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July 28th


- Christian Feast Day:
- Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval (Canada)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Peru from Spain by General San Martin in 1821. (Peru)
- Liberation Day (San Marino)
- Ólavsøka Eve (Faroe Islands)

July 28th


- 2008 - The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for the second time in 80 years.
- 2005 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
- 2005 - Tornadoes touch down in a residential areas in south Birmingham and Coventry England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
- 2002 - Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
- 2001 - Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships.
- 1996 - The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
- 1993 - Andorra joins the United Nations.
- 1991 - Pitcher Dennis Martinez of the Montreal Expos throws the 15th perfect game in Major League Baseball history, a 2-0 win against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
- 1976 - The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
- 1973 - Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
- 1965 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
- 1957 - Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Ky?sh?, Japan, kill 992.
- 1955 - The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
- 1948 - The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the "Battle of London Airport".
- 1945 - A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
- 1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah – The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
- 1942 - World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so were to be immediately executed.
- 1935 - First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
- 1933 - Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Spain are established.
- 1932 - U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
- 1914 - World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
- 1896 - The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
- 1868 - The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is passed, establishing African-American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
- 1865 - Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church – Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1821 - José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
- 1809 - Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
- 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
- 1609 - Bermuda is first settled by survivors of the English ship Sea Venture en route to Virginia.
- 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
- 1364 - Troops of the Republic of Pisa and of the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.

July 28th


- 1993 - Hannah Lochner, Canadian actress
- 1992 - George Spencer-Churchill, Earl of Sunderland
- 1990 - Simone Pizzuti, Italian footballer
- 1990 - Shana Swash, English actress
- 1990 - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, American rapper
- 1988 - Ayla Brown, American singer
- 1988 - Casper Johansen, Danish footballer
- 1986 - Alexandra Chando, American actress
- 1985 - Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
- 1985 - Sharifah Sofia, Malaysian actress
- 1984 - DeMeco Ryans, American football player
- 1984 - Zach Parise, American ice hockey player
- 1984 - John David Washington, American actor and football player
- 1982 - Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actress
- 1982 - Tom Pelphrey, American actor
- 1981 - Billy Aaron Brown, American actor
- 1981 - Jo In Sung, South Korean actor
- 1981 - Nancy Alexiadi, Greek singer
- 1981 - Michael Carrick, English footballer
- 1980 - Stephen Christian, American singer (Anberlin)
- 1979 - Lee Minwoo, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
- 1979 - Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer
- 1979 - Henrik Hansen, Danish footballer
- 1979 - Alena Popchanka, French swimmer
- 1979 - James Piotr Montague, British writer and journalist
- 1978 - Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1978 - Jacob Oram, New Zealand cricketer
- 1977 - Manu Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
- 1977 - Aki Berg, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1976 - Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach)
- 1975 - Leonor Watling, Spanish actress and singer
- 1974 - Justin Lee Collins, British comedian
- 1973 - Steve Staios, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973 - Marc Dupré, Quebec humorist and singer
- 1972 - Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
- 1972 - Ed Templeton, American skateboarder
- 1972 - Yeom Jeong-ah, South Korean actress
- 1972 - Robert Chapman, English cricketer
- 1971 - Stephen Lynch, American comedian and singer-songwriter
- 1971 - Annie Perreault, Canadian short-track speed skater
- 1970 - Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist (Arch Enemy)
- 1970 - Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian figure skater
- 1970 - Paul Strang, Zimbabwian cricketer
- 1969 - Garth Snow, American ice hockey player
- 1969 - Alexis Arquette, American actor
- 1969 - Dana White, American professional sports executive
- 1967 - Taka Hirose, Japanese bassist (Feeder)
- 1966 - Shikao Suga, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1965 - Delfeayo Marsalis, American jazz trombonist and record producer
- 1965 - Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
- 1964 - Lori Loughlin, American actress
- 1962 - Rachel Sweet, American singer
- 1961 - Yannick Dalmas, French race car driver
- 1961 - Alexander Kurlovitch, Soviet weightlifter
- 1961 - Harlem Yu, Taiwanese singer/songwriter
- 1960 - Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Brazilian film director
- 1960 - Y?ichi Takahashi, Japanese mangaka (Captain Tsubasa, Hungry Heart Wild Striker)
- 1959 - William T. Vollman, American novelist and essayist
- 1958 - Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and activist (d. 1981)
- 1958 - Michael Hitchcock, American actor
- 1955 - Nikolay Zimyatov, Russian cross-country skier
- 1954 - Bruce Abbott, American actor
- 1954 - Hugo Chávez, 52nd President of Venezuela
- 1954 - Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
- 1954 - Steve Morse, American guitarist (Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple)
- 1954 - Mikey Sheehy, Irish Gaelic footballer
- 1952 - Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist
- 1952 - Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand
- 1951 - Anthony A. Williams, American politician
- 1951 - Doug Collins, American basketball player and coach
- 1951 - Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
- 1950 - Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian poet
- 1949 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer (d. 1980)
- 1949 - Vida Blue, American baseball player
- 1949 - Peter Doyle, Australian singer (The New Seekers) (d. 2001)
- 1949 - Randall Wallace, American screenwriter and film producer
- 1948 - Gerald Casale, American vocalist, bassist (Devo) and director
- 1948 - Georgia Engel, American actress
- 1948 - Sally Struthers, American actress
- 1946 - Linda Kelsey, American actress
- 1946 - Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani writer and feminist
- 1946 - Jonathan Edwards, American singer and songwriter
- 1945 - Jim Davis, American cartoonist (Garfield)
- 1943 - Mike Bloomfield, American guitarist (d. 1981)
- 1943 - Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
- 1943 - Richard Wright, English keyboardist (Pink Floyd) (d. 2008)
- 1942 - Marty Brennaman, American sportscaster
- 1942 - Tonia Marketaki, Greek film director and screenwriter (d. 1994)
- 1941 - Peter Cullen, Canadian voice actor
- 1941 - Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
- 1941 - Susan Roces, Filipino actress
- 1940 - Philip Proctor, American comedian
- 1938 - Alberto Fujimori, Peruvian politician
- 1938 - Chuan Leekpai, Thai politician
- 1938 - Luis Aragonés, Spanish football manager
- 1937 - Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter
- 1936 - Russ Jackson, Canadian football player
- 1936 - Garfield Sobers, Barbadian cricketer
- 1935 - Simon Dee, British television broadcaster (d. 2009)
- 1934 - Jacques d'Amboise, American choreographer
- 1933 - Charlie Hodge, French Canadian ice hockey player
- 1932 - Natalie Babbitt, American author and illustrator of children's books
- 1931 - Johnny Martin, Australian cricketer (d. 1992)
- 1930 - Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
- 1930 - Junior Kimbrough, American blues guitarist and vocalist (d. 1998)
- 1930 - Ramsey Muir Withers, Canadian military figure
- 1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
- 1927 - John Ashbery, American poet
- 1926 - Charlie Biddle, American-born Quebec jazz bassist (d. 2003)
- 1925 - Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician, Nobel laureate
- 1924 - C.T. Vivian, American Civil Rights Movement activist
- 1923 - Ray Ellis, American record producer and arranger (d. 2008)
- 1922 - Jacques Piccard, Belgian-born Swiss undersea explorer (d. 2008)
- 1916 - David Brown, American film producer (d. 2010)
- 1915 - Charles Townes, American physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1914 - Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
- 1909 - Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (d. 1957)
- 1909 - Aenne Burda German publisher (d. 2005)
- 1907 - Earl Tupper, American inventor of Tupperware (d. 1983)
- 1902 - Karl Popper, Austrian-born British philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1901 - Rudy Vallee, American entertainer (d. 1986)
- 1901 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (d. 1979)
- 1900 - Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (d. 1965)
- 1898 - Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970)
- 1896 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926)
- 1891 - Ron Oxenham, Australian cricketer (d. 1939)
- 1887 - Marcel Duchamp, French painter (d. 1968)
- 1879 - Lucy Burns, American suffragist (d. 1966)
- 1874 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (d. 1945)
- 1872 - Albert Sarraut, French politician (d. 1962)
- 1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born Argentine astronomer (d. 1951)
- 1866 - Beatrix Potter, English author (d. 1943)
- 1863 - Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
- 1860 - Elias M. Ammons, American politician (d. 1925)
- 1860 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
- 1857 - Ballington Booth, English-born Salvation Army officer (d. 1940)
- 1844 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
- 1815 - Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian military figure (d. 1889)
- 1804 - Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
- 1796 - Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian piano manufacturer (d. 1859)
- 1750 - Fabre d'Églantine French dramatist and politician (d. 1794)
- 1746 - Thomas Heyward, Jr., American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1809)
- 1659 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1715)
- 1347 - Queen Margaret of Durazzo, consort of Charles III of Naples (d. 1412)