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Events on Wednesday 28 May 2025 3
1930 – 2025George E. Smith (1930-2025)Died 28 May 2025, aged 95American physicist who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics for co-inventing the charge-coupled device, the sensor behind digital photography.
1937 – 2025Loretta Swit (1937-2025)Died 28 May 2025, aged 87American actress best known as Major Margaret Houlihan in the television series M*A*S*H.
1938 – 2025Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1938-2025)Died 28 May 2025, aged 87Kenyan writer regarded as East Africa's leading novelist. Weep Not, Child was the first major English-language novel by an East African.