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May 28 in history

220 sourced entries recorded on May 28, from 82 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 621Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin defeats the numerically superior army of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass.source
  • 640Pope Severinus succeeds Honorius I as the 71st pope. He dies in Rome only two months after being consecrated.source
  • 1037Conrad II decrees the Constitutio de Feudis which protects the rights of the valvassores (knights and burghers of the cities) in Lombardia (modern Italy).source
  • 1136In Russia, the people of Novgorod depose and imprison Prince Vsevolod of Pskov. Novgorod asserts its independence from Kiev, but accepts protection from neighboring Kievan princes. In July, Vsevolod along with his wife and family are released (they are exiled to an uncle in Kiev).source
  • 1156King William I (the Bad) lands with a Sicilian expeditionary force in Apulia. He defeats the Byzantine army at Brindisi and recaptures Bari.source
  • 1172Doge Vitale II Michiel, accused at a General Assembly at the Ducal Palace, for the destruction of the Venetian fleet, is stabbed to death by an angry mob at Venice.source
  • 1242Avignonet massacre: A group of Cathars, with the probable connivance of Count Raymond VII of Toulouse, murder the inquisitor William Arnaud and eleven of his companions.source
  • 1265Future King Edward I of England escapes the captivity of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester.source
  • 1312After the Emir Abu al-Juyush Nasr of Granada asks for help from King Ferdinand IV of Castile, the Kingdom of Castile's forces, commanded by Peter of Castile, Lord of Cameros, Ferdinand's son of King Sancho IV, defeats the rebel Granadan Governor of Malaga, Abu Said Faraj in battle. Abu Said is allowed to retain his post as Governor of Málaga and resumes paying tributes to the Emir.source
  • 1313Thomas Cobham, Archdeacon of Lewes, is elected by his peers to be the Archbishop of Canterbury in England, but King Edward II intervenes and asks Pope Clement V to cancel the result. The Pope installs Walter Reynolds as the new archbishop on October 1.source
  • 1357Peter I becomes King of Portugal, after the death of his father, Alfonso IV.source
  • 1358Hundred Years' War: The Jacquerie – A peasant rebellion begins in France, which consumes the Beauvais, and allies with Étienne Marcel's seizure of Paris.source
  • 1387Anticipating a war with Burma, China's Emperor orders the troops at his forts on the Burmese border to increase the height of their walls and to begin making gunpowder to increase their supply.source
  • 1414Khizr Khan, Timur's governor of Multan in India, conquers the Delhi Sultanate from Daulat Khan Lodi, founding the Sayyid Dynasty.source
  • 1454King Casimir IV of Poland receives an oath of allegiance from the citizens of Toruń and other cities in the Chelmno area.source
  • 1461In Italy, King Ferdinand of Naples is forced to abandon the city of Venosa, the Albanian general Skanderbeg leads his cavalry in an attack on Venosa after an attack by the former king, Rene of Anjou and by General Jacopo Piccinino. Fleeing to Apulia, Ferdinand learns that the Albanian General Skanderbeg will soon arrive to fight the House of Anjou.source
  • 1473The Earl of Oxford, commander of what remains of the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses against the Yorkists and King Edward IV of England, makes an unsuccessful attempt to land an army at Essex at the village of St Osyth.source
  • 1474The English royal title of Duke of York is created by King Edward IV for his second-born son, Prince Richard. Thereafter, the title of Duke of York is reserved for the second son of the English monarch, while the title of Prince of Wales is reserved for the first-born son.source
  • 1478Captain Juan Rejón of Aragon, charged with leading the conquest of the Canary Islands for the Spanish crown, departs with 600 men on three ships from the El Puerto de Santa María, at the time part of the Kingdom of Seville.source
  • 1490At Junnar in what is now India's Maharashtra state, the Ahmadnagar Sultanate is established by Ahmad Nizam Shah, who leads a secession of his land from the Bahmani Kingdom and defeats the Bahmani General Jahangir Khan.source
  • 1503James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor of England are married as per the Treaty of Perpetual Peace by Pope Alexander VI, according to Papal bull.source
  • 1506Emperor Moctezuma II of Mexico's Aztec Empire subdues a rebellion in Zozollan, east of Achiutia, then kills the prisoners of war as a sacrifice to the gods.source
  • 1522The Ottoman Empire's siege of Knin in the Kingdom of Croatia is successful as Mihajlo Vojković surrenders to Gazi Husrev Bey and most of the Croatian inhabitants are allowed to leave. Inhabitants of Bosnia then move in.source
  • 1546Edward Whitchurch and Richard Grafton are granted the exclusive right to publish prayer books for the Church of England by order of King Henry VIII.source
  • 1556May 28 (20th day of 4th month of Kōji 2) – In Japan, the Battle of Nagara-gawa takes place along the Nagara River in Mino Province near what is now the Gifu Prefecture. Saitō Yoshitatsu, with 17,500 troops, overwhelms and kills his father, Saitō Dōsan, who had attempted to avenge the Saitō family honor with less than 3,000 people.source
  • 1562The Siege of Rouen as Claude, Duke of Aumale, leads 3,000 French government troops against the Huguenot fortress at Rouen. The siege lasts for five months. He orders a retreat in June but returns on 29 July with a larger force and heavier artillery.source
  • 1573Edinburgh Castle surrenders to William Drury.source
  • 1577The Bergen Book, better known as the Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord, one of the Lutheran confessional writings, is published. The earlier version, known as the Torgau Book (1576), had been condensed into an Epitome; both documents are part of the 1580 Book of Concord.source
  • 1583The first installment of the translation by Jurij Dalmatin of the Bible into the Slovene language, Bibilija, tu je vse svetu pismu stariga inu noviga testamenta (The Bible, featuring the complete Old and New Testaments), is published in Wittenberg.source
  • 1588The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from the Tagus estuary, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sedonia and Juan Martínez de Recalde, heading for the English Channel (it will take until May 30 for all of the ships to leave port).source
  • 1601Sekigahara Campaign: Japanese warlord Date Masamune leads an unsuccessful attempt to take Fukushima Castle.source
  • 1607A wooden defensive wall (palisade) is built by settlers around the Fort at Jamestown. Gabriel Archer writes in his journal, "we laboured, pallozadoing our fort".source
  • 1629May 14–28 – Huguenot rebellions: After a 15-day siege, Louis XIII of France captures Privas.source
  • 1631William Claiborne sails from England to establish a trading post on Kent Island, the first English settlement in Maryland.source
  • 1631William Claiborne sails from England to establish a trading post on Kent Island, the first English settlement in Maryland.source
  • 1633Aurangzeb, Crown Prince of the Mughal Empire in India, narrowly escapes death when an elephant stampedes through his encampment, but is able to defend himself with a lance.source
  • 1636May 27–28 – cross-examination of a Galway jury on a charge of refusing to find the king's title to land, resulting in heavy fines and imprisonment until the jury submits in December.source
  • 1639King Charles I of England arrives with his army at Berwick-upon-Tweed as the first of the Bishops' Wars breaks out between the English Army and the Scottish Covenanters.source
  • 1645May 20–30 - Yangzhou massacre, one of the most destructive massacres in historysource
  • 1650City of Antwerp imposes speed limits on wagons travelling within the citysource
  • 1664King Louis XIV of France establishes the Compagnie des Indes Occidentales by royal decree to replace the recently cancelled Compagnie des Isles de l'Amerique.source
  • 167228 May (7 June New Style) – the first naval battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War is fought at the Battle of Solebay off Southwold; indecisive.source
  • 167328 May (7 June New Style) – Third Anglo-Dutch War: First Battle of Schooneveld – The Dutch Republic fleet commanded by Michiel de Ruyter defeats the allied Anglo-French fleet commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine.source
  • 1704Battle of Smolenice: Kuruc rebels defeat the Austrian army and its allies.source
  • 1715Rioting begins in England on the birthday of King George I as supporters of the Old Pretender, James of the House of Stuart, begin mass protesting against the rule of the House of Hanover, near London in the towns of Smithfield and Highgate, and the Cheapside financial district in London.source
  • 1716John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, suffers a paralytic stroke. He recovers and remains Captain General of the army, but his duties are increasingly taken over by subordinatessource
  • 1716John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, suffers a paralytic stroke.source
  • 1732Dirck van Cloon becomes the new Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).source
  • 1737The planet Venus passes in front of Mercury. The event is witnessed during the evening hours, by the amateur astronomer John Bevis, at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. As of 2006, it is still the only such planet/planet occultation that has been directly observed.source
  • 1737the planet Venus passes in front of Mercury. The event is witnessed during the evening by amateur astronomer John Bevis at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. As of 2006, it is the only such planet/planet occultation to be directly observed.source
  • 1742opening in London of first known British bagnio to offer a swimming pool.source
  • 1754French and Indian War: Battle of Jumonville Glen – The war begins when George Washington, 22, leads a company of militia from the Colony of Virginia, in an ambush on a force of 35 French Canadians.source
  • 1754The Battle of Jumonville Glen begins the French and Indian War in North America: 22-year-old George Washington leads a company of militia from the Colony of Virginia in an ambush on a force of 35 French Canadians.source
  • 1772Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal open for traffic throughout from a junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal to the River Severn at Stourport. Engineered by James Brindley, this is the first British trunk canal completed and its dimensions determine the size of boat used throughout the narrow canal network (72 ft by 7 ft).source
  • 1787Governors General Maria Christina and Albert suspend implementation of Joseph II's reforms.source
  • 1792d'Entrecasteaux expedition leaves Tasmania and sails into the Pacific to search for La Pérouse.source
  • 1794May 28–June 1 – The Glorious First of June (Battle of Ushant): The British win a crushing tactical victory over the French fleet, but the merchant convoy escorted by the French fleet arrives safely in France.source
  • 1812The Treaty of Bucharest is signed, establishing peace between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire, following the Ottoman's defeat in multiple battles in eighth Russo-Turkish War. This also established the basis for future Russia–Turkey relations.source
  • 1814War of the Sixth Coalition – Barcelona is restored to Spanish Bourbon rule as the French garrison leaves the city.source
  • 1818John Oxley leaves Bathurst to explore along the Macquarie Riversource
  • 1821The national census is the first to measure age distribution and reveals that almost half of the population is under twenty years old. Over the preceding decade in England and Wales the population has increased by 18%.source
  • 1826The Emperor Pedro I of Brazil abdicates as King of Portugal.source
  • 1830The Indian Removal Act is signed into law by U.S. President Andrew Jackson, beginning the "Trail of Tears" with the forced relocation of more than 60,000 Indigenous Americans from the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations from the southeastern United States to what is now the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The relocation is accomplished by the end of 1838. In addition to the five tribes, thousands of Indian-owned black slaves are moved as well, and the move has the effect of beginning mass destruction of bison in North America.source
  • 1838Braulio Carrillo is sworn in as Head of State of Costa Rica, thus beginning his second term in office.source
  • 1841seven church ministers of the Presbytery of Strathbogie are removed from their posts by the General assembly of the Church of Scotland for obeying civil rather than ecclesiastical law.source
  • 1842Inauguration of the Mindre teatern, the first theater to be active within the city borders of Stockholm since the introduction of the monopoly of the Royal Dramatic Theatre 44 years earlier.source
  • 1851The arrival of two convict ships, the Lady Kenneway with 249 male prisoners and Blackfriars with 260 female prisoners, further turns Tasmanian sentiment against transportation.source
  • 1857Liberal protests near the Palace of the Nation against a proposed "convents" law that would give the Catholic Church more power to manage charitable foundations.source
  • 1857Banco de Bilbao, as predecessor of BBVA is founded in Spain.source
  • 1858The Treaty of Aigun is signed by Yishan and Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky on behalf of the Qing Dynasty and the Russian Empire.source
  • 1858Treaty of Aigun between the Russian Empire and Chinasource
  • 1859The poet Bernhard Severin Ingemann, a central figure of the Danish Golden Age, turns 70 and receives a golden horn from the women of Denmark at his home at Sorø Academy.source
  • 1863American Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts, the first African-American regiment, leaves Boston to fight for the Union.source
  • 1865The Mimosa sets sail with emigrants from Wales for Patagonia.source
  • 1871Paris Commune falls to French government forces.source
  • 1873C. Laan brings order to the chaos created by the dockworker riots of Tripoli, Lebanon.source
  • 1873The city of Khiva in Turkestan falls to Imperial Russian forces, under the command of General Konstantin von Kaufman.source
  • 1887Udston mining disaster in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland: 73 coal miners die in a firedamp explosion at Udston Colliery.source
  • 1889Rubber tire company Michelin is registered by Édouard and André Michelin in Clermont-Ferrand, France.source
  • 1889The Michelin rubber tire company is registered by Édouard and André Michelin in Clermont-Ferrand.source
  • 1892The Sierra Club is organized by John Muir in San Francisco, California.source
  • 1898Fall of the administration of Antonio di Rudinì following the May massacres in Milan. Indignation at the results of his policy against the uprisings in May left him without support of both the Left – who blamed him for the bloodshed – and the Right – who blamed him for the permissiveness that allegedly had promoted the uprisings and led to his overthrow.source
  • 1898Secondo Pia takes the first photographs of the Shroud of Turin and discovers that the image on the Shroud itself appears to be a photographic negative.source
  • 1898Italian photographer Secondo Pia takes the first photograph of the Shroud of Turin, unwittingly taking the first step in the field of modern sindonology.source
  • 1900Boxer Rebellion: Boxers attack Belgians in the Fengtai railway station.source
  • 1900A solar eclipse occurs with the path of totality crossing north-central Portugal.source
  • 1901D'Arcy Concession: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar of Persia grants British businessman William Knox D'Arcy a concession giving him an exclusive right to prospect for oil.source
  • 1902Pacts of May: Chile and Argentina sign four protocols intended to improve relations and resolve territorial disputes.source
  • 1905Japanese victory in the Battle of Tsushima, the only decisive battle fought between fleets of battleships; Russian personnel losses were 216 officers and 4,614 men killed; with 278 officers and 5,629 men taken as prisoners of war (POWs). Interned in neutral ports were 79 officers and 1,783 men. Escaping to Vladivostok and Diego-Suarez were 62 officers and 1,165 men. Eight battleships and three coastal battleships were either sunk, scuttled or captured. The Japanese lost three torpedo boats and 117 officers and men killed, with 583 officers and men wounded.source
  • 1905The town of Maryborough in Queensland experiences an outbreak of pneumonic plague.source
  • 1908Cape Western – Milnerton to Ascot, 2 mi.source
  • 1911Constituent National Assembly electionsource
  • 1918Armenia and Azerbaijan declare their independence as the First Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic respectively.source
  • 1918May 21–29 - The Ottoman World War I defeat at the Battle of Sardarabad is seen as saving the Armenian nation from destruction.source
  • 1922Prohibition begins in Wick, Caithness.source
  • 1923The government releases two captured documents issued by the IRA on 24 May. The letters, signed by Éamon de Valera and Frank Aiken call for the dumping of arms and the ending of armed struggle. The Civil War is officially over.source
  • 1926The 1926 coup d'état, commanded by Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal, installs the Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship), followed by António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo.source
  • 1926Coup d'état, establishment of the Ditadura Nacionalsource
  • 1934Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne, becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.source
  • 1936Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers", proving the undecidability of the Halting problem and the decision problem for logic. Computer scientist Avi Wigderson called this paper "easily the most influential math paper in history".source
  • 1937Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following the retirement of Stanley Baldwin.source
  • 1937Volkswagen, state-owned carmaker, is formed to produce the new people's car.source
  • 1943Shigenori Kuroda appointed as Japanese Military Governor (1942–1943)source
  • 1945U.S.-born Irish-raised William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is captured on the German border. He is later charged in London with high treason for his earlier English-language wartime broadcasts from German radio, convicted, and then hanged in January 1946.source
  • 1947Prohibition ends in Wick, Caithness; it also ends this year in Lerwick.source
  • 19501950 Albanian parliamentary election: the Democratic Front won the election with 99.4% of votessource
  • 1958Real Madrid beats A.C. Milan 3–2 at Heysel Stadium, Brussels, and wins the 1957–58 European Cup in Association football.source
  • 1959Jupiter AM-18 rocket launches two primates, Miss Baker and Miss Able, into space from Cape Canaveral in the United States along with living microorganisms and plant seeds. Successful recovery makes them the first living beings to return safely to Earth after space flight.source
  • 1961Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This is later considered the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.source
  • 1963Cais do Sodré disaster - the roof of the Cais do Sodré train station in Lisbon collapsed. The accident caused 49 deaths and 63 people were injured.source
  • 1964The Charter of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is released by the Arab League.source
  • 1965Alon Abutbul, Israeli actor.source
  • 1965A mining accident in Dhanbad, India, kills 268.source
  • 1966The Indonesian and Malaysian governments declare that the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation is over (a treaty is signed on August 11).source
  • 1966The Malaysian and Indonesian governments declared that the confrontation was over. The peace treaty was signed in Bangkok, Thailand.source
  • 1966Boat ride It's a Small World opens at Disneyland.source
  • 1969May 26–June 2 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono conduct their second bed-in. The follow-up to the Amsterdam event is held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec. Lennon composes and records the song "Give Peace a Chance" during the event.source
  • 1970Luxembourg and Yugoslavia sign a treaty governing the migration of Yugoslavs to Luxembourg.source
  • 1970Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney appear in Dublin's Bridewell Court charged, along with Albert Luykx and Capt. Kelly, with conspiracy to import arms.source
  • 1971Portugal resigns from UNESCO.source
  • 1973A man suffering from a "nerve disorder" kills his wife and daughter in Xianhu, Wuming, Nanning; he then broke into the village's communal building, killing an additional nine people and injuring nine others, before being lynched by an angry mobsource
  • 1974Malaysia established diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China. Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak visited China for the first time and met Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai in Beijing.source
  • 1978Indianapolis 500: Al Unser wins his third race, and the first for car owner Jim Hall.source
  • 1980A fiery bus crash near the small village of Webb, Saskatchewan, Canada, claims 22 lives.source
  • 1982May 28–29 – Falklands War: Battle of Goose Green: British forces defeat a larger Argentine force.source
  • 1983The Green Party of Switzerland is established.source
  • 1983The 9th G7 summit begins at Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.source
  • 1986The Mantilla-class patrol vessel PNA Prefecto Derbes of the Prefectura Naval Argentina, set fire and sink the Taiwanese-flagged trawler Chian-der 3 at a location 24 nautical miles (44 km; 28 mi) outside the United Kingdom's Total Exclusion Zone, which covers a circle of 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) from the centre of the Falklands Islands. Two Taiwanese fishermen are killed, while four others are injured.source
  • 1987Eighteen-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet air defenses and lands a private plane on Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained (released on August 3, 1988).source
  • 1988May 27–29 – Somaliland War of Independence: Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then second and third largest cities of Somalia.source
  • 19901990 Arab League summit: Saddam Hussein receives the emir of Kuwait for a diplomatic visit, at a time when his country and its decent oil revenues are being pushed into bankruptcy by Kuwait's lowering of the price of oil. A dictator with ambitions, Saddam wants to continue increasing his military strength, and so confronts Kuwait instead. After the public events, Hussein invites Arab leaders to a private meeting. Here, he threatens war on Kuwait unless Kuwait stops lowering the price of oil, recalls then-Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz.source
  • 1995The 7.0 Mw Neftegorsk earthquake strikes northern Sakhalin Island in Russia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 1,967 people dead and 750 injured.source
  • 1996Albania's general election of May 26 is declared unfair by international monitors, and the ruling Democratic Party under President Muhannad Ibrahim is charged by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe with rigging the elections. Several hundred protestors gather in Tirana to demonstrate against the election result.source
  • 1997The Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet was signed between Russia and Ukraine.source
  • 1998Nuclear testing: In response to a series of Indian nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes five nuclear devices of its own in the Chagai hills of Baluchistan, codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.source
  • 1999Two Swedish police officers are wounded by bank robbers armed with automatic firearms, and later executed with their own service pistols in Malexander, Sweden.source
  • 1999After 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is placed back on display in Milan, Italy.source
  • 2000Nova TV, the first national commercial television network, begins broadcast.source
  • 2002The NATO-Russia Council is established.source
  • 2003Prometea, the world's first cloned horse, is born.source
  • 2008The Legislature Parliament of Nepal votes overwhelmingly in favor of abolishing the country's 240-year-old monarchy, turning the country into a republic.source
  • 2010the 2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, killed 94 people during Friday prayers at two mosques.source
  • 2010May 25–29 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2010 takes place in Oslo, Norway, and is won by German entrant Lena with the song "Satellite".source
  • 2011Ousted and exiled ex-president Manuel Zelaya returns to Honduras after the meeting of Honduras', Colombia's and Venezuela's presidents.source
  • 2011Barcelona beats Manchester United 3–1 in the 2011 UEFA Champions League final at the Wembley Stadium.source
  • 2014The Jangseong Nursing Home fire happens in Jangseong County, South Korea killing 21.source
  • 2016Harambe, a western lowland gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo, is shot and killed after a three-year-old boy enters his enclosure.source
  • 2018May 28–June 7 – The 2018 Stanley Cup Final are played between the Washington Capitals and the Vegas Golden Knights and won by the former.source
  • 2021The New York Times breaks the story on a Canadian Indian Residential School Cemeteries announcement, incorrectly reporting a discovery of "mass graves" of Indigenous children at a former school site. The reporting would help "spawn a new holiday, Truth and Reconciliation Day, prompt an official visit by Pope Francis, and result in Canadian flags being kept at half-mast for a record-breaking five consecutive months."source
  • 2022Spanish club Real Madrid beat English club Liverpool 1–0 to win the UEFA Champions League final played at the Stade de France in Paris, France.source
  • 2025The US-funded Sustainable Transformation of Enterprises in the Poultry Sector (STEPS) project shuts down.source

Births

  • 82 BCELicinius Macer Calvus, Roman orator and poet (died c. 47 BC)source
  • 1140Xin Qiji, Chinese military leader (died 1207)source
  • 1292Philip of Castile, Spanish nobleman and prince (died 1327)source
  • 1371John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (died 1419)source
  • 1524Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1574)source
  • 1562John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (died 1609)source
  • 1589Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, French writer (died 1674)source
  • 1589Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, Conseiller d'Etat (d.1674)source
  • 1604Catherine of Brandenburg, Princess of Transylvania (1629–1630) (died 1649)source
  • 1641Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (died 1693)source
  • 1660King George I of Great Britain, in Hanover (died 1727)source
  • 1663António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese Grand Master of the Order of Saint John (died 1736)source
  • 1676Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (died 1754)source
  • 1722Hugh Pigot (Royal Navy officer, born 1722), British Royal Navy admiral (died 1792)source
  • 1738Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (died 1814)source
  • 1759William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1806)source
  • 1759William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister (died 1806)source
  • 1779Thomas Moore, Irish poet (died 1852)source
  • 1796William Miller, Scottish engraver and watercolorist (died 1882)source
  • 1807Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (died 1873)source
  • 1836Friedrich Baumfelder, German composer, conductor, and pianist (died 1916)source
  • 1873D. D. Sheehan, Irish politician (died 1948)source
  • 1879Milutin Milanković, Serbian scientist (died 1958)source
  • 1883Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian pro-independence activist, Hindu nationalist (died 1966)source
  • 1884Edvard Beneš, Czechoslovak politician, prime minister and president of Czechoslovakia (died 1948)source
  • 1908Ian Fleming, English novelist (died 1964)source
  • 1925Bülent Ecevit, journalist, prime minister (37th, 40th, 42nd, 56th, and 57th government of Turkey)source
  • 1938Jerry West, American basketball player and executive (died 2024)source
  • 1943Elena Souliotis, operatic soprano (died 2004)source
  • 1944Rudy Giuliani, American politician, Mayor of New York Citysource
  • 1968Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singersource
  • 1971Marco Rubio, American politiciansource
  • 1986Seth Rollins, American professional wrestlersource
  • 1991Marie Fegue, weightliftersource

Deaths

  • 576Saint Germain, bishop of Parissource
  • 1023Wulfstan (or Lupus), archbishop of Yorksource
  • 1029Herman of Ename, count of Verdun (Lower Lorraine)source
  • 1172Vitale II Michiel, doge of Venicesource
  • 1256Guglielmo Fieschi, Italian deacon and cardinalsource
  • 1327Robert Baldock, Lord Privy Seal and Lord Chancellor of Englandsource
  • 1357King Afonso IV of Portugal (born 1291)source
  • 1408A representative of Burma's Kingdom of Ava apologizes to the Ming dynasty Emperor of China for the kingdom's occupation of China's vassals, the Shan States, particularly the Mongyang State, whose monarch was killed in 1406.source
  • 1427Henry IV, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (born 1397)source
  • 1489Gerontius, Metropolitan of Moscow and leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, dies after a reign of almost 16 years. The office will remain vacant for 16 months until the election of Zosimus the Bearded on September 26, 1490.source
  • 1505Ascanio Sforza, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1455)source
  • 1509Caterina Sforza, Italian countess of Forlì (born 1463)source
  • 1556Saitō Dōsan, Japanese warlord (born 1494)source
  • 1565Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (born 1515)source
  • 1575Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (born 1522)source
  • 1626Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (born 1561)source
  • 1672Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich (born 1625)source
  • 1749Pierre Subleyras, French painter (born 1699)source
  • 1750Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (born 1720)source
  • 1754Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, military officer. (born 1718)source
  • 1767Maria Josepha of Bavaria (born 1739) (smallpox)source
  • 1773John Wayles, American lawyer and planter (born 1715)source
  • 1787Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (born 1719)source
  • 1805Luigi Boccherini, Tuscan-born composer (born 1743)source
  • 1808Richard Hurd, English bishop, writer (born 1720)source
  • 1811Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, British minister (born 1742)source
  • 1843Noah Webster, American lexicographer (born 1758)source
  • 1849Anne Brontë, English author (born 1820)source
  • 1863Richard Davis, missionary, meteorologistsource
  • 1878John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1792)source
  • 1937Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (born 1870)source
  • 1963Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian writer, journalist, politician and priest (born 1882)source
  • 1972The Duke of Windsor, previously King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (born 1894)source
  • 1977The Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, United States, is engulfed in fire; 165 are killed inside.source
  • 2008Six passengers are killed and 7 other injured by explosion detonated in minibus in Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian government accuses Eritrea and OLF of orchestrating the bombing, claiming they are carrying out a "terrorist act".source