October 28 – Famous Birthdays
Julia Roberts (MOVIE ACTRESS) 1967
Gwendoline Christie (MOVIE ACTRESS) 1978
Joaquin Phoenix (MOVIE ACTOR) 1974
October 28 – Famous Birthdays
1017 Henry III Holy Roman emperor (1046-56)
1585 Cornelius Otto Jansen France, Roman Catholic reform leader
1810 Brig Gen Adley H Gladden La, killed at Shiloh
1818 Ivan Turgenev Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons)
1842 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War)
1846 Auguste Escoffier king of chefs & chef of kings
1896 Howard Hanson Wahoo Nebraska, composer/conductor (Nordic)
19– Dennis Parker [Wade Nichols] actor/porno star (Edge of Night)
19– Rose Alaio actor (Guiding Light)
1902 Elsa Lanchester Lewisham London, actress (Bride of Frankenstien)
1903 Evelyn Waugh London, author (Brideshead Revisited)
1907 Edith Head fashion designer (MGM)
1907 Lew Parker actor (Lou Marie-That Girl)
1910 Marie Dollinger Germany, dropped baton in 1936 Olympic sprint
1914 Dr Jonas Salk NYC, medical researcher, made polio a fear of the past
1926 Bowie Kuhn baseball commissioner (1969-1984)
1927 Cleo Laine Middlesex England, singer (Flesh to a Tiger)
1929 Dody Goodman Columbus Ohio, actress (Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan)
1929 Joan Plowright England, actress (Brimstone & Treacle)
1934 Jim Beatty track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile)
1936 Charlie Daniels country music star (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
1937 Lenny Wilkins NBA player, coach (Seattle, Cleveland)
1939 Jane Alexander Mass, actress (The Betsy, Kramer vs Kramer)
1940 Gennadi M Strekalov cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11)
1944 Coluche France comedian/actor (My Best Friend’s Girl)
1944 Dennis Franz Maywood Ill, actor (Norman Buntz-Hill Street Blues)
1945 Wayne Fontana Manchester England, rocker (Groovy Kind of Love)
1947 Tom Fitzsimmons SF Calif, actor (Franklin-The Paper Chase)
1948 Telma Hopkins Louisville, singer (Tony Orlando, Family Matters)
1949 Bruce Jenner US, decathalete (Olympic-gold-1976)
1952 Annie Potts Nashville TN, actress (Mary Jo-Designing Women)
1955 William Gates billionaire CEO (Microsoft)
1957 Stephen Morris rocker (New Order-Round & Round)
1959 Neville Henry rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1959 Walther Bauersfeld 1919 inventor (1st modern projection planetarium)
1960 Mark Derwin Park Forest Ill, actor (AC Mallet-Guiding Light)
1962 Daphne Zuniga actress (Gross Anatomy, Fly II, Spaceballs)
1963 Veronica Gamba Buenos Aires Arg, playmate (November, 1983)
1965 Jami Gertz Chicago, actress (Less the Zero, Crossroads, Solarbabies)
1966 Lauren Holly actress (All My Children)
1974 Leaf Phoenix PR, actor (Russkies, Space Camp)
