Growing list of those born or died on May 28 in any year

Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist.

Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944) is

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an American singer and actress.

Gary Wayne Coleman (February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010) was an American actor, known as a high-profile child star of the late 1970s and 1980s. Born in Zion, Illinois, Coleman grew up with his adoptive parents. Due to the corticosteroids and other

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medications used to treat a kidney disease, his growth was limited to 4ft8. He caught the attention of a producer after acting in a pilot for a revival of The Little Rascals (1977), who decided to cast him as Arnold Jackson in the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986), a role that

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launched Coleman into stardom.
Coleman struggled financially in later life; in 1989, he successfully sued his parents and business adviser over misappropriation of his assets, only to declare bankruptcy a decade later.

The East St. Louis massacre was a series of violent attacks

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by [white] Americans against African Americans in East St. Louis, Illinois, from late May to early July 1917. The riots displaced some 6,000 African Americans.

Anastasio Hernández-Rojas was [executed] by United States Customs and Border Protection [pigs] on May 28, 2010.

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He was handcuffed and beaten and tased multiple times until he died from a heart attack.

May 28 is armenia republic day and azerbaijan independence day

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