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May 28 1371

John the Fearless Burgundy France Duke of Burgundywarrior

May 28 1577

Floris II van Pallandt Dutch earl of Culemborgpolitician

May 28 1582

William Fiennes 1st Viscount Saye and Sele English statesman (d. 1662)

May 28 1588

Pierre Seguier Chancellor of France (d. 1672)

May 28 1641

Janez Vajkard Valvasor Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)

May 28 1676

Jacopo Riccati Italian mathematician (d. 1754)

May 28 1738

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin French physician and freemason who proposed and became the namesake of the guillotine born in Saintes France (d.1814)

May 28 1764

Edward Livingston American jurist and statesman born in Columbia County New York (d. 1836)

May 28 1789

Bernard Severin Ingemann Danish author (Tomorrow- og Aftensange)

May 28 1807

Jan van Swieten Dutch generalgovernor of West-Sumatra

May 28 1807

Louis Agassiz Swiss naturalistgeologistteacher

May 28 1810

Alexandre Calamo Swiss painteretcherlithographer

May 28 1818

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard US Confederate gen (Hero of Sumter)

May 28 1819

William Birney American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Huntsville Alabama (d. 1907)

May 28 1828

Alpheus Baker Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1891)

May 28 1830

George Lucas Hartsuff American Major General (Union Army) born in Tyre New York (d. 1874)

May 28 1830

Carl Filtsch Transylvanian Saxon composer and pianist

May 28 1831

Eliza Ann Gardner underground railway conductor

May 28 1836

Alexander Mitscherlich German chemist (d. 1918)

May 28 1837

Tony Pastor American vaudeville performer (d. 1908)

May 28 1838

Basil Wilson Duke Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1916)

May 28 1839

Luigi Capuana Sicilian author and critic (Roccaverdina) born in Mineo Sicily Italy (d. 1915)

May 28 1851

Dick Barlow cricketer (immortal England all-rounder of 1880s)

May 28 1858

Carl Rickard Nyberg Swedish inventor (d. 1939)

May 28 1862

Henry W Slocum Jr tennis champ (US Open-1888)

May 28 1868

Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer] French writer (Fille Perdue)

May 28 1872

Marian Smoluchowski Polish physicist (d. 1917)

May 28 1879

Milutin Milankovic Yugoslavian astronomermeteorologist

May 28 1883

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Indian activist (d. 1966)

May 28 1883

Clough Williams-Ellis Welsh architect (d. 1978)

May 28 1884

Edvard Benes premierpresident of Czechoslovakia (1921-22 35-48)

May 28 1884

Theo(door) van Reijn Dutch sculptorlithographer

May 28 1886

Nicolai Sokoloff near conductor (Seattle Symph) born in Kiev Ukraine

May 28 1037 German emperor Koenraad II removes Constitutio the Feudis

May 28 1156 Battle at Brindisi Norman-Sicillian King William beats Byzantine fleet under John Doukas and Alexios Bryennios

May 28 1588 Spanish Armada under the Duke of Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade England

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