General Events and Observations of July 28

450: Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (b. 401)
578: Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa
579: Pope Benedict I
1057: Pope Victor II
1128: William Clito, Count of Flanders (b. 1102)
1230: Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
1285: Queen Keran of Armenia, consort of Leo III of Armenia
1527: Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador
1540: Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
1540: Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
1540: Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1495)
1550: Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
1631: Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
1652: Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b. 1624)
1655: Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619)
1667: Abraham Cowley, English poet (b. 1618)
1675: Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
1680: Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)
1683: Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1685: Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
1691: Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
1718: Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
1718: William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
1741: Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
1750: Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)
1762: George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
1771: Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)
1794: Louis de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1767)
1794: Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1758)
1811: Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
1818: Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
1835: Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
1842: Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
1844: Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)
1849: King Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
1869: Jan Evangelista Purkyne, Czech anatomist (b. 1787)
1875: George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
1878: George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (b. 1820)
1895: Edward Beecher, American theologian (b. 1803)
1898: Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1815)
1900: Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
1912: Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852)
1918: Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
1930: Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1930: Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
1934: Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (b. 1868)
1942: William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
1947: Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
1957: Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
1965: Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (b. 1894)
1965: Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese author (b. 1886)
1967: Karl W. Richter, Lieutenant, USAF, American aviator (b. 1942)
1968: Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
1969: Ramón Grau, Cuban president (b. 1882)
1970: George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)
1971: Charles E. Pont, American artist (b. 1898)
1971: Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
1971: Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
1972: Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)
1972: Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
1979: Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
1982: Keith Green, American gospel singer and pianist (b. 1953)
1982: Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (b. 1954)
1983: Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1983: Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b. 1887)
1985: Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
1989: Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)
1990: Jill Esmond, British actress (b. 1908)
1992: Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)
1992: Joe Shuster, Canadian comic book artist (b. 1914)
1996: Claudette Colbert, American actress (b. 1903)
1996: Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and educator (b. 1908)
1997: B?o Ð?i, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)
1997: Seni Pramoj, Thai politician (b. 1905)
1998: Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (Howdy Doody) (b. 1917)
1998: Lenny McLean, English bareknuckle fighter (b. 1949)
1999: Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
2000: Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
2002: Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
2003: Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish politician and activist (b. 1918)
2004: Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)
2004: Eugene Roche, American actor (b. 1928)
2004: Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2004: Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
2004: Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
2005: Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
2005: John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)
2005: Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
2006: Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
2006: Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
2006: David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
2006: Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
2007: Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)
2007: Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)
2007: Jim LeRoy, Stunt Plane pilot
2007: Karl Gotch, Belgian professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2007: Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
2007: Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)

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