Jean-Baptiste Lully
28 November 1632 – 22 March 1687
Italian born French composer who founded the French National Opera.

William Blake
28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827
English Poet – now renowned, though not during his lifetime.

Luke Howard
28 November 1772 – 20 March 1864
English meteorologist who devised a naming system for different cloud types.

Anton Rubinstein
28 November 1829 – 20 November 1894
Russian composer and pianist.

John Hyatt
28 November 1837 – 10 May 1920
American who developed a manufacturing process for celluloid.

Henry Bacon
28 November 1866 – 17 February 1924
American architect who designed the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Nancy Mitford
28 November 1904 – 30 June 1973
English author.

Morris Louis
28 November 1912 – 7 September 1962
American abstract artist, paintings can be seen in the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Neue Galerie Graz, Austria; Tate Gallery, London.

Hans Grosse
28 November 1922
German Glider Pilot who set a distance record flying 1460·5 km or 970 miles in 1972.

Today’s events
28 November 1520 – Magellan (Portuguese naval explorer) reaches the Pacific Ocean via the southern tip of South America.
28 November 1582 – William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway.
28 November 1814 – New German automatic printing presses begin printing The Times newspaper in London.
28 November 1893 – For the first time women vote in a national election, in New Zealand.