* 1925 – Harry H Corbett, English actor ( d. 1982 )

* August 17 – Harry Corbett, British TV presenter, creator of Sooty ; OBE award winner ( b. 1918 )

Harry Corbett, famous for his children's television glove puppet character Sooty stage act lived with his parents who owned the former " Springfield Fisheries " fish and chip shop ( now " Midgeley's ") on Springfield Road.

And the creator of the famous glove puppet Sooty Harry Corbett, also lived in the town.

Productions of The Alchemist and Richard II, the latter of which starred Harry H. Corbett as the King, established the reputation of the company.

In 1977, Le Mesurier starred opposite Michael Palin and Harry H. Corbett in the Terry Gilliam-directed Jabberwocky.

The Sooty Show, cancelled in 1967 by the BBC, aired on Thames ' first day and after Harry Corbett's retirement in 1975 continued with his son, Matthew Corbett, until November 1992, a month before Thames closed down ( the programme was replaced by Sooty & Co, produced by Granada ).

Harry Corbett of Sooty fame was a nephew of Harry Ramsden and played the piano in his uncle's original restaurant.

Many soon-to-be-famous faces pop up, including: Lionel Jeffries (" Murder Ahoy " and " Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ", Leslie Philips, Jane Asher, Anne Reid ( Coronation Street and Dinnerladies ), Edward Mulhare ( The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and Knight Rider ), Patrick Troughton ( the Second Doctor ), Irene Handl, Desmond Llewelyn ( Q in the Bond films ), Sam Kydd, Sid James, Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw ( Carry On films ), Leo McKern ( Rumpole of the Bailey ), Alfie Bass ( The Army Game ), Sylvia Kay ( Just Good Friends ), Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell ( Steptoe and Son ), Barbara Mullen ( Dr Finlay's Casebook ), Richard O ' Sullivan ( Man About the House ), Geoffrey Bayldon ( Catweazle ), Billie Whitelaw, Ronald Allen, Gordon Jackson.

And for later series include: Paul Hansard, Paul Eddington, Michael Lane, Edward Mulhare, Shaun O ' Riordan, Morris Barry, Patrick Troughton, Wilfrid Brambell, Nigel Davenport, Harry H. Corbett, Kevin Stoney, Ronald Hines and Max Faulkner, who also did stunt / double work.

These included Yootha Joyce, Glynn Edwards, Harry H. Corbett, George A. Cooper, Richard Harris, Stephen Lewis, Howard Goorney, Brian Murphy, Murray Melvin, Nigel Hawthorne and Barbara Windsor.

* Harry H. Corbett

Regular productions are staged at the theatre, which was named after Harry H. Corbett ( 1925 – 1982 ), himself a Theatre Workshop member and benefactor of East 15.

On British television, he also portrayed actor Harry H. Corbett in The Curse of Steptoe, part of " a season of new one-off dramas for BBC Four revealing the stories behind some of Britain's best loved television entertainers, and their achievements ," first broadcast in March 2008.

In 2009, he was nominated at the British Academy Television Awards for Best Actor for his role as Harry H. Corbett in The Curse of Steptoe.

Speight's next comedy was For Richer ... For Poorer ( 1975 ), a one-off pilot which featured Harry H Corbett as a left-wing answer to Alf Garnett.

In a 1970 episode of the British sitcom Steptoe and Son, Harold ( Harry H. Corbett ) points out to an ex-girlfriend that her deceased husband was a " great Tory twit, always sneering about Clem Attlee and the Groundnut Scheme ".

In 1999, he starred as Prince Charming in ITV's Christmas pantomime alongside Ben Miller, and with Samantha Janus, Paul Merton, Harry Hill, Frank Skinner and Ronnie Corbett.

Items of interest include, Robert Harbin ’ s original Zig Zag lady illusion, Chung Ling Soo's robes, rifles used for the ‘ Bullet Catch ’ by Maurice Fogel in the 1940s, an original Sooty with associated Harry Corbett apparatus, sets of props used by television magicians David Nixon and Tommy Cooper, items and a sound recording of Harry Houdini taken from an Edison cylinder, and a set of cups and balls used by HRH The Prince of Wales when he took his Magic Circle exam in 1975.

In Carry on Screaming he played Detective Constable Slowbotham, the assistant for Detective Sergeant Bung played by Harry H Corbett, or as Citizen Bidet in " Carry On Don ’ t Lose Your Head " where he was the assistant to Citizen Camembert played by Kenneth Williams.

Harry Corbett created Sooty, a child orientated puppet.

* Harry Corbett

Harry Seidler, AC OBE ( 25 June 19239 March 2006 ) was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia.

Harry Secombe played his regular character in The Goon Show, Neddie Seagoon, in turn playing " Professor Ned Cratermess, OBE.

* 1990-1991: Harry Jepson OBE, Leeds

Other people on the Board Of Directors were Martin George ( Chairman ), Dr Mary Archer MA, David Ball, Jean Barker OBE, David Cocks, Tony Durham MA, William Gibbs, Harry Giltrap, Patrick Sharman & Richard Winfrey.

Henry " Harry " Evans Maude, OBE ( 1 October 1906 – 4 November 2006 ) was a British civil servant and anthropologist.

Lieutenant Colonel Harry Greenwood VC, DSO & Bar, OBE, MC ( 25 November 1881 – 5 May 1948 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Sir Francis Harry Hinsley OBE ( 26 November 1918 – 16 February 1998 ) was an English historian and cryptanalyst.

Harry Golombek OBE ( 1 March 1911 – 7 January 1995, Lambeth, London ), was a British chess International Master and honorary grandmaster, chess arbiter, and chess author.

An active member of the French Resistance, he was awarded the Légion d ' honneur by Charles de Gaulle, the croix de guerre with three palm leafs and a star, the Medal of Freedom from US President Harry S. Truman, Ellis Island Medal of Honor from US President Ronald Reagan, was a Fulbright scholar, member of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ), officer of the order of Orange-NASSAU, Medal of Honor of the Statue of Liberty, and Ph. D. from the University of Minnesota where he was a Mayo Foundation Fellow.

Charles Edward Chauvel OBE ( 7 October 1897 – 11 November 1959 ) was an Australian filmmaker and nephew of Australian army General Sir Harry Chauvel.

* Alfred Evelyn Harry Wood OBE ( 1970 ─ 1975 )

Harry Corbett OBE ( 28 January 1918 Bradford, West Yorkshire — 17 August 1989 ) was a British puppeteer, known as the creator in 1948 of the long running ' Sooty ' glove puppet character.

Prime Minister Harold Wilson wished to have Steptoe and Son actor Harry H. Corbett awarded an OBE, but the middle initial " H " was lost in the bureaucratic process, and the award went to Harry Corbett instead.

Both were awarded the OBE on 1 January 1976, Harry Corbett being cited " for charitable services ".

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.

Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM, FRS ( 8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004 ) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 together with James D. Watson.

Prince Harry greeting people, 28 April 2011

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* June 28 – Sir Harry Smith, English soldier and military commander ( d. 1860 )

* January 28 – Various artists, under the group name USA For Africa, including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Steve Perry, Kenny Loggins, Willie Nelson, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis, Tina Turner, Sheila E., Harry Belafonte, Lindsey Buckingham, Kim Carnes, Dionne Warwick, Waylon Jennings, Bob Geldof and Stevie Wonder, record the song " We Are the World ".

A loose jam involving the two, along with Stevie Wonder, Harry Nilsson, Jesse Ed Davis and others, was recorded at Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles on 28 March 1974.

She was 28, six years older than Harry, with two small children, and married.

Chicago runner James Lightbody won the steeplechase and the 800 m and then set a world record in the 1500 m. Harry Hillman won both the 200 m and 400 m hurdles and also the flat 400 m. Sprinter Archie Hahn was champion in the 60 m, 100 m and 200 m. In this last race, he set an Olympic record in 21. 6, a record that stood for 28 years.

Harry Frederick Oppenheimer ( 28 October 1908 – 19 August 2000 ) was a prominent South African businessman and one of the world's richest men.

He married Mary E. Hopkins on April 28, 1868, in Virginia City, Nevada, and they had three children, Stella, Harry, and Ethel.

Trained and driven by Harry Harvey from the time he was a yearling until a week before his three-year-old season and later Stanley Dancer, he won 25 of his 28 races as a three-year-old, including the Adios Stakes, the Cane Pace, and the Messenger Stakes.

Louis Arthur Johnson ( January 10, 1891-April 24, 1966 ) was the second United States Secretary of Defense, serving in the cabinet of President Harry S. Truman from March 28, 1949 to September 19, 1950.

Henry Albert " Harry " Atkinson ( 1 November 1831 – 28 June 1892 ) served as the tenth Premier of New Zealand on four separate occasions in the late 19th century, and was Colonial Treasurer for a total of ten years.

On May 28, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, joined by 42 other Senators, filed an amicus brief in support of Snyder with the Supreme Court.

* Most League goals in a season: Harry Cunningham ( 34 in 1927 – 28 ) and Andy Kerr ( 34 in 1960 – 61 )

* Harry Delmar's Revels ( November 28, 1927 – March 1928 )

Prior to the 1987 season, car owner Harry Ranier tapped Davey to replace veteran driver Cale Yarborough in the Ranier-Lundy # 28 Ford Thunderbird.

However, the sale of the locomotive to the Harry Needle Railroad Company and subsequent announcements indicated that the weekend runs of 27 and 28 September 2008 might be its last prior to component recovery and eventual scrapping.

*" Without You " ( Billboard charting # 1 by Harry Nilsson, # 3 by Mariah Carey, # 28 by Clay Aiken ).

Lieutenant General Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith, 1st Baronet of Aliwal GCB ( 28 June 1787 – 12 October 1860 ), known as Sir Harry Smith, was a notable English soldier and military commander in the British Army of the early 19th century.

After the second of these actions Sir Harry Smith was appointed to an independent command, and on 28 January 1846 he inflicted a crushing defeat on the Sikhs at Aliwal on the Sutlej.

* Harry Batstone – player ( HB ), 1963 ( Toronto Argonauts 1919 – 21 ; Queen's University 1922 – 28, later as coach 1929 – 31 ).

On September 28, 1945, US President Harry S. Truman issued two proclamations that established government control of natural resources in areas adjacent to the coastline.