1928

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1925 1926 1927 – 1928 – 1929 1930 1931

The year 1928 (MCMXXIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar,the 1928th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 928th year of the 2nd millennium, the 28th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1920s decade. It had 366 days. This is before Tuesday, January 1, 1929, with an adoption of the Gregorian calendar from every state in the entire world.

Events

January 31 – Leon Trotsky is exiled to Kazakhstan
February 8 – British inventor John Logie Baird sends the first television signal across the Atlantic Ocean, from London to New York
May 7 – The United Kingdom gives equal voting rights to women by passing the Representation of the People Act. This law allows women to vote when they are 21 years old, like men. Before this, women could not vote until they were 30.
June 9 – Australian flyer Charles Kingsford Smith finishes the first airplane flight across the Pacific Ocean.
September 28 – Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
October 2 – Josemaria Escriva starts Opus Dei.

Births

January

January 5 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan and 4th President of Pakistan (d. 1979)

February

February 1 – Stuart Whitman, American actor
February 22 – Sir Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer and television presenter
February 26 – Fats Domino, American musician
February 28 – Sir Stanley Baker, Welsh actor (d. 1976)
February 29 – Joss Ackland, British actor

March

March 5 – Diana Coupland, British actress
March 6 - Glyn Owen, Welsh actor (d. 2004)
March 20 – Fred Rogers, American television children's program host and writer (d. 2003)

April

April 7 – James Garner, American actor (Maverick, The Rockford Files)
April 23 – Shirley Temple, American child actress and diplomat (d. 2014)
April 24 – Tommy Docherty, Scottish footballer and manager of Manchester United F.C. (1973-1977)
April 30 – Dickie Davies, British television sports presenter (World of Sport)

May

May 4 – Hosni Mubarak, 4th President of Egypt and Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2020)
May 12 – Burt Bacharach, American composer and songwriter
May 23
- Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
- Nigel Davenport, British actor (d. 2013)
May 30 – Clint Walker, American actor (Cheyenne)

June

June 1 – Bob Monkhouse, British actor, comedian, writer and television game show host (d. 2003)
June 14 – Che Guevara, Argentinian Marxist revolutionary (d. 1967)

July

July 12
- Sir Alastair Burnett, British journalist and television newsreader (ITV)
- Kathy Staff, British actress (Crossroads, Last of the Summer Wine)
July 26 – Stanley Kubrick, American movie director (d. 1999)

August

August 10 – Eddie Fisher, American singer (d. 2010)
August 22 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)

September

September 19 – Adam West, American actor (Batman, Family Guy)

October

November

November 10 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor (d. 2022)

December

December 1 - Malachi Throne, American television actor (d. 2013)
December 12 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani writer (d. 2008)
December 30 – Bo Diddley, American rock and roll musician (d. 2008).

Deaths

February 4 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and mathematician

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