Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 28

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Births

551 BC - Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479 BC)
58 BC - Livia Drusilla, wife of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus (d. AD 29)
1841 - Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)
1905 - Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
1907 - Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast (d. 1997)
1909 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
1929 - Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer (d. 2022)
1934 - Brigitte Bardot, French actress
1947 - Sheikh Hasina, Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh
1967 - Mira Sorvino, American actress
1968 - Mika Häkkinen, (pictured) Finnish 2 time Formula 1 World Champion
1968 - Naomi Watts, English-born actress
1971 - Alan Wright, English footballer
1976 - Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist

Deaths

48 BC - Pompey, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)
1895 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (b. 1822)
1953 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)
1970 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, the second President of Egypt (b. 1918)
1978 - Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
1989 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (b. 1917)