List of Famous people who born in 1928

Jerzy Matuszkiewicz is a Polish jazz musician and composer. He was a pioneer of the post-World War II jazz movement in Poland. Between 1950–58 he was head of the Polish jazz group Melomani. Throughout 1964 he performed both inside and outside of Poland. In 1965 he began to mainly produce music for movies and commercials. He currently resides in Warsaw, Poland with his wife, Grażyna.

Richard Steven Varga is an American mathematician who specializes in numerical analysis and linear algebra. He is currently an Emeritus University Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Kent State University and an adjunct Professor at Case Western Reserve University. Varga is known for his contributions to many areas of mathematics, including matrix analysis, complex analysis, approximation theory, and scientific computation. He is the author of the classic textbook Matrix Iterative Analysis. Varga has been the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA).

Michael Wieck is a German violinist and author. Wieck's memoir, Zeugnis vom Untergang Königsbergs, was published in 1989. In it he relates his and his partly Jewish family's sufferings under the Nazis and, after the German defeat, under the Soviets. This moving story was translated into English in 2003 under the title A Childhood Under Hitler and Stalin: Memoirs of a "Certified Jew,", and in 2004 into Russian as Закат Кёнигсберга. A revised Russian edition was published in 2015.

Fleet Admiral Vladimir Nikolayevich Chernavin was the last Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy from 1985 to 1991 and the only Commander-in-Chief of the Commonwealth of Independent States Navy from 1991 to 1992.