What happened on May 28 ?

1357 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)

1672 - John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)

1747 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)

1750 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)

1787 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)

1805 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)

1808 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720)

1811 - Henry Dundas, British minister (b. 1742)

1843 - Noah Webster, American author, politician, and lexicographer (b. 1758)

1849 - Anne Brontë, English author (b. 1820)

1916 - Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)

1927 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)

1937 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)

1940 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen (b. 1868)

1947 - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)

1948 - Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer (b. 1914)

1971 - Audie Murphy, American actor and war hero (b. 1924)

1971 - Jean Vilar, French actor (b. 1912)

1972 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)

1975 - Ezzard Charles, Heavyweight champion (b. 1921)

1978 - Arthur Brough, English actor (b. 1905)

1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)

1981 - Stefan Cardinal Wyszy?ski, Archbishop of Warsaw (b. 1901)

1984 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise) (b. 1926)

1988 - Sy Oliver, Jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader (b. 1910)

1993 - Billy Conn, American boxer and actor (b. 1917)

1994 - Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)

1994 - Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (b. 1916)

1998 - Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian (b. 1948)

2001 - Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)

2002 - Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909)

2003 - Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)

2003 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)

2003 - Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)

2004 - Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (b. 1934)

2006 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920)