List of Famous people who born in 1928

Paulo Mendes da Rocha

First Name Paulo
Last Name Rocha
Born on October 25, 1928
Died on May 23, 2021 (aged 92)

Paulo Mendes da Rocha is a Brazilian architect.

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Lee Shau-kee

First Name Lee
Last Name Shau-kee
Born on February 20, 1928 (age 98)
Net Worth $31.7B

Lee Shau-kee GBM is a Hong Kong business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is a real estate tycoon and majority owner of Henderson Land Development, a property conglomerate with interests in property, hotels, restaurants and internet services. In 2019, aged 91, Lee stepped down as chairman and managing director of the company, in favour of two of his sons, Peter and Martin Lee. He retains a role as an executive director.

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Daniel Filipacchi

First Name Daniel
Last Name Filipacchi
Born on January 12, 1928 (age 98)

Daniel Filipacchi is the Chairman Emeritus of Hachette Filipacchi Médias and a French collector of surrealist art.

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Benigna Cardoso da Silva

First Name Benigna
Born on October 15, 1928
Died on October 24, 1941 (aged 13)
Born in Brazil, Ceará

Benigna Cardoso da Silva was a Brazilian Catholic child. In her childhood she was adopted following the deaths of her parents, and was noted for aiding in household chores and attending Mass on a regular basis. But she was better known for having been murdered after rejecting the sexual advances of Raimundo Alves Riberio, who was around her age, in order to protect herself as being chaste as she desired. She defended herself even to the point of Riberio killing her, using a machete that he carried on his person.

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Emiliano Revilla

First Name Emiliano
Last Name Revilla
Born on January 1, 1928 (age 98)
Born in Spain

Emiliano Revilla is a Spanish industrialist who was kidnapped by the Basque separatist group ETA in 1988. He was captured on February 25, 1988, and freed on October 30, 1988.

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Czesława Kwoka

First Name Czesława
Born on August 15, 1928
Died on March 12, 1943 (aged 14)

Czesława Kwoka was a Polish Catholic girl who died at the age of 14 in Auschwitz. One of the thousands minor child and teen victims of German World War II war crimes against ethnic Poles in German-occupied Poland, she is among those memorialized in an Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum exhibit, "Block no. 6: Exhibition: The Life of the Prisoners".

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Eric Dolphy

Eric Allan Dolphy Jr.
First Name Eric
Last Name Dolphy
Born on June 20, 1928
Died on June 29, 1964 (aged 36)

Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist. On a few occasions, he also played the clarinet and piccolo. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence around the time that he was active. His use of the bass clarinet helped to establish the instrument within jazz. Dolphy extended the vocabulary and boundaries of the alto saxophone, and was among the earliest significant jazz flute soloists.

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Perry Smith

First Name Perry
Last Name Smith
Born on October 27, 1928
Died on April 14, 1965 (aged 36)

Perry Edward Smith was one of two career criminals convicted of murdering the four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime that was made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. Along with Richard Hickock, Smith took part in the burglary and multiple murder at the Clutter family farmhouse.

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Alberto Oliart

First Name Alberto
Last Name Oliart
Born on July 29, 1928
Died on February 13, 2021 (aged 92)
Born in Spain, Extremadura

Alberto Carlos Oliart Saussol is a Spanish politician and executive.

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Henry Silva

First Name Henry
Last Name Silva
Born on September 23, 1926
Died on September 14, 2022 (aged 95)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Henry Silva is an American retired actor. A prolific character actor, Silva has been a regular staple of international genre cinema often as a criminal or gangster. Notable film appearances include Ocean's 11 (1960), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Johnny Cool (1963), Sharky's Machine (1981), and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999).

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