Famous Deaths In January - 28

0814  Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71 on this day in history.  

1061  On January - 28 death of duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia (b. 1031)  

1119  On January - 28 gelasius II, [Giovannis Caetani], pope (1118-19), dies  

1256  On this day in history willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22  

1271  Death of Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247) on January - 28.  

1393  On January - 28 death of earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball  

1443  On January - 28 death of robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France  

1528  Philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies on January - 28.  

1547  Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47), dies at 55 on January - 28.  

1549  Elia Levita, German-Yiddish writer (Habachur), dies at about 80 on this day in history.  

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1560  On January - 28 john a Lasco, [John Laski], Polish nobleman/reformed theologist, dies  

1595  Francis Drake, English pirate, Admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (Porto Bello West Indies), dies at 50 on January - 28.  

1606  Carolus Gallus, [Karel de Haan], Dutch lawyer/pastor/vicar, dies at 85 on January - 28.  

1612  Thomas Bodley, diplomat/founder (Bodleian Library), dies on this day in history.  

1621  Paulus V, [Camillo Borghese], 233rd pope (1605-21), dies at 68 on January - 28.  

1672  Death of Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588) on January - 28.  

1681  Death of Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619) on this day in history.  

1687  On January - 28 johannes Hevelius, astronomer (star cataloger), dies on 76th birthday  

1697  Death of John Fenwick, English conspirator on this day in history.  

1725  Peter I "the Great" Romanov, czar of Russia, dies at 52 [NS=Feb 8] on January - 28.  

1754  On January - 28 ludvig Holberg, Danish lawyer/writer (Hendrig og Pernille), dies at 69  

1768  On January - 28 john Wainwright, composer, dies at 44  

1782  Jean-Baptiste-Bourguignon d'Anville, French geographer, dies at 84 on this day in history.  

1810  On this day in history death of andrew Hofer, Tyrolian rebel against French & Bavarians, shot dead  

1813  Jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41 on January - 28.  

1817  On this day in history friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen, composer, dies at 55  

1829  On January - 28 death of william Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh  

1832  Death of Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769) on January - 28.  

1838  Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS] on this day in history.  

1859  Death of Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782) on January - 28.  

1864  On January - 28 death of Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)  

1868  On this day in history death of adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Witiko), commits suicide at 62  

1869  On January - 28 prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley, composer, dies at 72  

1873  On January - 28 henry Hugo Pierson, composer, dies at 57  

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1225  On this day in history birth of saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)  

1312  On January - 28 birth of queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)  

1457  On this day in history birth of henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509)  

1540  On January - 28 birth of ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)  

1578  On this day in history birth of cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39)  

1582  John Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon) was born on January - 28.  

1600  Clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope (1667-69) was born on this day in history.  

1608  On this day in history birth of giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer