What happened on September 28 ?

48 BC - Pompey, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)

235 - Saint Pontianus, Pope

876 - Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (b. 804)

935 - Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 907)

1104 - Pedro I, king of Aragon and Navarre (b. 1068)

1197 - Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1165)

1429 - Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest of Austria

1582 - George Buchanan, Scottish historian (b. 1506)

1618 - Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)

1687 - Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (b. 1623)

1702 - Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, English statesman (b. 1640)

1742 - Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (b. 1663)

1781 - William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (b. 1717)

1844 - Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (b. 1769)

1891 - Herman Melville, American novelist (b. 1819)

1895 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (b. 1822)

1915 - Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian theatre director (d. 1989)

1915 - Saitou Hajime, 3th squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita (b. 1844)

1918 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)

1918 - Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)

1935 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (b. 1860)

1953 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)

1959 - Rudolf Caracciola, German racecar driber (b. 1901)

1964 - Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1888)

1966 - André Breton, French poet (b. 1896)

1970 - John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896)

1970 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, first President of Egypt (b. 1918)

1978 - Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)

1979 - John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b. 1921)

1981 - Rómulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)

1982 - Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)

1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)

1989 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (b. 1917)

1991 - Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)

1993 - Peter De Vries, American novelist (b. 1910)

1994 - José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician (assassinated) (b. 1946)

2000 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)

2002 - Patsy T. Mink, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1927)

2003 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)

2003 - Elia Kazan, Hungarian-born film director (b. 1909)

2003 - George Odlum, West Indian politician (b. 1934)

2004 - Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1927)

2005 - Constance Baker Motley, American judge (b. 1921)