Born:
Nigel Kennedy, born in Brighton, English, violinist, jazz and classical music, boy prodigy, play Fats Waller tunes by ear at age 10, featured on Sarah Brightman's album Harem
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
