The 118th day of the year, the 119th in a leap year
Born on 28 April
Every 28 April birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Taurus, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- TaurusEarth, fixed, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- DiamondThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Daisy, Sweet peaUsually taken today to mean innocence and blissful pleasure.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Tuesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 28 April in any year.
Which weekday 28 April falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 28 April falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.
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How common a birthday 28 April is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,807 babies were born on 28 April in each year of the twenty, making it the 188th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 28 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Saddam Hussein | 1937–2006 | Iraqi politician and revolutionary, president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003 |
| James Monroe | 1758–1831 | president of the United States from 1817 to 1825 |
| Penélope Cruz | 1974– | Spanish actress |
| Kurt Gödel | 1906–1978 | Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics |
| Jessica Alba | 1981– | American actress and businesswoman |
| Harper Lee | 1926–2016 | American novelist |
| Terry Pratchett | 1948–2015 | English fantasy author |
| António de Oliveira Salazar | 1889–1970 | Prime Minister of Portugal |
| Tristan Tzara | 1896–1963 | Romanian-French poet |
| Oskar Schindler | 1908–1974 | German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer |
| Edward IV | 1442–1483 | King of England from 1461 to 1470 and 1471 to 1483 |
| Kenneth Kaunda | 1924–2021 | First president of Zambia |
| Karl Kraus | 1874–1936 | Austrian playwright and publicist |
| Jay Leno | 1950– | American television host and comedian |
| Juan Mata | 1988– | Spanish association football player |
| Karl Barry Sharpless | 1941– | American chemist and Nobel Laureate |
| Diego Simeone | 1970– | Argentine association football player and manager |
| Jan Oort | 1900–1992 | Dutch astronomer |
Died on 28 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Benito Mussolini | 1883–1945 | Dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943 |
| Michael Collins | 1930–2021 | American astronaut |
| Josiah Willard Gibbs | 1839–1903 | American scientist |
| Mikhail Kutuzov | 1745–1813 | Field Marshal of the Russian Empire |
| Arthur Leonard Schawlow | 1921–1999 | American physicist |
| Francis Bacon | 1909–1992 | Irish-born British figurative painter |
| Ludwig Tieck | 1773–1853 | German poet, writer, and critic |
| Matilde Camus | 1919–2012 | Spanish poet |
| Léon Jouhaux | 1879–1954 | French trade unionist |
| Mohammad Daoud Khan | 1909–1978 | politician, first President of Afghanistan (1973-1978) |
| Fuad I of Egypt | 1868–1936 | Sultan of Egypt from 1917 to 1922 and King of Egypt from 1922 to 1936 |
| Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker | 1912–2007 | German physicist |
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