List of Famous people born on October 28th
Franky Vercauteren
François Vercauteren, nicknamed "The Little Prince", is a Belgian former footballer who played as a left winger. He is currently managing Antwerp.
Mamadou Gassama
Mamadou Gassama Cissokho is a Spanish handball player for BM Granollers.
Gershon Kingsley
Gershon Kingsley was a contemporary German-American composer, a pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer, a partner in the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, founder of the First Moog Quartet, and writer of rock-inspired compositions for Jewish religious ceremonies. Kingsley is most famous for his 1969 influential electronic instrumental composition "Popcorn".
Traugott von Sauberzweig
Traugott Martin von Sauberzweig was a Prussian Generalleutnant who served on both the Eastern and Western Front in the German Army during World War I. In 1915 he had been Military Governor of Brussels in the days of Edith Cavell's execution, and in connection with this tragedy his name was prominently mentioned. The Cavell case was the reason that von Sauberzweig was supplanted. Among those who had to suffer under his following anger had been Herbert Hoover and his Commission for Relief in Belgium as von Sauberzweig was close to interrupt the services of this organisation. He served as chief of staff on the 8th Army in the Ukraine in 1916 and was awarded the Pour le Mérite on 6 September 1917.
Dawen
Dawen Wang, known as Dawen, is a Taiwanese-American singer and songwriter. He first gained prominence when he won Kollaboration Acoustic 4. Dawen's first single "Wake Up", deals with Asian American stereotypes and prejudice towards minorities, and is especially popular among high school and college students. Known for his socio-politically conscious music, Dawen's material is a staple of Asian American Studies departments all over universities across the US, frequently performing and speaking at various panels and conferences.
Edite Estrela
Edite de Fátima Santos Marreiros Estrela, GCIH is a Portuguese politician of the Socialist Party who has been serving as a member of the Parliament of Portugal since the 2015 elections. is a currenty vice president of the Assembly of Republica
Malwida Freiin von Meysenbug
Malwida von Meysenbug was a German writer, her work including Memories of an Idealist, the first volume of which she published anonymously in 1869. As well, she was a friend of Friedrich Nietzsche and Richard Wagner, and met the French writer Romain Rolland in Rome in 1890.
Wolfgang Katzian
Wolfgang Katzian is austrian politician and president of the Austrian Trade Union Federation since June 14th 2018. In 2005 he became chairman of the Union of Private Sector Employees (GPA), which at the time was Austria's largest trade union. In 2007 the GPA merged with the Union of Printing, Journalism and Paper (DJP), Austria's oldest trade union, to form the GPA-DJP. Katzian retained his position as Chairman in the new union, which, as of June 2010, remains the largest in Austria. Intermittently since 2006 he has served as member of Austria's National Council. He has been a member of the UNI World Executive board since 2005.
Oksana Markarova
Oksana Serhiyivna Markarova is a Ukrainian politician and a former Minister of Finance in the government of Volodymyr Groysman and Oleksiy Honcharuk. She was acting Finance Minister since 8 June 2018 acting after Oleksandr Danylyuk was dismissed on 7 June 2018 after a conflict with Groysman.
Yoshiko-joō
Princess Yoshiko was the younger sister of Prince Tsunahito of the Arisugawa-no-miya cadet branch of the Imperial House of Japan. Yoshiko was married to Tokugawa Nariaki, and was mother to the 10th Lord Yoshiatsu, and the 15th and final Tokugawa shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu.