June 28

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

In common years it is always in ISO week 26.

This date is the only date each year where both the month and day are different perfect numbers, June 6 being the only date where the month and day are the same perfect number.

Events

• 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosull.
• 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
• 1389 – Battle of Kosovo between Serbian and Turkish armies.
• 1461 – Edward IV is crowned King of England.
• 1519 – Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1635 – Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
• 1651 – The Battle of Beresteczko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
• 1709 – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
• 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: A New England colonial army captures Louisbourg, New France, after a forty-seven-day siege (New Style).
• 1776 – The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the first decisive American victory in the American Revolutionary War leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.
• 1776 – Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
• 1778 – The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
• 1807 – Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
• 1838 – Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
• 1841 – The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier
• 1859 – The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
• 1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
• 1880 – The Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
• 1881 – Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
• 1882 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
• 1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• 1895 – El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.
• 1895 – Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis' claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
• 1896 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
• 1902 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
• 1904 – The SS Norge runs aground and sinks
• 1914 – Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnia Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.
• 1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, bringing fighting to an end in between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
• 1921 – Serbian King Alexander I proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
• 1922 – The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
• 1936 – The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
• 1940 – Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
• 1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany started its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue
• 1945 – Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.
• 1948 – The Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
• 1948 – Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
• 1950 – Korean War: Seoul is captured by North Korean troops.
• 1950 – Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers, argued to be between 100,000 and 200,000 are executed in the Bodo League massacre.
• 1950 – Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge to in attempt to slow North Korea's offensive.
• 1950 – Korean War: North Korean Army conducted Seoul National University Hospital Massacre.
• 1956 – in Poznań, workers from HCP factory went to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
• 1964 – Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
• 1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
• 1969 – Stonewall Riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
• 1973 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
• 1976 – The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
• 1978 – The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
• 1981 – A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of Islamic Republic Party.
• 1983 – Partial collapse of Connecticut's busy I-95 Mianus River Bridge, killing three.
• 1987 – For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
• 1989 – On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
• 1992 – The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
• 1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; 7 persons are killed, 660 injured.
• 1996 – The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
• 1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II – Mike Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
• 2001 – Slobodan Milošević is deported to ICTY to stand trial.
• 2004 – Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
• 2009 – Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran political crisis.

Births

• 1476 – Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
• 1490 – Albert of Mainz, German archbishop (d. 1545)
• 1491 – Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
• 1503 – Giovanni della Casa, Italian author and poet (d. 1556)
• 1547 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1599)
• 1577 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (d. 1640)
• 1582 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English politician (d. 1662)
• 1641 – Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, Polish wife of John III Sobieski (d. 1716)
• 1664 – Nicolas Bernier, French composer (d. 1734)
• 1703 – John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (d. 1791)
• 1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher and polymath (d. 1778)
• 1719 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1785)
• 1734 – Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, French organist and composer (d. 1794)
• 1742 – William Hooper, American lawyer, physician, and politician (d. 1790)
• 1824 – Paul Broca, French physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (d. 1880)
• 1831 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1907)
• 1836 – Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek journalist (d. 1904)
• 1852 – Charles Cruft, English showman, founded Crufts Dog Show (d. 1938)
• 1867 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
• 1873 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
• 1875 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
• 1883 – Pierre Laval, French politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
• 1884 – Lamina Sankoh, Sierra Leonean banker and politician (d. 1964)
• 1888 – George Challenor, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1947)
• 1891 – Esther Forbes, American historian and author (d. 1968)
• 1891 – Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
• 1891 – Carl Andrew Spaatz, American general (d. 1974)
• 1900 – Bob Taggart, Scottish centenarian (d. 2009)
• 1902 – Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
• 1907 – Jimmy Mundy, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1983)
• 1907 – Emily Perry, English actress and dancer (d. 2008)
• 1909 – Eric Ambler, English author (d. 1998)
• 1912 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Franz Antel, Austrian director and producer (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Walter Oesau, German pilot (d. 1944)
• 1914 – Aribert Heim, Austrian physician (d. 1992)
• 1915 – David "Honeyboy" Edwards, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
• 1916 – Olle Björklund, Swedish actor and journalist (d. 1981)
• 1917 – Katherine Rawls, American swimmer (d. 1982)
• 1918 – Maxine Stuart, American actress (d. 2013)
• 1918 – William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, Scottish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1999)
• 1920 – A. E. Hotchner, American author and playwright
• 1921 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Michael Vale, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1923 – Pete Candoli, American trumpet player (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentinian race car driver (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Gaye Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Mel Brooks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1927 – Correlli Barnett, English historian
• 1927 – Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
• 1928 – Hans Blix, Swedish politician, 33rd Minister for Foreign Affairs for Sweden
• 1928 – Harold Evans, English-American journalist
• 1928 – Cyril Smith, English politician (d. 2010)
• 1930 – Itamar Franco, Brazilian politician, 33rd President of Brazil (d. 2011)
• 1931 – Junior Johnson, American race car driver
• 1931 – Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995)
• 1932 – Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1933 – Gusty Spence, Irish politician (d. 2011)
• 1934 – Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell, Irish politician
• 1934 – Bette Greene, American author
• 1934 – Carl Levin, American lawyer and politician
• 1935 – John Inman, English actor and singer (d. 2007)
• 1936 – Richard H. Cracroft, American author and academic (d. 2012)
• 1936 – Chuck Howley, American football player
• 1937 – Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1937 – George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)
• 1937 – Fernand Labrie, Canadian medical researcher
• 1937 – Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire and author (d. 1995)
• 1937 – Tom Magliozzi, American radio host
• 1938 – John Byner, American actor
• 1938 – Leon Panetta, American politician, 23rd United States Secretary of Defense
• 1940 – Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and politician
• 1940 – Roderick Wright, Scottish bishop (d. 2005)
• 1940 – Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1941 – Al Downing, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1941 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist, developed the OBJ language (d. 2006)
• 1941 – David Johnston, Canadian academic, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor-General of Canada
• 1941 – Ann Leslie, Indian-English journalist
• 1942 – Chris Hani, South African politician (d. 1993)
• 1942 – Frank Zane, American bodybuilder
• 1943 – Jens Birkemose, Danish painter
• 1943 – Donald Johanson, American paleontologist
• 1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1945 – Ken Buchanan, Scottish boxer
• 1945 – David Knights, English bass player and producer (Procol Harum)
• 1945 – Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1989)
• 1946 – Robert Asprin, American author (d. 2008)
• 1946 – Howard Barker, English playwright
• 1946 – Bruce Davison, American actor and director
• 1946 – David Duckham, English rugby player
• 1946 – Roger Godsiff, English politician
• 1946 – Jaime Guzmán, Chilean lawyer and politician (d. 1991)
• 1946 – Gilda Radner, American actress and singer (d. 1989)
• 1947 – Robert Bondi, American politician
• 1947 – Mark Clark, American activist (d. 1969)
• 1947 – Anny Duperey, French actress and author
• 1947 – Mark Helprin, American journalist and author
• 1948 – Kathy Bates, American actress, singer, and director
• 1948 – Sergei Bodrov, Russian-American film director
• 1948 – Daniel Wegner, Canadian-American psychologist and educator (d. 2013)
• 1950 – David Lanz, American pianist
• 1950 – Mauricio Rojas, Chilean-Swedish economist and politician
• 1950 – Chris Speier, American baseball player and coach
• 1951 – Lalla Ward, English actress and author
• 1952 – Ray Ashcroft, English actor
• 1952 – Pietro Mennea, Italian sprinter and politician (d. 2013)
• 1952 – Jean-Christophe Rufin, French physician and author
• 1954 – A. A. Gill, Scottish author and critic
• 1954 – Alice Krige, South African-English actress
• 1955 – Shirley Cheriton, English actress
• 1955 – Eric Gates, English footballer
• 1955 – Steven M. Greer, American ufologist and author
• 1955 – Thomas Hampson, American opera singer
• 1956 – Amira Hass, Israeli journalist
• 1956 – Noel Mugavin, Australian footballer
• 1957 – Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1957 – Georgi Parvanov, Bulgarian historian and politician, 4th President of Bulgaria
• 1957 – Mike Skinner, American race car driver
• 1957 – Jim Spanarkel, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1958 – Donna Edwards, American lawyer and politician
• 1958 – Félix Gray, French singer-songwriter
• 1959 – Clint Boon, English singer and keyboard player (Inspiral Carpets and The Clint Boon Experience)
• 1960 – John Elway, American football player
• 1960 – Roland Melanson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1961 – Jeff Malone, American basketball player and coach
• 1961 – Eliezer Melamed, Israeli rabbi and author
• 1962 – Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer (d. 2013)
• 1962 – Kieth O'dor, English racing driver (d. 1995)
• 1963 – Peter Baynham, Welsh actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Charlie Clouser, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Nine Inch Nails)
• 1963 – Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai director and screenwriter
• 1963 – Tierney Sutton, American singer
• 1964 – Mark Grace, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1964 – DJ Quicksilver, Turkish-German DJ and producer
• 1965 – Jessica Hecht, American actress
• 1965 – Sonny Strait, American voice actor and singer
• 1966 – Peeter Allik, Estonian painter and graphic artist
• 1966 – Bobby Bare, Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1966 – John Cusack, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress, director, and producer
• 1966 – Sara Stewart, Scottish actress
• 1967 – Leona Aglukkaq, Canadian politician
• 1967 – Gil Bellows, Canadian actor and producer
• 1967 – Lars Riedel, German discus thrower
• 1968 – Chayanne, Puerto Rican singer and actor (Los Chicos)
• 1968 – Adam Woodyatt, English actor
• 1969 – Tichina Arnold, American actress and singer
• 1969 – Danielle Brisebois, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (New Radicals)
• 1969 – Ayelet Zurer, Israeli-American actress
• 1970 – Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer and coach
• 1970 – Steve Burton, American actor
• 1970 – Tom Merritt, American journalist
• 1970 – Mike White, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 – Lorenzo Amoruso, Italian footballer
• 1971 – Fabien Barthez, French footballer
• 1971 – Kenny Cunningham, Irish footballer and coach
• 1971 – Norika Fujiwara, Japanese model and actress
• 1971 – Bobby Hurley, American basketball player and coach
• 1971 – Ron Mahay, American baseball player
• 1971 – Louise Mensch, English politician and author
• 1971 – Aileen Quinn, American actress, singer, and director
• 1971 – Ray Slijngaard, Dutch rapper (2 Unlimited and Ray & Anita)
• 1972 – Ngô Bảo Châu, Vietnamese-French mathematician
• 1972 – Jon Heidenreich, American wrestler
• 1972 – Christopher Leslie, English politician
• 1972 – Alessandro Nivola, American actor
• 1973 – Adrián Annus, Hungarian hammer thrower
• 1973 – Corey Koskie, Canadian baseball player
• 1974 – Rob Dyrdek, American skateboarder, actor, and producer
• 1975 – Ning Baizura, Malaysian singer and producer
• 1975 – Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Dissection and Ophthalamia) (d. 2006)
• 1976 – Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
• 1976 – Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
• 1977 – Measha Brueggergosman, Canadian soprano and actress
• 1977 – Chris Spurling, American baseball player
• 1977 – Mark Stoermer, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (The Killers)
• 1977 – Harun Tekin, Turkish singer and guitarist (Mor ve Ötesi)
• 1978 – Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer
• 1978 – Simon Larose, Canadian tennis player
• 1979 – Jeanette Aw, Singaporean actress, singer, and dancer
• 1979 – Felicia Day, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1979 – Kaidi Jekimova, Estonian footballer
• 1979 – Randy McMichael, American football player
• 1979 – Florian Zeller, French author and playwright
• 1979 – Neil Shanahan, Irish racing driver (d. 1999)
• 1980 – Jevgeni Novikov, Estonian footballer
• 1981 – Michael Crafter, Australian singer-songwriter (Confession, I Killed the Prom Queen, Carpathian, and Bury Your Dead)
• 1981 – Brandon Phillips, American baseball player
• 1982 – Elaine Tan, English actress
• 1983 – Maui Taylor, Filipino-English model, actress, and singer
• 1984 – Tamara Ecclestone, Italian-English model and television host
• 1985 – Phil Bardsley, English footballer
• 1986 – Kellie Pickler, American singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
• 1987 – Sonata Tamošaitytė, Lithuanian hurdler
• 1987 – Bailey Tzuke, English singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Terrence Williams, American basketball player
• 1988 – Gaku Hamada, Japanese actor
• 1988 – Lacey Schwimmer, American dancer and singer
• 1989 – Nicole Rottmann, Austrian tennis player
• 1989 – Lucy Rose, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1989 – Julia Zlobina, Russian-Azerbaijani figure skater
• 1990 – Nick Purcell, American actor
• 1990 – Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress and singer
• 1990 – Daisy Turner, English model and actress
• 1991 – Seohyun, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation and Girls' Generation-TTS)
• 1991 – Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian footballer
• 1991 – Kang Min-hyuk, South Korean drummer, actor and singer (CN Blue).
• 1993 – Daehyun, South Korean singer and dancer (B.A.P)
• 1993 – Bradley Beal, American basketball player
• 1994 – Hussein bin Abdullah, Crown Prince of Jordan
• 1994 – Madeline Duggan, English actress
• 1995 – Kåre Hedebrant, Swedish actor
• 1996 – Donna Vekić, Croatian tennis player

Deaths

• 548 – Theodora I, Byzantine wife of Justinian I (b. 500)
• 572 – Alboin, Lombard king (b. 530)
• 683 – Pope Leo II (b. 611)
• 767 – Pope Paul I (b. 700)
• 928 – Louis the Blind, Roman emperor (b. 880)
• 1061 – Floris I, Count of Holland (b. 1020)
• 1175 – Andrey Bogolyubsky, Russian saint (b. 1111)
• 1189 – Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony (b. 1156)
• 1194 – Emperor Xiaozong of Song (b. 1127)
• 1385 – Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1348)
• 1586 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian author and reformer (b. 1508)
• 1598 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (b. 1527)
• 1716 – George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
• 1813 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (b. 1755)
• 1834 – Joseph Bové, Russian architect, designed the Triumphal Arch of Moscow (b. 1784)
• 1836 – James Madison, American politician, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)
• 1880 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American cowboy and actor (b. 1846)
• 1881 – Jules Armand Dufaure, French politician, 33rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1798)
• 1889 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b. 1818)
• 1892 – Alexandros Rizos Rangavis, Greek poet and politician (b. 1810)
• 1913 – Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Brazil (b. 1841)
• 1914 – Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (b. 1868)
• 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1863)
• 1915 – Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1916 – Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
• 1922 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1885)
• 1929 – Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (b. 1844)
• 1936 – Alexander Berkman, American author and activist (d. 1870)
• 1946 – Raymond Lawler, American soccer player (b. 1888)
• 1960 – Jake Swirbul, American businessman, co-founded the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation (b. 1898)
• 1962 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player and manager (b. 1903)
• 1962 – Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)
• 1965 – Red Nichols, American cornet player, bandleader, and composer (The California Ramblers) (b. 1905)
• 1971 – Franz Stangl, Austrian SS officer (b. 1908)
• 1974 – Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1975 – Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
• 1975 – Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (b. 1941)
• 1975 – Rod Serling, American actor, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1924)
• 1976 – Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and producer (b. 1927)
• 1978 – Clifford Dupont, English-Rhodesian politician, 1st President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
• 1980 – José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra) (b. 1895)
• 1981 – Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist (b. 1958)
• 1984 – Yigael Yadin, Israeli archeologist, general, and politician (b. 1917)
• 1985 – Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (b. 1913)
• 1985 – Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1989 – Joris Ivens, Dutch journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)
• 1989 – Mike Sebastian, American football player and coach (b. 1910)
• 1992 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
• 1992 – Guy Nève, Belgian racing driver (b. 1955)
• 1993 – GG Allin, American singer-songwriter (The Murder Junkies and The Jabbers) (b. 1956)
• 1995 – Petri Walli, Finnish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Kingston Wall) (b. 1969)
• 2000 – Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, Canadian-English politician and activist (b. 1913)
• 2000 – Nils Poppe, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 2001 – Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher and author (b. 1902)
• 2001 – Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Joan Lowery Nixon, American journalist and author (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Willem Slijkhuis, Dutch runner (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Brenda Howard, American activist (b. 1946)
• 2005 – Michael P. Murphy, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1976)
• 2006 – Jim Baen, American publisher, founded Baen Books (b. 1943)
• 2006 – George Page, American television host and producer (b. 1935)
• 2006 – Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1919)
• 2006 – George Unwin, English pilot and commander (b. 1913)
• 2007 – Eugene B. Fluckey, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1913)
• 2007 – Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese politician, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b. 1987)
• 2009 – A. K. Lohithadas, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955)
• 2009 – Billy Mays, American salesman (b. 1958)
• 2009 – Fred Travalena, American comedian and actor (b. 1942)
• 2010 – Bill Aucoin, American band manager (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Angélico Vieira, Portuguese singer and actor (D'ZRT) (b. 1982)
• 2012 – Richard Isay, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Leontine T. Kelly, American bishop (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Zhang Ruifang, Chinese actress (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Robert Sabatier, French author and poet (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Doris Sams, American baseball player (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Chris Sanderson, Canadian lacrosse player and coach (b. 1974)
• 2012 – Norman Sas, American businessman (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Paul Stassino, Greek actor (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Yiye Ávila, Puerto Rican televangelist (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Bhavna Chikhalia, Indian politician (b. 1955)
• 2013 – Fred Gibson, Jamaican-English cricketer (b. 1912)
• 2013 – Ted Hood, American sailor (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Tamás Katona, Hungarian historian and politician (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Kenneth Minogue, New Zealand-Australian political scientist and academic (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Matt Osborne, American wrestler (b. 1957)
• 2013 – F.D. Reeve, American author and academic (b. 1928)
• 2013 – David Rubitsky, American sergeant (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Charlie L. Russell, American playwright (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Silvi Vrait, Estonian singer and actress (b. 1951)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Benignus
  • Irenaeus of Lyon (Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran)
  • Marcella
  • Paulus I
  • Vincenza Gerosa
  • June 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Constitution Day (Ukraine)
• Earliest day on which Vartavar can fall, while August 1 is the latest; celebrated on the 14th weeks after Easter. (Armenia)
• Family Day (Vietnam)
• Poznań Remembrance Day (Poland)
• Soviet Occupation Day (Moldova)
• Vidovdan, celebrating St. Vitus and an important day in Serbian history. (Eastern Orthodox Church)

External links

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