List of Famous people born on October 28th
Alan Smith
Alan Smith is an English football coach and retired professional footballer who last played for Notts County. He has also represented the England national team, winning 19 caps. Smith was known for his aggressive on pitch mentality and high pressing style of football.
Tedde Moore
Tedde Moore is a Canadian actress who is perhaps best known as Miss Shields in the 1983 film A Christmas Story. She was nominated for a Genie Award at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984 for her acting in the film. She reprised her role in the 1994 film My Summer Story and is the only actor to appear in both films. She also starred in the 2011 film Mistletoe Over Manhattan as Mrs. Claus.
Jane L. Kelly
Jane Louise Kelly is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Wayne Fontana
Glyn Geoffrey Ellis, known professionally as Wayne Fontana, was an English rock and pop singer, best known for the 1965 hit "The Game of Love" with the Mindbenders.
Nur-Pashi Kulayev
Nur-Pashi Aburkashevich Kulayev is a terrorist and the sole survivor of the 32 hostage-takers in the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis. A native of Nozhay-Yurtovsky District, Chechnya, Kulayev was a 24-year-old unemployed carpenter at the time of the attack. His brother Han-Pashi Kulayev had formerly served as bodyguard for Shamil Basayev.
Youssef Msakni
Youssef Msakni is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Al Arabi on loan from Al-Duhail, and the Tunisia national team.
Lukas Griebsch
Lukas Sebastian Griebsch is a German professional footballer who plays as a left back for 3. Liga club Hallescher FC.
Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
Frédéric Martel
Frédéric Martel is a French writer, researcher and journalist. His most famous pieces of work are The Pink and the Black, Homosexuals in France since 1968, Mainstream, "Smart" and De la culture en Amérique, a book about cultural policies and industries in the United States, which was featured on the cover of the New York Times art section in 2006. NYT's journalist Alan Riding wrote : "In Culture in America, a 622-page tome weighty with information, Martel challenges the conventional view in France that (French) culture financed and organized by the government is entirely good and that (American) culture shaped by market forces is necessarily bad".
Frank DiPascali
Frank DiPascali, Jr. was a key lieutenant of Bernard Madoff for three decades. He referred to himself as the company's "director of options trading" and as "chief financial officer". For a number of years, he played a key part in the daily operation of the Madoff investment scandal, later recounting how he helped manipulate billions of dollars in account statements so clients would believe that they were creating wealth for them. On August 11, 2009, he pleaded guilty to ten counts related to the fraud. He subsequently admitted that he had known for at least two decades that Madoff had turned his investment advisory business into a massive Ponzi scheme. He was denied bail before sentencing and spent two weeks in jail before being released. He died of lung cancer in 2015 while awaiting sentencing.