November 28th, 1939

Born on November 28th, 1939

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Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 172 days, exactly on October 12th, 2024, people who were born on November 28th, 1939 will be 31,000 days old!

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What happened on November 28th?

November 28th, 2016

LaMia Flight 2933 crashed near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 people, many of whom were players from Chapecoense Football Club.

November 28th, 1987

South African Airways Flight 295 suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing all 159 people on board.

November 28th, 1979

Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed into Antarctica's Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.

November 28th, 1975

East Timor declared independence from Portugal.

November 28th, 1967

Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a "bit of scruff" in data from a radio telescope, which turned out to be from PSR B1919+21, the first discovered pulsar.

November 28th, 1966

In a military coup, Michel Micombero abolished the Burundian monarchy and declared the country a republic with himself as president.

November 28th, 1925

Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running radio broadcast in the United States, first aired on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee.

November 28th, 1912

At the All-Albanian Congress, the Assembly of Vlorë was constituted, which declared the independence of the Albanian Vilayet from the Ottoman Empire.

November 28th, 1895

The Chicago Times-Herald race, the first automobile race in the U.S., was held in Chicago.

November 28th, 1660

Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists met at Gresham College in London to found a learned society, now known as the Royal Society.

November 28th, 1470

Đại Việt emperor Lê Thánh Tông launched a military expedition against Champa, beginning the Champa–Đại Việt War.

November 28th, 1443

Having deserted the Ottoman army, Skanderbeg (pictured) arrived in the Albanian city of Krujë and, using a forged letter from Sultan Murad II to the governor of Krujë, became lord of the city.

November 28th, 2020

Over seven hundred civilians are massacred by the Ethiopian National Defense Force and Eritrean Army in Aksum, Ethiopia.

November 28th, 2016

LaMia Flight 2933 crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 71 of 77 people on board, including members of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense

November 28th, 2014

Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killing at least 120 people.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on November 28th

Born on November 28th, 1939

61

Ernie Wheelwright

American football player (1939-2001)

*November 28th, 1939, Columbus †May 1st, 2001, Las Vegas

84

Michael Arends

German publisher

*November 28th, 1939, Berlin

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Who's birthday is on November 28th?

33

Edis

Turkish singer-songwriter

*November 28th, 1990, London

70

Ewald Lienen

German association football player and manager

*November 28th, 1953, Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock

73

Laura Antonelli

Italian actress (1941-2015)

*November 28th, 1941, Pula †June 22nd, 2015, Ladispoli

73

Ed Harris

American actor and director (born 1950)

*November 28th, 1950, Englewood

44

Chen Hong

Chinese badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

76

Clem Curtis

British boxer and singer (1940-2017)

*November 28th, 1940, Trinidad †March 27th, 2017

34

Andhika Anhar

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1989, Bogor City

79

Leiva Petersen

German classical philologist and publisher

*November 28th, 1912, Berlin †April 17th, 1992, Weimar

74

Paul Shaffer

Canadian singer, composer, actor, author, comedian, and multi-instrumentalist

*November 28th, 1949, Thunder Bay

47

Ryan Kwanten

Australian actor and comedian (born 1976)

*November 28th, 1976, Sydney

71

S. Epatha Merkerson

American actress

*November 28th, 1952, Saginaw

100

Claude Lévi-Strauss

French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)

*November 28th, 1908, City of Brussels †October 30th, 2009, 16th arrondissement of Paris

59

Michael Bennet

United States senator from Colorado

*November 28th, 1964, New Delhi

73

Manlio Rocchetti

Italian make-up artist

*November 28th, 1943, Rome †January 10th, 2017, Florida

61

Jane Sibbett

American actress

*November 28th, 1962, Berkeley

87

Terence Frisby

British writer

*November 28th, 1932, New Cross †April 22nd, 2020

78

Tom Regan

American philosopher

*November 28th, 1938, Pittsburgh †February 17th, 2017, Raleigh

42

Jake Helgren

American film producer, director and screenwriter

*November 28th, 1981, Elgin

73

Russell Alan Hulse

American astronomer

*November 28th, 1950, New York City

80

Randy Newman

American singer-songwriter and pianist

*November 28th, 1943, Los Angeles

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Born in 1939

85

Hans Kloft

German historian of classical antiquity

*April 10th, 1939, Düsseldorf

64

João César Monteiro

Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic

*February 2nd, 1939, Figueira da Foz †February 3rd, 2003, Lisbon

77

Dudley Storey

New Zealand rower

*November 27th, 1939, Wairoa †March 6th, 2017, Auckland

84

Thilo Ulbert

German christian archaeologist

*June 20th, 1939, Augsburg

83

Tina Turner

American-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)

*November 26th, 1939, Brownsville †May 24th, 2023, Küsnacht

83

Hans-Christian Ströbele

German lawyer and politician (1939–2022)

*June 7th, 1939, Halle (Saale) †August 29th, 2022, Moabit

78

Oscar Fulloné

Argentine association football player and manager (1939-2017)

*April 4th, 1939, La Plata †May 22nd, 2017, Casablanca

84

Helga Piur

German actress and voice actress

*May 24th, 1939, Berlin

84

Yves Meyer

French mathematician

*July 19th, 1939, Paris

84

Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist,pépiniériste and inventor

*November 18th, 1939, Ottawa

56

Peter Aust

1939-1996 German actor

*March 17th, 1939, Bytom †January 26th, 1996, Bad Wildungen

70

Dixie Carter

American actress (1939–2010)

*May 25th, 1939, McLemoresville †April 10th, 2010, Houston

78

Irio De Paula

Brazilian composer

*May 10th, 1939, Rio de Janeiro †May 23rd, 2017, Rome

78

Peter Grünberg

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

*May 18th, 1939, Plzeň †April 7th, 2018, Jülich

59

Dusty Springfield

British singer (1939–1999)

*April 16th, 1939, London †March 2nd, 1999, Henley-on-Thames

74

Karen Black

American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter (1939-2013)

*July 1st, 1939, Park Ridge †August 8th, 2013, Santa Monica

80

Karel Gott

Czech singer and actor

*July 14th, 1939, Plzeň †October 1st, 2019, Prague

84

Brenda Vaccaro

American actress

*November 18th, 1939, Brooklyn

80

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

*August 22nd, 1939, Suffern †August 30th, 2019, Los Angeles

84

Jane Alexander

American actress (b. 1939)

*October 28th, 1939, Boston

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