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Born on November 28?
You share your birthday with 30 famous people in our archive.
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Chase Elliott
American stock car driver and NASCAR Cup Series champion
Did you know? He followed in the footsteps of his father, Bill Elliott, who was also a legendary racing champion.
Hiroki Fujiharu
Japanese professional footballer who spent many years with Gamba Osaka
Did you know? He represented his country at the Olympic Games in Brazil and is known for his longevity at a single club.
Karen Gillan
Scottish actress known for Doctor Who and Marvel films
Did you know? She famously shaved her head to play the role of the blue-skinned alien Nebula in the Guardians of the Galaxy series.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Actress known for films including Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and 10 Cloverfield Lane
Did you know? She is a distant relative of screen legend Ava Gardner and performed as a ballerina before focusing on acting.
Alan Ritchson
North Dakota-born actor who plays Lee Child's hero in Reacher and played Aquaman in Smallville
Did you know? He was a semi-finalist on American Idol in 2004.
Jake Sullivan
Takashi Shimoda
Japanese goalkeeper who played his entire career for Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Did you know? After retiring from playing, he became a specialist coach and worked with the Japanese national team during the 2022 World Cup.
Hiroshi Nanami
Japanese footballer and manager who played for Jubilo Iwata
Did you know? He was the first Japanese player to play in the Italian Serie A after joining Venezia on loan in the late 1990s.
Édouard Philippe
Former Prime Minister of France and current mayor of Le Havre
Did you know? Outside of his political career, he is an enthusiastic amateur boxer who trains regularly and has even co-authored two political thrillers.
1967–2007Anna Nicole Smith
American model and actress who became a major media personality
Did you know? She gained international attention for a lengthy legal battle over her elderly late husband's multi-million dollar estate.
Jon Stewart
American comedian and long-time host of the satirical Daily Show
Did you know? Before his television career began, he worked a variety of odd jobs including a stint as a puppeteer for children with disabilities.
Alfonso Cuarón
Mexican filmmaker who directed films such as Gravity and Roma
Did you know? He was the first filmmaker born in Mexico to win the Academy Award for Best Director.
Hasan Nasrallah
Long-term leader of the Lebanese political and militant group Hezbollah
Did you know? For security reasons, he spent decades living in hiding and almost always communicated with his followers via televised video links.
Ed Harris
Award-winning American actor known for Apollo 13 and The Abyss
Did you know? He attended university on an American football scholarship before deciding to leave sports behind to study drama.
Russell A. Hulse
American astrophysicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
Did you know? He discovered the first binary pulsar while he was still a graduate student working at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
Laura Antonelli
Gloria Grahame
Oscar-winning actress known for film noir and It's a Wonderful Life
Did you know? Her later life in the United Kingdom and her relationship with a younger man were the subject of the film Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool.
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist who pioneered structuralism in the social sciences
Did you know? He spent several years living in Brazil, where he conducted extensive field research among indigenous tribes in the Amazon.
Ernst Röhm
Early Nazi leader and commander of the paramilitary SA
Did you know? He was killed during the Night of the Long Knives on Adolf Hitler's orders.
Stefan Zweig
Austrian writer of Chess Story, Letter from an Unknown Woman and the memoir The World of Yesterday, among the most translated authors of his day
Did you know? At the height of his fame, he was widely considered the most translated and most read author in the entire world.
Alexander Blok
Major Russian lyrical poet of the Silver Age
Did you know? His famous poem The Twelve controversially depicted Jesus Christ leading a group of Bolshevik soldiers through a snowstorm.
Alfonso XII of Spain
King of Spain who restored the monarchy after the First Republic
Did you know? He was known as 'The Peacemaker' for ending the Third Carlist War and the Ten Years' War during his reign.
Nikolay Nekrasov
Russian poet and publisher of the 19th century
Did you know? He was an avid gambler who used the money he won playing cards to help fund his literary magazines.
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Notable deaths on November 285
🇮🇹Enrico FermiItalian and naturalized-American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear…View profile Photo (modified): Department of Energy-Office of Public Affairs, restored by Yann · Public domain1954Died
🇺🇸Washington IrvingAmerican writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th centuryView profile Photo (modified): Attributed to Charles Robert Leslie · Public domain1859Died
🇬🇧Enid BlytonEnglish children's writerView profile Photo (modified): Unknown author · Public domain1968Died
🇮🇹Gian Lorenzo BerniniItalian sculptor, architect, painter and city plannerView profile Photo (modified): Gian Lorenzo Bernini · Public domain1680Died
🇨🇦Leslie NielsenCanadian-American actor and comedianView profile Photo (modified): Alan Light · CC BY 2.02010Died
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November 28: birthdays, history and star sign
30 famous people were born on November 28, including Friedrich Engels, William Blake and Stefan Zweig. Anyone born on November 28 is a Sagittarius, a fire sign ruled by Jupiter. Notable events on November 28 include Tehran Conference (1943) and Estonian War of Independence (1918).
Famous people born on November 28
- 1987Karen Gillan · Scottish actress and filmmaker
- 1984Mary Elizabeth Winstead · American actress and singer
- 1970Édouard Philippe · French politician serving as mayor of Le Havre since 2020, previously holding the office from 2010 to 2017
- 1967Anna Nicole Smith · American model, actress, and television personality
- 1962Jon Stewart · American comedian, writer, producer, director, progressive political commentator, actor, and television host
- 1961Alfonso Cuarón · Mexican filmmaker
- 1959Hasan Nasrallah · Lebanese Shia cleric, a militant, and politician who served as the third secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia…
- 1950Ed Harris · American actor and filmmaker
- 1950Russell A. Hulse · American astrophysicist
- 1908Claude Lévi-Strauss · Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of…
- 1887Ernst Röhm · German military officer, politician, and a leading member of the Nazi Party
- 1881Stefan Zweig · Austrian writer
- 1880Alexander Blok · Most well-known Russian lyrical poet during the Silver Age of Russian Poetry
- 1857Alfonso XII of Spain · King of Spain from 29 December 1874 to his death in 1885
- 1821Nikolay Nekrasov · Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry made him a…
- 1820Friedrich Engels · German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist
- 1757William Blake · English poet, painter and printmaker
- 1632Jean-Baptiste Lully · Italian-French composer, dancer and instrumentalist, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style
- 1628John Bunyan · English writer and nonconformist preacher
- 1118Manuel I Komnenos · Byzantine emperor of the 12th century who reigned over a crucial turning point in the history of Byzantium and the…
On November 28 in history
- 1943Tehran Conference · The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of the Allies of World War II, held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28…
- 1918Estonian War of Independence · The Estonian War of Independence, also known as the Estonian Liberation War, and War of Freedom in Estonia, was a defensive campaign of the Estonian Army and…
- 2016LaMia Flight 2933 · LaMia Flight 2933 was a regularly scheduled charter flight from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, to Medellín, Colombia. On 28 November 2016, the aircraft…
- 1885Serbo-Bulgarian War · The Serbo-Bulgarian War or the Serbian–Bulgarian War, a war between the Kingdom of Serbia and the Principality of Bulgaria, erupted on 14 November 1885 and…
- 1979Air New Zealand Flight 901 · The Mount Erebus disaster occurred on 28 November 1979 when Air New Zealand Flight 901 flew into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica, killing all 237…
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Sagittarius · Fire · ruled by Jupiter · Adventurous, Optimistic, Philosophical, Blunt
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Bruce Lee
Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor of Enter the Dragon who founded Jeet Kune Do and brought kung fu films to the world
Did you know? He was a champion cha-cha dancer in Hong Kong before moving to America to teach martial arts.
Jacques Chirac
French president who opposed the Iraq invasion, acknowledged Vichy collaboration in deporting Jews, and ended military conscription
Jimi Hendrix
American guitarist who revolutionised rock with Purple Haze, All Along the Watchtower and his Woodstock Star-Spangled Banner
Did you know? He was naturally left-handed but usually played a right-handed guitar that he had restrung and turned upside down.
C. S. Lewis
Northern Irish scholar and writer of The Chronicles of Narnia and Christian works such as Mere Christianity
Did you know? He was a member of the Inklings, an informal literary group at Oxford University that also included J.R.R. Tolkien.
Yulia Tymoshenko
Ukrainian politician and leader of the 2004 Orange Revolution who became the country's first female prime minister
Did you know? Before her political career, she was a successful businesswoman in the energy sector, earning her the nickname the "Gas Princess".
Louisa May Alcott
American novelist of Little Women, based on her own family, who also served as a Civil War nurse
Did you know? She served as a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War and wrote about her experiences in a series of sketches.
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer who developed the Celsius temperature scale
Did you know? His original scale was upside down compared to today, with zero as the boiling point and one hundred as the freezing point.
Empress Dowager Cixi
Powerful regent who effectively ruled China for nearly fifty years
Did you know? She first arrived at the imperial court as a low-ranking concubine before rising to become the most powerful woman in China.
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- Who was born on November 28?
- Famous people born on November 28 include Friedrich Engels (1820), William Blake (1757), Stefan Zweig (1881), Alexander Blok (1880) and Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908). In total, 30 famous people in our archive were born on November 28.
- Which celebrities share a November 28 birthday?
- Famous people alive today with a November 28 birthday include Ed Harris, Alfonso Cuarón, Édouard Philippe and Jon Stewart.
- What star sign is someone born on November 28?
- People born on November 28 are Sagittarius, a fire sign ruled by Jupiter. Sagittarius runs from November 22 to December 21.
- What happened on November 28 in history?
- Notable events on November 28 include Tehran Conference (1943), Estonian War of Independence (1918) and LaMia Flight 2933 (2016).
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- November 28 in historyYour birthday has a story. See every famous birth, historic event and notable death recorded on November 28, the day the world welcomed you.Date page
- Your most famous birthday match: Friedrich EngelsOf the 30 famous people who share your birthday, Friedrich Engels is the best known. Read their story and see what you have in common.Person
- Sagittarius zodiac signAs a Sagittarius you're known for being adventurous, optimistic and philosophical, just like Friedrich Engels. Meet others who share your star sign.Zodiac
- Famous birthdays in NovemberSee the best-known people born on every day of November, from the 1st to the last day of the month.Month
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