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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 28th of May 1503 | EVENT | James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI. A Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England signed on that occasion results in a peace that lasts ten years. |
| 28th of May 1533 | EVENT | The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid. |
| 28th of May 1588 | EVENT | The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port). |
| 28th of May 1644 | EVENT | Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby. |
| 28th of May 1754 | EVENT | French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania. |
| 28th of May 1798 | EVENT | The United States Congress empowers president John Adams to enlist 10,000 men for service in case of a declaration of war or invasion of the country's domain. It also authorizes Adams to instruct commanders of ships-of-war to seize armed French vessels praying upon or attacking American merchantmen about the coast. |
| 28th of May 1830 | EVENT | President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. |
| 28th of May 1859 | EVENT | Big Ben is drawn on a carriage pulled by 16 horses from Whitechapel Bell Foundry to the Palace of Westminster. |
| 28th of May 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first African American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts, to fight for the Union. |
| 28th of May 1892 | EVENT | In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club. |
| 28th of May 1905 | EVENT | Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy. |
| 28th of May 1918 | EVENT | The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Democratic Republic of Armenia declare their independence. |
| 28th of May 1926 | EVENT | 28th May 1926 coup d'etat: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic. |
| 28th of May 1930 | EVENT | The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens. |
| 28th of May 1934 | EVENT | Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy. |
| 28th of May 1934 | EVENT | The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated. |
| 28th of May 1936 | EVENT | Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication. |
| 28th of May 1937 | EVENT | The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span. |
| 28th of May 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany to end the Battle of Belgium. |
| 28th of May 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War. |
| 28th of May 1942 | EVENT | World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people. |
| 28th of May 1952 | EVENT | Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio. The park's Little Dipper roller coaster would become the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America. |
| 28th of May 1952 | EVENT | The women of Greece are given the right to vote. |
| 28th of May 1955 | EVENT | Henry Bolte becomes Premier of the Australian state of Victoria. |
| 28th of May 1961 | EVENT | Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International. |
| 28th of May 1964 | EVENT | The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed. |
| 28th of May 1970 | EVENT | The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Universite Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel. |
| 28th of May 1974 | EVENT | Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists. |
| 28th of May 1975 | EVENT | Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States. |
| 28th of May 1977 | EVENT | In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside. |
| 28th of May 1978 | EVENT | Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. The election is won by incumbent Sangoule Lamizana. |
| 28th of May 1979 | EVENT | Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community. |
| 28th of May 1982 | EVENT | Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green. |
| 28th of May 1987 | EVENT | 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and will not be released until August 3, 1988. |
| 28th of May 1987 | EVENT | A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. |
| 28th of May 1991 | EVENT | The capital city of Addis Ababa, falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War. |
| 28th of May 1993 | EVENT | Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations. |
| 28th of May 1995 | EVENT | The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population. |
| 28th of May 1996 | EVENT | U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud. |
| 28th of May 1998 | EVENT | Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. |
| 28th of May 1999 | EVENT | In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display. |
| 28th of May 1999 | EVENT | Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklov and Tony Olsson after a car chase. |
| 28th of May 2002 | EVENT | NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance. |
| 28th of May 2002 | EVENT | The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars. |
| 28th of May 2003 | EVENT | Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct. |
| 28th of May 2004 | EVENT | The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government. |
| 28th of May 2008 | EVENT | The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty. |
| 28th of May 1140 | BIRTHDAY | Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207) |
| 28th of May 1371 | BIRTHDAY | John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419) |
| 28th of May 1524 | BIRTHDAY | Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574) |
| 28th of May 1582 | BIRTHDAY | William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (d. 1662) |
| 28th of May 1588 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France (d. 1672) |
| 28th of May 1641 | BIRTHDAY | Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693) |
| 28th of May 1660 | BIRTHDAY | King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727) |
| 28th of May 1676 | BIRTHDAY | Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754) |
| 28th of May 1692 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Butler, English philosopher (d. 1752) |
| 28th of May 1738 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (d. 1814) |
| 28th of May 1759 | BIRTHDAY | William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806) |
| 28th of May 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Alberti, Argentine priest and head of state (d. 1811) |
| 28th of May 1779 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Moore, Irish poet (d. 1852) |
| 28th of May 1807 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (d. 1873) |
| 28th of May 1818 | BIRTHDAY | P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (d. 1893) |
| 28th of May 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Baumfelder, German composer, conductor, and pianist (d. 1916) |
| 28th of May 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918) |
| 28th of May 1837 | BIRTHDAY | George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921) |
| 28th of May 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (d. 1908) |
| 28th of May 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (d. 1887) |
| 28th of May 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919) |
| 28th of May 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Rickard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (d. 1939) |
| 28th of May 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917) |
| 28th of May 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945) |
| 28th of May 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Milutin Milankovic, Serbian geophysicist (d. 1958) |
| 28th of May 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian revolutionary and politician (d. 1966) |
| 28th of May 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (d. 1978) |
| 28th of May 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Edvard Benes, Czech politician (d. 1948) |
| 28th of May 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (d. 1954) |
| 28th of May 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Thorpe/Wa-Tho-Huk, American pentathlete, decathlete, fotball, baseball and basketball player (d. 1953) |
| 28th of May 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (d. 1942) |
| 28th of May 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, Strange first wife of American poet, T.S. Eliot (d. 1947) |
| 28th of May 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Reti, Austrian-Czech chess grandmaster (d. 1929) |
| 28th of May 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Sepp Dietrich, German officer (d. 1966) |
| 28th of May 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939) |
| 28th of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Fleming, English author (d. 1964) |
| 28th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Red Horner, Canadian hockey player (d. 2005) |
| 28th of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Gassmann, German politician (d. 1987) |
| 28th of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Lady Rachel Kempson, English actress (d. 2003) |
| 28th of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1975) |
| 28th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Thora Hird, British actress (d. 2003) |
| 28th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Hochwalder, Austrian playwright (d. 1986) |
| 28th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990) |
| 28th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist and politician (d. 1992) |
| 28th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996) |
| 28th of May 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Greenberg, American linguist (d. 2001) |
| 28th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Walker Percy, American author (d. 1990) |
| 28th of May 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Papa John Creech, American fiddler (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) (d. 1994) |
| 28th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 1990) |
| 28th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (d. 1999) |
| 28th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Duva, American boxing trainer |
| 28th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Fisher, American law professor |
| 28th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Gyorgy Ligeti, Hungarian composer (d. 2006) |
| 28th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor and politician (d. 1996) |
| 28th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Bulent Ecevit, Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2006) |
| 28th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone |
| 28th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Carroll Baker, American actress |
| 28th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Dionne, Dionne quintuplets (d. 1970) |
| 28th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Emilie Dionne, Dionne quintuplets (d. 1954) |
| 28th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Annette Dionne, Dionne quintuplets |
| 28th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Yvonne Dionne, Dionne quintuplets(d. 2001) |
| 28th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Cecile Dionne, Dionne quintuplets |
| 28th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Shabazz, American civil rights activist (d. 1997) |
| 28th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Forget, French-Canadian politician |
| 28th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry West, American basketball player |
| 28th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Buster, Jamaican ska and rocksteady musician |
| 28th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Shlomo Riskin, American rabbi, founder of the Lincoln Square Synagogue |
| 28th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Beth Howland, American actress |
| 28th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley B. Prusiner, American neurologist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 28th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Crisp, Canadian hockey coach |
| 28th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (d. 2004) |
| 28th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Stewart, American singer (d. 2003) |
| 28th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Gladys Knight, American R&B and soul singer and actress |
| 28th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Rudy Giuliani, 107th Mayor of New York City |
| 28th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Quinn, Northern Irish actress |
| 28th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Vera, American actor and singer-songwriter |
| 28th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Leaud, French actor |
| 28th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Faith Brown, British actress |
| 28th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Fogerty, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival) |
| 28th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John N. Bambacus, American politician |
| 28th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Hunter "Patch" Adams, American physician and social activist |
| 28th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Satchidanandan, Indian poet |
| 28th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Skip Jutze, American baseball player |
| 28th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Sondra Locke, American actress |
| 28th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Lynn Johnston, Canadian cartoonist |
| 28th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Zahi Hawass, Egyptian egyptologist |
| 28th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Wendy O. Williams, American vocalist (Plasmatics) (d. 1998) |
| 28th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Kamala, American professional wrestler |
| 28th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Bradley, British writer and academic |
| 28th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Russell J. Wintner, American film executive |
| 28th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Arto Lindsay, American guitarist and singer |
| 28th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | John Tory, Canadian politician |
| 28th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (d. 1988) |
| 28th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Townsend Coleman, American voice actor |
| 28th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Howe, American ice hockey player |
| 28th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (Siouxsie and the Banshees, Public Image Ltd.) (d. 2004) |
| 28th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Douglas, American dobro player |
| 28th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Peasgood, British actress |
| 28th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Markus Hottinger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1980) |
| 28th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Kirk Gibson, American baseball player |
| 28th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Barnes, English footballer |
| 28th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Howland, American college basketball coach |
| 28th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | John Morgan, British etiquette expert (d. 2000) |
| 28th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Sanford, 115th Governor of South Carolina and Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina |
| 28th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Collins, British actress |
| 28th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Gift, English singer (Fine Young Cannibals) |
| 28th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Cruz, American actor |
| 28th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | James Michael Tyler, American actor |
| 28th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Houman Younessi, Iranian-born scientist |
| 28th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Gavin Harrison, British drummer (Porcupine Tree) |
| 28th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Christa Miller, American actress |
| 28th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Armen Gilliam, American basketball player |
| 28th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Fenech, Australian boxer |
| 28th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | David Baddiel, British comedian and television presenter |
| 28th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Vassar, American country singer |
| 28th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Ballew, American bassist (The Presidents of the United States of America) |
| 28th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Laurence, American film and television actress |
| 28th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Glen Rice, American basketball player |
| 28th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Kennedy, English television presenter and actress |
| 28th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer |
| 28th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mike DiFelice, American baseball player |
| 28th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Kirk, American actor |
| 28th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Ford, 64th Mayor of Toronto |
| 28th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan Fox, Canadian model and 1990 Playboy playmate |
| 28th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jimi Goodwin, British bassist, vocalist and guitarist (Doves) |
| 28th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Cashmore, English actor and paranormal investigator |
| 28th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002) |
| 28th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Sinha, British stand-up comedian |
| 28th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Bognar, American singer (The Piper Downs) |
| 28th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Isabelle Carre, French actress |
| 28th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Rubio, American politician, senator elect from Florida |
| 28th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian figure skater |
| 28th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Boogerd, Dutch cyclist |
| 28th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Doriva, Brazilian footballer |
| 28th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Ashfield, British actress |
| 28th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Paulo, Portuguese footballer |
| 28th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Alicia Minshew, American actress |
| 28th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Charmaine Sheh, Hong Kong actress |
| 28th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Goretti, Italian footballer |
| 28th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Morrison, Australian rugby league player |
| 28th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Liam O'Brien, American voice actor |
| 28th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast |
| 28th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Borash, American professional wrestling announcer |
| 28th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American television panelist (The View) |
| 28th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Rufa Mae Quinto, Filipino actress and comedienne |
| 28th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Bradford, American actor |
| 28th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Curry, American football player |
| 28th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Joeri Jansen, Belgian athlete |
| 28th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Monica Keena, American actress |
| 28th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Feehily, Irish vocalist (Westlife) |
| 28th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Perez, Spanish footballer |
| 28th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Ghiaciuc, American football player |
| 28th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Green, American singer-songwriter |
| 28th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Cabrera, Dominican baseball player |
| 28th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Schock, American politician |
| 28th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Desiree del Valle, Filipino actress |
| 28th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jhonny Peralta, Dominican baseball player |
| 28th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alexa Davalos, American actress |
| 28th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Cronin, American footballer |
| 28th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Toby Hemingway, British actor |
| 28th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Humberto Sanchez, Dominican baseball player |
| 28th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Beth Allen, New Zealand actress |
| 28th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Colbie Caillat, American singer-songwriter |
| 28th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Carey Mulligan, British actress |
| 28th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantinos Mendrinos, Greek footballer |
| 28th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Berrick Barnes, Australian rugby player |
| 28th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer |
| 28th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Cross, American actor |
| 28th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Oher, American football player |
| 28th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Percy Harvin, American football player |
| 28th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | David Perron, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 28th of May 2010 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Louis of Bourbon, elder son of Prince Louis, Duke of Anjou |
| 28th of May 0576 | DEATH | Saint Germain of Paris, French bishop (Born 496) |
| 28th of May 1357 | DEATH | King Afonso IV of Portugal (Born 1291) |
| 28th of May 1509 | DEATH | Caterina Sforza, Countess of Forli (Born 1463) |
| 28th of May 1556 | DEATH | Saito Dosan, Japanese daimyo (Born 1494) |
| 28th of May 1672 | DEATH | John Trevor, English politician (Born 1626) |
| 28th of May 1747 | DEATH | Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (Born 1715) |
| 28th of May 1750 | DEATH | Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (Born 1720) |
| 28th of May 1787 | DEATH | Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (Born 1719) |
| 28th of May 1805 | DEATH | Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (Born 1743) |
| 28th of May 1808 | DEATH | Richard Hurd, English Bishop of Worcester and writer (Born 1720) |
| 28th of May 1811 | DEATH | Henry Dundas, Scottish politician (Born 1742) |
| 28th of May 1816 | DEATH | Ras Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord (Born c. 1745) |
| 28th of May 1828 | DEATH | Daikokuya Kodayu, Japanese castaway (Born 1751) |
| 28th of May 1831 | DEATH | William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Royal Navy admiral (Born 1756) |
| 28th of May 1843 | DEATH | Noah Webster, American writer and lexicographer (Born 1758) |
| 28th of May 1849 | DEATH | Anne Bronte, English novelist and poet (Born 1820) |
| 28th of May 1864 | DEATH | Simion Barnutiu, Romanian philosopher and politician (Born 1808) |
| 28th of May 1878 | DEATH | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1792) |
| 28th of May 1916 | DEATH | Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (Born 1856) |
| 28th of May 1927 | DEATH | Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (Born 1878) |
| 28th of May 1937 | DEATH | Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (Born 1870) |
| 28th of May 1940 | DEATH | Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (Born 1868) |
| 28th of May 1947 | DEATH | August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (Born 1907) |
| 28th of May 1948 | DEATH | Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer (Born 1914) |
| 28th of May 1953 | DEATH | Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer (Born 1904) |
| 28th of May 1968 | DEATH | Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Soviet sniper (Born 1908) |
| 28th of May 1971 | DEATH | Jean Vilar, French actor (Born 1912) |
| 28th of May 1971 | DEATH | Audie Murphy, American actor and soldier (Born 1924) |
| 28th of May 1972 | DEATH | King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (Born 1894) |
| 28th of May 1975 | DEATH | Ezzard Charles, American heavyweight boxing champion (Born 1921) |
| 28th of May 1976 | DEATH | Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (Born 1922) |
| 28th of May 1978 | DEATH | Arthur Brough, English actor (Born 1905) |
| 28th of May 1980 | DEATH | Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (Born 1895) |
| 28th of May 1981 | DEATH | Stefan Wyszynski, Polish Cardinal Archbishop of Warsaw (Born 1901) |
| 28th of May 1981 | DEATH | Mary Lou Williams, American singer (Born 1910) |
| 28th of May 1982 | DEATH | Lt Col H. Jones VC, British army officer (Born 1940) |
| 28th of May 1983 | DEATH | Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (Born 1909) |
| 28th of May 1984 | DEATH | Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise) (Born 1926) |
| 28th of May 1988 | DEATH | Sy Oliver, American jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader (Born 1910) |
| 28th of May 1993 | DEATH | Billy Conn, American boxer and actor (Born 1917) |
| 28th of May 1994 | DEATH | Julius Boros, American golfer (Born 1920) |
| 28th of May 1994 | DEATH | Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (Born 1916) |
| 28th of May 1998 | DEATH | Phil Hartman, Canadian actor and comedian (Born 1948) |
| 28th of May 2000 | DEATH | George Irving Bell, American mountaineer (Born 1926) |
| 28th of May 2001 | DEATH | Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (Born 1946) |
| 28th of May 2001 | DEATH | Joe Moakley, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts (Born 1927) |
| 28th of May 2001 | DEATH | Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-born French musician and novelist (Born 1929) |
| 28th of May 2002 | DEATH | Jean Berger, German composer (Born 1909) |
| 28th of May 2003 | DEATH | Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (Born 1933) |
| 28th of May 2003 | DEATH | Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born Belgian physical chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1917) |
| 28th of May 2003 | DEATH | Martha Scott, American actress (Born 1912) |
| 28th of May 2004 | DEATH | Umberto Agnelli, Italian automobile executive (Born 1934) |
| 28th of May 2004 | DEATH | Francis Brunn, German juggler (Born 1922) |
| 28th of May 2006 | DEATH | Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (Born 1920) |
| 28th of May 2007 | DEATH | Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (Born 1945) |
| 28th of May 2007 | DEATH | Marquise Hill, American football player (Born 1982) |
| 28th of May 2007 | DEATH | David Lane, American white nationalist (Born 1938) |
| 28th of May 2008 | DEATH | Robert Justman, American television producer (Born 1926) |
| 28th of May 2010 | DEATH | Gary Coleman, American actor (Born 1968) |