births
December 28, 1929
Maarten Schmidt, Dutch astronomer (died 2022)
Maarten Schmidt
Maarten Schmidt was a Dutch-born American astronomer who first measured the distances of quasars. He was the first astronomer to identify a quasar, and so was pictured on the March cover of Time magazine in 1966.
December 28
December 28 is the 362nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; three days remain until the end of the year.