Let's substitute the numbers from the clue in this order.
12/28/69. That is, December 28th of some year in the 69th century. It is logical to assume that it is the 20th century. So, we have December 28, 1969.
Let's look at the list of people born... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_28 Oops, there's only one person here! Linus Torvalds!
And what did he do in his life?... Wow, he created Linux! No way!
Linux
Should we execute him? :)