October 12, 1928

1928Al Held, American painter and academic (died 2005)^[†]

Al Held was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings. As an artist, multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career, however, none of these occurred at the same time as any popular emerging style or acted against a particular art form. In the 1950s his style reflected the abstract expressionist tone and then transitioned to a geometric style in the 1960s. During the 1980s, there was a shift into painting that emphasized bright geometric space the deepness of which reflected infinity. From 1963 to 1980 he was a professor of art at Yale University.

1928Domna Samiou, Greek singer and musicologist (died 2012)^[†]

Domna Samiou was a prominent Greek researcher and performer of Greek folk music. She received her first formal musical training from Simon Karas. For over half a century she collected, recorded, and performed traditional songs of Greece, around the world, appealing not only to the Greek diaspora, but also introducing non-Greek audiences to traditional Greek folk music.