On this day: 28 September
Events, births and deaths on 28 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Shimon Peres
- Deaths · Agnes Nixon
- Deaths · Gloria Naylor
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1934 · Births · Brigitte Bardot
- 1924 · Births · Marcello Mastroianni
- 1929 · Births · Lata Mangeshkar
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1066 · Events · Norman conquest of England
- 935 · Deaths · Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia
- 1106 · Events · Battle of Tinchebray
Events · 32
- 351(Julian date)Battle of Mursa Major — 351 battle
- 1066(Julian date)Norman conquest of England — 1066 invasion and conquest of England by Normans
- 1106Battle of Tinchebray — 1106 battle during the invasion of Normandy by Henry I
- 1322(Julian date)Battle of Mühldorf — 1322 battle
- 1538(Julian date)Battle of Preveza — 1538 naval battle of the Third Ottoman–Venetian War
- 1644Action of 28 September 1644 — 1644 naval battle
- 1781Siege of Yorktown — siege, part of American Revolutionary War
- 1821Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire — document proclaiming Mexican independence from Spain, ratified 28 September 1821
- 1864International Workingmen's Association — (First International) socialist political international (1864–1876)
- 1868Battle of Alcolea — battle in Spain 1868
- 1871Law of Free Birth — 1871 act in Brazil taking a step towards slavery abolishing
- 1917flag of Thailand — national flag of the Kingdom of Thailand
- 1918Fifth Battle of Ypres — 1918 battle on the Western Front of World War I
- 1919Omaha Race Riot of 1919 — in Omaha, Nebraska, United States
- 1939German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation — 1939 treaty signed by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
- 1954Central Military Commission — supreme military leadership body of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China, technically consisting of two separate commisions with identical personnel, organization and function
- 19611961 Syrian coup d'état — military coup in Syria, splitting it away from the UAR
- 1970
- 1975Spaghetti House siege — attempted restaurant robbery in Knightsbridge, London
- 1977Japan Airlines Flight 472 (1977) — airliner hijacking
- 1986Democratic Progressive Party — Taiwanese political party
- 1992PIA Flight 268 — aviation accident in Kathmandu, Nepal on 1992-09-28
- 1994sinking of the MS Estonia — disaster on the Baltic Sea on 28 September 1994
- 1995Oslo II Accord — 1995 agreement in the Israeli–Palestinian peace process
- 1995Operation Azalee — 1995 expedition of French armed Forces
- 1999Tian'anmenxi station — Beijing Subway station in Xicheng, Beijing
- 2000Second Intifada — 2000–2005 Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation
- 20082008 Singapore Grand Prix — Formula One race on 28 September 2008 at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore
- 20092009 Guinean protests — protest by the opposition that ended with the violent suppression of demonstrators
- 2012Sita Air Flight 601 — 2012 aviation accident
- 20182018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami — 2018 earthquake in Minahassa Peninsula
- 20232023 Rotterdam shooting — attack in the Netherlands
Births · 60
- 1681Johann Mattheson — German composer and theorist (1681-1764)
- 1698Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis — French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
- 1735Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton — British noble (1735-1811)
- 1746William Jones — Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746–1794)
- 1803Prosper Mérimée — French writer, archaeologist and historian (1803–1870)
- 1823Alexandre Cabanel — French painter (1823–1889)
- 1841Georges Clemenceau — Prime Minister of France, 1906–1909 and 1917–1920 (1841–1929)
- 1852Henri Moissan — French chemist (1852–1907)
- 1852John French, 1st Earl of Ypres — Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army (1852-1925)
- 1863Carlos I of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1889 to 1908 (1863–1908)
- 1865Amélie of Orléans — Queen Consort of Portugal (1889 - 1908)
- 1867Hiranuma Kiichirō — Japanese politician (1867-1952)
- 1887Avery Brundage — president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972
- 1901Ed Sullivan — American television host (1901-1974)
- 1905Max Schmeling — German boxer (1905-2005)
- 1907Bhagat Singh — Indian revolutionary (1907–1931)
- 1910Diosdado Macapagal — President of the Philippines from 1961 to 1965
- 1916Peter Finch — British-Australian actor (1916–1977)
- 1924Marcello Mastroianni — Italian actor (1924–1996)
- 1925Seymour Cray — Applied mathematician, computer scientist, and electrical engineer (1925–1996)
- 1929Lata Mangeshkar — Indian singer (1929–2022)
- 1929Nikolai Ryzhkov — Soviet-Russian politician (1929–2024)
- 1930Immanuel Wallerstein — American sociologist and economic historian (1930–2019)
- 1932Víctor Jara — Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist (1932-1973)
- 1934Brigitte Bardot — French actress, singer, animal rights activist (1934–2025)
Deaths · 60
- 48 BCE(Julian date)Pompey — Roman general and statesman (106–48 BC)
- 29(Julian date)Livia — first Roman empress as consort to Augustus, as well as mother of emperor Tiberius
- 135(Julian date)Akiva ben Joseph — Jewish scholar and sage (c. 50 – c.135)
- 935Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia — duke and saint
- 1197(Julian date)Henry VI — Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 to 1197
- 1213(Julian date)Gertrude of Merania — Queen consort of Hungary (*1185-†1213)
- 1330Elizabeth of Bohemia — queen of Bohemia (1292–1330)
- 1429(Julian date)Cymburgis of Masovia — Archduchess by marriage of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola
- 1582(Julian date)George Buchanan — Scottish historian and humanist scholar (1506-1582)
- 1687François Turrettini — Genevan theologian (1623-1687)
- 1694Gabriel Mouton — French abbot and scientist
- 1702Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland — English nobleman and politician of the Spencer family (1641-1702)
- 1742Jean-Baptiste Massillon — French Catholic bishop and famous preacher
- 1859Carl Ritter — German geographer (1779-1859)
- 1891Herman Melville — American writer and poet (1819–1891)
- 1895Louis Pasteur — French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
- 1899Giovanni Segantini — Italian painter, neo-impressionist and symbolist (1858–1899)
- 1915Saitō Hajime — Japanese swordsman (1844–1915)
- 1920Yu Gwansun — Korean independence activist (1902-1920)
- 1935William Kennedy Dickson — Scottish photographer and inventor of motion picture cameras (1860-1935)
- 1943Sam Ruben — American biochemist (1913-1943)
- 1949Archbishop Chrysanthos of Athens — Greek bishop
- 1953Edwin Hubble — American astronomer (1889–1953)
- 1956William Boeing — American aviation pioneer
- 1959Rudolf Caracciola — German/Swiss racing and motorcycle driver (1901–1959)
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