19 historically significant individuals born on April 28. April 28 is the birth date of twelve notable individuals from various fields. James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States, was born in 1758. Jan Hendrik Oort, a Dutch astronomer who transformed our understanding of the galaxy's structure, was born in 1900. Nobel Peace Prize winner Tobias Asser was born in 1838. The date also saw the birth of political figures such as Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar in 1889 and Salvadoran women's rights advocate Prudencia Ayala in 1886.
Headline Figures
K. Barry Sharpless
1941 – PresentNobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2001), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2022)
Kurt Gödel
1906 – 1978Austrian-American mathematician who proved the incompleteness theorems, demonstrating that mathematical systems cannot be both complete and consistent, revolutionizing logic and mathematics.
Tariq Aziz
1936 – 2015Christian politician who served as Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein for over two decades. He was the international face of the Ba'ath regime and died in prison in 2015 after being convicted of crimes against humanity.
Birth Distribution by Century
20th Century
8
19th Century
6
18th Century
2
17th Century
3
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