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Chinese teacher and philosopher Confucius aka Kongzi is born as Kǒng Qiū in Qufu, Shandong, China.

Monday 28th of September 1863

King Carlos I of Portugal aka o Diplomata aka o Martirizado is born in Lisboa, Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, Portugal.

Monday 28th of September 1891

Writer Herman Melville known for his novel ‘Moby-Dick’ dies of cardiac dilation at the age of 72 in New York City, New York, United States.

Saturday 28th of September 1895

Chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur dies of uremic poisoning at the age of 73 in Marnes-la-Coquette, Île-de-France, France.

Wednesday 28th of September 1898

Nazi doctor Carl Clauberg known for his sterilization experiments in Auschwitz is born in Wupperhof, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Tuesday 28th of September 1915

American Communist and wife of Soviet spy Julius Rosenberg Ethel Greenglass is born in New York City, New York, United States.

Sunday 28th of September 1924

Actor Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni is born in Fontana Liri, Lazio, Italy.

Friday 28th of September 1934

Actress Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is born in 5 Place Violet, Paris, XVe, Île-de-France, France.

Sunday 28th of September 1952

Actress Sylvia Maria Kristel known for her role as Emmanuelle is born in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Monday 28th of September 1953

Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Powell Hubble dies of cerebral thrombosis at the age of 64 in San Marino, California, United States.

No funeral was held for Hubble and his wife Grace never revealed his burial site.

Friday 28th of September 1956

Aviation pioneer William Edward Boeing dies of a heart attack at the age of 75 in Puget Sound, Washington, United States.

Friday 28th of September 1956

Victim of Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death Debra Louise Jackson aka Orange Socks is born in Abilene, Texas, United States.

Monday 28th of September 1959

29-year-old Dorothy Rawlinson is raped and strangled by serial killer Wendell Lightbourne aka The Cannibalist Golf Caddy in Southlands Beach, Bermuda, United Kingdom.

Monday 28th of September 1964

Comedian and actor Harpo Arthur Adolph Marx dies of heart failure at the age of 76 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Marx died one day after undergoing heart surgery.

Wednesday 28th of September 1966

Surrealist writer André Breton aka The Father of Surrealism dies of respiratory failure at the age of 70 in Hôpital Lariboisière, 2 Rue Ambroise Paré, Paris, Xe, Île-de-France, France.

Monday 28th of September 1970

2nd President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Hussein Nasser dies of a heart attack at the age of 52 in Caïro, Al Qahirah, Egypt.

Thursday 28th of September 1978

263rd Pope Ioannes Paulus I dies of a heart attack at the age of 66 in Palazzo Apostolico, Rome, Vatican City, Lazio, Italy.

Tuesday 28th of September 1982

28-year-old Lutgarde Meeus is strangled by serial killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank in Leuven, Heverlee, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.

Tuesday 28th of September 1982

Mass murderer Tomohiro Katō known for the Akihabara massacre is born in Goshogawara, Tōhoku, Japan.

Thursday 28th of September 1989

Dictator of the Philippines Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos dies of of kidney, heart and lung ailments at the age of 72 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

The Aquino government refused to allow Marcos' body to be brought back to the Philippines. The body was only brought back to the Philippines four years after Marcos' death during the term of President Fidel Ramos. From 1993 to 2016 his remains were interred inside a refrigerated crypt in Ilocos Norte.

Saturday 28th of September 1991

Musician Miles Dewey Davis dies of the combined effects of a stroke, pneumonia and respiratory failure at the age of 65 in Santa Monica, California, United States.

Monday 28th of September 1992

167 die in Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268 Airbus A300B4-203 crash into a mountain in Bhattedanda, Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal.

Tuesday 28th of September 1993

Rapist and murderer Antonio Nathaniel Bonham is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Wednesday 28th of September 1994

852 die in MS Estonia ferry capsizing in Turku Archipelago, Varsinais-Suomi, Finland.

Saturday 28th of September 1996

64-year-old Falsetto singer and ukulele player Tiny Tim suffers a heart attack just as he began singing at a ukulele festival in Montague Grange Hall, 34 Main Street, Montague, Massachusetts, United States.

After spending three weeks in the Franklin County Medical Center in Greenfield Tim was discharged with strong admonitions not to perform again because of his health and the dietary needs for his diabetic and heart conditions. Nevertheless, he ignored the advice.

Sunday 28th of September 2003

Film director Elia Kazan dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.

Wednesday 28th of September 2005

Pigs2Go in 798 Art District, Beijing, Dashanzi, Hebei, China.

Friday 28th of September 2007

Broker and reporter David Hans Schmidt aka The Sultan of Sleaze commits suicide by hanging at the age of 47 in North 21st Street, Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

Tuesday 28th of September 2010

Film director Arthur Hiller Penn dies of congestive heart failure at the age of 88 in New York, Manhattan, New York, United States.

Monday 28th of September 2015

Catherine Elizabeth Coulson known for her role as the enigmatic Log Lady in Twin Peaks dies of complications of cancer at the age of 72 in Ashland, Oregon, United States.

Friday 28th of September 2018

A rainbow on the beach in Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Tuesday 28th of September 2021

At least 116 inmates are killed and 51 are injured in a riot to gain criminal leadership in Penitenciaría del Litoral, Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador.

At least five people were decapitated.

Tuesday 28th of September 2021

Double murderer Rick Allen Rhoades is executed by lethal injection at the age of 57 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.