Monday 28th of July 1332

13-year-old King of France Jean le Bon marries 17-year-old Bonne of Luxemburg in the presence of six thousand guests in Collégiale Notre-Dame de Melun, Melun, Seine-et-Marne, France.

Sunday 28th of July 1540

49-year-old King of England Henry VIII of England marries 17-year-old Catherine Howard aka The Rose without a Thorn in Oatlands Palace, Walton on Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom.

Henry divorced his previous wife Anne of Cleves less than 20 days earlier.

Sunday 28th of July 1540

1st Earl of Essex Thomas Cromwell is executed by beheading at the age of 55 in Tower of London, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

After the execution Cromwell's head was boiled and placed on a spike of London Bridge.

Wednesday 28th of July 1655

Writer and duelist Cyrano de Bergerac dies of unknown causes at the age of 36 in Sannois, Île-de-France, France.

It is inconclusive as to whether or not de Bergerac's death was a result of the injury from a falling wooden beam in 1654 while entering the house of his patron or an unspecified disease. There is also strong evidence to support the theory that his death was a result of a botched assassination attempt

Friday 28th of July 1741

Composer Antonio Lucio Vivaldi dies of an internal infection at the age of 63 in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Tuesday 28th of July 1750

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach dies of fever at the age of 65 in Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany.

Monday 28th of July 1794

Leader of the French Revolution Maximilien François Marie Isidore Robespierre is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 36 in Place de la Révolution, Paris, VIIIe, Île-de-France, France.

Friday 28th of July 1865

Doctor and murderer Edward William Pritchard is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in Saltmarket, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Thousands came to witness the public execution of Dr. Pritchard.

Thursday 28th of July 1887

Dada artist Marcel Henri Robert Duchamp aka Rrose Sélavy is born in Blainville Crevon Village, Blainville-Crevon, Haute-Normendie, France.

Monday 28th of July 1902

Philosopher Karl Raimund Popper is born in Wien, Wien, Austria.

Sunday 28th of July 1907

Inventor Earl Silas Tupper known for the Tupperware plastic food container is born in Berlin, New Hampshire, United States.

Wednesday 28th of July 1909

Poet and writer Malcolm Clarence Lowry known for his novel Under the Volcano is born in New Brighton, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

Wednesday 28th of July 1909

Women's magazine publisher Aenne Burda is born as Anna Magdalene Lemminger in Offenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Friday 28th of July 1911

Murderer Alejandro Gallego is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Thursday 28th of July 1927

Presumed multiple murderer Lawrence Bernard Singleton is born in Tampa, Florida, United States.

Sunday 28th of July 1929

First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Lee Bouvier aka Jackie Kennedy is born in Southampton Hospital, 240 Meeting House Lane, Southampton, New York, United States.

Saturday 28th of July 1945

Lieutenant-colonel and pilot William Franklin Smith known for flying an airplane into the Empire State Building crashes the Old John Feather Merchant US B-25 Mitchell bomber into 78th and 80th floors at the age of 27 in Empire State Building, 350 Fifth Avenue, New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.

Fourteen people were killed: Smith, Staff Sergeant Christopher Domitrovich and Navy Aviation Machinist's Mate Albert Perna and eleven people in the building. Elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver was injured when the cables supporting her elevator sheared and the elevator fell 75 stories, ending up in the basement. Oliver survived the fall and rescuers found her amongst the rubble. This still stands as the Guinness World Record for the longest survived elevator fall.

Wednesday 28th of July 1948

200 die in IG Farben Works explosion in Ludwigshafen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

Friday 28th of July 1967

27-year-old Serial killer Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder is sentenced to life imprisonment in Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.

Friday 28th of July 1972

Murderer Aaron Christopher Foust aka Ace is born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

Sunday 28th of July 1974

14-year-old Joey Kallinger is drowned by serial killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Joseph and his other son Michael were supposedly going to take some pictures of Joey, chained to a ladder in a flooded basement.

Monday 28th of July 1975

48-year-old Serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki aka The Zagłębie Vampire is sentenced to death for the murders of 14 women and attempted murder of six more in Katowice, Województwo Katowice, Poland.

Wednesday 28th of July 1976

Child killer Christian Ranucci aka Le Pull-Over Rouge is executed by the Guillotine by André Olbrecht at the age of 22 in Baumettes Prison, 239 Chemin de Morgiou, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Monday 28th of July 1986

23-year-old Serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler is arrested in Keyworth Street Hostel, London, Southwark, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Saturday 28th of July 1990

13-year-old Viktor Petrov is stabbed to death by serial killer Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper in SFU Botanical Garden, Rostov, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

Tuesday 28th of July 1998

35-year-old Cecilia Marie Goetz is strangled and stabbed to death by serial killer Richard Arinaitwe in Room 321 Hotel Equatorial, Kampala, Kampala, Uganda.

Thursday 28th of July 2005

Rapist and murderer David Aaron Martinez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Martinez' last words were "Only the sky and green grass goes on forever, and today is a good day to die."

Friday 28th of July 2006

The grave of Christa 'Nico' Päffgen on the 'Selbstmörderfriedhof' in Friedhof Grunewald-Forst, Jagen 135, Berlin, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.

Wednesday 28th of July 2010

152 die in Airblue Airbus A321-231 Flight 202 crash in Margalla Hills, Islamabad, Capital Territory, Pakistan.

Wednesday 28th of July 2010

Mass murderer Kazuo Shinozawa is executed by hanging at the age of 59 in Tokyo Detention House, Tokyo, Katsushika, Kantō, Japan.

Shinozawa burned six women to death in a jewellery shop robbery in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Province in 2000.

Wednesday 28th of July 2010

Double murderer Hidenori Ogata is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Tokyo Detention House, Tokyo, Katsushika, Kantō, Japan.

Sunday 28th of July 2019

A colourful bistro set in Saint-Tropez, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Friday 28th of July 2023

Drug trafficker Saridewi Binte Saridewi is executed by hanging at the age of 45 in Changi Prison, Singapore, Singapore.

Djamani was sentenced to death in 2018 for smuggling 30.72g of diamorphine on 17 June 2016.