28 September: today's birthdays

• Brigitte Bardot - French actress and animal rights activist, born Brigitte Anne Marie Bardot. Her nickname was B.B.
• Marin Čilić - Croatian professional tennis player
• Hilary Duff - American actress and singer
• Mika Häkkinen - Finnish racing driver
• Marcello Mastroianni - Italian actor, born Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastrojanni. He starred in La dolce vita, Divorce Italian Style, A Special Day and Dark Eyes 
• Prosper Mérimée - French writer, historian and archaeologist. He wrote the novel Carmen which inspired Georges Bizet who composed the homonymous opera
• Sylvia Pinel - French politician. She is the leader of the Radical Party of the Left
• John Sayles - American film director and screenwriter
• Dita Von Teese - Stage name of American actress and showgirl Heather Renée Sweet
• Naomi Watts - British-born Australian actress, born Naomi Ellen Watts
• Miloš Zeman - Czech  politician, currently 3rd President of the Czech Republic