Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of October 28:
1017 Henry III Holy Roman emperor (1046-56)
1585 Cornelius Otto Jansen France, Roman Catholic reform leader
1810 Brig Gen Adley H Gladden La, killed at Shiloh
1818 Ivan Turgenev Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons)
1842 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War)
1846 Auguste Escoffier king of chefs & chef of kings
1896 Howard Hanson Wahoo Nebraska, composer/conductor (Nordic)
19-- Dennis Parker [Wade Nichols] actor/porno star (Edge of Night)
19-- Rose Alaio actor (Guiding Light)
1902 Elsa Lanchester Lewisham London, actress (Bride of Frankenstien)
1903 Evelyn Waugh London, author (Brideshead Revisited)
1907 Edith Head fashion designer (MGM)
1907 Lew Parker actor (Lou Marie-That Girl)
1910 Marie Dollinger Germany, dropped baton in 1936 Olympic sprint
1914 Dr Jonas Salk NYC, medical researcher, made polio a fear of the past
1926 Bowie Kuhn baseball commissioner (1969-1984)
1927 Cleo Laine Middlesex England, singer (Flesh to a Tiger)
1929 Dody Goodman Columbus Ohio, actress (Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan)
1929 Joan Plowright England, actress (Brimstone & Treacle)
1934 Jim Beatty track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile)
1936 Charlie Daniels country music star (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
1937 Lenny Wilkins NBA player, coach (Seattle, Cleveland)
1939 Jane Alexander Mass, actress (The Betsy, Kramer vs Kramer)
1940 Gennadi M Strekalov cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11)
1944 Coluche France comedian/actor (My Best Friend's Girl)
1944 Dennis Franz Maywood Ill, actor (Norman Buntz-Hill Street Blues)
1945 Wayne Fontana Manchester England, rocker (Groovy Kind of Love)
1947 Tom Fitzsimmons SF Calif, actor (Franklin-The Paper Chase)
1948 Telma Hopkins Louisville, singer (Tony Orlando, Family Matters)
1949 Bruce Jenner US, decathalete (Olympic-gold-1976)
1952 Annie Potts Nashville TN, actress (Mary Jo-Designing Women)
1955 William Gates billionaire CEO (Microsoft)
1957 Stephen Morris rocker (New Order-Round & Round)
1959 Neville Henry rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1959 Walther Bauersfeld 1919 inventor (1st modern projection planetarium)
1960 Mark Derwin Park Forest Ill, actor (AC Mallet-Guiding Light)
1962 Daphne Zuniga actress (Gross Anatomy, Fly II, Spaceballs)
1963 Veronica Gamba Buenos Aires Arg, playmate (November, 1983)
1965 Jami Gertz Chicago, actress (Less the Zero, Crossroads, Solarbabies)
1966 Lauren Holly actress (All My Children)
1974 Leaf Phoenix PR, actor (Russkies, Space Camp)
Deaths which occurred on October 28:
900 Alfred the Great English monarch, dies
1957 Anthony J Morabito co-owner of SF '49ers, dies while watching a game
1980 Leon Janney actor (Hawk), dies at 63
1987 Andr‚ Masson France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91
1991 John Korbal film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
1967 KIRK THOMAS H. PORTSMOUNTH VA 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 CONNOR CHARLES R. SALT LAKE CITY UT
1968 RICKER WILLIAM E. PORTLAND OR
1968 STONEBRAKER KENNETH A. HOBART IN
1968 STROVEN WILLIAM H. FREMONT MI
1972 HALL JAMES W. LOS ANGELES CA PROB HEADED FOR HANOI REMAINS RETURNED 03/15/2000