On this day: 28 July
Events, births and deaths on 28 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Laura Dahlmeier
- Deaths · Ryne Sandberg
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Mahasweta Devi
- Deaths · Émile Derlin Zinsou
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1929 · Births · Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- 1928 · Events · 1928 Summer Olympics
- 1930 · Deaths · Allvar Gullstrand
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1057 · Deaths · Victor II
- 938 · Deaths · Thankmar
- 942 · Deaths · Emperor Gaozu of Later Jin
Events · 24
- 1148Siege of Damascus — 1148 siege during the Second Crusade
- 1364Battle of Cascina — 1364 battle between Pisa and Florence
- 1656Battle of Warsaw — 1656 battle of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Crimean Khanate, against Sweden and Brandenburg
- 1821Peru — sovereign state in South America
- 1864Battle of Ezra Church — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
- 18831883 Casamicciola earthquake — earthquake on the island of Ischia in Italy
- 18991899 Carrabelle hurricane — Category 2 Atlantic hurricane in 1899
- 1914World War I — 1914–1918 global conflict
- 1915United States occupation of Haiti — 1915 overview of the occupation of Haiti by the United States of America
- 1917Silent Parade — 1917 protest in New York City
- 19281928 Summer Olympics — Games of the IX Olympiad, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 1932Bonus Army — 1930s US veterans protest movement
- 1940Salzburg Conference — conference between Nazi Germany and Slovakia, 1940
- 1942Order No. 227 — Order issued by Joseph Stalin that coined the phrase "Not one step back!"
- 19451945 Empire State Building B-25 crash — aviation accident
- 1951
- 1960Volkswagen Law — set of German federal laws enacted in 1960 and relating to the Volkswagen company
- 19761976 Tangshan earthquake — earthquake that occurred in 1976 Tangshan, Hebei, China
- 19841984 Summer Olympics — Games of the XXIII Olympiad, in Los Angeles, USA
- 2002Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 — aviation accident
- 2010Airblue Flight 202 — 2010 crash of an Airblue A321-231 near Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 152
- 2011Asiana Airlines Flight 991 — aviation accident
- 20142014 Yarkant attacks — violent conflict in Xinjiang, China
- 20262026 Kumamoto earthquake — 2026 earthquake in Japan
Births · 60
- 1457(Julian date)Jacopo Sannazaro — Italian writer (1457–1530)
- 1750Fabre d'Églantine — French actor (1750-1794)
- 1804Ludwig Feuerbach — German philosopher and anthropologist (1804–1872)
- 1844Gerard Manley Hopkins — English poet (1844–1889)
- 1860Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia — Russian grand duchess (1860-1922); only daughter of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia and Princess Cecilie of Baden
- 1866Beatrix Potter — British children's writer and illustrator (1866–1943)
- 1874Ernst Cassirer — German philosopher (1874–1945)
- 1887Marcel Duchamp — French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)
- 1887Tetsu Katayama — Japanese politician (1887-1978)
- 1901Rudy Vallée — American singer, actor, and entertainer (1901–1986)
- 1902Karl Popper — Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)
- 1904Pavel Cherenkov — Soviet physicist (1904-1990)
- 1909Malcolm Lowry — British writer (1909–1957)
- 1915Charles Hard Townes — 20th-century American physicist
- 1922Jacques Piccard — Swiss oceanographer (1922–2008)
- 1925Baruch Samuel Blumberg — American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner (1925–2011)
- 1927John Ashbery — poet from the United States of America (1927–2017)
- 1929Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis — First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963
- 1937Francis Veber — French film director (born 1937)
- 1938
- 1938Chuan Leekpai — Thai politician
- 1938Arsen Dedić — Croatian singer-songwriter, composer and poet (1938–2015)
- 1940Riccardo Muti — Italian conductor
- 1941
- 1943Richard Wright — English keyboardist, co-founder of Pink Floyd (1943–2008)
Deaths · 60
- 450(Julian date)Theodosius II — Byzantine Emperor (401–450)
- 1057(Julian date)Victor II — pope
- 1128(Julian date)William Clito — Belgian noble (1102–1128)
- 1230(Julian date)Leopold VI, Duke of Austria — Austrian duke
- 1345Sancha of Majorca — Queen consort of Naples
- 1458John II of Cyprus — King of Cyprus
- 1527Rodrigo de Bastidas — Spanish conquistador
- 1540(Julian date)Thomas Cromwell — English statesman and politician (1485–1540)
- 1631Guillén de Castro y Bellvis — Valencian playwright, poet and soldier of the Spanish Golden Age (1569–1631)
- 1655Cyrano de Bergerac — French novelist and dramatist (1619–1655)
- 1667Abraham Cowley — British writer (1618–1667)
- 1718Étienne Baluze — French scholar (1630-1718)
- 1741Antonio Vivaldi — Italian composer and violinist (1678–1741)
- 1750Johann Sebastian Bach — German composer (1685–1750)
- 1794Maximilien Robespierre — French revolutionary lawyer and politician (1758–1794)
- 1794Louis Antoine de Saint-Just — Philosopher, military and political leader (1767-1794)
- 1818Gaspard Monge — French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746-1818)
- 1835Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier — French diplomat (1768-1835)
- 1836Nathan Mayer Rothschild — German-born British financier (1777–1836)
- 1838Bernhard Crusell — Swedish-Finnish clarinetist, composer and translator (1775–1838)
- 1842Clemens Brentano — German poet and novelist (1778–1842)
- 1844Joseph Bonaparte — brother of Napoleon Bonaparte; King of Naples (1806–08) and Spain (1808–13)
- 1849Carlo Alberto I of Sardinia — King of Sardinia from 1831 to 1849
- 1869Jan Evangelista Purkyně — Czech biologist, physiologist, doctor, inventor and politician (1787–1869)
- 1885Moses Montefiore — British financier and Jewish activist (1784–1885)
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