September 28

### Up to 1900

- 48 BC – Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. It may have occurred on September 29, his 58th birthday, but records are unclear.
- 235 – Pope Pontian resigns.
- 365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople and proclaims himself Roman Emperor.
- 935 – Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
- 1066 – William the Conqueror invades England.
- 1106 – The Battle of Tinchebrai – Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.
- 1238 – Muslim Valencia surrenders to the besieging King James I of Aragon the Conqueror.
- 1322 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
- 1448 – Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
- 1538 – The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over the Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
- 1542 – Navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives as what is now San Diego.
- 1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
- 1779 – Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
- 1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown Heights, Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
- 1787 – The just completed United States Constitution is voted on by the United States Congress to be sent to the State legislatures for approval.
- 1791 – France becomes the first country to emancipate its Jewish population.
- 1820 – The tomato is publicly proven safe when Robert Johnson eats a bushel (24 kg) of tomatoes in Salem, Massachusetts.
- 1821 – Mexico signs its final Declaration of Independence.
- 1823 – Leo XII is elected as pope.
- 1844 – Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- 1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
- 1867 – The US takes control of Midway Island, northwest of Hawaii.
- 1868 – Battle of Alcolea, causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
- 1871 – Brazil passes law freeing future children of slaves.
- 1885 – Riots break out in Montreal to protest against having to have smallpox vaccination.
- 1889 – The first Conference of General Weights and Measurements is held.
- 1892 – The first night match in American football takes place, between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
- 1893 – FC Porto is founded.

### 1901 – 2000

- 1901 – Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than 40 American soldiers and lose 28 of their own, in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.
- 1907 – The football club Real Sociedad is founded in Cantabria, Northern Spain.
- 1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted official to die in an airplane crash, along with Lewis C. Rockwell at College Park, Maryland.
- 1919 – In a referendum, most voters in Luxembourg decide to keep the monarchy.
- 1928 – The UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act.
- 1928 – Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
- 1934 – Ocean liner RMS Queen Mary is launched at Clydebank.
- 1939 – Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
- 1939 – Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
- 1944 – Battle of Arnhem – Germans defeat British airborne at Arnhem, Netherlands.
- 1950 – Indonesia joins the UN.
- 1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, though withdraws them less than a month later.
- 1958 – Guinea votes for independence from France.
- 1958 – France ratifies a new constitution; the Fifth Republic of France is formed.
- 1960 – Mali and Senegal join the UN.
- 1961 – A military coup in Damascus, Syria effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
- 1964 – The Warren Commission concludes there was no conspiracy in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
- 1969 – Willy Brandt is elected Chancellor of Germany.
- 1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser dies, and is succeeded by Anwar Sadat as President of Egypt.
- 1971 – UK Misuse of Drugs Act – medicinal cannabis is banned.
- 1972 – Paul Henderson scores the goal to win the Canada/USSR (ice hockey) "Summit Series".
- 1973 – ITT Building in New York City is bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the September 11 Coup in Chile.
- 1976 – R&B singer Stevie Wonder releases the classic double album _Songs in the Key of Life._
- 1978 – Pope John Paul I dies after just 33 days as Pope.
- 1979 – Larry Holmes wins his Heavyweight World Boxing Title fight against Ernie Shavers.
- 1987 – "Encounter at Farpoint", the first episode of TV show _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ airs.
- 1992 – An Airbus A300 of Pakistan International Airlines strikes a mountain near Kathmandu, killing all 117 on board.
- 1994 – The car ferry MS _Estonia_ sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
- 1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.
- 2000 – Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau dies.
- 2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada begins after the visit of Ariel Sharon to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
- 2000 – In a referendum in Denmark, a majority of voters reject the Euro currency.

### From 2001

- 2003 – A widespread power outage affects Italy.
- 2004 – Wayne Rooney makes his long–awaited Manchester United debut, scoring a hat–trick in the 6–2 Champions League victory.
- 2009 – 157 protesters are killed in Guinea, as they demonstrated against the military rule of Moussa Dadis Camara.
- 2010 – A massive landslide kills at least 7 people in Oaxaca, Mexico.
- 2012 – A plane crashes shortly after take–off from Kathmandu and bursts into flames, killing all 19 people on board.
- 2013 – Pakistan is struck by a second earthquake, after one of magnitude 7.7 struck four days earlier.
- 2013 – Several ministers from Silvio Berlusconi's party resign from the coalition government of Enrico Letta in Italy.
- 2014 – Europe wins its third Ryder Cup golf championship in–a–row, defeating the United States at Gleneagles, Scotland.
- 2016 – International investigators conclude that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by a Buk missile that came from Russia.
- 2018 – 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami: The Indonesian island of Sulawesi is hit by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake and a tsunami, killing an estimated 4,340 people.

### Up to 1900

- 551 BC – Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479 BC)
- 616 – Javanshir, Albanian King (d. 680)
- 1493 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet (d. 1545)
- 1555 – Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, Marshal of France (d. 1623)
- 1573 – Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
- 1605 – Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (d. 1694)
- 1667 – Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
- 1681 – Johann Mattheson, German composer (d. 1764)
- 1698 – Pierre-Louis Maupertuis, French polymath (d. 1759)
- 1705 – Johann Peter Kellner, German organist and composer (d. 1772)
- 1735 – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1811)
- 1746 – William Jones, English philologist (d. 1794)
- 1765 – Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846)
- 1797 – Fyodor Litke, Russian geographer, navigator and Arctic explorer (d. 1882)
- 1803 – Prosper Mérimée, French writer (d. 1870)
- 1809 – Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (d. 1899)
- 1811 – Friedrich Hecker, German–American lawyer, politician and revolutionary (d. 1881)
- 1819 – Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol, Catalan engineer, artist and inventor (d. 1885)
- 1821 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (d. 1874)
- 1823 – Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (d. 1889)
- 1828 – Friedrich Albert Lange, German philosopher (d. 1875)
- 1836 – Thomas Crapper, English inventor (d. 1910)
- 1838 – Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian national saint (d. 1918)
- 1841 – Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)
- 1844 – Robert Stout, Scottish–New Zealand lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
- 1852 – Henri Moissan, French chemist (d. 1907)
- 1859 – Alfredo Baquerizo, President of Ecuador (d. 1951)
- 1860 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist (d. 1934)
- 1863 – King Carlos I of Portugal (d. 1908)
- 1865 – Amélie of Orléans (d. 1951)
- 1867 – Hiranuma Kiichiro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
- 1871 – Pietro Badoglio, Italian soldier and politician (d. 1956)
- 1871 – Fred P. Cone, Governor of Florida (d. 1948)
- 1878 – Joseph Ruddy, American freestyle swimmer and water polo player (d. 1962)
- 1882 – Alexander Kutupov, Russian general (d. 1930)
- 1887 – Avery Brundage, American sports official, President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1975)
- 1889 – Jack Fournier, American baseball player (d. 1973)
- 1892 – Elmer Rice, American dramatist (d. 1973)
- 1893 – Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer and dramatist (d. 1984)
- 1895 – Prentice Cooper, 36th Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)

### 1901 – 1950

- 1901 – Ed Sullivan, American television host (d. 1974)
- 1901 – William S. Paley, American radio and TV executive (d. 1990)
- 1905 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
- 1907 – Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast (d. 1997)
- 1909 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
- 1910 – Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines (d. 1997)
- 1914 – Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian–American singer (d. 2014)
- 1915 – Ethel Rosenberg, American alleged spy (d. 1953)
- 1916 – Peter Finch, British actor (d. 1997)
- 1918 – Willi Ritschard, Swiss politician (d. 1983)
- 1923 – William Windom, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1924 – Rudolf Barshai, Russian conductor and violist (d. 2010)
- 1924 – Giuseppe Chiappella, Italian footballer (d. 2009)
- 1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
- 1925 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist (d. 1996)
- 1928 – Koko Taylor, American blues musician (d. 2009)
- 1930 – Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist and social scientist (d. 2019)
- 1932 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer and songwriter (d. 1973)
- 1933 – Madeleine M. Kunin, Swiss–born American politician, 77th Governor of Vermont
- 1933 – Miguel Berrocal, Spanish sculptor (d. 2006)
- 1934 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress and animal activist (d. 2025)
- 1935 – Pierre Ryckmans, Belgian–Australian writer and diplomat (d. 2014)
- 1935 – Heather Sears, English actress (d. 1994)
- 1938 – Ben E. King, American singer (d. 2015)
- 1938 – Myechyslaw Hryb, former President of Belarus
- 1939 – Elbridge Bryant, American tenor (d. 1975)
- 1939 – Iain MacCormick, Scottish politician (d. 2014)
- 1939 – Rudolph Walker, Trinidadian–English actor
- 1939 – Stuart Kauffman, American physician and biologist
- 1941 – David Lewis, American philosopher (d. 2001)
- 1941 – Edmund Stoiber, German politician
- 1942 – Donna Leon, American writer
- 1942 – Tim Maia, Brazilian musician and songwriter (d. 1998)
- 1943 – Nick St. Nicholas, German–Canadian musician (Steppenwolf)
- 1944 – Yoshitada Yamaguchi, Japanese footballer
- 1944 – Milos Zeman, former Prime Minister, and current President, of the Czech Republic
- 1946 – Helen Shapiro, English singer
- 1947 – Bob Carr, former Premier of New South Wales
- 1947 – Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh
- 1947 – Jon Snow, English broadcast journalist
- 1949 – Jim Henshaw, Canadian actor, screenwriter and producer
- 1949 – George Kerevan, Scottish journalist, economist and politician, former SNP MP
- 1950 – John Sayles, American director and screenwriter
- 1950 – Laurie Lewis, American musician

### 1951 – 1975

- 1951 – Jim Diamond, Scottish singer (d. 2015)
- 1952 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress, model and singer (d. 2012)
- 1953 – Otmar Hasler, 11th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
- 1954 – Margot Wallström, Swedish politician
- 1955 – Stéphane Dion, Canadian politician
- 1960 – Jennifer Rush, American singer
- 1960 – Socrates B. Villegas, Filipino archbishop
- 1960 – Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford, English politician
- 1961 – Quentin Kawananakoa, claimant to the throne of Hawaii
- 1961 – Yordanka Donkova, Bulgarian athlete
- 1961 – George Rossi, Scottish actor (d. 2022)
- 1964 – Janeane Garofalo, American actress and comedienne
- 1964 – Paul Jewell, English football manager
- 1965 – Christopher Evan Welch, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1966 – Ginger Fish, American musician
- 1966 – Maria Canals-Barrera, American actress
- 1966 – Leilani Sarelle, American actress
- 1967 – Mira Sorvino, American actress
- 1968 – Mika Hakkinen, Finnish racing driver
- 1968 – Naomi Watts, English–Australian actress
- 1969 – Angus Robertson, Scottish politician, SNP Deputy leader and former MP
- 1970 – Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japanese tennis player
- 1970 – Jo Wyatt, English singer and actress
- 1971 – George Eustice, English politician
- 1971 – Joseph Arthur, American singer
- 1972 – Dita Von Teese, American Burlesque dancer
- 1974 – Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer

### From 1976

- 1976 – Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist
- 1977 – Ireneusz Marcinkowski, Polish footballer
- 1978 – Peter Cambor, American actor
- 1978 – Bushido, German rapper and musician
- 1979 – Bam Margera, American skateboarder and actor
- 1981 – Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorean footballer
- 1981 – Melissa Claire Egan, American actress
- 1982 – Takeshi Aoki, Japanese footballer
- 1982 – Abhinav Bindra, Indian Olympic shooter
- 1982 – Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 – Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor
- 1982 – Matt Cohen, American actor
- 1982 – St. Vincent, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1983 – Richard Henyekane, South African footballer (d. 2015)
- 1983 – Sarah Wright, American actress and model
- 1984 – Mathieu Valbuena, French footballer
- 1984 – Melody Thornton, American singer
- 1984 – Yvonne Ploetz, German politician
- 1985 – Shindong, South Korean singer and actor (Super Junior)
- 1986 – Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
- 1987 – Hilary Duff, American actress and singer
- 1988 – Marin Cilic, Croatian tennis player
- 1988 – Esmée Denters, Dutch singer
- 1989 – Darius Johnson-Odom, American basketball player
- 1990 – Kirsten Prout, Canadian actress
- 1992 – Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress (d. 2014)
- 1993 – Jodie Williams, English athlete
- 2000 – Frankie Jonas, American actor

### Up to 1900

- 48 BC – Pompey the Great, Roman consul (born 106 BC)
- 235 – Saint Pontianus, Pope
- 876 – Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (born 804)
- 935 – Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (born 907)
- 1104 – Pedro I, king of Aragon and Navarre (born 1068)
- 1197 – Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1165)
- 1582 – George Buchanan, Scottish philosopher and historian (born 1506)
- 1781 – William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British statesman and diplomat (born 1717)
- 1797 – Gunning Bedford, Jr., American politician, Governor of Delaware (born 1742)
- 1829 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky, Russian general (born 1771)
- 1844 – Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (born 1769)
- 1859 – Carl Ritter, German geographer (born 1779)
- 1891 – Herman Melville, American writer (born 1819)
- 1895 – Louis Pasteur, French scientist (born 1822)
- 1899 – Giovanni Segantini, Italian–Swiss painter (born 1858)

### 1901 – 2000

- 1907 – Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (born 1826)
- 1914 – Richard Sears, American businessman (born 1863)
- 1918 – Eduard von Keyserling, German writer and dramatist (born 1835)
- 1935 – William Kennedy Dickson, French–Scottish actor, director, producer and inventor (born 1860)
- 1935 – Hans Baluschek, German painter (born 1870)
- 1938 – Charles Duryea, American automobile manufacturer (born 1861)
- 1939 – William Dunlap, American painter and writer (born 1866)
- 1949 – Chrysanthus, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens (born 1881)
- 1953 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (born 1891)
- 1956 – William Boeing, American aviation manufacturer (born 1881)
- 1959 – Rudolf Caracciola, German racing driver (born 1901)
- 1964 – Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (born 1888)
- 1966 – André Breton, French poet (born 1896)
- 1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (born 1918)
- 1978 – Pope John Paul I (born 1912)
- 1979 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (born 1921)
- 1981 – Romulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (born 1908)
- 1989 – Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (born 1917)
- 1990 – Larry O'Brien, American commissioner of the NBA (born 1917)
- 1991 – Miles Davis, American musician (born 1926)
- 1994 – Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (born 1953)
- 1994 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician (assassinated) (born 1946)
- 2000 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada (born 1919)

### From 2001

- 2003 – Yukichi Chuganji, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1889)
- 2003 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)
- 2003 – Elia Kazan, Greek–born American movie director (b. 1909)
- 2003 – Olle Anderberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1919)
- 2009 – Guillermo Endara, President of Panama (b. 1936)
- 2010 – Arthur Penn, American screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Michael O'Hare, American actor (b. 1952)
- 2014 – Petr Skoumal, Czech musician and composer (b. 1938)
- 2014 – Dannie Abse, Welsh writer (b. 1923)
- 2015 – Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (b. 1939)
- 2015 – Michael Burgess, Canadian actor and tenor (b. 1945)
- 2015 – Walter Dale Miller, American politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1925)
- 2015 – Frank Martinus Arion, Dutch Antillean writer (b. 1936)
- 2015 – Frankie Ford, American singer (b. 1939)
- 2016 – Shimon Peres, former President of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1923)
- 2016 – Agnes Nixon, American television writer and producer (b. 1922)
- 2017 – Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, Spanish film director (b. 1927)
- 2017 – Lee Hsin, Taiwanese politician (b. 1953)
- 2017 – Daniel Pe'er, Israeli television presenter (b. 1943)
- 2017 – Jürgen Roth, German journalist (b. 1945)
- 2017 – Benjamin Whitrow, British actor (b. 1937)
- 2017 – Andreas Schmidt, German actor (b. 1963)
- 2018 – Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, Prime minister of Swaziland (b. 1942)
- 2018 – Ito Giani, Italian sprinter (b. 1941)
- 2018 – Bob Jane, Australian racing driver and entrepreneur (b. 1929)
- 2019 – José Aldunate, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate and activist (b. 1917)
- 2019 – Ismail Petra of Kelantan, Malaysian royal (b. 1949)
- 2019 – Jan Kobuszewski, Polish actor (b. 1934)
- 2019 – José José, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1948)
- 2019 – Mark Zakharov, Russian theatre and film director (b. 1933)

## Holidays and observances

- RC Saints – St. Wenceslas, Lorenzo Ruiz – Also see September 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Czech Republic – Czech Statehood Day
- Taiwan – Teacher's Day (Confucius' birthday)
- World Heart Day
- World Rabies Day
- Ask a Stupid Question Day (United States)

## Other websites

- BBC: On This Day