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June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 186 days remain until the end of the year.

June 28th is a day filled with many important events throughout history, from ancient battles and royal coronations to the signing of peace treaties and major scientific discoveries. It's also a day when many famous people were born and passed away, leaving their mark on the world. Let's explore some of the key moments that happened on this day.

Historical Events
Famous Births
Notable Deaths
Holidays and Observances
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Historical Events

Early History (Before 1600)

1098 – During the First Crusade, Christian fighters won a big victory against Kerbogha of Mosul at the Battle of Antioch.
1360 – Muhammed VI became the tenth king of Granada, a kingdom in what is now Spain.
1461 – Edward, Earl of March, was crowned King Edward IV of England. He became the ruler of England.
1495 – A French army defeated a larger Neapolitan and Spanish army at the Battle of Seminara. This battle led to the creation of the Tercios, a new type of Spanish army unit, by Gonzalo de Córdoba.
1519 – Charles V was chosen as the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, a large group of lands in Central Europe.
1575 – In Japan's Sengoku period, the combined armies of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu won an important battle called the Battle of Nagashino.

From 1600 to 1900

1635 – The island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean became a French colony.
1651 – The Battle of Berestechko began between the forces of Poland and Ukraine.
1745 – An army from the New England colonies captured the French fort at Louisbourg.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's Island ended with an American victory. This day is now remembered as Carolina Day.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals fought the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse. The battle ended in a tie, and the British left during the night.
1797 – French troops landed in Corfu, starting French rule in the Ionian Islands.
1807 – A second British invasion of the Río de la Plata region began. John Whitelocke landed at Ensenada to try and take back Buenos Aires, but his forces were defeated by the local people.
1838 – Queen Victoria was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom.
1841 – The Paris Opera Ballet performed the famous ballet Giselle for the very first time.
1855 – The Sigma Chi fraternity was founded in North America.
1859 – The first dog show where dogs are judged on their looks and how well they fit their breed standards was held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1865 – The Army of the Potomac, a major army during the American Civil War, was officially ended.
1870 – The U.S. Congress created the first federal holidays, which included New Year's Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
1881 – The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 was secretly signed, creating a partnership between Austria-Hungary and Serbia.
1882 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 set the borders between Guinea and Sierra Leone in West Africa.
1894 – Labor Day became an official holiday in the United States.
1896 – An explosion at the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania caused a mine accident that killed 58 miners.

Modern History (1901–Present)

1902 – The U.S. Congress passed the Spooner Act. This law allowed President Theodore Roosevelt to get the rights from Colombia to build the Panama Canal.
1904 – The SS Norge ship ran aground off the coast of Ireland, and over 635 people died.
1911 – The Nakhla meteorite, a space rock that showed signs of water processes on Mars, fell to Earth in Egypt.
1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo. This event was a main cause of World War I.
1917 – World War I: Greece joined the Allied powers in the war.
1919 – The Treaty of Versailles was signed, officially ending World War I between Germany and the Allies.
1921 – Serbian King Alexander I announced a new constitution for the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known as the Vidovdan Constitution.
1922 – The Irish Civil War began when Free State forces attacked the Four Courts building in Dublin.
1926 – The famous car company Mercedes-Benz was created when Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merged their companies.
1936 – The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang was formed in northern China.
1940 – Romania gave up the regions of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union after being given an ultimatum.
1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany started a major summer attack against the Soviet Union, code-named Case Blue.
1945 – Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity was formed, more than a month after the end of World War II in Europe.
1948 – Cold War: The Tito–Stalin Split happened, leading to the League of Communists of Yugoslavia being removed from the Cominform, a Soviet-led organization.
1948 – Boxer Dick Turpin won against Vince Hawkins to become the first black British boxing champion in modern times.
1950 – Korean War: South Korean forces blew up the Hangang Bridge to try and slow down North Korea's advance, leaving many of their own refugees and soldiers stranded. The city of Seoul fell later that day.
1956 – In Poznań, Poland, workers from a factory went into the streets to protest. This was one of the first big protests against the communist government in Poland and Europe.
1964 – Malcolm X started the Organization of Afro-American Unity, a group focused on the rights of African Americans.
1969 – The Stonewall riots began in New York City. These events are seen as the start of the modern Gay Rights Movement.
1973 – Elections were held for the Northern Ireland Assembly. This led to power being shared between different political groups in Northern Ireland for the first time.
1976 – An Angolan court gave death sentences and prison terms to American and British mercenaries in the Luanda Trial.
1978 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke that fixed quota systems in college admissions were not allowed.
1987 – For the first time in military history, a civilian town was attacked with chemical weapons when Iraqi planes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
1989 – On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević gave the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II: Boxer Mike Tyson was disqualified in the third round for biting Evander Holyfield's ear.
2001 – Slobodan Milošević was sent to the ICTY in The Hague to face trial.
2004 – Iraq War: The Coalition Provisional Authority handed over power to the interim government of Iraq, ending the U.S.-led rule of the country.
2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was removed from power by a military coup after he tried to hold a vote to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This started the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.

Famous Births

Born Before 1600

751 – Carloman I, who was a king of the Franks. (d. 771)
1243 – Emperor Go-Fukakusa, an emperor of Japan. (d. 1304)
1444 – Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus, a queen of Cyprus. (d. 1487)
1476 – Pope Paul IV, who was a pope. (d. 1559)
1490 – Albert of Brandenburg, a German archbishop. (d. 1545)
1491 – Henry VIII of England, a famous king of England. (d. 1547)
1503 – Giovanni della Casa, an Italian writer and poet. (d. 1556)
1547 – Cristofano Malvezzi, an Italian organist and composer. (d. 1599)
1557 – Philip Howard, an English nobleman. (d. 1595)
1560 – Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, a Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller. (d. 1657)
1573 – Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby, an English noble. (d. 1644)
1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, a very famous Flemish painter and diplomat. (d. 1640)
1582 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, an English politician. (d. 1662)

Born Between 1601 and 1900

1604 – Heinrich Albert, a German composer and poet. (d. 1651)
1641 – Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, a queen consort. (d. 1716)
1653 – Muhammad Azam Shah, a Mughal emperor. (d. 1707)
1703 – John Wesley, an English cleric and theologian. (d. 1791)
1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a famous Swiss philosopher and writer. (d. 1778)
1719 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, a French general and politician. (d. 1785)
1734 – Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, a French organist and composer. (d. 1794)
1742 – William Hooper, an American physician, lawyer, and politician. (d. 1790)
1824 – Paul Broca, a French physician and anatomist. (d. 1880)
1825 – Emil Erlenmeyer, a German chemist. (d. 1909)
1831 – Joseph Joachim, an Austrian violinist and composer. (d. 1907)
1836 – Emmanuel Rhoides, a Greek journalist and author. (d. 1904)
1844 – John Boyle O'Reilly, an Irish-born poet and journalist. (d. 1890)
1852 – Charles Cruft, an English showman who started the Crufts Dog Show. (d. 1938)
1867 – Luigi Pirandello, an Italian writer who won the Nobel Prize. (d. 1936)
1873 – Alexis Carrel, a French surgeon and biologist who won the Nobel Prize. (d. 1944)
1875 – Henri Lebesgue, a French mathematician. (d. 1941)
1879 – Wilhelm Steinkopf, a German chemist. (d. 1949)
1880 – John Meyers, an American swimmer. (d. 1971)
1883 – Pierre Laval, a French soldier and politician. (d. 1945)
1884 – Lamina Sankoh, a Sierra Leonean banker and politician. (d. 1964)
1888 – George Challenor, a Barbadian cricketer. (d. 1947)
1888 – Stefi Geyer, a Hungarian violinist. (d. 1956)
1891 – Esther Forbes, an American historian and author. (d. 1968)
1891 – Carl Spaatz, an American general. (d. 1974)
1893 – August Zamoyski, a Polish-French sculptor. (d. 1970)
1894 – Francis Hunter, an American tennis player. (d. 1981)

Born After 1901

1902 – Richard Rodgers, an American playwright and composer. (d. 1979)
1906 – Maria Goeppert Mayer, a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize. (d. 1972)
1907 – Jimmy Mundy, an American saxophonist and composer. (d. 1983)
1907 – Yvonne Sylvain, the first female Haitian physician. (d. 1989)
1909 – Eric Ambler, an English author and screenwriter. (d. 1998)
1912 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, a German physicist and philosopher. (d. 2007)
1913 – Franz Antel, an Austrian director and producer. (d. 2007)
1913 – George Lloyd, an English soldier and composer. (d. 1998)
1913 – Walter Oesau, a German pilot. (d. 1944)
1914 – Aribert Heim, an Austrian physician. (d. 1992)
1917 – A. E. Hotchner, an American author and playwright. (d. 2020)
1918 – William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, a Scottish-English politician. (d. 1999)
1919 – Joseph P. Lordi, an American government official. (d. 1983)
1920 – Clarissa Eden, the wife of a UK Prime Minister. (d. 2021)
1921 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, an Indian lawyer and politician, who was the 9th Prime Minister of India. (d. 2004)
1923 – Pete Candoli, an American trumpet player. (d. 2008)
1923 – Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, an Argentinian racing driver. (d. 2012)
1923 – Gaye Stewart, a Canadian ice hockey player. (d. 2010)
1924 – Kalevi Keihänen, a Finnish entrepreneur. (d. 1995)
1926 – George Booth, an American cartoonist. (d. 2022)
1926 – Mel Brooks, a famous American actor, director, and producer.
1926 – Robert Ledley, an American inventor. (d. 2012)
1927 – Correlli Barnett, an English historian and author. (d. 2022)
1927 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, an American chemist who won the Nobel Prize. (d. 2012)
1928 – Hans Blix, a Swedish politician and diplomat.
1928 – Patrick Hemingway, an American writer.
1928 – Harold Evans, an English-American historian and journalist. (d. 2020)
1928 – Peter Heine, a South African cricketer. (d. 2005)
1928 – Cyril Smith, an English politician. (d. 2010)
1929 – Alfred Miodowicz, a Polish politician. (d. 2021)
1930 – William C. Campbell, an Irish-American biologist who won the Nobel Prize.
1930 – Itamar Franco, a Brazilian engineer and politician, who was the 33rd President of Brazil. (d. 2011)
1930 – Jack Gold, an English director and producer. (d. 2015)
1931 – Hans Alfredson, a Swedish actor and director. (d. 2017)
1931 – Junior Johnson, an American race car driver. (d. 2019)
1931 – Lucien Victor, a Belgian cyclist. (d. 1995)
1932 – Pat Morita, an American actor. (d. 2005)
1933 – Gusty Spence, a Northern Irish politician. (d. 2011)
1934 – Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell, a Northern Irish lawyer and judge.
1934 – Roy Gilchrist, a Jamaican cricketer. (d. 2001)
1934 – Bette Greene, an American journalist and author. (d. 2020)
1934 – Carl Levin, an American lawyer and politician. (d. 2021)
1934 – Georges Wolinski, a Tunisian-French journalist and cartoonist. (d. 2015)
1935 – John Inman, an English actor. (d. 2007)
1936 – Chuck Howley, an American football player.
1937 – George Knudson, a Canadian golfer. (d. 1989)
1937 – Fernand Labrie, a Canadian scientist. (d. 2019)
1937 – Ron Luciano, an American baseball player and umpire. (d. 1995)
1938 – John Byner, an American actor and comedian.
1938 – Leon Panetta, an American lawyer and politician.
1938 – S. Sivamaharajah, a Sri Lankan newspaper publisher and politician. (d. 2006)
1938 – Simon Douglas-Pennant, 7th Baron Penrhyn, a British baron.
1939 – Klaus Schmiegel, a German chemist.
1940 – Karpal Singh, a Malaysian lawyer and politician. (d. 2014)
1940 – Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi economist who won the Nobel Prize.
1941 – Al Downing, an American baseball player.
1941 – Joseph Goguen, an American computer scientist. (d. 2006)
1941 – David Johnston, a Canadian academic and politician.
1942 – Chris Hani, a South African politician. (d. 1993)
1942 – Hans-Joachim Walde, a German athlete. (d. 2013)
1942 – Frank Zane, an American professional bodybuilder.
1943 – Jens Birkemose, a Danish painter.
1943 – Donald Johanson, an American paleontologist.
1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize.
1945 – Ken Buchanan, a Scottish boxer. (d. 2023)
1945 – David Knights, an English bass player.
1945 – Raul Seixas, a Brazilian singer-songwriter. (d. 1989)
1945 – Türkan Şoray, a Turkish actress and director.
1946 – Robert Asprin, an American author. (d. 2008)
1946 – Bruce Davison, an American actor and director.
1946 – David Duckham, an English rugby player. (d. 2023)
1946 – Robert Xavier Rodríguez, an American classical composer.
1946 – Jaime Guzmán, a Chilean lawyer and politician. (d. 1991)
1946 – Gilda Radner, an American actress and comedian. (d. 1989)
1947 – Mark Helprin, an American novelist and journalist.
1947 – Laura Tyson, an American economist.
1948 – Kathy Bates, a famous American actress.
1948 – Sergei Bodrov, a Russian-American director.
1948 – Deborah Moggach, an English author and screenwriter.
1948 – Daniel Wegner, a Canadian-American psychologist. (d. 2013)
1949 – Don Baylor, an American baseball player and coach. (d. 2017)
1950 – Philip Fowke, an English pianist.
1950 – Mauricio Rojas, a Chilean-Swedish economist and politician.
1950 – Chris Speier, an American baseball player.
1951 – Mick Cronin, an Australian rugby league player.
1951 – Mark Shand, an English conservationist and author. (d. 2014)
1951 – Lalla Ward, an English actress and author.
1952 – Enis Batur, a Turkish poet and author.
1952 – Pietro Mennea, an Italian sprinter and politician. (d. 2013)
1952 – Jean-Christophe Rufin, a French physician and author.
1954 – A. A. Gill, a Scottish author and critic. (d. 2016)
1954 – Alice Krige, a South African actress.
1955 – Shirley Cheriton, a British actress.
1956 – Amira Hass, an Israeli journalist and author.
1956 – Noel Mugavin, an Australian footballer.
1957 – Lance Nethery, a Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
1957 – Georgi Parvanov, a Bulgarian historian and politician, who was the 4th President of Bulgaria.
1957 – Mike Skinner, an American race car driver.
1957 – Jim Spanarkel, an American basketball player.
1958 – Donna Edwards, an American lawyer and politician.
1958 – Félix Gray, a Tunisian-French singer-songwriter.
1959 – Clint Boon, an English singer and keyboard player.
1959 – John Shelley, a British illustrator.
1960 – John Elway, a famous American football player.
1960 – Roland Melanson, a Canadian ice hockey player.
1961 – Kurt Eichenwald, an American journalist.
1961 – Jeff Malone, an American basketball player.
1962 – Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu, a Romanian long jumper.
1962 – Artur Hajzer, a Polish mountaineer. (d. 2013)
1962 – Ann-Louise Skoglund, a Swedish hurdler.
1963 – Peter Baynham, a Welsh actor and screenwriter.
1963 – Charlie Clouser, an American keyboard player and songwriter.
1964 – Christina Ashcroft, a Canadian sport shooter.
1964 – Mark Grace, an American baseball player.
1964 – Bernie McCahill, a New Zealand rugby player.
1964 – Dan Stains, an Australian rugby league player.
1964 – Steve Williamson, an English saxophonist and composer.
1965 – Jessica Hecht, an American actress.
1965 – Tiaan Strauss, a South African rugby player.
1966 – Peeter Allik, an Estonian painter. (d. 2019)
1966 – Bobby Bare Jr., an American singer-songwriter.
1966 – John Cusack, a famous American actor and screenwriter.
1966 – Mary Stuart Masterson, an American actress.
1967 – Leona Aglukkaq, a Canadian politician.
1967 – Gil Bellows, a Canadian actor.
1967 – Zhong Huandi, a Chinese runner.
1967 – Lars Riedel, a German discus thrower.
1968 – Chayanne, a Puerto Rican-American singer and actor.
1969 – Tichina Arnold, an American actress and singer.
1969 – Stéphane Chapuisat, a Swiss footballer.
1969 – Fabrizio Mori, an Italian hurdler.
1970 – Mushtaq Ahmed, a Pakistani cricketer.
1970 – Tom Merritt, an American journalist.
1970 – Mike White, an American actor and director.
1971 – Lorenzo Amoruso, an Italian footballer.
1971 – Fabien Barthez, a French footballer.
1971 – Bobby Hurley, an American basketball player.
1971 – Ron Mahay, an American baseball player.
1971 – Elon Musk, a famous South African-born American entrepreneur.
1971 – Aileen Quinn, an American actress and singer.
1972 – Ngô Bảo Châu, a Vietnamese-French mathematician.
1972 – Chris Leslie, an English politician.
1972 – Geeta Tripathee, a Nepali poet.
1972 – Alessandro Nivola, an American actor.
1973 – Adrián Annus, a Hungarian hammer thrower.
1973 – Corey Koskie, a Canadian baseball player.
1974 – Rob Dyrdek, an American skateboarder and TV star.
1975 – Jon Nödtveidt, a Swedish singer-songwriter. (d. 2006)
1976 – Shinobu Asagoe, a Japanese tennis player.
1976 – Seth Wescott, an American snowboarder.
1977 – Chris Spurling, an American baseball player.
1977 – Mark Stoermer, an American bass player.
1977 – Harun Tekin, a Turkish singer and guitarist.
1978 – Simon Larose, a Canadian tennis player.
1979 – Felicia Day, an American actress and writer.
1979 – Randy McMichael, an American football player.
1979 – Florian Zeller, a French author and playwright.
1980 – Jevgeni Novikov, an Estonian footballer.
1981 – Savage, a New Zealand rapper.
1981 – Michael Crafter, an Australian singer-songwriter.
1981 – Guillermo Martínez, a Cuban javelin thrower.
1981 – Brandon Phillips, an American baseball player.
1982 – Ibrahim Camejo, a Cuban long jumper.
1985 – Phil Bardsley, an English footballer.
1985 – Colt Hynes, an American baseball player.
1986 – Kellie Pickler, an American singer-songwriter.
1987 – Sonata Tamošaitytė, a Lithuanian hurdler.
1987 – Terrence Williams, an American basketball player.
1989 – Jason Clark, an Australian rugby league player.
1989 – Andrew Fifita, an Australian rugby league player.
1989 – David Fifita, an Australian rugby league player.
1989 – Julia Zlobina, a Russian-Azerbaijani figure skater.
1989 – Markiplier, a famous American internet personality.
1989 – Nicole Rottmann, an Austrian tennis player.
1991 – Seohyun, a South Korean singer and actress.
1991 – Kevin De Bruyne, a Belgian footballer.
1991 – Kang Min-hyuk, a South Korean singer and drummer.
1992 – Oscar Hiljemark, a Swedish footballer.
1992 – Elaine Thompson, a Jamaican sprinter.
1993 – Bradley Beal, an American basketball player.
1994 – Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan, a prince of Jordan.
1996 – Donna Vekić, a Croatian tennis player.
1996 – Larissa Werbicki, a Canadian rower.
1997 – Tadasuke Makino, a Japanese racing driver.
1997 – Shakur Stevenson, an American boxer.
1999 – Markéta Vondroušová, a Czech tennis player.
2002 – Marta Kostyuk, a Ukrainian tennis player.

Notable Deaths

Passed Away Before 1600

202 – Yuan Shao, a Chinese warlord.
548 – Theodora I, a Byzantine empress.
572 – Alboin, a King of the Lombards.
683 – Leo II, a pope of the Catholic Church. (b. 611)
767 – Paul I, a pope of the Catholic Church. (b. 700)
975 – Cyneweard, a bishop.
1031 – Taira no Tadatsune, a Japanese governor.
1061 – Floris I, a count of Holland.
1175 – Andrey Bogolyubsky, a Russian Grand Prince. (b. 1111)
1189 – Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony. (b. 1156)
1194 – Xiao Zong, a Chinese emperor. (b. 1127)
1385 – Andronikos IV, a Byzantine emperor. (b. 1348)
1497 – James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley, an English rebel leader. (b. c. 1463)
1575 – Yonekura Shigetsugu, a Japanese samurai.
1586 – Primož Trubar, a Slovenian author and reformer. (b. 1508)
1598 – Abraham Ortelius, a Flemish mapmaker and geographer. (b. 1527)

Passed Away Between 1601 and 1900

1607 – Domenico Fontana, an Italian architect. (b. 1543)
1716 – George FitzRoy, an English general and politician. (b. 1665)
1757 – Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, a queen consort. (b. 1687)
1798 – John Henry Colclough, an Irish revolutionary. (b. c. 1769)
1813 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, a Prussian general and politician. (b. 1755)
1834 – Joseph Bové, a Russian architect. (b. 1784)
1836 – James Madison, an American politician, who was the 4th President of the United States. (b. 1751)
1880 – Texas Jack Omohundro, an American soldier and hunter. (b. 1846)
1881 – Jules Armand Dufaure, a French politician. (b. 1798)
1889 – Maria Mitchell, an American astronomer. (b. 1818)
1892 – Alexandros Rizos Rangavis, a Greek poet and politician. (b. 1810)

Passed Away After 1901

1913 – Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, a Brazilian lawyer and politician, who was the 4th President of Brazil. (b. 1841)
1914 – Sophie, a duchess. (b. 1868)
1914 – Franz Ferdinand, an archduke of Austria. (b. 1863)
1915 – Victor Trumper, an Australian cricketer. (b. 1877)
1917 – Ștefan Luchian, a Romanian painter. (b. 1868)
1922 – Velimir Khlebnikov, a Russian poet. (b. 1885)
1925 – Georgina Febres-Cordero, a Venezuelan nun. (b. 1861)
1925 – Henry C. Berghoff, a German-American politician. (b. 1856)
1929 – Edward Carpenter, an English poet and philosopher. (b. 1844)
1936 – Alexander Berkman, an American author and activist. (b. 1870)
1939 – Douglas H. Johnston, a governor of the Chickasaw Nation. (b. 1856)
1940 – Italo Balbo, an Italian air marshal and politician. (b. 1896)
1944 – Friedrich Dollmann, a German general. (b. 1882)
1945 – Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu, a Turkish journalist. (b. 1879)
1947 – Stanislav Kostka Neumann, a Czech writer and poet. (b. 1875)
1960 – Jake Swirbul, an American businessman who helped start Grumman Aircraft. (b. 1898)
1962 – Mickey Cochrane, an American baseball player and manager. (b. 1903)
1962 – Cy Morgan, an American baseball player. (b. 1878)
1965 – Red Nichols, an American cornet player and bandleader. (b. 1905)
1966 – Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, a Turkish historian and politician. (b. 1890)
1971 – Franz Stangl, an Austrian officer. (b. 1908)
1974 – Vannevar Bush, an American engineer. (b. 1890)
1975 – Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, a Greek architect. (b. 1913)
1975 – Rod Serling, an American screenwriter and producer. (b. 1924)
1978 – Clifford Dupont, an English-Rhodesian lawyer and politician. (b. 1905)
1980 – José Iturbi, a Spanish pianist and conductor. (b. 1895)
1981 – Terry Fox, a Canadian runner and activist. (b. 1958)
1983 – Alf Francis, a German-English motor racing mechanic. (b. 1918)
1984 – Yigael Yadin, an Israeli archaeologist and general. (b. 1917)
1985 – Lynd Ward, an American author and illustrator. (b. 1905)
1989 – Joris Ivens, a Dutch journalist and director. (b. 1898)
1992 – Guy Nève, a Belgian racing driver. (b. 1955)
1992 – Mikhail Tal, a Latvian chess player. (b. 1936)
1995 – Petri Walli, a Finnish singer-songwriter. (b. 1969)
1999 – Vere Bird, the first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. (b. 1910)
2000 – Nils Poppe, a Swedish actor and director. (b. 1908)
2001 – Mortimer J. Adler, an American philosopher and author. (b. 1902)
2003 – Joan Lowery Nixon, an American author. (b. 1927)
2004 – Anthony Buckeridge, an English author. (b. 1912)
2005 – Brenda Howard, an American activist. (b. 1946)
2005 – Michael P. Murphy, an American lieutenant. (b. 1976)
2006 – Jim Baen, an American publisher. (b. 1943)
2006 – Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, an English lawyer and politician. (b. 1919)
2006 – George Unwin, an English pilot. (b. 1913)
2007 – Eugene B. Fluckey, an American admiral. (b. 1913)
2007 – Kiichi Miyazawa, a Japanese lawyer and politician, who was the 78th Prime Minister of Japan. (b. 1919)
2009 – A. K. Lohithadas, an Indian director. (b. 1955)
2009 – Billy Mays, an American TV personality. (b. 1958)
2010 – Robert Byrd, an American lawyer and politician. (b. 1917)
2012 – Richard Isay, an American psychiatrist and author. (b. 1934)
2012 – Leontine T. Kelly, an American bishop. (b. 1920)
2012 – Robert Sabatier, a French author and poet. (b. 1923)
2012 – Doris Sams, an American baseball player. (b. 1927)
2013 – Ted Hood, an American sailor and architect. (b. 1927)
2013 – Tamás Katona, a Hungarian historian and politician. (b. 1932)
2013 – Kenneth Minogue, a New Zealand-Australian political scientist. (b. 1930)
2013 – F. D. Reeve, an American author. (b. 1928)
2013 – David Rubitsky, an American sergeant. (b. 1917)
2014 – Seymour Barab, an American cellist and composer. (b. 1921)
2014 – Jim Brosnan, an American baseball player. (b. 1929)
2014 – On Kawara, a Japanese painter. (b. 1933)
2014 – Meshach Taylor, an American actor. (b. 1947)
2015 – Jack Carter, an American actor and comedian. (b. 1922)
2015 – Jope Seniloli, a Fijian politician. (b. 1939)
2015 – Wally Stanowski, a Canadian ice hockey player. (b. 1919)
2016 – Scotty Moore, an American guitarist. (b. 1931)
2016 – Pat Summitt, an American women's college basketball coach. (b. 1952)
2016 – Buddy Ryan, an American football coach. (b. 1931)
2018 – Harlan Ellison, an American writer. (b. 1934)
2023 – Lowell Weicker, an American politician, who was the 85th Governor of Connecticut. (b. 1931)

Holidays and Observances

Christian feast day:
- Basilides and Potamiana
- Irenaeus of Lyon (Western Christianity)
- Heimerad
- Blessed Maria Pia Mastena
- Paulus I
- Vincenza Gerosa
- June 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Ukraine)
Poznań Remembrance Day (Poland)
Vidovdan, celebrating St. Vitus and an important day in Serbian history. (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Images for kids

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Thomas Hickey was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War.
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Ned Kelly was a famous Australian bushranger.
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James Reavis was known for a fraudulent land claim.
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The Twin Shaft Mine Disaster in 1896.
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The Bodo League massacre occurred during the Korean War.
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The Seoul National University Hospital massacre during the Korean War.