Famous people born on 28 April

• Saddam HusseinIraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003 · 1937–2006
  69 yrs
• James MonroePresident of the United States from 1817 to 1825 · 1758–1831
  73 yrs
• Herbert SpencerEnglish philosopher and political theorist · 1820–1903
  83 yrs
• Kurt GödelAustrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics · 1906–1978
  71 yrs
• Harper LeeAmerican novelist · 1926–2016
  89 yrs
• Terry PratchettEnglish fantasy author · 1948–2015
  66 yrs
• António de Oliveira SalazarPrime Minister of Portugal · 1889–1970
  81 yrs
• Oskar SchindlerGerman industrialist and Holocaust rescuer · 1908–1974
  66 yrs
• Kenneth KaundaFirst president of Zambia · 1924–2021
  97 yrs
• Karl KrausAustrian playwright and publicist · 1874–1936
  62 yrs
• Jan Hendrik Oort ↗Dutch astronomer · 1900–1992
  92 yrs
• Lionel Barrymore ↗American actor, director and screenwriter · 1878–1954
  76 yrs
• Tobias Asser ↗Dutch lawyer and legal scholar · 1838–1913
  75 yrs
• Yi Sun-sin ↗Korean (Joseon) naval commander · 1545–1598
  53 yrs
• Roberto Bolaño ↗Chilean author · 1953–2003
  50 yrs
• Tariq Aziz ↗Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein · 1936–2015
  79 yrs
• Ferruccio Lamborghini ↗Italian industrialist, founder of Automobili Lamborghini · 1916–1993
  76 yrs
• Émile Bernard ↗French painter · 1868–1941
  72 yrs
• Vladimir Propp ↗Russian folklorist, philologist and linguist · 1895–1970
  75 yrs
• Eugene Merle Shoemaker ↗American geologist and astronomer · 1928–1997
  69 yrs
• Yves Klein ↗20th century French visual artist · 1928–1962
  34 yrs
• Frederick I of Sweden ↗King of Sweden · 1676–1751
  74 yrs
• Hertha Ayrton ↗English electrical engineer · 1854–1923
  69 yrs
• Koji Kondo ↗Japanese association football player · 1972–2003
  30 yrs
• Heinrich Müller ↗German SS police official SS-General and head of the Gestapo from 1939-1945 · 1900–1945
  45 yrs
• Ian Murdock ↗American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur · 1973–2015
  42 yrs
• Maurice Thorez ↗French politician · 1900–1964
  64 yrs
• Bruno Kirby ↗American actor · 1949–2006
  57 yrs
• Carolyn Jones ↗American actress · 1930–1983
  53 yrs
• Ye Jianying ↗Former Head of State of the People's Republic of China · 1897–1986
  89 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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