December 28
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Art and culture
- 1895 - The Lumière brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines marking the debut of the cinema.
Births
- 1888 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German film director (d. 1931)
- 1925 - Hildegard Knef, German actress (d. 2002)
- 1931 - Guy Debord, French writer (d. 1994)
- 1932 - Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (d. 1990)
- 1950 - Alex Chilton, American musician (Box Tops)
- 1951 - Ian Buruma, Anglo-Dutch scholar and writer on Japan and the Far East.
- 1954 - Denzel Washington, American actor
- 1967 - Chris Ware, American cartoonist
Deaths
- 1924 - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)
- 1937 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (b. 1875)
- 1945 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (b. 1871)
- 1983 - Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1944)
- 1984 - Sam Peckinpah, American film director (b. 1925)
- 1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (b. 1932)
- 2004 - Susan Sontag, American writer (b. 1933)
Notes
- 1963 - A. J. Liebling (October 18, 1904 – December 28, 1963) was an American journalist
- 1887 - Walther Ruttmann (born December 28 1887 in Frankfurt am Main; died July 15 1941 in Berlin) was a German film director and along with Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling was an early German practitioner of experimental film.
- 1950 - Max Beckmann (February 12 1884 – December 28 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer.
- 1937 - Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer and pianist of the impressionistic period, known especially for the subtlety, richness and poignancy of his music.
- 1865 - Félix Vallotton (December 28 1865–December 29 1925) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist, an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut.
- 1864 - Henri de Régnier (December 28, 1864 - May 23, 1936) was a French symbolist poet considered one of the foremost of France during the early 20th century.
- 1895 - The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station It was first screened on December 28 1895 in Paris, France, and was shown to a paying audience January 6 1896.
- 1940 - Lonnie Liston Smith (born December 28, 1940 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American jazz, soul, and funk musician.
- 1934 - Alasdair Gray (born December 28, 1934) is a Scottish writer and artist. His most acclaimed work is his first novel Lanark,
- 1999 - Pierre Clémenti (28 September 1942 – 28 December 1999) was a French actor. Born in Paris, Clémenti studied drama and began his acting career in the theatre. He secured his first minor screen roles in 1960 in Yves Allégret's Chien de pique performing alongside Eddie Constantine. Arguably, his most famous role was that of gangster lover of bourgeois prostitute Catherine Deneuve in Luis Buñuel's 1966 classic Belle de jour.
- 1990 - Ed van der Elsken (Amsterdam, 10 March 1925 – Edam, 28 December 1990), a photojournalist born in Amsterdam.
- 1904 - Hori Tatsuo (28 December 1904 – 28 May 1953 was a writer, poet, and translator in Showa period Japan.
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