fille Perdue)
1874 : G K Chesterton, writer
1879 : Milutin Milankovic, Yugoslavian astronomer/meteorologist
1884 : Edvard Benes, premier/president of Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48)
1884 : Theo(door) van Reijn, Dutch sculptor/lithographer
1886 : Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Seattle Symph)
1898 : Andy Kirk, jazz musician
1900 : Owen Aisher, president (Marley)
1903 : Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer (Golden Sail)
1907 : Frederick George Emmison, archivist/historian
1907 : Patrick Browne, British Lord justice of appeal
1908 : Ian Lancaster Fleming, London England, author (James Bond)
1909 : John Schepens, [Jean Baudoux], Flemish journalist/writer (Polyfoto)
1910 : Stuart Piggott, archaeologist
1910 : T-Bone Walker, Linden Tx, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done)
1911 : Jean-Pierre Levy, resistance leader
1912 : Leslie Monson, diplomat
1912 : Patrick White, Australia, novelist (Happy Valley, Nobel 1973)
1913 : Gordon Wolstenholme, physician
1914 : W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot
1915 : Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violinist
1916 : C Wright Mills, US sociologist (Power Elite) [or Aug 28]
1916 : Gerald McArthur, detective
1916 : Walker Percy, Birmingham Ala, writer (Adventures of a Bad Catholic)
1917 : "Papa" John Creach, violinist
1917 : Barry Commoner, Brooklyn NY, biologist (Science & Survival)
1917 : Gerald Cash, Gov-Gen (Bahamas)
1917 : Pape John Creech, rocker (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane)
1919 : Duke of Rutland, British land owner/multimillionaire
1919 : John Eldridge, CEO (Matthews Wrightmson)
1922 : John Alderson, chief constable (Devon & Cornwall UK)
1923 : Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, India, film star (Patala Bhairavi)
1924 : Edward du Cann, CEO (Lonrho)
1924 : Lord Rippon, British MP
1924 : Reginald Eyre, solicitor/MP
1925 : Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Zehlendorf Germany, baritone (Doktor Faust)
1927 : Fran‡ois Nourissier, French writer (Un petit bourgeois)
1927 : Norman Ireland, CEO (Bowater)
1927 : Robert Evans, CEO (British Gas)
1928 : Albert Booth, British government minister
1929 : Patrick McNair-Wilson, MP
1930 : Edward Seaga, PM (Jamaica)
1931 : Raymond Miquel, chairman (Scottish Sports Council)
1931 : Stephen Birmingham, Hartford, author (Real Lace: America's Irish Rich)
1932 : Lord Renton, MP (Conservative)
1932 : Timothy Renton, MP
1933 : Philip Otton, high court judge
1934 : Dionne Quintuplets, secluded quintuplets, born Annette, Alive Cecile, Alive Emelie, Dead 1954 Marie, Dead 1970 Yvonne, Alive, First known set of surviving quintuplets, these girls were treated as a side show and lived in a virtual muse
1934 : Dionne quintuplets, (Annette, C‚cile, milie, Marie, Yvonne), Canada
1935 : Kenneth Kleinwort, English banker/multi-millionaire
1940 : Betty Shabazz, educator/talk show hostess/widow (Malcolm X)
1940 : Thomas E Petri, (Rep-R-WI, 1979- )
1941 : Guntram Vesper, writer
1943 : Liz Edgar, horse show jumper
1943 : Ray Mitchell, governor (Albany Prison, England)
1943 : Tony Mansfield, [Anthony Bookbinder], rock drummer (Billy J Kramer)
1944 : Adriaan T "Ad" Zuiderent, poet/critic (On the Droge)
1944 : Billy Vera, musician (& Beaters-At This Moment, Into the Night)
1944 : Rudy Giuliani, (Mayor-R/L-NYC, 1994- )
1945 : John Fogerty, Berkeley Cal, rock vocals (Creedence Clearwater Revival
1947 : Faith Brown, impressionist
1947 : Patti Reynolds, Chicago Ill, playmate (Sept, 1965)
1948 : Ray Laidlaw, British rock drummer (Jack the Lad)
1954 : George E Mahlberg, Astrophysicist, Mt Palomar/Mt Wilson CA (1974-78)
1954 : Joƒo Carlos De Oliveira, Brazil, triple jumper (Oly-bronze-1976, 80)
1956 : Germaine Montenesdro, 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
1956 : Mark Alexander Lees, rowing Coach
1956 : Susie Diane Owens, Arkansas City Kansas, playmate (March, 1988)
1957 : Kirk Gibson, Mich, outfield (Tigers, Dodgers, 1988 NL MVP)
1957 : Walter R Tucker, (Rep-D-California)
1958 : Yvet Anna, painter
1961 : Roland Gift, UK, rocker (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy)
1964 : Leisa Sheridan, Omaha NE, playmate (Jul, 1993)
1968 : Kylie Minogue, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Locomotion)
1968 : Sandra Bacher, Long Island NY, half-heavyweight judoka (Oly-92, 96)
1970 : Morgan Fox, Prince George BC, playmate (Dec, 1990)
1972 : Cheryl Demkowski, Syracuse NY, dance skater (& Gregory Maddalone)

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