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May 28

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272

French and Indian War

272 years ago

Born this day

1968

Kylie Minogue

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Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

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Famous births28

1759 · 267 yrs

William Pitt the Younger

William Pitt (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a British statesman who served as the last prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800, and the first official prime minister of the United Kingdom from January 1801.

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PoliticsDied aged 46

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1779 · 247 yrs

Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist. Widely regarded in his lifetime as Ireland's "national bard", his fame and reputation rested primarily on the popularity of his Irish Melodies.

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MusicDied aged 72

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1853 · 173 yrs

Carl Larsson

Carl Olof Larsson (Swedish pronunciation:; 28 May 1853 – 22 January 1919) was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes.

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ArtDied aged 65

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1874 · 152 yrs

Ernst Cassirer

Ernst Alfred Cassirer ( kah-SEER-ər, kə-; German:; July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy. Trained within the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science.

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PhilosophyDied aged 70

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1884 · 142 yrs

Edvard Beneš

Edvard Beneš (Czech:; 28 May 1884 – 3 September 1948) was a Czech politician and statesman who served as the president of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938, and again from 1939 to 1948. During the first six years of his second stint, he led the Czechoslovak government-in-exile during World War II.

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PoliticsWould be 142

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1888 · 138 yrs

Jim Thorpe

James Francis Thorpe (Meskwaki: Wa-Tho-Huk; May 22 or 28, 1887 – March 28, 1953) was an American athlete who won Olympic gold medals and played professional football, baseball, and basketball.

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1900 · 126 yrs

Park Hon-young

Pak Hon-yong (Korean: 박헌영; Hanja: 朴憲永; 28 May 1900 – 18 December 1955), courtesy name Togyong (덕영), was a Korean independence activist, politician, philosopher, and Communist activist, and one of the main leaders of the Korean Communist movement during Japan's colonial rule (1910–1945).

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PoliticsWould be 126

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1908 · 118 yrs

Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels.

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LiteratureWould be 118

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1912 · 114 yrs

Patrick White

Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was an Australian novelist and playwright who explored themes of religious experience, personal identity and the conflict between visionary individuals and a materialistic, conformist society. Influenced by the modernism of James Joyce, D. H.

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1923 · 103 yrs

György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti (Hungarian:; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music.

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MusicWould be 103

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1925 · 101 yrs

Bülent Ecevit

Mustafa Bülent Ecevit (28 May 1925 – 5 November 2006) was a Turkish statesman, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist. He served as the Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002, specifically in 1974, 1977, 1978–79, and 1999–2002.

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PoliticsWould be 101

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1931 · 95 yrs

Carroll Baker

Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is a retired American actress. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954.

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Famous deaths19

1747 · 279 yrs

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (French:; 6 August 1715 – 28 May 1747) was a French writer and moralist. He died at age 31, in broken health, having published the year prior—anonymously—a collection of essays and aphorisms with the encouragement of Voltaire, his friend (20 years his senior).

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LiteratureDied aged 31

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1787 · 239 yrs

Leopold Mozart

Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (14 November 1719 – 28 May 1787) was a German composer, violinist, and music theorist. He is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule (1756).

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MusicDied aged 67

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1805 · 221 yrs

Luigi Boccherini

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (also US:; Italian:; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and galante style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major classical musical centers.

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MusicDied aged 62

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1843 · 183 yrs

Noah Webster

Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education".

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LiteratureDied aged 84

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1849 · 177 yrs

Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë (commonly; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet. A member of the Brontë literary family, she was the younger sister of Charlotte, Emily, and Branwell.

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LiteratureDied aged 29

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1878 · 148 yrs

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866.

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PoliticsDied aged 85

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1916 · 110 yrs

Ivan Franko

Ivan Yakovych Franko PhD (Ukrainian: Іван Якович Франко, pronounced; 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in Ukrainian.

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LiteratureDied aged 59

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1937 · 89 yrs

Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler ( AD-lər; Austrian German:; February 7, 1870 – May 28, 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 67

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1968 · 58 yrs

Kees van Dongen

Cornelis Theodorus Maria "Kees" van Dongen (26 January 1877 – 28 May 1968) was a Dutch-French painter who was one of the leading Fauves. Van Dongen's early work was influenced by the Hague School and symbolism and it evolved gradually into a rough pointillist style.

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ArtWould be 149

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1972 · 54 yrs

Edward VIII

Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.

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RoyaltyWould be 132

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2003 · 23 yrs

Ilya Prigogine

Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine (Russian: Илья Романович Пригожин; 25 January 1917 – 28 May 2003) was a Belgian physical chemist of Russian origin, noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility.

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2010 · 16 yrs

Gary Coleman

Gary Wayne Coleman (February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010) was an American actor, known as a high-profile child star of the late 1970s and 1980s. Born in Zion, Illinois, Coleman grew up with his adoptive parents.

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FilmWould be 58

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Events5

1754 · 272 yrs

French and Indian War

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a conflict in North America between Great Britain and France, along with their respective Indigenous allies.

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War

2008 · 18 yrs

Google I/O

Google I/O is an annual developer conference held by Google since 2007 in Mountain View, California. "I/O" stands for input/output.

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Space

2013 · 13 yrs

Gezi Park protests

A wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Turkey began on 28 May 2013, initially to contest the urban development plan for Istanbul's Gezi Park. The protests were sparked by outrage at the violent eviction of a sit-in at the park protesting the plan.

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Politics

2016 · 10 yrs

2016 UEFA Champions League Final

The 2016 UEFA Champions League final was the final match of the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League, the 61st season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 24th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.

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Sports

2025 · 1 yrs

2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict

The territorial dispute between Cambodia and Thailand escalated into a direct armed confrontation on 24 July 2025 along the Cambodia–Thailand border.

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