Famous Birthdays for 28th April 2025
1750 – Paul Ignaz Kürzinger, German composer and pedagogue, born in Mergentheim, Duchy of Württemberg (d. 1837)
1838 – Tobias Asser, Dutch advocate of world law (Nobel 1911), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1913)
1900 – Heinrich Müller, German Nazi, Director of the Gestapo (1939-45) and most senior Nazi official never captured or confirmed to have died, born in Munich, German Empire (d. ?)
1906 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician (Gödel’s incompleteness theorems), born in Brünn, Austria-Hungary (d. 1978)
1922 – William Broomfield, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan), born in Royal Oak, Michigan (d. 2019)
1926 – [Nelle] Harper Lee, American author (To Kill a Mockingbird), born in Monroeville Alabama (d. 2016)
1949 – Jerome “Jay” Apt, American astronaut (STS 37, 47, 59, 79), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
1949 – Bruno Kirby, American actor (When Harry Met Sally, City Slickers), born in Hell’s Kitchen, New York (d. 2006)
1960 – Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic powerlifter (World’s Strongest Man 1984 , 86 , 88, 90), born in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland (d. 1993)
1960 – John Cerutti, American baseball pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays) and broadcaster (Rogers Sportsnet), born in Albany, New York (d. 2004)