On this day: 28 December
Events, births and deaths on 28 December. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Brigitte Bardot
- Events · 2025–2026 Iranian protests
- Deaths · Joel Habener
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Debbie Reynolds
- Deaths · Jean-Christophe Victor
- Events · Kunming South railway station
100 years ago1926
- Births · Donald Carr
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 23
- 1768Thailand — country in Southeast Asia
- 1836Adelaide — capital city of South Australia
- 1836South Australia — state of Australia
- 1846Iowa — state of the United States of America
- 1857Battle of Canton — 1857 battle
- 1862Van Buren raid — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
- 1879Tay Bridge disaster — bridge collapse and train wreck
- 1885Indian National Congress — centrist-liberal political party in India
- 19081908 Messina earthquake — December 1908 earthquake in Messina, Italy
- 1925Japan Sumo Association — organization
- 19481948 Airborne Transport DC-3 (DST) disappearance — early Bermuda Triangle incident
- 1955Baling Talks — 1955 diplomatic conference to resolve the Malayan Emergency
- 19581958 NFL Championship Game — renowned American football event
- 1964Battle of Binh Gia — Battle during the Vietnam War (1964)
- 1978United Airlines Flight 173 — 1978 aviation accident in Portland, Oregon
- 19891989 Newcastle earthquake — December 1989 earthquake in New South Wales, Australia
- 19941994 offshore Sanriku earthquake — earthquake
- 2006capture of Mogadishu — Capture of Mogadishu by the Transitional Federal Government during 2006–2009 War in Somalia.
- 2011Uludere airstrike — 2011 airstrike where 34 Kurdish villagers of Turkish nationality were killed near the Turkish-Iraqi border
- 2014AirAsia Flight 8501 — 2014 plane crash of an Indonesia AirAsia A320-216 into the Java Sea
- 2016Kunming South railway station — hub railway station in Kunming
- 2019December 2019 Mogadishu bombing — suicide truck bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia
- 20252025–2026 Iranian protests — 2025–2026 protests against the Islamic Republic
Births · 60
- 1164(Julian date)Rokujō — 79th Emperor of Japan
- 1856Woodrow Wilson — 28th President of the United States (1913–1921)
- 1864Henri de Régnier — French poet (1864-1936)
- 1865
- 1882Arthur Eddington — British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
- 1882Lili Elbe — Danish painter and transgender woman (1882–1931)
- 1888F. W. Murnau — German film director (1888–1931)
- 1902Mortimer J. Adler — American philosopher, author and educator (1902–2001)
- 1902Shen Congwen — Chinese writer (1902–1988)
- 1903John von Neumann — Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
- 1903Earl Hines — American jazz pianist (1903–1983)
- 1908Lew Ayres — American actor (1908–1996)
- 1922Stan Lee — American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer (1922–2018)
- 1924Girma Wolde-Giorgis — former Ethiopian President (1924-2018)
- 1925Milton Obote — President of Uganda (1966–1971; 1980–1985)
- 1925Hildegard Knef — German actress, singer and writer (1925-2002)
- 1931Guy Debord — French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931–1994)
- 1932Dhirubhai Ambani — Indian business tycoon (1932–2002)
- 1932Nichelle Nichols — American actress (1932–2022)
- 1932Manuel Puig — Argentine writer (1932-1990)
- 1934
- 1937
- 1943Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne — Catholic cardinal
- 1944Kary Mullis — American biochemist (1944–2019)
- 1944Sandra Faber — American astrophysicist
Deaths · 60
- 484(Julian date)Euric — Visigothic king
- 1218Robert II, Count of Dreux — French crusader
- 1367(Julian date)Ashikaga Yoshiakira — The second shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1330–1367)
- 1394(Julian date)Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina — Serbian royal
- 1447(Julian date)Clement VIII — antipope at Avignon from 1423 to 1429
- 1503(Julian date)Piero the Unfortunate — Italian noble (1472-1504)
- 1538(Julian date)Andrea Gritti — Doge of Venice (1455-1539)
- 1547(Julian date)Konrad Peutinger — German historian (1465–1547)
- 1622Francis de Sales — French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church (1567-1622)
- 1663Francesco Maria Grimaldi — Italian physicist (1618–1663)
- 1694(Julian date)Mary II of England — Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1694 (1662-1694)
- 1706Pierre Bayle — French philosopher and writer (1647–1706)
- 1708Joseph Pitton de Tournefort — French botanist (1656-1708)
- 1734Rob Roy MacGregor — Scottish outlaw (1671–1734)
- 1736Antonio Caldara — Italian composer (c.1670–1736)
- 1859Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay — British historian and politician (1800–1859)
- 1887John S. Marmaduke — 25th governor of Missouri (1833 to 1887)
- 1900Alexandre de Serpa Pinto — Explorer and soldier (1846–1900)
- 1912Ahmet Mithat Efendi — Ottoman Turkish writer, journalist and translator (1844-1912)
- 1916Eduard Strauss — Austrian composer (1835–1916)
- 1918Olavo Bilac — Brazilian poet, journalist and translator (1865–1918)
- 1919Johannes Rydberg — Swedish physicist
- 1919Feng Guozhang — Chinese general (1859-1919)
- 1935Clarence Day — American writer (1874–1935)
- 1937Maurice Ravel — French composer (1875–1937)
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