September 28
September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 94 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 48 BC – Pompey the Great, Roman consul (born 106 BC)
- 235 – Saint Pontianus, Pope
- 876 – Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (born 804)
- 935 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (born 907)
- 1104 – Pedro I, king of Aragon and Navarre (born 1068)
- 1197 – Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1165)
- 1582 - George Buchanan, Scottish philosopher and historian (born 1506)
- 1781 - William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British statesman and diplomat (born 1717)
- 1797 - Gunning Bedford, Jr., American politician, Governor of Delaware (born 1742)
- 1829 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky, Russian general (born 1771)
- 1844 - Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (born 1769)
- 1859 – Carl Ritter, German geographer (born 1779)
- 1891 – Herman Melville, American writer (born 1819)
- 1895 – Louis Pasteur, French scientist (born 1822)
- 1899 - Giovanni Segantini, Italian-Swiss painter (born 1858)
1901 – 2000
- 1907 - Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (born 1826)
- 1914 - Richard Sears, American businessman (born 1863)
- 1918 - Eduard von Keyserling, German writer and dramatist (born 1835)
- 1935 - William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, producer and inventor (born 1860)
- 1935 - Hans Baluschek, German painter (born 1870)
- 1938 - Charles Duryea, American automobile manufacturer (born 1861)
- 1939 - William Dunlap, American painter and writer (born 1866)
- 1949 - Chrysanthus, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens (born 1881)
- 1953 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (born 1891)
- 1956 – William Boeing, American aviation manufacturer (born 1881)
- 1959 – Rudolf Caracciola, German racing driver (born 1901)
- 1964 – Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (born 1888)
- 1966 - André Breton, French poet (born 1896)
- 1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (born 1918)
- 1978 – Pope John Paul I (born 1912)
- 1979 - John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (born 1921)
- 1981 – Romulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (born 1908)
- 1989 – Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (born 1917)
- 1990 - Larry O'Brien, American commissioner of the NBA (born 1917)
- 1991 – Miles Davis, American musician (born 1926)
- 1994 - Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (born 1953)
- 1994 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician (assassinated) (born 1946)
- 2000 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada (born 1919)
From 2001
- 2003 - Yukichi Chuganji, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1889)
- 2003 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)
- 2003 - Elia Kazan, Greek-born American movie director (b. 1909)
- 2003 - Olle Anderberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1919)
- 2009 – Guillermo Endara, President of Panama (b. 1936)
- 2010 – Arthur Penn, American screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 2012 - Michael O'Hare, American actor (b. 1952)
- 2014 - Petr Skoumal, Czech musician and composer (b. 1938)
- 2014 - Dannie Abse, Welsh writer (b. 1923)
- 2015 - Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (b. 1939)
- 2015 - Michael Burgess, Canadian actor and tenor (b. 1945)
- 2015 - Walter Dale Miller, American politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1925)
- 2015 - Frank Martinus Arion, Dutch Antillean writer (b. 1936)
- 2015 - Frankie Ford, American singer (b. 1939)
- 2016 - Shimon Peres, former President of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1923)
- 2016 - Agnes Nixon, American television writer and producer (b. 1922)
- 2017 - Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, Spanish film director (b. 1927)
- 2017 - Lee Hsin, Taiwanese politician (b. 1953)
- 2017 - Daniel Pe'er, Israeli television presenter (b. 1943)
- 2017 - Jürgen Roth, German journalist (b. 1945)
- 2017 - Benjamin Whitrow, British actor (b. 1937)
- 2017 - Andreas Schmidt, German actor (b. 1963)
- 2018 - Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, Prime minister of Swaziland (b. 1942)
- 2018 - Ito Giani, Italian sprinter (b. 1941)
- 2018 - Bob Jane, Australian racing driver and entrepreneur (b. 1929)
- 2019 - José Aldunate, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate and activist (b. 1917)
- 2019 - Ismail Petra of Kelantan, Malaysian royal (b. 1949)
- 2019 - Jan Kobuszewski, Polish actor (b. 1934)
- 2019 - José José, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1948)
- 2019 - Mark Zakharov, Russian theatre and film director (b. 1933)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1901 – Ed Sullivan, American television host (d. 1974)
- 1901 - William S. Paley, American radio and TV executive (d. 1990)
- 1905 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
- 1907 - Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast (d. 1997)
- 1909 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
- 1910 – Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines (d. 1997)
- 1914 - Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (d. 2014)
- 1915 – Ethel Rosenberg, American alleged spy (d. 1953)
- 1916 – Peter Finch, British actor (d. 1997)
- 1918 - Willi Ritschard, Swiss politician (d. 1983)
- 1923 - William Windom, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1924 – Rudolf Barshai, Russian conductor and violist (d. 2010)
- 1924 - Giuseppe Chiappella, Italian footballer (d. 2009)
- 1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
- 1925 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist (d. 1996)
- 1928 – Koko Taylor, American blues musician (d. 2009)
- 1930 - Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist and social scientist (d. 2019)
- 1932 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer and songwriter (d. 1973)
- 1933 - Madeleine M. Kunin, Swiss-born American politician, 77th Governor of Vermont
- 1933 - Miguel Berrocal, Spanish sculptor (d. 2006)
- 1934 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress and animal activist
- 1935 - Pierre Ryckmans, Belgian-Australian writer and diplomat (d. 2014)
- 1935 - Heather Sears, English actress (d. 1994)
- 1938 – Ben E. King, American singer (d. 2015)
- 1938 - Myechyslaw Hryb, former President of Belarus
- 1939 - Elbridge Bryant, American tenor (d. 1975)
- 1939 - Iain MacCormick, Scottish politician (d. 2014)
- 1939 - Rudolph Walker, Trinidadian-English actor
- 1939 - Stuart Kauffman, American physician and biologist
- 1941 – David Lewis, American philosopher (d. 2001)
- 1941 – Edmund Stoiber, German politician
- 1942 - Donna Leon, American writer
- 1942 - Tim Maia, Brazilian musician and songwriter (d. 1998)
- 1943 - Nick St. Nicholas, German-Canadian musician (Steppenwolf)
- 1944 - Yoshitada Yamaguchi, Japanese footballer
- 1944 - Milos Zeman, former Prime Minister, and current President, of the Czech Republic
- 1946 – Helen Shapiro, English singer
- 1947 – Bob Carr, former Premier of New South Wales
- 1947 – Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- 1947 – Jon Snow, English broadcast journalist
- 1949 - Jim Henshaw, Canadian actor, screenwriter and producer
- 1949 - George Kerevan, Scottish journalist, economist and politician, former SNP MP
- 1950 – John Sayles, American director and screenwriter
- 1950 – Laurie Lewis, American musician
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - Jim Diamond, Scottish singer (d. 2015)
- 1952 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress, model and singer (d. 2012)
- 1953 - Otmar Hasler, 11th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
- 1954 - Margot Wallström, Swedish politician
- 1955 – Stéphane Dion, Canadian politician
- 1960 – Jennifer Rush, American singer
- 1960 - Socrates B. Villegas, Filipino archbishop
- 1960 - Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford, English politician
- 1961 - Quentin Kawananakoa, claimant to the throne of Hawaii
- 1961 - Yordanka Donkova, Bulgarian athlete
- 1961 - George Rossi, Scottish actor (d. 2022)
- 1964 - Janeane Garofalo, American actress and comedienne
- 1964 – Paul Jewell, English football manager
- 1965 - Christopher Evan Welch, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1966 - Ginger Fish, American musician
- 1966 - Maria Canals-Barrera, American actress
- 1966 - Leilani Sarelle, American actress
- 1967 - Mira Sorvino, American actress
- 1968 – Mika Hakkinen, Finnish racing driver
- 1968 – Naomi Watts, English-Australian actress
- 1969 - Angus Robertson, Scottish politician, SNP Deputy leader and former MP
- 1970 – Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japanese tennis player
- 1970 - Jo Wyatt, English singer and actress
- 1971 - George Eustice, English politician
- 1971 - Joseph Arthur, American singer
- 1972 – Dita Von Teese, American Burlesque dancer
- 1974 - Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer
From 1976
- 1976 - Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist
- 1977 - Ireneusz Marcinkowski, Polish footballer
- 1978 - Peter Cambor, American actor
- 1978 – Bushido, German rapper and musician
- 1979 – Bam Margera, American skateboarder and actor
- 1981 – Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorean footballer
- 1981 - Melissa Claire Egan, American actress
- 1982 - Takeshi Aoki, Japanese footballer
- 1982 – Abhinav Bindra, Indian Olympic shooter
- 1982 – Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor
- 1982 - Matt Cohen, American actor
- 1982 - St. Vincent, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1983 - Richard Henyekane, South African footballer (d. 2015)
- 1983 - Sarah Wright, American actress and model
- 1984 – Mathieu Valbuena, French footballer
- 1984 – Melody Thornton, American singer
- 1984 - Yvonne Ploetz, German politician
- 1985 - Shindong, South Korean singer and actor (Super Junior)
- 1986 - Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
- 1987 – Hilary Duff, American actress and singer
- 1988 – Marin Cilic, Croatian tennis player
- 1988 – Esmée Denters, Dutch singer
- 1989 - Darius Johnson-Odom, American basketball player
- 1990 – Kirsten Prout, Canadian actress
- 1992 – Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress (d. 2014)
- 1993 - Jodie Williams, English athlete
- 2000 - Frankie Jonas, American actor
Deaths
Holidays and observances
- RC Saints – St. Wenceslas, Lorenzo Ruiz - Also see September 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Czech Republic – Czech Statehood Day
- Taiwan – Teacher's Day (Confucius' birthday)
- World Heart Day
- World Rabies Day
- Ask a Stupid Question Day (United States)