Born:
Lonnie Liston Smith, U.S. jazz performer, Cosmic Echoes, Magic Lady
More Notable Birthdays on December 28:
1972 - Patrick Rafter, born in Queensland, Australia, tennis star, 1993 USTA/Aptos California
1969 - Linus Torvalds, born in Helsinki, Finland, inventor, software engineer, pioneered development of the Linux kernel, a free, open source software operating system
1954 - Denzel Washington, born in Mount Vernon, New York, actor, Dr. Chandler-St. Elsewhere
1922 - Stan Lee, writer, editor and co-creator of Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four and many more comic characters
1903 - John von Neumann, mathematician and astronomer, Bocher Award 1938
