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Today in History April 28
Step back in time and explore significant historical events, notable births, and memorable deaths that occurred on this day throughout history.
- 2004 CBS News releases evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi de...
- 1996 Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 41⁄2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
- 1996 Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and woundin...
- 1994 Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving US secrets to the Soviet Union and ...
- 1991 Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-39, the first unclassified shuttle mission for the United States Department of Defense.
- 2001 Anthony Volpe, American baseball player
- 2000 Victoria De Angelis, Italian musician
- 2000 Alek Thomas, American baseball player
- 1998 Song Yu-bin, South Korean singer and actor
- 1997 Shane McClanahan, American baseball player
- 2024 Brian McCardie, Scottish actor and writer (born 1965)
- 2021 Michael Collins, American astronaut (born 1930)
- 2021 El Risitas, Spanish comedian (born 1956)
- 2019 Richard Lugar, American politician (born 1932)
- 2019 John Singleton, American film director (born 1968)
All 1,061 Celebrities (A-Z)
Browse our complete directory of notable personalities organized alphabetically. From A-list celebrities to historical icons, find detailed profiles of the world's most influential individuals.
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Abani, ChrisAbbey, EdwardAbe, KoboAboulela, LeilaAbramović, MarinaAbécassis, ÉlietteAchebe, ChinuaAdams, JohnAdams, John QuincyAdams, ScottAdebayo, Ayọ̀bámiAdichie, Chimamanda NgoziAdiga, AravindAdkins, AdeleAdrianov, NikolaiAguon, JulianAho, JuhaniAiken, JoanAkhmatova, AnnaAl Aswany, AlaaAl Bisri, Sharifaal-Haytham, IbnAl-KhwarizmiAl-Kurdi, DuaaAlcott, KathleenAlcott, Louisa MayAlexandria, NanaAlexievich, SvetlanaAlexis, AndréAlhakim, TawfiqAlharthi, JokhaAli, MonicaAljechin, AlexanderAllende, IsabelAlmodóvar, PedroAltan, AhmetAlwan, HannaAmado, JorgeAmedee Barbey, JulesAnand, Mulk RajAnand, ViswanathanAndersen, Hans ChristianAnderton, JimAndrić, IvoAngelou, MayaAnguissola, SofonisbaAnne Porter, KatherineAnning, MaryAparicio, YalitzaArchimedesAristotleArjun, SaraArmani, GiorgioAronian, LevonArp, JeanArthur, Chester A.Arudpragasam, AnukAsturias, Miguel ÁngelAtwood, MargaretAuden, W. H.Audubon, John JamesAusten, Janede Avellaneda, Gertrudis Gómez
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Babbage, CharlesBach, Johann SebastianBacon, FrancisBad BunnyBajani, Andreade Balzac, HonoréBamonte, PerryBarbey d’Aurevilly, JulesBardem, JavierBardot, BrigitteBaring-Gould, SabineBarnes, DjunaBarnes, JulianBasquiat, Jean-MichelBaudelaire, CharlesBaulieu, Étienne-ÉmileBeatty, Paulde Beauvoir, SimoneBeckett, SamuelBeecher Stowe, Harrietvan Beethoven, LudwigBekele, KenenisaBeliavsky, AlexanderBell, GertrudeBellow, SaulBellucci, MonicaBelmondo, Jean-PaulBelmondo, StefaniaBenigni, RobertoBergman, IngridBerners-Lee, TimBernini, Gian LorenzoBerry, HalleBetancourt, ÍngridBetasamosake Simpson, LeanneBeukes, LaurenBezos, JeffBhutto, FatimaBiden, JoeBieber, JustinBiffle, GregBikila, AbebeBiles, SimoneBinoche, JulietteBisciotti, SteveBjörnson, BjørnstjerneBjørgen, MaritBjørndalen, Ole EinarBlanchett, CateBlankers-Koen, FannyBlasim, HassanBloomberg, GeorginaBlum, HilaBlunt, EmilyBocelli, AndreaBohr, NielsBolt, UsainBonaparte, NapoleonBorges, Jorge LuisBoseman, ChadwickBosworth, KateBotticelli, SandroBotvinnik, MikhailBouin, JeanBouraoui, NinaBourgeois, LouiseBouvard, PhilippeBowie, DavidBrahms, JohannesBraque, GeorgesBrecht, BertoltBremer, FredrikaBronstein, DavidBronte, AnneBronte, CharlotteBronte, EmilyBrown, Millie BobbyBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettBrowning, Robertde Bruijn, IngeLe Brun, Élisabeth VigéeBruni, CarlaBruni Tedeschi Jr., ValeriaBruyère, RobinBrynner, YulBrâncuși, ConstantinBuchanan, JamesBuckley, JessieBulawayo, NoVioletBulgakov, MikhailVan Buren, MartinBurroughs, JordanBusfield, TimothyBush, George H. W.Bush, George W.Bush, KateByatt, A.S.Byrne, RoseByron, Lord
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Caesar, JuliusCampbell, Mattdel Campo, EstanislaoCamus, AlbertCapablanca, Jose RaulCaravaggioCarey, MariahCarlsen, MagnusCarlyle, ThomasCarpentier, AlejoCarroll, LewisCarson, RachelCarter, JimmyCartland, BarbaraCaruana, FabianoCash, JohnnyCashman, NellieCassatt, MaryCather, WillaChagall, MarcChalamet, TimothéeChampollion, Jean-FrançoisChan, GemmaChan, JackieChaplin, OonaCharles, RayCharrier, JacquesChatterjee, Bankim ChandraChaudhuri, AmitCheadle, DonChekhov, AntonCheney, DickCheung, MaggieChiang, TedCho, Nam-jooChopin, FrédéricChopin, KateChung, ClarissaChurchill, WinstonCiccone, MadonnaCixin, LiuCixous, HélèneClark, LygiaClaudel, CamilleCleopatraClerk Maxwell, JamesCleveland, GroverClinton, BillClooney, GeorgeCoben, HarlanCocker, JoeCocteau, JeanCoetzee, J. M.Cole, TejuColeridge, Samuel TaylorColumbus, ChristopherCombs, SeanComăneci, NadiaConfuciusConrad, JosephCoolidge, CalvinCortázar, JulioCotillard, MarionCourbet, GustaveCramling, PiaCrick, FrancisCrosby, BingCruz, AngieCruz, PenélopeCurie, MarieCusk, RachelCézanne, Paul
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d'Alpuget, BlancheDafoe, WillemDalí, SalvadorDangarembga, TsitsiDanticat, EdwidgeDarwin, CharlesDarwish, MahmoudDarío, RubénDasgupta, RanaDaudet, AlphonseDavid Friedrich, CasparDavies, RickDay-Lewis, DanielDean, JamesDee, GerryDegas, EdgarDelpy, JulieDeneuve, CatherineDennis, DukeDevi, MahaswetaDiCaprio, LeonardoDickens, CharlesDicker, JoëlDickinson, EmilyDion, CelineDiop, DavidDjebar, Assiado Amaral, TarsilaDomínguez, LeinierDostoevsky, FyodorDoucet, JulieDrakeDressel, CaelebDrummond de Andrade, Carlosdu Châtelet, ÉmilieDucournau, KatiaDumas, AlexandreDumas fils, AlexandreDunaway, FayeDuVernay, AvaDylan, BobDürer, Albrecht
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Eco, UmbertoEddo-Lodge, ReniEdison, ThomasEduardo Agualusa, JoséEdugyan, EsiEgan, JenniferEilish, BillieEinstein, AlbertEisenhower, Dwight D.El Akkad, OmarEl Guerrouj, HichamEl Hachmi, NajatEl Saadawi, NawalElba, IdrisEliot, GeorgeEliot, T. S.Ellington, Edward Kennedy "Duke"Elytis, OdysseasEmerson, Ralph WaldoEmin, TraceyEndo, ShusakuEnríquez, MarianaErnst, MaxErpenbeck, JennyEsaki, LeoEscobar, PabloEuclidEvaristo, BernardineEvert, ChrisEvora, CesáriaEça de Queirós, José Maria
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Fabian, LaraFaithfull, MarianneFaraday, MichaelFarah, MoFarrokhzad, ForoughFaulkner, WilliamFedoseev, VladimirFelix, AllysonFenty, RihannaFerdinand Meyer, ConradFermi, EnricoFerrante, ElenaFerrat, JeanFetisov, VyacheslavFeynman, RichardFielding, HelenFiennes, RalphFillmore, MillardFine, AnneFirouzja, AlirezaFischer, BirgitFischer, BobbyFitzgerald, EllaFitzgerald, F. ScottFlaubert, GustaveFolorunso, TopeFonda, JaneFonsi, LuisFontane, TheodorFord, Gerald R.Ford, HarrisonFord, HarrisonForna, AminattaFrank, AnneFrankenthaler, HelenFranklin, ArethaFranklin, BenjaminFranklin, RosalindFraser-Pryce, Shelly-AnnFreeman, MorganFreud, LucianFreud, SigmundFrey, JacobFuentes, CarlosFältskog, Agnetha
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Galchen, RivkaGalilei, GalileoGalloway, JaniceGandhi, MahatmaGanguly, Surya ShekharGarbo, GretaGarcía Bernal, GaelGarcía Márquez, GabrielGardner, AvaGarfield, James A.Gary, RomainGates, BillGauguin, PaulGautier, ThéophileGehry, FrankGeisenberger, NatalieGeller, EfimGenet, JeanGentileschi, ArtemisiaGerwig, GretaGhalib, MirzaGhosh, AmitavGiacometti, AlbertoGibaGilbert, MelissaGiri, AnishGlaser, NikkiGleeson, SineadGodard, Jean-Lucvon Goethe, Johann Wolfgangvan Gogh, VincentGogol, NikolaiGoncharov, IvanGoodall, JaneGordimer, NadineGordon-Levitt, JosephGosling, RyanGotthelf, JeremiasDe Goya, FranciscoGrace, PatriciaGrande, ArianaGrant, Ulysses S.Grass, GünterGreen, EvaGreenberg, IsabelGreene, PeterGreenwell, GarthGrint, RupertGrischuk, AlexanderGrisham, JohnGroff, LaurenGuelfenbein, CarlaGuitry, SachaGujrathi, ViditGuo, XiaoluGutenberg, JohannesGyasi, Yaa
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Hamasaki, AyumiHamid, MohsinHamilton, ScottHamsun, KnutHanks, TomHanyu, YuzuruHao, WangHarding, Warren G.Hardy, ThomasHarikrishna, PentalaHarris, JoanneHarris, KamalaHarrison, BenjaminHarrison, William HenryHashmi, ZarinaHawke, MayaHawking, StephenHawthorne, NathanielHayek, SalmaHayes, Rutherford B.Hayworth, RitaHead, BessieHeaney, SeamusHedayat, SadeghHeiden, EricHeine, HeinrichHeisenberg, WernerHemingway, ErnestHeng, ZhangHepburn, AudreyHepworth, BarbaraHernández, JoséHertz, HeinrichHerzog, WernerHesse, HermannHiggins Clark, MaryHighsmith, PatriciaHikmet, NazimHippocratesHiroshige, UtagawaHokusai, KatsushikaHolan, VladimirHolzer, Jennyvan den Hoogenband, PieterHoover, HerbertHopkins, AnthonyHopper, EdwardHopper, GraceHosseini, ShahabHourani, HassanHouston, WhitneyHoward, Elizabeth JaneHoy, ChrisHugo, VictorHumpy, KoneruHuppert, IsabelleHusain, M. F.Hutchinson, IshionHypatia
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Jackson, AndrewJackson, MichaelJacobsen, Jens PeterJames, EttaJames, HenryJames, KiraniJames, MarlonJefferson, ThomasJelloun, Tahar BenJensen, CarstenJiles, PauletteJingjing, GuoJobs, SteveJohnson, AndrewJohnson, Lyndon B.Johnson, MichaelJohnson, ShawnJoly, EvaJoyce, JamesJoyner, FlorenceJoyner-Kersee, JackieJr., Martin Luther King
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Kaas, PatriciaKabakov, IlyaKabbani, RanaKadaré, IsmailKafka, FranzKahlo, FridaKandinsky, WassilyKang, HanKang-ho, SongKanno, YokoKapoor, AnilKapoor, AnishKapuscinski, RyszardKarjakin, SergeyKarpov, AnatolyKarunatilaka, ShehanKasparov, GarryKaur, RupiKavenna, JoannaKawabata, YasunariKawakami, HiromiKawakami, MiekoKeating, RonanKeats, JohnKeller, GottfriedKennedy, John F.Kenny, JasonKepler, JohannesKeres, PaulKertész, ImreKhan, AamirKidman, NicoleKiefer, AnselmKikuchi, RinkoKim, ChloeKinsella, SophieKipchoge, EliudKitajima, KosukeKlee, PaulKlimt, GustavKnausgård, Karl OveKnowles, BeyoncéKo, LisaKollwitz, Käthede Kooning, WillemKorchnoi, ViktorKorneliussen, NiviaqKosteniuk, AlexandraKramnik, VladimirKrasko, IvanKundera, MilanKurniawan, EkaKurosawa, AkiraKusama, YayoiKuti, Fela
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Labisse, FélixLagerkvist, PärLagerlöf, SelmaLahiri, JhumpaLalami, LailaLamarr, HedyLarson, BrieLasker, EmanuelLatynina, LarisaLau, AndyLauper, CindyLaurent, MélanieLavoisier, AntoineLeavitt, KarolineLedecky, KatieLedger, HeathLee, BruceLee, Min JinLeko, Peterde Lempicka, TamaraLennon, JohnLennox, CharlotteLermontov, MikhailLessing, DorisLevy, DeborahLewis, CarlLi, GongLi, YiyunLimón, AdaLincoln, AbrahamLinnaeus, CarlLipinski, TaraLiren, DingLispector, ClariceLiu, LucyLiukin, NastiaLobo Antunes, AntónioLochte, RyanLope de VegaLoren, SofiaLovelace, AdaLuciano, PavarottiLuiselli, ValeriaLutikov, Anatoly
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Ma, LingMachado de Assis, Joaquim MariaMachiavelli, NiccolòMadison, JamesMaduro, NicolásMagritte, ReneMahfouz, NaguibMakeba, MiriamMalagatti, AravindMalek, RamiMallarmé, StéphaneMamdani, ZohranMamedyarov, ShakhriyarMandela, NelsonManet, ÉdouardManiscalco, SebastianMann, ThomasMansfield, KatherineManto, Saadat HasanManuel, SimoneManzoni, AlessandroMaraini, DaciaMarengwa, DambudzoMaria, CallasMarley, BobMarra, AdaMars, BrunoMartinez, OlivierMatesis, PavlosMathieu, NicolasMathis, JohnnyMatisse, HenriMatsuda, AokoMatsumoto, SeichoMaxwell, James ClerkMay-Treanor, MistyMayakovsky, VladimirMbappé, KylianMbougar Sarr, MohamedMbue, ImboloMcCartney, PaulMcClintock, BarbaraMcFadden, FreidaMcKinley, WilliamMebarak, ShakiraMehretu, JulieMeitner, LiseMelchor, FernandaMelo, PatríciaMelville, HermanMenchik, VeraMendel, GregorMendeleev, DmitriMendoza, FernandoMercury, FreddieMeredith, GeorgeMerlant, NoémieMeyer, ClemensMichelangeloMickiewicz, AdamMifune, ToshiroMiller, ArthurMin-sik, ChoiMinxia, WuMirren, HelenMiró, JoanMishima, YukioMistral, GabrielaMitchell, DavidMitchell, JoanMiura, ShionMiyazaki, HayaoMiłosz, CzesławModigliani, AmedeoMoir, ScottMondrian, PietMonet, ClaudeMonroe, JamesMontale, EugenioMoore, HenryMoore, JulianneMoore, SherroneMorante, ElsaMoravia, AlbertoMorisot, BertheMorphy, PaulMorrison, ToniMortensen, ViggoMoshfegh, OttessaMozart, Wolfgang AmadeusMuchá, AlphonseMunaweera, NayomiMunch, EdvardMunro, AliceMurakami, HarukiMurata, SayakaMurray, AndyMurray, LesMusah, YunusMusk, Elonde Musset, AlfredMutu, WangechiMuzichuk, MariyaMuzychuk, AnnaMwanza Mujila, FistonMüller, Herta
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Nabokov, VladimirNaguib, MahfouzNaidu, SarojiniNaipaul, V. S.Nakamura, HikaruNarayan, R.K.Navara, DavidNayeri, DinaNDiaye, MarieNelson, PrinceNenaNepomniachtchi, IanNeruda, PabloNeuman, AndrésNewton, Isaacvan Niekerk, WaydeNietzsche, FriedrichNightingale, FlorenceNin, AnaïsNixon, RichardNobel, AlfredNoem, KristiNoemí, DaríoNoguchi, IsamuNolan, ChristopherNorris, LandoNunn, JohnNurmi, PaavoNyong'o, Lupita
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Pampini, GabinoPamuk, OrhanParadis, VanessaPasternak, BorisPasteur, LouisPatel, DevPaz, OctavioPeixoto, José LuísPellegrini, FedericaPeltz, NicolaPerse, Saint‑JohnPetrosian, TigranPetőfi, SándorPhelps, MichaelPicasso, PabloPierce, FranklinPincent, MatthewPissarro, CamillePitts, JohnyPlanck, MaxPlatoPoe, Edgar AllanPolgar, JudithPolk, JamesPollock, JacksonPolo, MarcoPoniatowska, ElenaPonomariov, RuslanPorter, ColePorter, MaxPortman, NataliePresley, ElvisProulx, AnniePudzianowski, MariuszPushkin, AlexanderPutuma, KolekaPythagorasPérez Galdós, Benito
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Radcliffe, DanielRadjabov, TeimourRahim, TaharRai, AishwaryaRankine, ClaudiaRaphaelRapport, RichardRea, ChrisReade, CharlesReagan, RonaldRedgrave, SteveReeves, KeanuReiche, AriannaReiner, RobRembrandtRenoir, Pierre-AugusteRenó, JeanReonaReyes, DoloresRichard, LittleRichards-Ross, SanyaRichter, Gerhardvan Rijn, RembrandtRiley, BridgetRilke, Rainer MariaRimbaud, ArthurRiner, TeddyRist, José Antonio KastRivera, DiegoRivera, MarianRivers, PhilipRobinson, BettyRockwell, NormanRodin, AugusteRoffey, MoniqueRolland, RomainRooney, SallyRoosevelt, Franklin D.Roosevelt, TheodoreRoss, DianaRoss, LeoneRostand, EdmondRoy, ArundhatiRubinstein, AkibaRudisha, DavidRudolph, WilmaRugero, RolandRukh Khan, ShahRuolin, ChenRushdie, SalmanRyder, WinonaRóżewicz, Tadeusz
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Saeki, SayakaSagan, CarlSaldana, ZoeSalih, TayebSanada, HiroyukiSartre, Jean-PaulSavón, FelixScherbo, VitalySchiele, EgonSchiller, FriedrichSchlossberg, TatianaSchrödinger, ErwinSchweblin, SamantaSeahorn, RheaSebald, W. G.Sebbar, LeïlaSeberg, JeanSeferis, GiorgosSeghers, AnnaSeles, MonicaSelvadurai, ShyamSepetys, RutaSerpell, NamwaliSeurat, GeorgesShafak, ElifShakespeare, WilliamShamsie, KamilaShankland, SamuelSharif, OmarSheeran, EdShelley, Percy ByssheShevchenko, TarasShibli, AdaniaShields, ClaressaShiffrin, MikaelaShikibu, MurasakiShire, WarsanShogdzhiev, RomanShort, NigelShree, GeetanjaliShtotland, KarinaSienkiewicz, HenrykSignac, PaulSigurdsson, SjonSimone, NinaSinatra, FrankSinger Sargent, JohnSitwell, EdithSkarsgard, BirgitSklenar, BrandonSlimani, LeilaSmart, ElizabethSmith, AliSmith, PattiSmith, SamSmyslov, VassilySnow, C. P.So, WesleySocratesSolzhenitsyn, AleksandrSong, Kang-hoSoyinka, WoleSpark, MurielSpassky, BorisSpears, BritneySpitz, MarkStatovci, PajtimStefanova, AntoanetaSteinfeld, HaileeSteinitz, WilhelmStendhalStevenson, Robert LouisStevenson, TeófiloStifter, AdalbertStoker, BramStone, SharonStorm, TheodorStorrie, ConnorStreep, MerylStreisand, BarbraStrindberg, AugustStrug, KerriSwift, TaylorSwinton, TildaSyjuco, MiguelSzymborska, WisławaSzécsi, NoémiSábato, ErnestoSüleymanoğlu, NaimSłowacki, JuliuszSōseki, Natsume
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Taft, William HowardTagawa, Cary-HiroyukiTagore, RabindranathTaimanov, MarkTaro Greenfeld, KarlTauber-Arp, SophieTaylor, BrandonTaylor, ZacharyTegnér, EsaiasTell, DianeTerrin, PeterTesla, NikolaTevetoğlu, TarkanTheron, CharlizeThomas, DylanThompson, DaleyThoreau, Henry DavidThorpe, IanTitianTokarczuk, OlgaTolstoy, LeoTomba, AlbertoTomlin, MikeTopalov, Veselindel Toro, BenicioTorvill, JayneTouqan, FadwaTretiak, VladislavTrouillot, ÉvelyneTrudeau, JustinTruman, Harry S.Trump, DonaldTurgenev, IvanTuring, AlanTurner, WilliamTutu, DesmondTwain, MarkTyler, John
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wa Thiong'o, Ngũgĩwa Thiong'o Jr., NgugiWadsworth Longfellow, HenryWaititi, TaikaWaits, TomWalcott, DerekWaldheim, KurtWalker, AliceWalker, KaraWalls, JeannetteWalsh Jennings, KerriWarton, EdithWashington, DenzelWashington, GeorgeWatanabe, KenWatson, JamesWatson, MaryWatts, NaomiWeisz, RachelWeiwei, AiWells, H.G.Werth, IsabellWestinghouse, GeorgeWhitaker, ForestWhite, PatrickWhite, ShaunWhite, T. H.Whitehead, ColsonWhitman, WaltWhittingham, KyleWilde, OscarWilliams, GrantWilliams, HudsonWilliams, MichelleWilliams, SerenaWilliams, VenusWilson, EdmundWilson, WoodrowWinehouse, AmyWinslet, KateWinterson, JeanetteWitt, KatarinaWonder, StevieWood, GrantWoods, TigerWoolf, VirginiaWordsworth, WilliamWou-Ki, ZaoWu, Chien-ShiungWurtzel, ElizabethWłodarczyk, Anita