Deaths on 28 June
2000s
Aminu Dantata
2025
Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (1931–2025)
D. Wayne Lukas
2025
American horse trainer (1935–2025)
Dave Parker
2025
American baseball player (1951–2025)
Orlando Cepeda
2024
Puerto Rican baseball player (1937–2024)
Audrey Flack
2024
American artist (1931–2024)
Mohamed Osman Jawari
2024
Speaker of the Federal Parliament of Somalia from 2012 to 2018 (1945–2024)
Lowell Weicker
2023
American politician (1931–2023)
Harlan Ellison
2018
American writer (1934–2018)
Scotty Moore
2016
American guitarist (1931–2016)
Pat Summitt
2016
American basketball player and coach (1952–2016)
Buddy Ryan
2016
American football player, coach, and executive (1931–2016)
Jack Carter (comedian)
2015
American comedian and actor (1922–2015)
Jope Seniloli
2015
Wally Stanowski
2015
Canadian ice hockey player
Seymour Barab
2014
American composer and musician (1921–2014)
Jim Brosnan
2014
American baseball player (1929–2014)
On Kawara
2014
Japanese artist (1932–2014)
Meshach Taylor
2014
American actor (1947–2014)
Ted Hood
2013
American yachtsman (1927–2013)
Tamás Katona
2013
Kenneth Minogue
2013
Australian political theorist (1930–2013)
F. D. Reeve
2013
American poet
David Rubitsky
2013
United States Army soldier
Richard Isay
2012
American psychoanalyst and writer (1934–2012)
Leontine T. Kelly
2012
American bishop (1920–2012)
Robert Sabatier
2012
French poet and writer
Doris Sams
2012
Baseball player
Robert Byrd
2010
American politician (1917–2010)
A. K. Lohithadas
2009
Indian film director and screenwriter
Billy Mays
2009
American salesperson (1958–2009)
Eugene B. Fluckey
2007
Kiichi Miyazawa
2007
Prime Minister of Japan from 1991 to 1993
Jim Baen
2006
American science fiction publisher and editor
Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell
2006
English barrister, politician and author (1919–2006)
George Unwin
2006
Royal Air Force officer and flying ace (1913–2006)
Brenda Howard
2005
Bisexual rights activist (1946–2005)
Michael P. Murphy
2005
United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1976–2005)
Anthony Buckeridge
2004
English author (1912–2004)
Joan Lowery Nixon
2003
American journalist and author (1927–2003)
Mortimer J. Adler
2001
American philosopher, author and educator (1902–2001)
Nils Poppe
2000
Swedish actor (1908–2000)
1900s
Vere Bird
1999
Leader of Antigua and Barbuda (1960–1971; 1976–1994)
Petri Walli
1995
Finnish musician
Guy Nève
1992
Belgian racing driver (1955-1992)
Mikhail Tal
1992
Soviet and Latvian chess grandmaster (1936–1992)
Joris Ivens
1989
Dutch documentary filmmaker (1898–1989)
Lynd Ward
1985
American novelist (1905–1985)
Yigael Yadin
1984
Israeli archeologist, soldier and politician (1917-1984)
Alf Francis
1983
British mechanic
Terry Fox
1981
Canadian athlete (1958–1981)
José Iturbi
1980
Spanish musician (1895–1980)
Clifford Dupont
1978
British-born Rhodesian politician
Ruby McKim
1976
American quilt designer
Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis
1975
Greek architect (1913–1975)
Rod Serling
1975
American screenwriter (1924–1975)
Vannevar Bush
1974
American science official (1890–1974)
Franz Stangl
1971
Austrian war criminal (1908–1971)
Mehmet Fuat Köprülü
1966
Turkish scientist, politician and historian (1890–1966)
Red Nichols
1965
American jazz cornetist, composer, and bandleader (1905–1965)
Mickey Cochrane
1962
American baseball player and manager (1903–1962)
Cy Morgan
1962
American baseball player (1878–1962)
Jake Swirbul
1960
American aviation pioneer (1898–1960)
Stanislav Kostka Neumann
1947
Czech poet (1875–1947)
Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu
1945
Turkish journalist (1879 – 1945)
Friedrich Dollmann
1944
General during World War II who commanded the 7th Army
Italo Balbo
1940
Italian Marshal of the Air Force and minister (1896–1940)
Douglas H. Johnston
1939
Governor of the Chicksaw Nation (1856–1939)
Alexander Berkman
1936
Russian-American anarchist and writer (1870–1936)
Urania Marquard Olsen
1932
Danish-Norwegian actress and theatre director (1856–1932)
Edward Carpenter
1929
English poet and academic (1844–1929)
Georgina Febres-Cordero
1925
Venezuelan nun
Henry C. Berghoff
1925
German-American politician and businessman (1856–1925)
Velimir Khlebnikov
1922
Russian playwright, poet and futurist (1885-1922)
Ștefan Luchian
1917
Romanian painter (1868–1916)
Victor Trumper
1915
Australian cricketer (1877–1915)
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg
1914
Wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
1914
Austrian archduke (1863–1914)
Campos Sales
1913
President of Brazil from free 1898 to 1902
1800s
Alexandros Rizos Rangavis
1892
Greek man of letters, poet and statesman
Maria Mitchell
1889
American astronomer (1818–1889)
Jules Armand Dufaure
1881
French statesman (1798–1881)
Texas Jack Omohundro
1880
American frontier scout and showman (1846–1880)
James Madison
1836
Founding Father, U.S. president from 1809 to 1817
Joseph Bové
1834
Russian neoclassical architect (1784–1834)
Gerhard von Scharnhorst
1813
Hanoverian-born general (1755–1813)
Before 1800
John Henry Colclough
1798
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover
1757
Queen in Prussia from 1713 to 1740
George FitzRoy, Duke of Northumberland
1716
British Army general
Domenico Fontana
1607
Italian architect born in today's Ticino (1543–1607)
Abraham Ortelius
1598
Dutch cartographer, geographer and cosmographer (1527–1598)
Primož Trubar
1586
Carniolan writer, Protestant reformer
Yonekura Shigetsugu
1575
Japanese samurai
James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley
1497
British nobleman (d. 1497)
Andronikos IV Palaiologos
1385
Byzantine emperor from 1376 to 1379
Emperor Xiaozong of Song
1194
Chinese Song dynasty emperor from 1162 to 1189
Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony
1189
Duchess of Saxony and Bavaria
Andrey Bogolyubsky
1175
Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1157 to 1174
Floris I
1061
Count in Frisia
Taira no Tadatsune
1031
Samurai lord and rebel of the early Heian period
Cyneweard of Glastonbury
975
10th-century Bishop of Wells
AD 767
767
Calendar year
Pope Leo II
683
Head of the Catholic Church from 682 to 683
Alboin
572
King of the Lombards from c. 560 to 572
Theodora (wife of Justinian I)
548
Roman empress from 527 to 548
Yuan Shao
202
Han dynasty warlord (died 202)