The 148th day of the year, the 149th in a leap year
Born on 28 May
Every 28 May birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Gemini, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- GeminiAir, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- EmeraldThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Lily of the valley, HawthornUsually taken today to mean returning happiness and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Saturday and Thursday16 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 May in any year.
Which weekday 28 May falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 28 May falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
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How common a birthday 28 May is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,818 babies were born on 28 May in each year of the twenty, making it the 158th 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 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Kylie Minogue | 1968– | Australian singer and actress |
| Ian Fleming | 1908–1964 | British author |
| Patrick White | 1912–1990 | English-born Australian writer |
| Marco Rubio | 1971– | 72nd United States Secretary of State since 2025 |
| William Pitt the Younger | 1759–1806 | British statesman |
| Edvard Beneš | 1884–1948 | Czechoslovak politician |
| Bülent Ecevit | 1925–2006 | Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002 |
| Carey Mulligan | 1985– | British actress |
| Rudy Giuliani | 1944– | American attorney and politician |
| Thomas Moore | 1779–1852 | Irish poet, singer and songwriter |
| Louis Agassiz | 1807–1873 | Swiss-American naturalist |
| Phil Foden | 2000– | English footballer |
| Kyle Walker | 1990– | English association football player |
| John Stones | 1994– | English footballer |
| Stanley B. Prusiner | 1942– | American neurologist and biochemist |
| Jim Thorpe | 1887–1953 | American track and field athlete and baseball player |
| Carl Larsson | 1853–1919 | Swedish painter |
| György Ligeti | 1923–2006 | Hungarian composer |
Died on 28 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Maya Angelou | 1928–2014 | American poet, author, and civil rights activist |
| Alfred Adler | 1870–1937 | Austrian psychotherapist |
| Edward VIII | 1894–1972 | King of the United Kingdom in 1936 |
| Anne Brontë | 1820–1849 | British novelist and poet |
| Ivan Franko | 1856–1916 | Ukrainian poet and writer |
| Ilya Prigogine | 1917–2003 | Russian-Belgian physical chemist |
| Gary Coleman | 1968–2010 | American actor |
| Leopold Mozart | 1719–1787 | German composer |
| John Russell, 1st Earl Russell | 1792–1878 | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1846–1852 and 1865–1866 |
| Jens Christian Skou | 1918–2018 | Danish chemist |
| Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues | 1715–1747 | French writer and moralist |
| Luigi Boccherini | 1743–1805 | Italian composer and cellist |
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