July 28
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July 28 is the 209th day of the year (210th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 156 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1347 – Margaret of Durazzo (d. 1412)
- 1456 – Jacopo Sannazzaro, Italian poet (d. 1530)
- 1522 – Margaret of Parma (d. 1586)
- 1609 – Judith Leyster, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
- 1635 – Robert Hooke, English polymath (d. 1703)
- 1643 – Antonio Tarsia, Slovenian composer (d. 1722)
- 1645 – Marguerite Louise d'Orleans, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1721)
- 1804 – Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
- 1815 – Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian military figure (d. 1889)
- 1844 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
- 1860 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
- 1863 – Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
- 1866 – Beatrix Potter, British writer (d. 1943)
- 1867 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (d. 1951)
- 1872 – Albert Sarraut, French politician (d. 1962)
- 1874 – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (d. 1945)
- 1879 – Lucy Burns, Women's rights activist (d. 1966)
- 1887 – Marcel Duchamp, French painter (d. 1968)
- 1901 – Harry Bridges, Australian-American labor leader (d. 1990)
- 1902 – Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1903 – Roger Mynors, British classical philologist (d. 1989)
- 1904 – Selwyn Lloyd, British politician (d. 1978)
- 1904 – Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist (d. 1990)
- 1907 – Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
- 1909 – Malcolm Lowry, English writer (d. 1957)
- 1915 – Charles Townes, American physicist
- 1915 – Frankie Yankovic, American polka musician (d. 1998)
- 1916 – David Brown, American producer (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Jacques Piccard, Belgian-Swiss undersea explorer (d. 2008)
- 1925 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician (d. 2011)
- 1925 – Juan Schiaffino, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2002)
- 1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
- 1930 – Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
- 1937 – Francis Veber, French director and screenwriter
- 1938 – Luis Aragones, Spanish football manager
- 1938 – Alberto Fujimori, former President of Peru
- 1938 – Chuan Leekpai, Thai politician
- 1941 – Peter Cullen, Canadian voice actor
- 1941 – Michael Mukasey, 81st Attorney General of the United States
- 1941 – Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
- 1943 – Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
- 1943 – Richard Wright, English keyboardist (Pink Floyd) (d. 2008)
- 1945 – Jim Davis, American cartoonist
- 1946 – Jonathan Edwards, American singer-songwriter
- 1946 – Linda Kelsey, American actress
- 1948 – Georgia Engel, American actress
- 1948 – Sally Struthers, American actress
- 1950 – Isidore Battikha, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Homs, Syria
- 1951 – Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
- 1951 – Doug Collins, American basketball player and coach
- 1952 – Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand
- 1954 – Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela (d. 2013)
- 1954 – Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
- 1954 – Steve Morse, American guitarist
- 1955 – Nikolay Zimyatov, Russian cross-country skier
- 1956 – Luca Barbareschi, Italian film and theatre actor, producer and director
- 1958 – Terry Fox, Canadian athlete (d. 1981)
- 1960 – Harald Lesch, German astrophysicist
- 1961 – Aleksandr Kurlovich, Soviet weight lifter
- 1964 – Lori Loughlin, American actress
- 1965 – Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
- 1965 – Delfeayo Marsalis, American trombonist
- 1966 – Miguel Angel Nadal, Spanish footballer
- 1967 – Brent Saulsbury, American musician and composer
- 1969 – Alexis Arquette, American actor
- 1969 – Garth Snow, American ice hockey player
- 1970 – Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian ice skater
- 1972 – Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
- 1974 – Justin Lee Collins, British comedian
- 1974 – Alexis Tsipras, Greek politician
- 1977 – Pascale Bruderer, Swiss politician
- 1979 – Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer
- 1981 – Michael Carrick, English footballer
- 1982 – Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir, Icelandic singer and actress
- 1984 – Zach Parise, American ice hockey player
- 1985 – Mathieu Debuchy, French footballer
- 1987 – Pedro Rodriguez Ledesma, Spanish footballer
- 1987 – Sumire, Japanese fashion model (d. 2009)
- 1990 – Soulja Boy, American rapper
- 1993 – Hannah Lochner, Canadian actress
- 1993 – Cher Lloyd, British singer and rapper
Deaths [change]
- 450 – Theodosius II, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1401)
- 1057 – Pope Victor II (b. 1018)
- 1230 – Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
- 1285 – Keran, Queen of Armenia
- 1527 – Rodrigo de Bastildas, Spanish conquistador (b. 1460)
- 1540 – Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1495)
- 1614 – Felix Platter, Swiss doctor and autobiographical writer (b. 1536)
- 1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619)
- 1677 – Abraham Cowley, English poet (b. 1618)
- 1685 – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
- 1718 – Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
- 1741 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
- 1746 – John Peter Zenger, American publicist (b. 1697)
- 1750 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)
- 1762 – George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
- 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1758)
- 1794 – Louis de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1867)
- 1794 – Georges Couthon, French politician (b. 1755)
- 1808 – Selim III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1762)
- 1818 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
- 1842 – Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
- 1844 – Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)
- 1849 – Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
- 1875 – Jean Baptista von Schweitzer, German dramatist (b. 1833)
- 1930 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1862)
- 1934 – Marie Dressler, actress (b. 1868)
- 1942 – William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
- 1944 – Ralph H. Fowler, British astronomer (b. 1889)
- 1957 – Edith Abbott, social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
- 1965 – Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author of detective novels (b. 1894)
- 1965 – Sheikh Attallah Suleimat, Jordanian ruler (b. 1875)
- 1967 – Karl W. Richter, American aviator (b. 1942)
- 1968 – Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
- 1969 – Frank Loesser, composer (b. 1910)
- 1971 – Myril Hoag, baseball player (b. 1908)
- 1972 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
- 1982 – Keith Green, American gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1953)
- 1996 – Marguerite "Marge" Ganser, singer (Shangri-Las) (b. 1948)
- 1997 – Seni Pramoj, Thai politician (b. 1905)
- 1999 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist (b. 1911)
- 2003 – Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish Senator and campaigner for the disabled (b. 1918)
- 2004 – Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
- 2004 – Francis Crick, English chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)
- 2004 – Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
- 2008 – Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese actress and singer (b. 1977)
- 2011 – Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan military commander (b. 1944)
Events [change]
- 1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
- 1566 – A storm sinks several ships off the coast of the island of Gotland, Sweden, killing around 6,000 people.
- 1609 – Bermuda is settled by English sailors, after their ship, the Sea Venture runs aground, on the way to Virginia.
- 1794 – French revolutionary leaders Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Saint-Just are executed on the guillotine.
- 1800 – First successful climb of the Grossglockner in the Austrian Alps by Martin and Sepp Klotz.
- 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: In the Battle of Talavera an army led by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington prevents Joseph Bonaparte from advancing into Portugal.
- 1821 – Peru declares independence from Spain, through Jose de San Martin.
- 1835 – Joseph Fieschi and co-plotters attempt an attack on Louis Philippe of France, who survives with slight injuries, though several people are killed.
- 1858 – Fingerprints are used for the first time to prove identity. William Herschel, Indian Civil service, used Rajyadhar Konai's print on the back of an envelope.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church - Confederate forces fail their third attempt to drive Union forces out of Atlanta.
- 1868 – The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution is certified, guaranteeing African Americans citizenship.
- 1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
- 1914 – World War I starts when Austria-Hungary go to war with Serbia.
- 1933 – Spain and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
- 1935 – First flight of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
- 1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order Number 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union. Under the order, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions, without orders to do so, are to be executed.
- 1943 – World War II: British bombers bomb the city of Hamburg, causing a firestorm which kills around 42,000 people.
- 1945 – A US Army plane crashes into the Empire State Building in New York, killing 14 people.
- 1957 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, Kyushu, Japan, kill 992 people.
- 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the increase of US troops in Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
- 1973 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: 600,000 people attend a rock music festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
- 1976 – A strong earthquake, estimated at magnitude 8.2, strikes Tangshan, China. The official death toll stands at 242,769 people, and 164,851 are estimated to have been injured.
- 1984 – The 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, begin.
- 1990 – Alberto Fujimori becomes President of Peru.
- 1993 – Andorra joins the United Nations.
- 1996 – Ivan Milat is found guilty of 7 murders in the Sydney backpacker trial.
- 1996 – Remains of a prehistoric man are discovered in Kennewick, Washington, later known as the Kennewick Man.
- 2001 – Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win 6 gold medals at a single World Championship.
- 2001 – Alejandro Toledo becomes President of Peru.
- 2005 – Tornadoes hit residential areas of Birmingham and Coventry, England, injuring 14 people.
- 2005 – The Provisional IRA calls an end to its 30-year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
- 2006 – Alan Garcia becomes President of Peru.
- 2008 – The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare, England, burns down for the second time in 80 years.
- 2010 – A plane crash in the Margalla Hills, near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 152 people.
- 2011 – Ollanta Humala becomes President of Peru.
Observances [change]
- Peru: Independence Day
- Faroe Islands: Eve of the feast day of Saint Olaf.
- San Marino: Liberation Day
- World Hepatitis Day
