August 25, 1928

1928John "Kayo" Dottley, American football player (died 2018)^[†]

John Albert "Kayo" Dottley was an American professional football player who was a fullback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ole Miss Rebels.

1928Darrell Johnson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2004)^[†]

Darrell Dean Johnson was an American professional catcher, coach, manager and scout in Major League Baseball (MLB). As a manager, he led the 1975 Boston Red Sox to the American League pennant, and was named "Manager of the Year" by both The Sporting News and the Associated Press.

1928Karl Korte, American composer and academic (died 2022)^[†]

Karl Richard Korte was an American composer of contemporary classical music.

1928Herbert Kroemer, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)^[†]

Herbert Kroemer was a German-American physicist who, along with Zhores Alferov, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for "developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics". Kroemer was professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, having received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1952 from the University of Göttingen, Germany, with a dissertation on hot electron effects in the then-new transistor. His research into transistors was a stepping stone to the later development of mobile phone technologies.