July 28
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July 28 is the 210th day of the year (211th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 155 days remaining after July 28 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1804 – Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
- 1860 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
- 1866 – Beatrix Potter, British writer (d. 1943)
- 1902 – Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1915 – Charles Townes, American physicist
- 1922 – Jacques Piccard, Belgian-Swiss undersea explorer (d. 2008)
- 1925 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician (d. 2011)
- 1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
- 1938 – Luis Aragones, Spanish football manager
- 1938 – Alberto Fujimori, former President of Peru
- 1938 – Chuan Leekpai, Thai politician
- 1945 – Jim Davis, American cartoonist
- 1948 – Georgia Engel, American actress
- 1952 – Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand
- 1954 – Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela
- 1954 – Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
- 1958 – Terry Fox, Canadian athlete (d. 1981)
- 1967 – Brent Saulsbury, American musician,composer
- 1969 – Alexis Arquette, American actor
- 1972 – Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
- 1974 – Justin Lee Collins, British comedian
- 1979 – Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer
- 1981 – Michael Carrick, English footballer
- 1990 – Soulja Boy, American rapper
[change] Deaths
- 1057 – Pope Victor II (b. 1018)
- 1230 – Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
- 1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619)
- 1667 – 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)
- 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)
- 1842 – Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
- 1844 – Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)
- 1930 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish opthalmologist, 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)
- 1957 – Edith Abbott, social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
- 1965 – Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author of detective novels (b. 1894)
- 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)
[change] Events
- 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.
- 1821 – Peru declares independence.
- 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.
- 1914 – World War I starts when Austria-Hungary go to war with Serbia.
- 1943 – British bombers bomb the city of Hamburg, causing a firestorm which kills around 42,000 people.
- 1945 – US Army plane crashes into the Empire State Building in New York killing 13 people.
- 1976 – A strong Earthquake strikes Tangshan, China, killing thousands of people.
- 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.
- 2001 – Alejandro Toledo becomes President of Peru.
- 2005 – A tornado hits a part of Birmingham, England.
- 2006 – Alan Garcia becomes President of Peru.
- 2010 – A plane crash in the Margalla Hills, near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 152 people.
- 2011 – Ollanta Humala becomes President of Peru.
[change] Observances
- Peru: Independence Day
- Faroe Islands: Eve of the feast day of Saint Olaf.
