What happened on July 28 ?

450 - Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (b. 401)

1057 - Pope Victor II

1128 - William Clito, Count of Flanders (b. 1102)

1230 - Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)

1285 - Queen Keran of Armenia, consort of Leo III of Armenia.

1527 - Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador

1540 - Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman

1631 - Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)

1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619)

1667 - Abraham Cowley, English poet (b. 1618)

1675 - Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)

1685 - Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)

1718 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)

1741 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)

1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)

1762 - George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)

1794 - Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1758)

1794 - Louis de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1767)

1835 - ÿdouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)

1842 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)

1844 - Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)

1849 - King Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)

1869 - Jan Evangelista Purkyn?, Czech anatomist (b. 1787)

1930 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1862)

1934 - Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (b. 1868)

1942 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)

1957 - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)

1965 - Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (b. 1894)

1968 - Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)

1971 - Myril Hoag, baseball player (b. 1908)

1972 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)

1972 - Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)

1982 - Keith Green, American gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1953)

1996 - Marguerite "Marge" Ganser, American singer (Shangri-Las) (b. 1948)

1999 - Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

2002 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)

2003 - Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish Senator and campaigner for the disabled (b. 1918)

2004 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)

2004 - Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)

2004 - Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)