The 209th day of the year, the 210th in a leap year
Born on 28 July
Every 28 July birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
- Birthstone
- RubyThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Larkspur, Water lilyUsually taken today to mean an open heart and purity.
- 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 July in any year.
Which weekday 28 July falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 28 July 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 July is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,858 babies were born on 28 July in each year of the twenty, making it the 69th 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 July
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Hugo Chávez | 1954–2013 | President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013 |
| Karl Popper | 1902–1994 | Austrian-British philosopher of science |
| Ludwig Feuerbach | 1804–1872 | German philosopher and anthropologist |
| Vajiralongkorn | 1952– | King of Thailand since 2016 |
| Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | 1929–1994 | First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963 |
| Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi | 1971–2019 | Leader of the Islamic State |
| Harry Kane | 1993– | English association football player |
| Alexis Tsipras | 1974– | Prime Minister of Greece from 2015 to 2019 |
| Marcel Duchamp | 1887–1968 | French painter, sculptor, and chess player |
| Beatrix Potter | 1866–1943 | British children's writer and illustrator |
| Charles H. Townes | 1915–2015 | 20th-century American physicist |
| Santiago Calatrava | 1951– | Spanish-Swiss engineer, architect, and artist |
| Michael Carrick | 1981– | English footballer and manager |
| Baruch Samuel Blumberg | 1925–2011 | American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner |
| Ernst Cassirer | 1874–1945 | German philosopher |
| Pedro | 1987– | Spanish association football player |
| Luis Aragonés | 1938–2014 | Spanish football player and manager |
| Cher Lloyd | 1993– | English singer |
Died on 28 July
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685–1750 | German composer |
| Antonio Vivaldi | 1678–1741 | Italian composer and violinist |
| Maximilien Robespierre | 1758–1794 | French revolutionary lawyer and politician |
| Francis Crick | 1916–2004 | British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA |
| Otto Hahn | 1879–1968 | German chemist and physicist |
| Selim III | 1761–1808 | 28th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1789–1807) |
| Theodosius II | 401–450 | Byzantine Emperor |
| Pope Victor II | 1018–1057 | pope |
| Allvar Gullstrand | 1862–1930 | Swedish ophthalmologist |
| Joseph Bonaparte | 1768–1844 | brother of Napoleon Bonaparte; King of Naples (1806–08) and Spain (1808–13) |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | 1619–1655 | French novelist and dramatist |
| Louis Antoine de Saint-Just | 1767–1794 | French revolutionary politician |
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