September 28

September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years). There are 94 days remaining.

Births:

• 1901: Ed Sullivan (TV show host)
• 1909: [Al Capp]? (cartoonist)
• 1916: [Peter Finch]? (actor)
• 1924: [Marcello Mastoianni]? (actor)
• 1925: Seymour Cray (founder of Cray Research and the Cray Computer Company)
• 1934: Brigitte Bardot (actress)
• 1938: [Ben E. King]? (singer, songwriter)
• 1950: John Sayles (director, screenwriter)
• 1964: [Janeane Garofalo]? (actress, comedian)
• 1968: [Naomi Watts]? (actress)
• 1972: [Gwyneth Paltrow]? (actress)

Deaths:

• [48 B.C.]?: [Pompey the Great]? (assassinated in Egypt by command of King Ptolemy)
• 1834: [Samuel Taylor Coleridge]? (poet)
• 1891: Herman Melville (novelist)
• 1895: Louis Pasteur (French scientist)
• 1964: [Harpo Marx]? (actor)
• 1970: [John Dos Passos]? (novelist)
• 1988: [Solange Boilard]? (cult member)
• 1989: [Ferdinand Marcos]? (former Phillipines President)
• 1991: Miles Davis (musician)

Events:

• 1871: Brazil abolishes slavery.
• 1988: [Solange Boilard]? (killed by [Roch Theriault]?, who had cut her open and removed part of her intestines with his hands, then ordered her sewed shut again. After her death he cut off the top of her head and raped her corpse. Theriault came to trial for this and other crimes in 1993.)
• 1989: [Ferdinand Marcos]? (former Phillipines President, died in his third year of exile in Hawaii after [Corazon Aquino]? took office.)
• 1994: Estonia ferry sinking

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