On this day: September 28

Events on September 28

• 48 BC Pompey was killed by Lucius Septimius at Pelusium in Egypt. Wikipedia
• 48 BC Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII. Wikipedia
• 235 Pope Pontian resigned after being exiled to Sardinia, becoming the first pope to relinquish the position. Wikipedia
• 365 Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself emperor. Wikipedia
• 935 Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia is murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I, who succeeds him. Wikipedia
• 1066 William the Conqueror lands in England, beginning the Norman conquest. Wikipedia
• 1066 William the Conqueror and his fleet of around 600 ships landed at Pevensey, Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England. Wikipedia
• 1106 In the Battle of Tinchebray in Normandy, the invading King Henry I of England captured his brother Robert Curthose. Wikipedia
• 1779 American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay. Wikipedia
• 1781 American Revolutionary War: French and American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown. Wikipedia
• 1918 World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins. Wikipedia
• 1924 A team of U.S. Army Air Service aviators landed in Seattle, Washington, to complete the first aerial circumnavigation of the world. Wikipedia
• 1928 Scottish biologist and pharmacologist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin when he noticed a bacteria-killing mould growing in his laboratory. Wikipedia
• 1928 Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin. Wikipedia
• 1939 World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland. Wikipedia
• 1958 Fernando Rios, a Mexican tour guide in New Orleans, was killed in an instance of gay bashing. Wikipedia
• 1970 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo. Wikipedia
• 1972 Against the backdrop of the Cold War, the Canadian ice hockey team defeated the Soviet team in the Summit Series. Wikipedia
• 1978 Pope John Paul I died only 33 days after his papal election due to an apparent myocardial infarction, resulting in the first year of three popes since 1605. Wikipedia
• 1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Wikipedia
• 2000 Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Wikipedia
• 2006 Typhoon Xangsane passed Manila on its way to causing more than 300 deaths, mostly in the Phillippines and Vietnam. Wikipedia
• 2006 Typhoon Xangsane passes over Manila after impacting parts of Southern Luzon and Eastern Visayas, becoming the strongest to affect the Philippine capital in 11 years. Wikipedia
• 2008 The Singapore Grand Prix is held as Formula One's inaugural night race, with Fernando Alonso winning the event. Almost a year later it was revealed that Alonso's team-mate Nelson Piquet Jr. had been ordered to crash his car to help bring out the safety car and give Alonso the advantage and win. Wikipedia
• 2009 A protest held by 50,000 people in Conakry, Guinea, was forcefully disrupted by the military junta, resulting in at least 157 deaths and over 1,200 injuries. Wikipedia
• 2022 Hurricane Ian makes landfall in Cayo Costa State Park, Florida as a category four hurricane, killing 169 and doing $113 billion in damage, becoming Florida's costliest hurricane and the deadliest in 89 years. Wikipedia

Born on September 28

• 551 BC Confucius, Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. (died 479 BC) Wikipedia
• 616 Javanshir, King of Caucasian Albania (died 680) Wikipedia
• 1735 Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1811) Wikipedia
• 1746 William Jones, English-Welsh philologist and scholar (died 1794) Wikipedia
• 1803 Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist, historian, and author (died 1870) Wikipedia
• 1841 Georges Clemenceau, French journalist, physician, and politician, 85th Prime Minister of France (died 1929) Wikipedia
• 1852 Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1907) Wikipedia
• 1865 Amélie of Orléans, Queen Consort of Carlos I of Portugal (died 1951) Wikipedia
• 1867 Hiranuma Kiichirō, Japanese lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1952) Wikipedia
• 1898 Carl Clauberg, German Nazi physician (died 1957) Wikipedia
• 1901 William S. Paley, American broadcaster, founded CBS (died 1990) Wikipedia
• 1924 Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (died 1996) Wikipedia
• 1929 Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer and composer (died 2022) Wikipedia
• 1932 Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, poet, and director (died 1973) Wikipedia
• 1934 Brigitte Bardot, French actress and animal rights activist (died 2025) Wikipedia
• 1947 Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh Wikipedia
• 1955 Mercy Manci, Xhosa sangoma and HIV activist from South Africa Wikipedia
• 1967 Mira Sorvino, American actress Wikipedia
• 1968 Naomi Watts, English-Australian actress and producer Wikipedia
• 1968 Mika Häkkinen, Finnish race car driver Wikipedia
• 1982 Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor and director Wikipedia
• 1987 Hilary Duff, American singer-songwriter and actress Wikipedia

Died on September 28

• 48 BC Pompey, Roman general and politician (born 106 BC) Wikipedia
• 135 Rabbi Akiva, Jewish sage, martyr. (born c. 50) Wikipedia
• 1891 Herman Melville, American author and poet (born 1819) Wikipedia
• 1895 Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (born 1822) Wikipedia
• 1953 Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and scholar (born 1889) Wikipedia
• 1956 William Boeing, American businessman, founded the Boeing Company (born 1881) Wikipedia
• 1966 André Breton, French author and poet (born 1896) Wikipedia
• 1970 Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Egypt (born 1918) Wikipedia
• 1978 Pope John Paul I (born 1912) Wikipedia
• 1989 Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Philippines (born 1917) Wikipedia
• 1991 Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (born 1926) Wikipedia
• 2000 Pierre Trudeau, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1919) Wikipedia
• 2003 Elia Kazan, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1909) Wikipedia
• 2016 Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli statesman and politician, 9th President of Israel (born 1923) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day: Aaron of Auxerre Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Amalia Abad Casasempere Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Annemund Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Chariton the Confessor Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Conval Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Eustochium Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Exuperius Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Faustus of Riez Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Leoba Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Lorenzo Ruiz Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Nykyta Budka Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Paternus of Auch Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton and Margery Kempe (Episcopal Church (USA)) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Simón de Rojas Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Wenceslas Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: September 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics). Wikipedia
• Czech Statehood Day (Czech Republic) Wikipedia
• Freedom from Hunger Day Wikipedia
• International Day for Universal Access to Information Wikipedia
• National Day of Awareness and Unity against Child Pornography (Philippines) Wikipedia
• Teachers' Day (Taiwan and Chinese-Filipino schools in the Philippines), ceremonies dedicated to Confucius are also observed. Wikipedia
• World Rabies Day (International) Wikipedia

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “September 28” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.