Famous Deaths Happened In September - 28
Monday, 16 February 2026
0235 On this day in history death of saint Pontianus, Pope 

0876 On this day in history death of louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (b. 804) 

0929 On this day in history death of wenceslaus I, duke of Bohemia, murdered 

0935 On September - 28 death of wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 907) 

1104 On September - 28 pedro I, king of Navarra & Aragon, dies 

1197 On September - 28 henry VI von Hohenstaufen, Roman Catholic German King (1169-97), dies 

1296 Adolf VII, earl of Mountain (1259-96), dies on September - 28. 

1429 On September - 28 death of cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest of Austria 

1509 Death of Siwara/Sjoerd Aylva, Fries army leader (siege of Franeker) on this day in history. 

1582 On this day in history death of george Buchanan, Scottish historian (b. 1506) 

1618 On this day in history death of gilles van Ledenberg, sec of Utrecht States (1588-1618), suicide at 68 

1649 On this day in history ottavio Vernizzi, composer, dies at 79 

1652 John Asselijn, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 42 on September - 28. 

1657 On September - 28 emilia Secunda Antwerpiana, daugher of Willem of Orange, dies at 75 

1667 Jacobus Golius, mathematician/founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71 on this day in history. 

1687 Death of Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (b. 1623) on this day in history. 

1694 Mouton, mathematician, dies on this day in history. 

1702 Robert Spencer 2nd earl of Sunderland, Engl PM (1687-88), dies at 61 on September - 28. 

1742 On this day in history death of jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (b. 1663) 

1757 Andrea Zani, composer, dies at 60 on September - 28. 

1759 Cornelis Pronk, portrait painter/cartoonist, dies at 67 on this day in history. 

1781 On this day in history death of william Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (b. 1717) 

1789 On this day in history death of thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire 

1815 On September - 28 nicolas Desmarest, French geographer (Volcanos), dies at 90 

1819 Karl Haack, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history. 

1833 On this day in history lemuel Haynes, Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88 

1844 Death of Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (b. 1769) on this day in history. 

1852 On this day in history johann Friedrich Schwencke, composer, dies at 60 

1859 On this day in history rinse Posthumus, Fries writer, dies 

1868 Death of Thomas Carmichael Hindman, attorney/Confederate gen-mjr, shot at 40 on this day in history. 

1869 On this day in history libri, mathematician, dies 

1873 On this day in history emile Gaboriau, detective writer (Monsieur Lecoq), dies at 37 

1875 Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet, dies at 58 [OS] on this day in history. 

1879 On this day in history death of nathan C Meeker, US, poet/writer, murdered 

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