On this day: 28 April
Events, births and deaths on 28 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Jenny Diski
100 years ago1926
- Births · Harper Lee
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 992 · Deaths · Jawhar al-Siqilli
- 988 · Deaths · Adaldag
Events · 20
- 224(Julian date)Battle of Hormozdgan — battle between Parthian and Sasanian dynasties in 224 AD
- 1503(Julian date)Battle of Cerignola — 1503 battle in the Third Italian War
- 1788Maryland — state of the United States of America
- 1789Mutiny on the Bounty — 1789 mutiny aboard the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty
- 1920Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic — constituent republic of the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1991
- 19231923 FA Cup Final — Football match
- 1941Gudovac massacre — massacre of Serbs by Ustaše in Croatia in WWII
- 1944Exercise Tiger — D-Day rehearsal in 1944
- 1945death of Benito Mussolini — circumstances of Mussolini's death
- 1947Kon-Tiki expedition — research expedition by Thor Heyerdahl
- 1952Treaty of San Francisco — peace treaty between Japan and the Allied Powers of World War II, officially ending the American-led Allied Occupation of Japan.
- 1952Treaty of Taipei — peace treaty between Republic of China and Japan, officially ending the Second Sino-Japanese War
- 1962Taiwan Television — Taiwan’s first television broadcast company
- 1988Aloha Airlines Flight 243 — 1988 aviation accident
- 1992Taiwan McDonald's bombings — bombing incidents
- 19951995 Daegu gas explosions — accidental disaster in South Korea
- 1996Port Arthur massacre — 1996 mass shooting in Tasmania, Australia
- 1999W. R. Myers High School shooting — April 1999 school massacre attempt in Taber, Alberta, Canada
- 20082008 Zibo train collision — 2008 railway accident in China
- 2012Bersih 3.0 rally — Malaysian democratic protest
Births · 60
- 32(Julian date)Otho — seventh Roman Emperor (69)
- 1442(Julian date)Edward IV of England — King of England from 1461 to 1470 and 1471 to 1483
- 1545Yi Sun-sin — Korean (Joseon) naval commander (1545 – 1598)
- 1676Frederick I of Sweden — king of Sweden (1676-1751)
- 1758James Monroe — president of the United States from 1817 to 1825 (1758–1831)
- 1838Tobias Asser — Dutch lawyer and legal scholar (1838-1913)
- 1854Hertha Ayrton — English electrical engineer (1854–1923)
- 1874Karl Kraus — Austrian playwright and publicist (1874–1936)
- 1878Lionel Barrymore — American actor, director and screenwriter (1878–1954)
- 1889António de Oliveira Salazar — Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
- 1897Ye Jianying — former Head of State of the People's Republic of China (1897-1986)
- 1900Jan Hendrik Oort — Dutch astronomer (1900–1992)
- 1900Heinrich Müller — German SS police official SS-General and head of the Gestapo from 1939-1945 (1900–1945)
- 1906Kurt Gödel — Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
- 1908Oskar Schindler — German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer (1908–1974)
- 1908Ethel Catherwood — Canadian track and field athlete
- 1916Ferruccio Lamborghini — Italian industrialist, founder of Automobili Lamborghini (1916–1993)
- 1921Simin Daneshvar — Iranian writer (1921–2012)
- 1924Kenneth Kaunda — First president of Zambia (1924–2021)
- 1926Harper Lee — American novelist (1926–2016)
- 1928Eugene Merle Shoemaker — American geologist and astronomer
- 1928Yves Klein — 20th century French visual artist (1928–1962)
- 1930James Baker — American lawyer and statesman (born 1930)
- 1930Carolyn Jones — American actress (1930–1983)
- 1936Tariq Aziz — Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein (1936-2015)
Deaths · 60
- 992(Julian date)Jawhar al-Siqilli — 10th-century Fatimid military officer
- 1192(Julian date)Conrad of Montferrat — 12th century Italian nobleman and major participant in the Third Crusade
- 1197(Julian date)Rhys ap Gruffudd — ruler of Deheubarth
- 1257(Julian date)Shajar al-Durr — Egyptian Mamluk Sultana d.1257
- 1400(Julian date)Baldus de Ubaldis — Italian jurist and writer (1327–1400)
- 1489Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland — English noble
- 1716Louis de Montfort — French Catholic saint, priest, and confessor
- 1772Johann Friedrich Struensee — De facto regent of Denmark (1737-1772)
- 1813Mikhail Kutuzov — Field Marshal of the Russian Empire (1745–1813)
- 1841Peter Chanel — Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr (1803-1841)
- 1849René Lesson — French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist (1794-1849)
- 1853Ludwig Tieck — German poet, writer, and critic (1773–1853)
- 1858Johannes Peter Müller — German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (1801-1858)
- 1865Samuel Cunard — Canadian-born British businessman
- 1903Josiah Willard Gibbs — American scientist (1839–1903)
- 1905Fitzhugh Lee — American politician (1835–1905); 40th governor of Virginia
- 1910Edward Porter Alexander — Confederate Army general (1835-1910)
- 1918Gavrilo Princip — Bosnian assassin (1894–1918)
- 1927Li Dazhao — co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1889–1927)
- 1936Fuad I of Egypt — Egyptian former King and former Sultan
- 1944Mohammed Alim Khan — The last Amir of Emirate of Bukhara (1911–1920)
- 1944Frank Knox — 47th Secretary of the Navy of the United States (1874-1944)
- 1945Benito Mussolini — dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1945
- 1945Clara Petacci — mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1912–1948)
- 1945Hermann Fegelein — German lieutenant general in the Waffen-SS (1906–1945)
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