Curated category
1928 births
- Jack ScarisbrickJohn Joseph Scarisbrick entered the world in London during 1928. His early education took place at The John Fisher School before he joined the Royal Air…
- Stanley KubrickStanley Kubrick was born on the 26th of July 1928 in the Lying-In Hospital in Manhattan, and he died on the 7th of March 1999, just a few days after hosting…
- Jim LovellJim Lovell flew to the Moon twice and never set foot on it. That distinction alone would make him one of the most unusual figures in the history of human…
- Andy WarholAndy Warhol died at 6:31 in the morning on the 22nd of February 1987, in a private room at New York Hospital, from a sudden cardiac arrhythmia following what…
- Daniel HeartzDaniel Heartz entered the world on the 5th of October 1928. He grew up in a time that would shape his future approach to music history.
- Che GuevaraErnesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna signed Cuba's paper currency with a single word: "Che." His long-time friend Ricardo Rojo said that the day he signed the…
- Philip K. DickPhilip K. Dick died on the 2nd of March 1982, in a Santa Ana hospital, having never seen the film that would make his name famous.
- Charles David KeelingCharles David Keeling stood on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawaii, two miles above sea level, and began counting molecules. The year was 1958.
- Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky wrote his first article at the age of 10, absorbed by the fall of Barcelona and the destruction of the Spanish anarchosyndicalist movement.
- Frank BormanFrank Borman received a telegram after returning from the Moon. It was from a stranger, and it said simply: "Thank you Apollo 8.
- Allen Lawrence PopeAllen Lawrence Pope was born in Miami, Florida on the 20th of October 1928. He grew up as the son of a moderately prosperous fruit grower in Perrine, Florida.
- Czesława KwokaCzesława Kwoka was born on the 15th of August 1928 in Wólka Złojecka, a small village in Poland. Her parents were Roman Catholic and named Katarzyna…
- Al AronowitzAl Aronowitz was the man in the room when two of the most consequential musical forces of the twentieth century first met each other.
- Bo DiddleyBo Diddley stepped onto The Ed Sullivan Show on the 20th of November, 1955, and promptly ignored every instruction he had been given.
- Bob CousyBob Cousy fell out of a tree as a teenager in Queens, New York, broke his right hand, and spent months forced to use his left.
- Dolph SchayesAdolph Schayes arrived in the world on the 19th of May 1928, within the Bronx borough of New York City. His parents were Romanian-Jewish immigrants who…
- Osamu TezukaOsamu Tezuka spent his final hours in a Tokyo hospital bed, drawing. When a nurse tried to take his equipment away, his last words were: "I'm begging you…
- Joan KellyJoan Kelly entered the world on the 29th of March 1928 in Brooklyn. Her father was George V. Kelly and her mother was Ruth Jacobsen.
- John Stewart BellJohn Stewart Bell was born in Belfast on the 28th of July 1928, into a working-class family where neither his parents nor any of his three older siblings had…
- Frank RosenblattFrank Rosenblatt died on the 11th of July, 1971 - his 43rd birthday - in a boating accident on Chesapeake Bay. It was the same date he was born, in 1928, in…
- Earl LloydEarl Francis Lloyd stepped onto a basketball court on the night of the 31st of October 1950, and changed American sports history.