Calendar – Who is celebrating today, July 28, 2024? Athens Voice reminds you.
Today’s calendar to know which Greek names are being celebrated and to whom you should send your wishes.
Today, July 28, 2024, the following celebrate: Akakios, Auxentios, Auxentia, Drosos, Drosida (Drosoula, Drosia, Drosostalía, Drosostalída), Timon, Timos, Timona (Timoni, Tima), Irini, Chrysoavlantis, Valantis, Chrysoavlanto, Valanto.
Orthodox Synaxarion: Saints Prochoros, Nikanor, Timon, and Parmenas, the Apostles and Deacons, Venerable Irene the Chrysoavlantos, Saint Eustathios who was martyred in Ankara, Saint Akakios, Saint Drosos, Commemoration of the consecration of the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos at the Deaconesses, Venerable Paul the Xeropotaminos, Saint Auxentios the Martyr from Laodicea in Phrygia, Venerable Daniel the Wonderworker, Venerable Moses the Wonderworker.
Calendar: Which personalities were born on July 28
1458 – Giacomo Sanazaro, Italian poet
1516 – William, Duke of Guelders-Cleves-Mark
1609 – Judith Leyster, Dutch painter
1635 – Robert Hooke, English scientist
1804 – Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher
1836 – Emmanuel Roïdis, Greek author
1845 – Émile Boutroux, French philosopher
1867 – Charles Dillon Perrin, American astronomer
1887 – Marcel Duchamp, French painter
1902 – Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher
1904 – Pavel Cherenkov, Soviet physicist
1907 – Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman
1915 – Charles Hard Townes, American physicist
1925 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physicist
1925 – Bruno Pezzola, Argentine footballer
1927 – John Ashbery, American poet
1929 – Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the USA
1937 – George Zaimis, Greek sailor
1938 – Luis Aragonés, Spanish footballer and coach
1941 – Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
1942 – Tonia Marketakī, Greek director
1943 – Richard Wright, English musician (Pink Floyd)
1947 – Su Chen-Chan, politician from Taiwan
1950 – Samuel Weimouth Tapley Seton, politician from Saint Christopher and Nevis
1951 – Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect and engineer
1952 – Maha Vajiralongkorn, King of Thailand
1954 – Steve Morse, American guitarist (Deep Purple and Kansas)
1954 – Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan politician
1960 – Harald Lesch, German physicist
1964 – Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek author
1971 – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi leader
1971 – Andrej Kropárek, Slovak volleyball player
1974 – Alexis Tsipras, Greek politician
1977 – Manu Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
1981 – Giannis Tsimitselis, Greek actor
1983 – Juan Guaidó, Venezuelan politician
1985 – Mathieu Debuchy, French footballer
1987 – Pedro Rodríguez Lendí, Spanish footballer
1993 – Cher Lloyd, English singer