Joseph Cook (December 29, 1922 – April 15, 2014), known as Little Joe Cook, was an American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer of Little Joe & The Thrillers, whose song "Peanuts" reached No. 22 on the Billboard Top 100 in 1957.
Happy Birthday to DANIELA SINKOROVA Slovak actress who turns 50 today, December 28, 2022. Všetko najlepšie k narodeninám!
Happy Birthday to YUI OKADA Japanese singer who turns 35 today, December 28, 2022.
Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir (born 1972) is an Icelandic writer. She has written three autobiographical novels, her best-known work being Jarðnæði (Land of love; plan of ruins) which was nominated for the Icelandic Literary Award in 2011 and which won the 2012 Icelandic Women's Literature Prize and the…
Roman Palester (28 December 1907 – 25 August 1989) was a Polish composer of classical music. Palester composed his most significant work during the 1960s and was the first Polish musician to be awarded the Alfred Jurzykowski Prize in 1964. His work was individual in style and not noticeably Polish…
Pío Baroja y Nessi (28 December 1872 – 30 October 1956) was a Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98. He was a member of an illustrious family. His brother Ricardo was a painter, writer and engraver, and his nephew Julio Caro Baroja, son of his younger sister Carmen, was a…
Бори́с Ива́нович Орло́вский (фамилия при рождении — Смирнов; 1791 или 1793, село Столбецкое, Малоархангельский уезд, Орловское наместничество, Российская империя — 16 (28) декабря 1837, Санкт-Петербург, Российская империя) — русский скульптор эпохи ампира, ученик и последователь Бертеля…
Mouloud Mammeri (Kabyle: Mulud At Mɛammar) was an Algerian writer, anthropologist and linguist.
He was born on December 28, 1917 in Ait Yenni, in Tizi Ouzou Province, French Algeria. He attended a primary school in his native village, then emigrated to Morocco to live in his uncle's house in Rabat.…
Shen Congwen (28 December 1902 – 10 May 1988), formerly romanized as Shen Ts'ung-wen, was a Chinese writer who is considered one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, on par with Lu Xun. Regional culture and identity plays a much bigger role in his writing than that of other major early modern…
