In the year 1828, the first American-Indian newspaper, Cherokee Phoenix, is published in New Echota, capital of the Cherokee Nation (Feb 21), French explorer René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, and later return alive (Apr 20), Simon Bolivar declares himself dictator of Gran Colombia (Aug 27), Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States (Dec 3) - and all these fine people were born:

1828-xxxx James McKay* fur trader - Fort Edmonton, Canada (1879/51) 1828-0101 1828-0103 Karl Collan* writer/ composer - Iisalmi, GD of Finland (1871/43) 1828-0105 Gabriel Jussilainen* farmer/folk lorist/fennoman - Korvi village, GD of Finland (1884/56) 1828-0110 1828-0117 Alexandru Cernat* Romanian general/politician - Galați or Vârlezi, Principality of Moldavia (1893/65) 1828-0122 Dora d’Istria* Romanian writer/feminist - Bucharest, Wallachia (1888/60) 1828-0123 Saigō Takamori* 西郷 隆盛  samurai - Kagoshima, Japan (1877/49) 1828-0131 Oskar Toppelius* schoolteacher/literary reseacher/theater critic - Oulu, GD of Finland (1904/76) 1828-0201 Meyer Guggenheim* the patriarch of the Guggenheim family - Lengnau, Aargau, Switzerland (1905/77) 1828-0208 Jules Verne* poet/playwright/science fiction writer - Nantes, Kingdom of France (1905/77) 1828-0224 Matthew T. Scott* agriculturist/ real estate operator - Lexington, KY USA (1891/63) 1828-0301 John Gould Stephenson* soldier/physician/Librarian of Congress - Lancaster, NH USA (1883/55) 1828-0310 1828-0313 Sébastien Lespès* admiral- Bayonne, Kingdom of France (1897/69) 1828-0318 Randal Cremer* politician/MP/pacifist/N - Fareham, Hampshire, England (1908/80) 1828-0320 Henrik Ibsen* playwright/poet/theatre director- Skien, Telemark, Norway (1906/78) 1828-0417 Johanna Mestorf* German prehistoric archaeologist/the first female museum director in the Kingdom of Prussia - Bad Bramstedt, Duchy of Holstein, Holy Roman Empire (1909/81) 1828-0420 Josephine Butler* (b Grey) feminist/social reformer - Milfield, Northumberland, England (1906/78) 1828-0423 Albert of Saxony* King of Saxony - Dresden (1902/74) 1828-0426 Martha Finley* teacher/ author of childrens' books - Chillicothe, OH USA (1909/80) 1828-0429 Étienne Stéphane Tarnier* obstetrician - Aiserey, Kingdom of France (1897/69) 1828-0508 Henry Dunant* founder of the Red Cross/N - Geneva, Switzerland (1910/82) 1828-0508 Charbel Makhlouf* canonized munk - Bekaa Kafra, Lebanon (1898/70) 1828-0512 Dante Gabriel Rossetti* poet/painter/translator - London, England (1882/53) 1828-0601 1828-0610 1828-0621 Ferdinand André Fouqué* geologist/petrologist - Mortain, France (1904/75) 1828-0723 Jonathan Hutchinson* surgeon/dermatologist/pathologist - Selby, Yorkshire, England (1913/84) 1828-0730 William Edwin Brooks* civil engineer/ornithologist/active in Canada - near Dublin, Ireland (1899/70) 1828-0806 Andrew Taylor Still* founder of osteopathy - Lee County, VA USA (1917/89) 1828-0817 Maria Deraismes* author/major pioneering force for women’s rights - Paris, France (1894/65) 1828-0901 1828-0908 Joshua Chamberlain* college professor/Union officer (Battle of Gettysburg) - Brewer, ME USA (1914/85) 1828-0909 Leo Tolstoy* author - Yasnaya Polyana, Russian Empire (1910/82) 1828-0910 1828-0926 René Goblet* politician/PM - Aire-sur-la-Lys, France (1905/76) 1828-0929 Nikolai August Zilliacus* teacher/ journalist/printer - Käkisalmi, GD of Finland (1893/64) 1828-1020 Horatio Spafford* lawyer/hymn writer - Troy, NY USA (1888/59) 1828-1026 Antti Toikkonen* farmer/merchant - Kuru, GD of Finland (1898/70) 1828-1026 Georg von Alfthan* (b Alfthan) Finnish general in the Russian army/governor/topographer - Viipuri, GD of Finland (1896/67) 1828-1101 Balfour Stewart* physicist - Edinburgh, Scotland (1887/59) 1828-1102 Edward Mitchell Bannister* painter - Saint Andrews, NB, Canada (1901/72) 1828-1117 Milton Wright* bishop/father of the W brothers - Rushville, IN USA (1917/88) 1828-1124 Henry Lomb* German-American optician/co-founder of  Bausch & Lomb - Burghaun, Hesse-Kassel, Germany (1908/79) 1828-1208 Clinton B. Fisk* Temperance Movement leader - York, NY USA (1890/61) 1828-1218 Viktor Rydberg* writer - Jönköping, Sweden-Norway (1895/66) 1828-0 1828-0 1828-0 Updated 2025-0404 Helsinki Search for another year here