September 28th Birthdays

American R&B singer, Ben E. King, was born on this day in 1947 in Harlem, NYC. He passed away at age 76 on April 30, 2015.

Also born on September 28th:

1934
Brigitte Bardot, French actress
1942
Marshall Bell, American actor
1943
Nick St. Nicholas, Canadian musician
1946
Jeffrey Jones, American actor
Helen Shapiro, English singer
1950
Laurie Lewis, American musician
1954
Steve Largent, American football player, politician
George Lynch, American musician
1959
Steve Hytner, American actor
1960
Jennifer Rush, American pop singer
1964
Laura Cerón, American actress
Janeane Garofalo, American actress, comedian
1966
Maria Canals Barrera, American actress, singer
Ginger Fish, American musician
1967
Mira Sorvino, American actress
Moon Unit Zappa, American singer, actress
1969
Éric Lapointe, Canadian singer
1970
Mike DeJean, American baseball player
1971
Joseph Arthur, American singer, songwriter
1974
John Light, English actor
1977
Young Jeezy, American rapper
1981
Iracema Trevisan, Brazilian musician
1982
Nolwenn Leroy, French singer
1984
Melody Thornton, American singer, dancer
Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
1987
Hilary Duff, American actress, singer
1990
Kirsten Prout, Canadian actress
2000
Frankie Jonas, American actor

Died on September 28th:

1891
Herman Melville, American author, poet (age 72)
1895
Louis Pasteur, French chemist, microbiologist (age 72)
1914
Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, Sears co-founder (age 50)
1935
William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, Kinetoscope inventor (age 75)
1953
Edwin Hubble, American astronomer, scholar (age 63)
1956
William Boeing, American businessman, Boeing Company founder (age 74)
1964
Harpo Marx, American comedian, actor, singer (age 75)
1966
André Breton, French author, poet (age 70)
1970
Gamal Abdel Nasser, 2nd President of Egypt (age 52)
1978
Pope John Paul I, Roman Catholic pontiff (age 65)
1989
Ferdinand Marcos, 10th President of the Philippines (age 72)
1991
Miles Davis, American trumpet player, bandleader (age 65)
2000
Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (age 80)
2003
Althea Gibson, American tennis player and golfer (age 76)
Elia Kazan, American director, screenwriter, Oscar winner (age 94)
2010
Arthur Penn, American director (age 88)
Dolores Wilson, American soprano, actress (age 82)
2016
Agnes Nixon, American television writer, director (age 93)
Shimon Peres, 9th President of Israel (age 93)
2022
Coolio (Artis Leon Ivey Jr.), American rapper and actor,
(age 59)