Month April 1928 Calendar

About Month of April Calendar

• April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, the fifth in the early Julian and one of four months with a length of 30 days. April is commonly associated with the season of spring in parts of the Northern hemisphere and autumn in parts of the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
  
  April symbols: The birthstone for April is the diamond. The birth flower is typically listed as either the Daisy (Bellis perennis) or the Sweet Pea. The zodiac signs for the month of April are Aries (until April 20) and Taurus (April 21 onwards).

Historical Events for April, 1928

• Day of Week 12th » The Bremen (aircraft) or Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
• Day of Week 14th » The Bremen (aircraft) e.g Bremen, a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
• Day of Week 19th » The 125th and final fascicle of the 'Oxford English Dictionary' is published.

Famous Birthdays on April in 1928

• 1st » George Grizzard, American actor (d. 2007)
• 2nd » Joseph Bernardin, American cardinal (d. 1996)
• 2nd » Serge Gainsbourg, French singer-songwriter, actor, and director (d. 1991)
• 2nd » Roy Masters (commentator) known as Roy Masters, English-born American broadcaster
• 2nd » David Robinson (horticulturist) called David Robinson, Irish horticulturist (d. 2004)
• 3rd » Don Gibson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)
• 3rd » Kevin Hagen, American actor (d. 2005)
• 3rd » Emmett Johns, Canadian priest, founded Dans la Rue
• 3rd » Jennifer Paterson, English chef and actress (d. 1999)
• 4th » Maya Angelou, American author, poet, and actress (d. 2014)
• 4th » Estelle Harris, American actress
• 4th » Jimmy Logan, Scottish actor, director, and producer (d. 2001)
• 4th » Monty Norman, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 5th » Fernand Dansereau, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 5th » Tony Williams (singer) named Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters) (d. 1992)
• 6th » James Watson, American biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate
• 7th » James Garner, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2014)
• 7th » Alan J. Pakula, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1998)
• 7th » James White (author) named James White, Irish author (d. 1999)
• 8th » Leah Rabin, German-Israeli wife of Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000)
• 8th » Monty Sunshine, English clarinet player (d. 2010)
• 9th » Paul Arizin, American basketball player (d. 2006)
• 9th » Tom Lehrer, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and mathematician
• 9th » Aubrey Woods, English actor and singer (d. 2013)
• 11th » Ethel Kennedy, American wife of Robert F. Kennedy
• 11th » Edwin Pope, American journalist
• 11th » Tommy Tycho, Hungarian-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2013)
• 12th » Hardy Krüger, German actor
• 12th » Jean-François Paillard, French conductor (d. 2013)
• 13th » Alan Clark, English politician (d. 1999)
• 17th » Cynthia Ozick, American author
• 17th » Heinz Putzl, Austrian fencer
• 17th » Fabien Roy, Canadian politician
• 17th » Victor Lownes, American film producer and executive for Playboy Enterprises called HMH Publishing
• 18th » Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (d. 2014)
• 19th » John Horlock, English engineer and academic
• 19th » Alexis Korner, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blues Incorporated and Collective Consciousness Society) (d. 1984)
• 19th » Azlan Shah of Perak (d. 2014)
• 20th » Robert Byrne (chess player) named Robert Byrne, American chess player and author (d. 2013)
• 20th » Johnny Gavin (footballer) known as Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (d. 2007)
• 20th » Arvo Kruusement, Estonian actor and director
• 21st » Jack Evans (ice hockey) called Jack Evans, Welsh-Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1996)
• 23rd » Shirley Temple, American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat (d. 2014)
• 24th » Ralph Brown (sculptor) or Ralph Brown, English sculptor (d. 2013)
• 24th » Tommy Docherty, Scottish footballer and manager
• 25th » Vassar Clements, American fiddler (Old and in the Way) (d. 2005)
• 25th » Cy Twombly, American-Italian painter and sculptor (d. 2011)
• 28th » Yves Klein, French painter (d. 1962)
• 28th » Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American geologist (d. 1997)
• 29th » Carl Gardner, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2011)
• 29th » Heinz Wolff, German-English scientist and academic
• 30th » Hugh Hood, Canadian author (d. 2000)

Famous Deaths for April 1928

• 2nd » Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry or Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 5th » Roy Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1890)
• 7th » Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician, philosopher, and author (b. 1873)
• 16th » Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founded Henry Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
• 16th » Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (b. 1900)
• 25th » Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian general (b. 1878)

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