Famous people born on 28 May

• Ian FlemingBritish author · 1908–1964
  56 yrs
• Patrick WhiteEnglish-born Australian writer · 1912–1990
  78 yrs
• William Pitt the YoungerBritish statesman · 1759–1806
  46 yrs
• Bülent Ecevit16th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey · 1925–2006
  81 yrs
• Edvard BenešCzechoslovak politician · 1884–1948
  64 yrs
• Thomas Moore ↗Irish poet, singer and songwriter · 1779–1852
  72 yrs
• Ernst Cassirer ↗German philosopher · 1874–1945
  70 yrs
• Carl Larsson ↗Swedish painter · 1853–1919
  65 yrs
• György Ligeti ↗Hungarian composer · 1923–2006
  83 yrs
• Jerry West ↗American basketball player and executive · 1938–2024
  86 yrs
• Milutin Milanković ↗Serbian mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, climatologist, and engineer · 1879–1958
  79 yrs
• Cameron Boyce ↗American actor · 1999–2019
  20 yrs
• Park Hon-young ↗North Korean politician · 1900–1955
  55 yrs
• Cao Pi ↗Cao Wei Emperror · AD 187–226
  39 yrs
• Frank Drake ↗American astronomer and astrophysicist · 1930–2022
  92 yrs
• Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ↗French physician · 1738–1814
  75 yrs
• Sepp Dietrich ↗German Military Officer and Waffen-SS general and a convicted Nazi Military war criminal · 1892–1966
  73 yrs
• Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ↗Indian politician · 1883–1966
  82 yrs
• Joseph Greenberg ↗American linguist · 1915–2001
  85 yrs
• Richard Réti ↗Czechoslovakian chess player · 1889–1929
  40 yrs
• Maximilian Voloshin ↗Ukrainian poet · 1877–1932
  55 yrs
• François Christophe de Kellermann ↗French soldier · 1735–1820
  85 yrs
• Sondra Locke ↗American actress · 1944–2018
  74 yrs
• Mahmoud Jibril ↗Libyan politician · 1952–2020
  67 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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