April 28

April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 247 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

• Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire
  .
• 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory over Magnus Magnentius.
• Hashshashin
  .
• 1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
• Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols with the reigning title Oljeitu.^[1]
• 1503 – The Battle of Cerignola is fought. It is noted as one of the first European battles in history won by small arms fire using gunpowder.

1601–1900

• 1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
• 1625 – A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the Dutch–Portuguese War.^[2]
• Marathas defeat the Afghans in the Battle of Attock and capture the city.^[3]
• United States Constitution
  .
• 1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift, and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly before setting sail for Pitcairn Island.
• 1792 – France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
• Sardinians, headed by Giovanni Maria Angioy, start a revolution against the Savoy domination, expelling Viceroy Balbiano and his officials from Cagliari
  , the capital and largest city of the island.
• Vittorio Amedeo III, King of Sardinia
  , expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
• 1859 – The sailing clipper ship Pomona wrecked on the coast of Ireland with the loss of 424 of the 448 passengers and crew aboard.^[4]
• 1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First transcontinental railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
• 1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
• 1887 – A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.

1901–present

• 1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.
• 1920 – The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic is founded.
• 1923 – Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
• 1930 – The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
• 1937 – South African medical researcher Max Theiler develops the yellow fever vaccine at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York.^[5]
• genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia
  .
• 1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attack US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
• 1945 – Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by Walter Audisio, a member of the Italian resistance movement.
• 1945 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany carries out its final use of gas chambers to execute 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders in Mauthausen concentration camp.^[6]
• Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia
  .
• 1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducts the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.
• First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, while she is en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband
  ; her daughter and ten others are also killed.
• 1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in order to campaign in the 1952 United States presidential election.
• 1952 – The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.
• 1952 – The
  Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War
  .
• Communist
  dictatorship" and to evacuate US Army troops.
• 1967 – Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.
• 1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
• 1973 – The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.
• closes in on victory.^[7]
• 1977 – The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
• Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.^[8]
• 1983 – The West German news magazine Stern begins publishing excerpts from the purported diaries of Adolf Hitler, later revealed to be forgeries.^[9]
• 1986 – High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.^[10]
• 1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
• 1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving US secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
• 1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 41⁄2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
• 1996 – Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
• 2004 – CBS News releases evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees.

Births

Pre-1600

• AD 32 – Otho, Roman emperor (d. 69 AD)
• 1402 – Nezahualcoyotl, Acolhuan philosopher, warrior, poet and ruler (d. 1472)
• Edward IV
  , king of England (d. 1483)
• 1545 – Yi Sun-sin, Korean commander (d. 1598)
• 1573 – Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême, son of Charles IX (d. 1650)

1601–1900

• 1604 – Joris Jansen Rapelje, Dutch settler in colonial North America (d. 1662)
• 1623 – Wilhelmus Beekman, Dutch politician (d. 1707)
• 1630 – Charles Cotton, English poet and author (d. 1687)
• 1676 – Frederick I, prince consort and king of Sweden (d. 1751)
• 1715 – Franz Sparry, Austrian composer and educator (d. 1767)
• 1758 – James Monroe, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
• 1761 – Marie Harel, French cheesemaker (d. 1844)
• 1765 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (d. 1834)
• 1819 – Ezra Abbot, American scholar and academic (d. 1884)
• 1827 – William Hall, Canadian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1904)
• 1838 – Tobias Asser, Dutch lawyer and scholar, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1913)
• 1848 – Ludvig Schytte, Danish pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1909)
• Hertha Marks Ayrton, Polish-British engineer, mathematician, and physicist. (d. 1923)^[11]
• 1855 – José Malhoa, Portuguese painter (d. 1933)
• 1863 – Josiah Thomas, English-Australian miner and politician, 7th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1933)
• 1863 – Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (d. 1929)
• 1865 – Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist and academic (d. 1940)
• 1868 – Lucy Booth, English composer (d. 1953)
• 1868 – Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1908)
• 1874 – Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author (d. 1936)
• 1874 – Sidney Toler, American actor and director (d. 1947)
• 1876 – Nicola Romeo, Italian engineer and businessman (d. 1938)
• 1878 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor and director (d. 1954)
• 1886 – Erich Salomon, German-born news photographer (d. 1944)
• 1886 –
  Art Shaw
  , American hurdler (d. 1955)
• 1888 – Walter Tull, English footballer and soldier (d. 1918)
• 1889 – António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1970)
• Na Hye-sok
  , South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (d. 1948)
• 1896 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet and critic (d. 1963)^[12]
• Head of State of the People's Republic of China
  (d. 1986)
• 1900 – Alice Berry, Australian activist (d. 1978)^[13]
• 1900 –
  SS officer (d. 1945)^[14]
• 1900 – Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 1992)^[15]

1901–present

• 1901 – H. B. Stallard, English runner and surgeon (d. 1973)
• 1902 – Johan Borgen, Norwegian author and critic (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Kurt Gödel, Czech-American mathematician, philosopher, and academic (d. 1978)
• 1906 – Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor and philanthropist (d. 1999)
• 1908 – Ethel Catherwood, American-Canadian high jumper and javelin thrower (d. 1987)
• 1908 – Jack Fingleton, Australian cricketer, journalist, and sportscaster (d. 1981)
• 1908 – Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (d. 1974)
• 1909 – Arthur Võõbus, Estonian-American theologist and orientalist (d. 1988)
• Sam Merwin, Jr.
  , American author (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Lee Falk, American director, producer, and playwright (d. 1999)
• 1912 – Odette Hallowes, French soldier and spy (d. 1995)
• 1912 –
  Kaneto Shindō
  , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1913 – Rose Murphy, American singer (d. 1989)
• 1914 – Michel Mohrt, French author, historian (d. 2011)
• 1916 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian businessman, created Lamborghini (d. 1993)
• 1917 – Robert Cornthwaite, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Rowland Evans, American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Simin Daneshvar, Iranian author and academic (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Carolyn Cassady, American author (d. 2013)
• 1923 – William Guarnere, American sergeant (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Dick Ayers, American author and illustrator (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Blossom Dearie, American singer and pianist (d. 2009)
• 1924 – Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian educator and politician, first president of Zambia (d. 2021)^[16]
• 1925 – T. John Lesinski, American judge and politician, 51st Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (d. 1996)
• 1925 –
  John Leonard Thorn
  , English lieutenant, author, and academic (d. 2023)
• 1926 – James Bama, American artist and illustrator (d. 2022)
• 1926 – Bill Blackbeard, American historian and author (d. 2011)
• 1926 – Harper Lee, American novelist (d. 2016)^[17]
• 1926 – Hulusi Sayın, Turkish general (d. 1991)
• 1928 – Yves Klein, French painter (d. 1962)
• 1928 – Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American geologist and astronomer (d. 1997)
• 1930 – James Baker, American lawyer and politician, 61st United States Secretary of State
• 1930 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
• 1933 – Miodrag Radulovacki, Serbian-American neuropharmacologist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Lois Duncan, American journalist and author (d. 2016)
• 1935 – Pedro Ramos, Cuban baseball player
• Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs
  (d. 2015)
• 1937 – Saddam Hussein, Iraqi general and politician, 5th President of Iraq (d. 2006)
• 1937 – Jean Redpath, Scottish singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1937 – John White, Scottish international footballer (d. 1964)^[18]
• 1938 – Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (d. 1995)
• 1941 – Ann-Margret, Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1941 – Lucien Aimar, French cyclist
• 1941 – John Madejski, English businessman and academic
• 1941 – Karl Barry Sharpless, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1941 – Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet and author (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Mike Brearley, English cricketer and psychoanalyst
• Iraqi
  -born Israeli politician
• 1944 – Elizabeth LeCompte, American director and producer
• 1944 – Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician, 10th Minister-President of Wallonia
• 1944 – Alice Waters, American chef and author
• 1946 – Nour El-Sherif, Egyptian actor and producer (d. 2015)
• 1946 – Ginette Reno, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1946 – Larissa Grunig, American theorist and activist
• 1947 – Steve Khan, American jazz guitarist
• 1948 – Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1948 – Marcia Strassman, American actress and singer (d. 2014)
• 1949 – Jeremy Cooke, English lawyer and judge
• 1949 – Paul Guilfoyle, American actor
• 1949 – Bruno Kirby, American actor and director (d. 2006)
• 1950 – Willie Colón, Puerto Rican-American trombonist and producer
• 1950 – Jay Leno, American comedian, talk show host, and producer
• 1950 – Steve Rider, English journalist and sportscaster
• 1951 – Tim Congdon, English economist and politician
• 1951 – Larry Smith, Canadian football player and politician
• 1952 – Chuck Leavell, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1952 – Mary McDonnell, American actress
• 1953 – Roberto Bolaño, Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist (d. 2003)
• 1953 – Kim Gordon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1953 – Brian Greenhoff, English footballer and coach (d. 2013)
• 1954 – Timothy Curley, American educator
• 1954 – Michael P. Jackson, American politician, 3rd Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security
• 1954 – Vic Sotto, Filipino actor-producer, singer-songwriter, comedian and television personality
• 1954 – Ron Zook, American football player and coach
• 1955 – Saeb Erekat, Chief Palestinian negotiator (d. 2020)^[19]
• 1955 – Eddie Jobson, English keyboard player and violinist
• 1956 – Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 – Hal Sutton, American golfer
• 1960 – Tom Browning, American baseball player (d. 2022)
• 1960 – Elena Kagan, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• 1960 – Phil King, English bass player
• 1960 – Ian Rankin, Scottish author
• 1960 – Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strongman and weightlifter (d. 1993)
• 1960 – Walter Zenga, Italian footballer and manager
• 1963 – Lloyd Eisler, Canadian figure skater and coach
• 1963 – Marc Lacroix, Belgian biochemist and academic
• 1964 – Stephen Ames, Trinidadian golfer
• 1964 – Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer
• 1964 – Ajay Kakkar, Baron Kakkar, English surgeon and academic
• 1964 – Barry Larkin, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
• 1964 – L'Wren Scott, American model and fashion designer (d. 2014)
• 1966 – John Daly, American golfer
• 1966 – Too Short, American rapper, producer and actor
• 1967 – Chris White, English engineer and politician
• 1968 – Howard Donald, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1968 – Andy Flower, South-African-Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
• LeRon Perry Ellis
  , American basketball player
• 1970 – Richard Fromberg, Australian tennis player
• 1970 – Nicklas Lidström, Swedish ice hockey player and scout
• 1970 – Diego Simeone, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1971 – Bridget Moynahan, American actress^[20]
• 1972 – Violent J, American rapper
• 1972 – Jean-Paul van Gastel, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1973 – Jorge Garcia, American actor and producer
• 1973 – Andrew Mehrtens, South African-New Zealand rugby player
• 1974 – Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress and producer
• 1974 – Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player and coach (d. 2011)
• 1974 – Vernon Kay, English radio and television host
• 1974 – Dominic Matteo, Scottish footballer and journalist
• 1975 – Michael Walchhofer, Austrian skier
• 1977 – Titus O'Neil, American wrestler and football player^[21]
• 1978 – Lauren Laverne, English singer and television and radio host
• 1979 – Scott Fujita, American football player and sportscaster
• 1980 – Bradley Wiggins, English cyclist
• 1981 – Jessica Alba, American model and actress
• 1982 – Nikki Grahame, English model and journalist (d. 2021)
• 1982 – Chris Kaman, American basketball player
• 1983 – Josh Brookes, Australian motorcycle racer
• 1983 – David Freese, American baseball player
• 1983 – Roger Johnson, English footballer
• 1983 – Thomas Waldrom, New Zealand-English rugby player
• 1984 – Dmitri Torbinski, Russian footballer
• 1985 – Lucas Jakubczyk, German sprinter and long jumper
• 1985 – Deividas Stagniūnas, Lithuanian ice dancer
• 1986 – Roman Polák, Czech ice hockey player
• 1986 – Jenna Ushkowitz, Korean-American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1987 – Daequan Cook, American basketball player^[22]
• 1987 – Drew Gulak, American wrestler^[23]
• 1987 – Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Indian actress and model
• 1987 – Bradley Johnson, English footballer
• 1987 – Zoran Tošić, Serbian footballer
• 1988 – Jonathan Biabiany, French footballer
• 1988 – Juan Mata, Spanish footballer
• 1989 – Emil Salomonsson, Swedish footballer
• 1989 – Kim Sung-kyu, South Korean singer
• 1992 – Blake Bortles, American football player
• 1992 – DeMarcus Lawrence, American football player
• 1993 – Matt Chapman, American baseball player^[24]
• 1993 –
  Eva Samková
  , Czech snowboarder
• 1994 – Jakob Butturff, American bowler^[25]
• Melanie Martinez
  , American singer
• 1997 – Shane McClanahan, American baseball player^[26]
• 1997 – Denzel Ward, American football player^[27]
• 1998 – Song Yu-bin, South Korean singer and actor^[28]
• 2001 – Anthony Volpe, American baseball player^[29]

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 224 – Artabanus IV of Parthia (b. 191)
• 948 – Hu Jinsi, Chinese general and prefect
• Bremen^[30]
• Fatimid statesman^[31]
• 1109 – Abbot Hugh of Cluny (b. 1024)^[32]
• 1192 – Conrad of Montferrat (b. 1140)
• 1197 – Rhys ap Gruffydd, prince of Deheubarth (b. 1132)
• 1257 – Shajar al-Durr, sovereign sultana of Egypt
• Third Order of St. Francis
• 1400 – Baldus de Ubaldis, Italian jurist (b. 1327)
• 1489 – Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1449)
• 1533 – Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)

1601–1900

• 1643 – Francisco de Lucena, Portuguese politician (b. 1578)
• 1710 – Thomas Betterton, English actor and manager (b. 1630)
• 1716 – Louis de Montfort, French priest and saint (b. 1673)
• 1726 – Thomas Pitt, English merchant and politician (b. 1653)
• 1741 – Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general and politician (b. 1668)
• 1772 – Johann Friedrich Struensee, German physician and politician (b. 1737)
• 1781 – Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and politician (b. 1723)
• 1813 – Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745)
• 1816 – Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1762)
• 1841 – Peter Chanel, French priest, missionary, and martyr (b. 1803)
• 1853 – Ludwig Tieck, German author and poet (b. 1773)
• 1858 – Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist and anatomist (b. 1801)
• 1865 – Samuel Cunard, Canadian-English businessman, founded Cunard Line (b. 1787)
• 1881 – Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer (b. 1818)
• John Russell
  , English hunter and dog breeder (b. 1795)

1901–present

• 1902 – Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian (b. 1819)
• 1903 – Josiah Willard Gibbs, American scientist (b. 1839)^[33]
• 1905 – Fitzhugh Lee, American general and politician, 40th Governor of Virginia (b. 1835)
• 1921 – Maurice Moore (Irish republican), executed member of the Irish Republican Army (b. 1894)^[34]
• 1925 – Richard Butler, English-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)
• 1928 – May Jordan McConnel, Australian trade unionist and suffragist (b. 1860)^[35]
• 1929 – Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer (b. 1879)
• 1936 – Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868)
• 1939 – Anne Walter Fearn, American physician (b. 1867)^[36]
• Mohammed Alim Khan
  , Manghud ruler (b. 1880)
• 1944 – Frank Knox, American journalist and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1874)
• 1945 – Roberto Farinacci, Italian soldier and politician (b. 1892)
• 1945 – Hermann Fegelein, German general (b. 1906)
• 1945 – Benito Mussolini, Italian journalist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1883)
• 1946 – Louis Bachelier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1870)
• 1954 – Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1956 – Fred Marriott, American race car driver (b. 1872)
• 1957 – Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot (b. 1913)
• 1962 – Bennie Osler, South African rugby player (b. 1901)
• 1963 – Wilhelm Weber, German gymnast (b. 1880)
• 1970 – Ed Begley, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1973 – Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
• Richard Hughes
  , American author and poet (b. 1900)
• 1977 – Ricardo Cortez, American actor (b. 1900)
• 1977 – Sepp Herberger, German footballer and coach (b. 1897)
• Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan commander and politician, 1st President of Afghanistan (b. 1909)^[8]
• 1980 – Tommy Caldwell, American bass player (b. 1949)
• 1987 – Ben Linder, American engineer and activist (b. 1959)
• 1989 – Esa Pakarinen, Finnish actor and musician (b. 1911)^[37]
• 1991 – Steve Broidy, American film producer (b. 1905)
• 1992 – Francis Bacon, Irish painter (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Diva Diniz Corrêa, Brazilian zoologist (b. 1918)
• 1993 – Jim Valvano, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1946)
• 1994 – Berton Roueché, American journalist and author (b. 1910)
• 1996 – Lester Sumrall, American minister, founded LeSEA (b. 1913)
• 1997 – Ann Petry, American novelist (b. 1908)
• 1998 – Jerome Bixby, American author and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 1999 – Rory Calhoun, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 1999 – Rolf Landauer, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1927)
• 1999 – Alf Ramsey, English footballer and manager (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish physician and politician (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (b. 1950)
• 2002 – Lou Thesz, American wrestler and trainer (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Percy Heath, American bassist (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1971)
• 2005 – Taraki Sivaram, Sri Lankan journalist and author (b. 1959)
• 2006 – Steve Howe, American baseball player (b. 1958)
• 2007 – Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2007 – René Mailhot, Canadian journalist (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Tommy Newsom, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
• 2007 – Bertha Wilson, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and jurist (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina and actress (b. 1939)
• 2009 –
  Richard Pratt
  , Polish-Australian businessman (b. 1934)
• 2011 – Erhard Loretan, Swiss mountaineer (b. 1959)
• 2012 – Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby player and coach (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Matilde Camus, Spanish poet and author (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Al Ecuyer, American football player (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Patricia Medina, English actress (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Milan N. Popović, Serbian psychiatrist and author (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Aberdeen Shikoyi, Kenyan rugby player (b. 1985)
• 2013 – Brad Lesley, American baseball player (b. 1958)
• 2013 – Fredrick McKissack, American author (b. 1939)
• 2013 – John C. Reynolds, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Jack Shea, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2013 – János Starker, Hungarian-American cellist and educator (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Paulo Vanzolini, Brazilian singer-songwriter and zoologist (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Bernie Wood, New Zealand journalist and author (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Barbara Fiske Calhoun, American cartoonist and painter (b. 1919)
• 2014 – William Honan, American journalist and author (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Dennis Kamakahi, American guitarist and composer (b. 1953)
• 2014 – Edgar Laprade, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Jack Ramsay, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Idris Sardi, Indonesian violinist and composer (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Frederic Schwartz, American architect, co-designed Empty Sky (b. 1951)
• 2014 – Ryan Tandy, Australian rugby player (b. 1981)
• 2015 – Antônio Abujamra, Brazilian actor and director (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Marcia Brown, American author and illustrator (b. 1918)
• 2015 – Michael J. Ingelido, American general (b. 1916)
• 2016 – Jenny Diski, English author and screenwriter (b. 1947)
• 2017 – Mariano Gagnon, American Catholic priest and author (b. 1929)
• 2018 – James Hylton, American race car driver (b. 1934)
• 2019 – Richard Lugar, American politician (b. 1932)^[38]
• 2019 – John Singleton, American film director (b. 1968)^[39]
• 2021 – Michael Collins, American astronaut (b. 1930)^[40]
• 2021 – El Risitas, Spanish comedian (b. 1956)^[41]
• 2024 – Brian McCardie, Scottish actor and writer (b. 1965)^[42]

Holidays and observances

• Christian
  feast day
  :
  • Aphrodisius and companions
  • Gianna Beretta Molla
  • Kirill of Turov (Orthodox, added to Roman Martyrology in 1969)
  • Louis de Montfort
  • Pamphilus of Sulmona
  • Peter Chanel
  • Vitalis and Valeria of Milan
  • April 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Mujahideen Victory Day (Afghanistan)
• National Heroes Day (Barbados)
• Restoration of Sovereignty Day (Japan
  )
• Sardinia Day (Sardinia)
• international)^[43]
  • National Day of Mourning
    (Canada)

External links

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• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• Historical Events on April 28