September 28 in History

Historical events, births and deaths on September 28 through the ages, from Iran and around the world. This year it falls on 6 Mehr 1405.

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World Rabies Day
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International Safe Abortion Day
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Czech Statehood Day (Saint Wenceslas Day)
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Famous people born on September 28

Events (60)

48 BC Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII.
235 (1791 years ago) Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus of Rome.
351 (1675 years ago) Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
365 (1661 years ago) Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself emperor.
935 (1091 years ago) Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia is murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I, who succeeds him.
995 (1031 years ago) Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia, kills most members of the rival Slavník dynasty.
1066 (960 years ago) William the Conqueror lands in England, beginning the Norman conquest.
1106 (920 years ago) King Henry I of England defeats his brother Robert Curthose at the Battle of Tinchebray.
1213 (813 years ago) Queen consort Gertrude of Merania is assassinated by a group of Hungarian lords.
1238 (788 years ago) King James I of Aragon conquers Valencia from the Moors. Shortly thereafter, he proclaims himself king of Valencia.
1322 (704 years ago) Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
1538 (488 years ago) Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
1542 (484 years ago) Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California. He is the first European in California.
1644 (382 years ago) A Hospitaller galley squadron defeats an Ottoman convoy in the action of 28 September 1644.
1779 (247 years ago) American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
1781 (245 years ago) American Revolution: French and American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown.
1787 (239 years ago) The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
1821 (205 years ago) The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is drafted. It will be made public on 13 October.
1844 (182 years ago) Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1867 (159 years ago) Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
1868 (158 years ago) The Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
1871 (155 years ago) The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.
1889 (137 years ago) The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a metre.
1892 (134 years ago) The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
1901 (125 years ago) Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
1912 (114 years ago) The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
1912 (114 years ago) Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
1918 (108 years ago) World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
1919 (107 years ago) Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
1924 (102 years ago) The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
1928 (98 years ago) Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1939 (87 years ago) World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.
1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end.
1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins.
1941 (85 years ago) Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia.
1951 (75 years ago) CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
1958 (68 years ago) Fernando Rios, a Mexican tour guide in New Orleans, dies of injuries sustained in an incident of gay bashing.
1961 (65 years ago) A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
1970 (56 years ago) Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
1973 (53 years ago) The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile.
1975 (51 years ago) The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
1983 (43 years ago) John Pat, a 16-year old Aboriginal Australian boy, dies of injuries sustained by four off-duty police officers in Roebourne, a catalyst to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
1986 (40 years ago) The Democratic Progressive Party becomes the first opposition party in Taiwan.
1992 (34 years ago) A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew.
1994 (32 years ago) The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
1995 (31 years ago) Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.
1995 (31 years ago) Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
2000 (26 years ago) Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
2006 (20 years ago) Typhoon Xangsane passes over Manila after impacting parts of Southern Luzon and Eastern Visayas, becoming the strongest to affect the Philippine capital in 11 years.
2008 (18 years ago) Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit by the RatSat mission.
2008 (18 years ago) The Singapore Grand Prix is held as Formula One's inaugural night race, with Fernando Alonso winning the event. Almost a year later it was revealed that Alonso's team-mate Nelson Piquet Jr. had been ordered to crash his car to help bring out the safety car and give Alonso the advantage and win.
2009 (17 years ago) The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1,400 people.
2012 (14 years ago) Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
2012 (14 years ago) Sita Air Flight 601 crashes in Madhyapur Thimi, Nepal, killing all 19 passengers and crew.
2014 (12 years ago) The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing.
2016 (10 years ago) The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas.
2018 (8 years ago) The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured.
2022 (4 years ago) Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cayo Costa State Park, Florida as a category four hurricane, killing 169 and doing $113 billion in damage, becoming Florida's costliest hurricane and the deadliest in 89 years.
2023 (3 years ago) The 2023 Rotterdam shootings occurred, during which two people were killed in a shooting and arson incident at a residence in Delfshaven, Rotterdam. Additionally, one person lost their life in a classroom at the Erasmus University Medical Center.

Births (273)

551 BC Confucius, Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. (died 479 BC)
616 (1410 years ago) Javanshir, King of Caucasian Albania (died 680)
1494 (532 years ago) Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet and playwright (died 1545)
1555 (471 years ago) Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Marshal of France (died 1623)
1573 (453 years ago) Théodore de Mayerne, Swiss physician (died 1654)
1605 (421 years ago) Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer and mathematician (died 1694)
1681 (345 years ago) Johann Mattheson, German composer, lexicographer, and diplomat (died 1764)
1705 (321 years ago) Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (died 1774)
1705 (321 years ago) Johann Peter Kellner, German organist and composer (died 1772)
1735 (291 years ago) Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1811)
1746 (280 years ago) William Jones, English-Welsh philologist and scholar (died 1794)
1765 (261 years ago) Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (died 1814)
1803 (223 years ago) Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist, historian, and author (died 1870)
1809 (217 years ago) Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (died 1899)
1819 (207 years ago) Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer and publisher (died 1885)
1821 (205 years ago) Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician (died 1874)
1823 (203 years ago) Alexandre Cabanel, French painter and educator (died 1889)
1824 (202 years ago) Francis Turner Palgrave, English poet and critic (died 1897)
1836 (190 years ago) Thomas Crapper, English plumber, invented the ballcock (died 1910)
1841 (185 years ago) Georges Clemenceau, French journalist, physician, and politician, 85th Prime Minister of France (died 1929)
1844 (182 years ago) Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1930)
1852 (174 years ago) Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1907)
1852 (174 years ago) Isis Pogson, British astronomer and meteorologist (died 1945)
1852 (174 years ago) John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, British Army officer (died 1925)
1856 (170 years ago) Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (died 1923)
1860 (166 years ago) Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist (died 1934)
1865 (161 years ago) Amélie of Orléans, Queen Consort of Carlos I of Portugal (died 1951)
1866 (160 years ago) Oscar Tschirky, Swiss-born American restaurateur (died 1950)
1867 (159 years ago) Hiranuma Kiichirō, Japanese lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1952)
1867 (159 years ago) James Edwin Campbell, American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist (died 1896)
1870 (156 years ago) Florent Schmitt, French composer and critic (died 1958)
1877 (149 years ago) Albert Young, American boxer and promoter (died 1940)
1878 (148 years ago) Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player (died 1962)
1881 (145 years ago) Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (died 1950)
1882 (144 years ago) Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer (died 1963)
1883 (143 years ago) Albert Peyriguère, French priest, hermit and ethnologist (died 1959)
1885 (141 years ago) Emil Väre, Finnish wrestler, coach, and referee (died 1974)
1887 (139 years ago) Avery Brundage, American businessman, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (died 1975)
1889 (137 years ago) Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (died 1973)
1890 (136 years ago) Florence Violet McKenzie, Australian electrical engineer (died 1982)
1892 (134 years ago) Elmer Rice, American playwright (died 1967)
1893 (133 years ago) Hilda Geiringer, Austrian mathematician (died 1973)
1893 (133 years ago) Giannis Skarimpas, Greek author, poet, and playwright (died 1984)
1898 (128 years ago) Carl Clauberg, German Nazi physician (died 1957)
1898 (128 years ago) Mijo Mirković, Croatian economist and author (died 1963)
1900 (126 years ago) Isabel Pell, American socialite, fought as part of the French Resistance during WWII (died 1951)
1901 (125 years ago) William S. Paley, American broadcaster, founded CBS (died 1990)
1901 (125 years ago) Ed Sullivan, American television host (died 1974)
1903 (123 years ago) Haywood S. Hansell, American general (died 1988)
1905 (121 years ago) Max Schmeling, German boxer (died 2005)
1907 (119 years ago) Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast and physician (died 1997)
1907 (119 years ago) Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (died 1931)
1909 (117 years ago) Al Capp, American author and illustrator (died 1979)
1910 (116 years ago) Diosdado Macapagal, Filipino lawyer and politician, 9th President of the Philippines (died 1997)
1910 (116 years ago) Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (died 1942)
1913 (113 years ago) Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (died 2007)
1913 (113 years ago) Alice Marble, American tennis player (died 1990)
1914 (112 years ago) Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American refugee and singer (died 2014)
1915 (111 years ago) Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (died 1953)
1916 (110 years ago) Peter Finch, English-Australian actor (died 1977)
1916 (110 years ago) Olga Lepeshinskaya, Ukrainian-Russian ballerina and educator (died 2008)
1917 (109 years ago) Wee Chong Jin, Singaporean judge (died 2005)
1918 (108 years ago) Ángel Labruna, Argentinian footballer and manager (died 1983)
1918 (108 years ago) Arnold Stang, American actor (died 2009)
1919 (107 years ago) Doris Singleton, American actress (died 2012)
1922 (104 years ago) Liv Dommersnes, Norwegian actress (died 2014)
1922 (104 years ago) Larry Munson, American sportscaster (died 2011)
1922 (104 years ago) Jules Sedney, Prime Minister of Suriname (died 2020)
1923 (103 years ago) Tuli Kupferberg, American singer, poet, and writer (died 2010)
1923 (103 years ago) John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Selkirkshire (died 2007)
1923 (103 years ago) William Windom, American actor (died 2012)
1924 (102 years ago) Rudolf Barshai, Russian-Swiss viola player and conductor (died 2010)
1924 (102 years ago) Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (died 1996)
1925 (101 years ago) Seymour Cray, American computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company (died 1996)
1925 (101 years ago) Cromwell Everson, South African composer (died 1991)
1925 (101 years ago) Martin David Kruskal, American physicist and mathematician (died 2006)
1926 (100 years ago) Jerry Clower, American soldier, comedian, and author (died 1998)
1926 (100 years ago) Bonnie Leman, American art historian, writer, and publisher of Quilter's Newsletter Magazine (died 2010)
1928 (98 years ago) Koko Taylor, American singer (died 2009)
1929 (97 years ago) Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer and composer (died 2022)
1930 (96 years ago) Tommy Collins, American country music singer-songwriter (died 2000)
1930 (96 years ago) Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist, author, and academic (died 2019)
1932 (94 years ago) Jeremy Isaacs, Scottish screenwriter and producer
1932 (94 years ago) Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, poet, and director (died 1973)
1933 (93 years ago) Joe Benton, English soldier and politician
1933 (93 years ago) Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Spanish sculptor and educator (died 2006)
1933 (93 years ago) Johnny "Country" Mathis, American singer-songwriter (died 2011)
1934 (92 years ago) Brigitte Bardot, French actress and animal rights activist (died 2025)
1935 (91 years ago) Bruce Crampton, Australian golfer
1935 (91 years ago) David Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick, English diplomat, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations
1935 (91 years ago) Ronald Lacey, English actor (died 1991)
1936 (90 years ago) Emmett Chapman, American guitarist, invented the Chapman Stick (died 2021)
1936 (90 years ago) Eddie Lumsden, Australian rugby league player (died 2019)
1936 (90 years ago) Robert Wolders, Dutch television actor (died 2018)
1937 (89 years ago) Alice Mahon, English trade union leader and politician (died 2022)
1937 (89 years ago) Glenn Sutton, American country music songwriter and record producer (died 2007)
1938 (88 years ago) Ben E. King, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2015)
1939 (87 years ago) Stuart Kauffman, American biologist and academic
1941 (85 years ago) David Lewis, American philosopher and academic (died 2001)
1941 (85 years ago) Edmund Stoiber, German lawyer and politician, Minister President of Bavaria
1941 (85 years ago) Charley Taylor, American football player (died 2022)
1942 (84 years ago) Pierre Clémenti, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1999)
1942 (84 years ago) Edward "Little Buster" Forehand, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2006)
1943 (83 years ago) Warren Lieberfarb, American businessman
1943 (83 years ago) George W. S. Trow, American novelist, playwright, and critic (died 2006)
1943 (83 years ago) Nick St. Nicholas, German-Canadian bass player
1944 (82 years ago) Richie Karl, American golfer
1944 (82 years ago) Marcia Muller, American journalist and author
1945 (81 years ago) Marielle Goitschel, French skier
1945 (81 years ago) Manolis Rasoulis, Greek singer-songwriter and journalist (died 2011)
1945 (81 years ago) Fusako Shigenobu, Japanese activist, founded the Japanese Red Army
1946 (80 years ago) Tom Bower, English journalist and author
1946 (80 years ago) Jeffrey Jones, American actor
1946 (80 years ago) Majid Khan, Indian-Pakistani cricketer
1947 (79 years ago) Bob Carr, Australian journalist and politician, 37th Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1947 (79 years ago) Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
1947 (79 years ago) Jon Snow, English journalist and academic
1947 (79 years ago) Rhonda Hughes, American mathematician and academic
1949 (77 years ago) Jim Henshaw, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1949 (77 years ago) Vernee Watson-Johnson, American actress
1950 (76 years ago) Paul Burgess, English drummer
1950 (76 years ago) Christina Hoff Sommers, American author and philosopher
1950 (76 years ago) John Sayles, American novelist, director, and screenwriter
1951 (75 years ago) Jim Diamond, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician (died 2015)
1952 (74 years ago) Christopher Buckley, American satirical novelist
1952 (74 years ago) Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou, Greek basketball player and coach
1952 (74 years ago) Sylvia Kristel, Dutch model and actress (died 2012)
1952 (74 years ago) Andy Ward, English drummer
1953 (73 years ago) Otmar Hasler, Liechtensteiner educator and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
1954 (72 years ago) Steve Largent, American football player and politician
1954 (72 years ago) George Lynch, American guitarist and songwriter
1954 (72 years ago) John Scott, English rugby player
1954 (72 years ago) Margot Wallström, Swedish politician and diplomat, 42nd Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs
1955 (71 years ago) Stéphane Dion, Canadian sociologist and politician, 15th Canadian Minister of the Environment
1955 (71 years ago) Mercy Manci, Xhosa sangoma and HIV activist from South Africa
1955 (71 years ago) Kenny Kirkland, American pianist (died 1998)
1957 (69 years ago) Bill Cassidy, American politician and physician
1959 (67 years ago) Laura Bruce, American artist
1959 (67 years ago) Ron Fellows, Canadian race car driver
1960 (66 years ago) Gary Ayres, Australian footballer and coach
1960 (66 years ago) Tom Byrum, American golfer
1960 (66 years ago) Frank Hammerschlag, German footballer and manager
1960 (66 years ago) Gus Logie, Trinidadian cricketer
1960 (66 years ago) Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford, English politician
1960 (66 years ago) Jennifer Rush, American singer-songwriter
1960 (66 years ago) Socrates Villegas, Filipino archbishop
1961 (65 years ago) Helen Grant, English lawyer and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
1961 (65 years ago) Gregory Jbara, American actor and singer
1961 (65 years ago) Quentin Kawānanakoa, American lawyer and politician
1961 (65 years ago) Anne White, American tennis player
1962 (64 years ago) Grant Fuhr, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1962 (64 years ago) Laurie Rinker, American golfer
1962 (64 years ago) Dietmar Schacht, German footballer and manager
1962 (64 years ago) Chuck Taylor, American journalist
1963 (63 years ago) Steve Blackman, American wrestler and martial artist
1963 (63 years ago) Érik Comas, French race car driver
1963 (63 years ago) Johnny Dawkins, American basketball player and coach
1963 (63 years ago) Greg Weisman, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter
1964 (62 years ago) Claudio Borghi, Argentinian footballer and manager
1964 (62 years ago) Gregor Fisken, Scottish race car driver
1964 (62 years ago) Janeane Garofalo, American comedian, actress, and screenwriter
1964 (62 years ago) Paul Jewell, English footballer and manager
1964 (62 years ago) Mārtiņš Roze, Latvian lawyer and politician (died 2012)
1965 (61 years ago) B.G., the Prince of Rap, American rapper (died 2023)
1966 (60 years ago) Scott Adams, American football player (died 2013)
1966 (60 years ago) Maria Canals-Barrera, Cuban-American actress
1966 (60 years ago) Puri Jagannadh, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 (59 years ago) Mira Sorvino, American actress
1967 (59 years ago) Moon Zappa, American actress and author
1968 (58 years ago) Francois Botha, South African boxer and mixed martial artist
1968 (58 years ago) Mika Häkkinen, Finnish race car driver
1968 (58 years ago) Trish Keenan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)
1968 (58 years ago) Sean Levert, American R&B singer-songwriter and actor (died 2008)
1968 (58 years ago) Rob Moroso, American race car driver (died 1990)
1968 (58 years ago) Naomi Watts, English-Australian actress and producer
1969 (57 years ago) Kerri Chandler, electronic music producer and DJ
1969 (57 years ago) Marcel Dost, Dutch decathlete
1969 (57 years ago) Ben Greenman, American journalist and author
1969 (57 years ago) Piper Kerman, American author and memoirist
1969 (57 years ago) Éric Lapointe, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1969 (57 years ago) Sascha Maassen, German race car driver
1969 (57 years ago) Angus Robertson, Scottish politician
1969 (57 years ago) Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer
1970 (56 years ago) Kimiko Date, Japanese tennis player
1970 (56 years ago) Mike DeJean, American baseball player
1970 (56 years ago) Gualter Salles, Brazilian race car driver
1971 (55 years ago) Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 (55 years ago) George Eustice, English lawyer and politician
1971 (55 years ago) Braam van Straaten, South African rugby player
1971 (55 years ago) Alan Wright, English footballer and manager
1972 (54 years ago) Leila McKinnon, Iranian-Australian journalist and television host
1972 (54 years ago) Dita Von Teese, American model and dancer
1973 (53 years ago) Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player
1974 (52 years ago) Marco Di Loreto, Italian footballer and manager
1974 (52 years ago) Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer
1974 (52 years ago) Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer and coach
1974 (52 years ago) Shane Webcke, Australian rugby league player and coach
1975 (51 years ago) Stuart Clark, Australian cricketer and manager
1975 (51 years ago) Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic (died 2013)
1975 (51 years ago) Lenny Krayzelburg, Russian-American swimmer
1976 (50 years ago) Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist and politician
1976 (50 years ago) Bonzi Wells, American basketball player
1977 (49 years ago) Pak Se-ri, South Korean golfer
1977 (49 years ago) Young Jeezy, American rapper
1978 (48 years ago) Peter Cambor, American actor
1978 (48 years ago) Ben Edmondson, Australian cricketer
1979 (47 years ago) Bam Margera, American skateboarder, actor, and stuntman
1979 (47 years ago) Taki Tsan, American-Greek rapper and producer
1980 (46 years ago) Marlon Parmer, American basketball player
1981 (45 years ago) Greg Anderson, American pianist and composer
1981 (45 years ago) Willy Caballero, Argentine footballer
1981 (45 years ago) José Calderón, Spanish basketball player
1981 (45 years ago) Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer
1981 (45 years ago) Jerrika Hinton, American actress
1981 (45 years ago) Iracema Trevisan, Brazilian bass player
1982 (44 years ago) Aleksandr Anyukov, Russian footballer
1982 (44 years ago) Abhinav Bindra, Indian target shooter
1982 (44 years ago) Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2018)
1982 (44 years ago) Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor and director
1982 (44 years ago) Nolwenn Leroy, French singer-songwriter and actress
1982 (44 years ago) Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
1982 (44 years ago) Dustin Penner, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 (44 years ago) Aivar Rehemaa, Estonian skier
1982 (44 years ago) Anderson Varejão, Brazilian basketball player
1982 (44 years ago) St. Vincent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1983 (43 years ago) Stefan Moore, English footballer
1983 (43 years ago) John Schwalger, New Zealand rugby player
1984 (42 years ago) Jenny Omnichord, Canadian singer-songwriter
1984 (42 years ago) Luke Pomersbach, Australian cricketer
1984 (42 years ago) Naim Terbunja, Kosovan-Swedish boxer
1984 (42 years ago) Melody Thornton, American singer-songwriter and dancer
1984 (42 years ago) Mathieu Valbuena, French footballer
1984 (42 years ago) Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
1985 (41 years ago) Shindong, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
1985 (41 years ago) Alina Ibragimova, Russian-English violinist
1986 (40 years ago) Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
1986 (40 years ago) Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (died 2013)
1986 (40 years ago) Daniel Platzman, American musician
1986 (40 years ago) Dominic Waters, American basketball player
1987 (39 years ago) Pierre Becken, German footballer
1987 (39 years ago) Gary Deegan, Irish footballer
1987 (39 years ago) Hilary Duff, American singer-songwriter and actress
1987 (39 years ago) Chloë Hanslip, English violinist
1987 (39 years ago) Viktoria Leks, Estonian high jumper
1988 (38 years ago) Marin Čilić, Croatian tennis player
1988 (38 years ago) Esmée Denters, Dutch singer-songwriter
1988 (38 years ago) Jason Jordan, American wrestler
1988 (38 years ago) Olivia Jordan, American actress, model, television host, and beauty pageant titleholder
1988 (38 years ago) Hana Mae Lee, American actress, model, and fashion designer
1988 (38 years ago) Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer
1988 (38 years ago) Worakls, French DJ and electronic musician
1989 (37 years ago) Çağla Büyükakçay, Turkish tennis player
1989 (37 years ago) Darius Johnson-Odom, American basketball player
1989 (37 years ago) Mark Randall, English footballer
1990 (36 years ago) Phoenix Battye, Australian rugby player
1991 (35 years ago) Eddie Rosario, Puerto Rican baseball player
1991 (35 years ago) Elvyonn Bailey, American sprinter
1992 (34 years ago) Khem Birch, Canadian basketball player
1992 (34 years ago) Keir Gilchrist, Canadian actor and musician
1992 (34 years ago) Alex Landi, American actor
1992 (34 years ago) Paula Ormaechea, Argentine tennis player
1992 (34 years ago) Adam Thompson, English-Northern Irish footballer
1992 (34 years ago) Kōko Tsurumi, Japanese gymnast
1993 (33 years ago) Jodie Williams, English sprinter
1995 (31 years ago) Juancho Hernangómez, Spanish basketball player
1995 (31 years ago) Caleb Martin, American basketball player
1995 (31 years ago) Cody Martin, American basketball player
1995 (31 years ago) Jason Williams, English footballer
1996 (30 years ago) Aiden Moffat, British race car driver
1998 (28 years ago) Panna Udvardy, Hungarian tennis player
1999 (27 years ago) Kayla Day, American tennis player
2000 (26 years ago) Frankie Jonas, American actor, singer, and songwriter
2004 (22 years ago) Isack Hadjar, French-Algerian racing driver

Deaths (104)

48 BC Pompey, Roman general and politician (born 106 BC)
135 (1891 years ago) Rabbi Akiva, Jewish sage, martyr. (born c. 50)
782 (1244 years ago) Leoba, Anglo-Saxon nun (born c. 710)
935 (1091 years ago) Wenceslaus I, duke of Bohemia (born c. 907)
980 (1046 years ago) Minamoto no Hiromasa, Japanese nobleman (born 918)
1197 (829 years ago) Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1165)
1213 (813 years ago) Gertrude of Merania, queen consort of Hungary (born 1185)
1330 (696 years ago) Elizabeth of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (born 1292)
1429 (597 years ago) Cymburgis of Masovia, duchess consort of Austria (born 1394)
1582 (444 years ago) George Buchanan, Scottish historian and scholar (born 1506)
1596 (430 years ago) Margaret Clifford, countess of Derby (born 1540)
1618 (408 years ago) Josuah Sylvester, English poet and translator (born 1563)
1687 (339 years ago) Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian theologian and academic (born 1623)
1694 (332 years ago) Gabriel Mouton, French mathematician and theologian (born 1618)
1702 (324 years ago) Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, French-English lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1640)
1742 (284 years ago) Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (born 1663)
1805 (221 years ago) Christoph Franz von Buseck, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (born 1724)
1829 (197 years ago) Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and politician (born 1771)
1844 (182 years ago) Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and politician (born 1769)
1859 (167 years ago) Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (born 1779)
1873 (153 years ago) Émile Gaboriau, French journalist and author (born 1832)
1882 (144 years ago) Amunda Kolderup, Norwegian opera singer (born 1846)
1891 (135 years ago) Herman Melville, American author and poet (born 1819)
1893 (133 years ago) Annie Feray Mutrie, British painter (born 1826)
1895 (131 years ago) Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (born 1822)
1899 (127 years ago) Giovanni Segantini, Austrian painter (born 1858)
1902 (124 years ago) John Marks Moore, American politician and attorney (born 1853)
1904 (122 years ago) Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese historian and author (born 1850)
1914 (112 years ago) Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (born 1863)
1915 (111 years ago) Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (born 1844)
1918 (108 years ago) Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (born 1858)
1918 (108 years ago) Freddie Stowers, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1896)
1920 (106 years ago) Yu Gwan-sun, Korean independence activist (born 1902)
1925 (101 years ago) Paul Vermoyal, French actor (born 1888)
1935 (91 years ago) William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer, invented the Kinetoscope (born 1860)
1938 (88 years ago) Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (born 1861)
1941 (85 years ago) Marion Miley, American golfer, ranked No. 1 in the United States (born 1914)
1943 (83 years ago) Sam Ruben, American chemist and academic (born 1913)
1943 (83 years ago) Filippo Illuminato, Italian partisan, Gold Medal of Military Valour (born 1930)
1949 (77 years ago) Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens,
1953 (73 years ago) Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and scholar (born 1889)
1956 (70 years ago) William Boeing, American businessman, founded the Boeing Company (born 1881)
1957 (69 years ago) Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan violinist and composer (born 1888)
1959 (67 years ago) Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (born 1901)
1962 (64 years ago) Roger Nimier, French soldier and author (born 1925)
1964 (62 years ago) Harpo Marx, American comedian, actor, and singer (born 1888)
1966 (60 years ago) André Breton, French author and poet (born 1896)
1970 (56 years ago) John Dos Passos, American novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright (born 1896)
1970 (56 years ago) Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Egypt (born 1918)
1978 (48 years ago) Pope John Paul I,
1979 (47 years ago) John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (born 1921)
1981 (45 years ago) Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan journalist and politician, President of Venezuela (born 1908)
1982 (44 years ago) Mabel Albertson, American actress (born 1901)
1984 (42 years ago) Cihad Baban, Turkish journalist, author, and politician (born 1911)
1989 (37 years ago) Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Philippines (born 1917)
1990 (36 years ago) Larry O'Brien, American businessman and politician, 57th United States Postmaster General (born 1917)
1991 (35 years ago) Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (born 1926)
1993 (33 years ago) Peter De Vries, American editor and novelist (born 1910)
1993 (33 years ago) Alexander A. Drabik, American sergeant (born 1910)
1994 (32 years ago) Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (born 1953)
1994 (32 years ago) José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of Guerrero (born 1946)
1994 (32 years ago) Harry Saltzman, Canadian production manager and producer (born 1915)
1994 (32 years ago) K. A. Thangavelu, Indian film actor and comedian (born 1917)
1999 (27 years ago) Escott Reid, Canadian academic and diplomat (born 1905)
2000 (26 years ago) Pierre Trudeau, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1919)
2002 (24 years ago) Patsy Mink, American lawyer and politician (born 1927)
2002 (24 years ago) Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician (born 1907)
2003 (23 years ago) Althea Gibson, American tennis player and golfer (born 1927)
2003 (23 years ago) Elia Kazan, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1909)
2003 (23 years ago) George Odlum, Saint Lucian politician and diplomat (born 1934)
2004 (22 years ago) Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (born 1924)
2005 (21 years ago) Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1921)
2007 (19 years ago) René Desmaison, French mountaineer (born 1930)
2007 (19 years ago) Wally Parks, American businessman, founded the National Hot Rod Association (born 1913)
2009 (17 years ago) Guillermo Endara, Panamanian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Panama (born 1936)
2009 (17 years ago) Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor and director (born 1956)
2010 (16 years ago) Kurt Albert, German mountaineer and photographer (born 1954)
2010 (16 years ago) Arthur Penn, American director and producer (born 1922)
2010 (16 years ago) Dolores Wilson, American soprano and actress (born 1928)
2012 (14 years ago) Avraham Adan, Israeli general (born 1926)
2012 (14 years ago) Chris Economaki, American journalist and sportscaster (born 1920)
2012 (14 years ago) Brajesh Mishra, Indian politician and diplomat, 1st Indian National Security Advisor (born 1928)
2013 (13 years ago) James Emanuel, American-French poet and scholar (born 1921)
2013 (13 years ago) Jonathan Fellows-Smith, South African cricketer and rugby player (born 1932)
2013 (13 years ago) George Amon Webster, American singer and pianist (born 1945)
2014 (12 years ago) Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (born 1923)
2014 (12 years ago) Joseph H. Alexander, American colonel and historian (born 1938)
2014 (12 years ago) Sheila Faith, English dentist and politician (born 1928)
2014 (12 years ago) Tim Rawlings, English footballer and manager (born 1932)
2014 (12 years ago) Petr Skoumal, Czech pianist and composer (born 1938)
2015 (11 years ago) Alexander Faris, Irish composer and conductor (born 1921)
2015 (11 years ago) Walter Dale Miller, American rancher and politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (born 1925)
2015 (11 years ago) Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (born 1939)
2016 (10 years ago) Agnes Nixon, American television writer and director (born 1922)
2016 (10 years ago) Gary Glasberg, American television writer and producer (born 1966)
2016 (10 years ago) Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli statesman and politician, 9th President of Israel (born 1923)
2016 (10 years ago) Gloria Naylor, American novelist (born 1950)
2017 (9 years ago) Daniel Pe'er, Israeli television host and newsreader (born 1943)
2018 (8 years ago) Predrag Ejdus, Serbian actor (born 1947)
2019 (7 years ago) José José, Mexican musician and singer (born 1948)
2022 (4 years ago) Coolio, American rapper (born 1963)
2024 (2 years ago) Winfield Dunn, American politician, 43rd Governor of Tennessee (born 1927)
2024 (2 years ago) Drake Hogestyn, American actor (born 1953)
2024 (2 years ago) Kris Kristofferson, American singer, songwriter, and actor (born 1936)