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Today's Anniversary – Thursday, May 28


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Births

* 1968 Kylie Minogue Often known simply as "Kylie", is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, showgirl, and actress.
* 1964 David Baddiel British comedian, writer and television presenter.
* 1960 Mark Sanford American politician from South Carolina.
* 1945 Patch Adams Medical doctor, social activist, citizen diplomat, professional clown, performer, and author.
* 1944 Rudy Giuliani American lawyer, businessman, and politician.
* 1932 Varadaraja V. Raman Emeritus Professor of Physics and Humanities at the w:Rochester Institute of Technology.
* 1930 Frank Drake American astronomer and astrophysicist.
* 1923 Gyorgy Ligeti Jewish Hungarian composer, widely seen as one of the great composers of instrumental music of the 20th century.
* 1917 Barry Commoner American biologist, college professor, and eco-socialist.
* 1916 Walker Percy American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics.
* 1912 Patrick (Australian novelist) White Australian novelist and winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature.
* 1908 Ian Fleming British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander.
* 1892 Sepp Dietrich German Waffen-SS general, an SS-Oberstgruppenführer, and one of the closest men to Adolf Hitler.
* 1883 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Indian revolutionary and Hindu political leader, who is credited with developing an Indian nationalist political ideology he termed Hindutva.
* 1819 Frederic Dan Huntington American clergyman and the first Protestant Episcopal bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York.
* 1807 Louis Agassiz Swiss-born American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist and one of the first world-class American scientists.
* 1779 Thomas Moore Irish poet and hymnist, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Last Rose of Summer.
* 1759 William Pitt British politician during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Deaths

† 2007 David (white nationalist) Lane American white nationalist leader and author.
† 2001 Francisco Varela Chilean biologist and philosopher who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology.
† 1998 Phil Hartman Canadian-born American graphic artist, writer, actor, voice artist and comedian.
† 1972 King of England Edward VIII .
† 1937 Alfred Adler Austrian medical doctor and psychologist.
† 1913 John Lubbock English banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist.
† 1900 George Grove English writer on music, immortalised in the title of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
† 1878 John Russell Known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.
† 1849 Anne Bronte British novelist and poet, the youngest sibling of Charlotte and Emily Brontë.
† 1808 Richard (bishop) Hurd English divine and writer, and bishop of Worcester.
† 1747 Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues French moralist, essayist, and miscellaneous writer.
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