28 November: today's birthdays

• William Blake - English poet and painter. Not appreciated in his time, he is now one of the greatest English poets
• John Bunyan - English Christian writer and preacher. He wrote a Christian allegory: The Pilgrim's Progress
• Chamillionaire - Stage name of American singer Hakeem Seriki 
• Christopher Coake - American writer. He wrote of a collection of short stories, We're in Trouble and the novel You Came Back
• Alfonso Cuarón - Mexican film director and screenwriter, born Alfonso Cuarón Orozco. He won an Oscar for Best Director and one for Best Film Editing for Gravity (2014)
• Friedrich Engels - German economist, philosopher and political scientist. The father of Marxist theory, together with Karl Marx
• John Galliano - English fashion designer, born in Gibraltar from a Spanish family. He collaborated with French brands Givenchy and Christian Dior
• Ed Harris - American actor. He starred in Pollock and performed in Apollo 13, The Truman Show and The Hours 
• Agnieszka Holland - Polish film director and screenwriter. She is one of Poland's most important filmmakers
• John Wesley Hyatt - American inventor. He created celluloid, the first plastic substance
• Ryan Kwanten - Australian actor. He is Jason Stackhouse in American television drama True Blood
• Claude Lévi-Strauss - Belgian anthropologist, psychologist and philosopher. Considered one of the fathers of modern anthropology
• Alberto Moravia - Pen name of Italian writer and journalist Alberto Pincherle. He wrote Contempt and The Conformist
• Alberto Pincherle - Real name of Alberto Moravia, Italian author and journalist. He wrote Contempt and The Conformist
• Eric Shinseki - American general
• Anne Nicole Smith - American model and actress. She became famous winning the Playmate of the Year
• ​Stefan Zweig - Austrian writer, poet, playwright, and biographer. He wrote The Royal Game, Letter from an Unknown Woman, and The World of Yesterday: Memories of a European