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May 28 is the 148th day of the year (149th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 217 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
• 621 – Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin, the son of the Chinese emperor Gao Zu, defeats the numerically superior forces of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass (Henan).
• 1503 – James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a papal bull by Pope Alexander VI. A Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England signed on that occasion results in a peace that lasts ten years.
• 1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
• 1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port).
• 1644 – Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.
• 1754 – French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
• 1830 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
• 1871 – The Paris Commune falls.
• 1892 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
• 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
• 1907 – The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
• 1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Democratic Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
• 1926 – 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
• 1932 – In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
• 1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
• 1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
• 1936 – Klaipėda Radio Station begins regular broadcasting.
• 1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
• 1937 – Volkswagen (VW), German automobile manufacturer was founded
• 1940 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
• 1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
• 1942 – World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
• 1951 – The British radio comedy program The Goon Show was broadcast on the BBC for the first time.
• 1952 – The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
• 1958 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
• 1961 – Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
• 1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
• 1974 – Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
• 1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
• 1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
• 1979 – Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
• 1987 – The 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and will not be released until August 3, 1988.
• 1991 – The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
• 1993 – Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations.
• 1995 – The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population.
• 1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
• 1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
• 1999 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
• 2002 – NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
• 2002 – The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
• 2003 – Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
• 2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
• 2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
• 2010 – In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.
• 2012 – The discovery of Flame, a complex malware program targeting computers in Middle Eastern countries, is announced.

Births

• 1140 – Xin Qiji, Chinese poet, military leader, and statesman (d. 1207)
• 1371 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419)
• 1524 – Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574)
• 1582 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (d. 1662)
• 1588 – Pierre Séguier, French statesman, Lord Chancellor of France (d. 1672)
• 1641 – Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
• 1660 – George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
• 1676 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
• 1692 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher (d. 1752)
• 1692 – Geminiano Giacomelli, Italian composer (d. 1740)
• 1738 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (d. 1814)
• 1759 – William Pitt the Younger, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806)
• 1763 – Manuel Alberti, Argentine priest (d. 1811)
• 1779 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet (d. 1852)
• 1807 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)
• 1818 – P. G. T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (d. 1893)
• 1836 – Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918)
• 1836 – Friedrich Baumfelder, German composer, conductor, and pianist (d. 1916)
• 1837 – George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921)
• 1837 – Tony Pastor, American impresario and theater owner (d. 1908)
• 1841 – Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (d. 1887)
• 1853 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
• 1858 – Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and industrialist, developed the blow torch (d. 1939)
• 1872 – Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)
• 1878 – Paul Pelliot, French sinologist and explorer (d. 1945)
• 1879 – Milutin Milanković, Serbian geophysicist (d. 1958)
• 1883 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian politician (d. 1966)
• 1883 – Clough Williams-Ellis, English-Welsh architect, designed the Portmeirion Village (d. 1978)
• 1884 – Edvard Beneš, Czech politician (d. 1948)
• 1886 – Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-American mobster (d. 1954)
• 1888 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d. 1953)
• 1888 – Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942)
• 1888 – Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, English governess and writer (d. 1947)
• 1889 – Richard Réti, Austrian-Czech chess player (d. 1929)
• 1892 – Josef Dietrich, German Schutzstaffel general (d. 1966)
• 1896 – Konstantin Märska, Estonian cinematographer and film director (d. 1951)
• 1900 – Tommy Ladnier, American trumpeter and writer (d. 1939)
• 1908 – Léo Cadieux, Canadian politician (d. 2005)
• 1908 – Ian Fleming, English author (d. 1964)
• 1909 – Red Horner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
• 1910 – Georg Gaßmann, German politician (d. 1987)
• 1910 – Rachel Kempson, English actress (d. 2003)
• 1910 – T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (d. 1975)
• 1911 – Thora Hird, English actress (d. 2003)
• 1911 – Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian playwright (d. 1986)
• 1912 – Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (d. 1981)
• 1912 – Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
• 1912 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist and politician (d. 1992)
• 1914 – W. G. G. Duncan Smith, English pilot (d. 1996)
• 1915 – Joseph Greenberg, American linguist (d. 2001)
• 1916 – Walker Percy, American author (d. 1990)
• 1917 – Barry Commoner, American biologist and politician (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Papa John Creach, American violinist (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, and The Dinosaurs) (d. 1994)
• 1918 – Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian and writer (d. 1990)
• 1921 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (d. 1999)
• 1922 – Lou Duva, American boxing trainer
• 1922 – Roger Fisher, American educator and author
• 1922 – Tuomas Gerdt, Finnish soldier, last living Knight of the Mannerheim Cross
• 1923 – György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (d. 2006)
• 1923 – N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor and politician (d. 1996)
• 1924 – Paul Hébert, French-Canadian actor
• 1925 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist, Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone and conductor (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Carroll Baker, American actress
• 1933 – John Karlen, American actor
• 1935 – Anne Reid, English actress
• 1936 – Claude Forget, French-Canadian politician
• 1936 – Ole K. Sara, Norwegian politician (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (d. 1997)
• 1938 – Jerry West, American basketball player
• 1938 – Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
• 1940 – Shlomo Riskin, American rabbi, founder of the Lincoln Square Synagogue
• 1940 – Maeve Binchy, Irish novelist (d. 2012)
• 1941 – Beth Howland, American actress
• 1942 – Stanley B. Prusiner, American neurologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 – Terry Crisp, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1943 – Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (d. 2004)
• 1944 – Rudy Giuliani, American politician, 107th Mayor of New York City
• 1944 – Gladys Knight, American singer-songwriter and actress (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
• 1944 – Jean-Pierre Léaud, French actor
• 1944 – Rita MacNeil, Canadian singer (d. 2013)
• 1944 – Patricia Quinn, Irish actress
• 1944 – Gary Stewart, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Billy Vera, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1944 – Faith Brown, English actress
• 1945 – Patch Adams, American physician, activist, diplomat, and author, founded the Gesundheit! Institute
• 1945 – John N. Bambacus, American politician
• 1945 – John Fogerty, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Golliwogs)
• 1945 – Jean Perrault, Canadian politician
• 1946 – K. Satchidanandan, Indian poet
• 1946 – Skip Jutze, American baseball player
• 1947 – Sondra Locke, American actress
• 1947 – Zahi Hawass, Egyptian archaeologist
• 1947 – Lynn Johnston, Canadian cartoonist
• 1947 – Leland Sklar, American singer-songwriter, bassist, and composer (The Section and Era)
• 1948 – Pierre Rapsat, Belgian singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1949 – Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (d. 1998)
• 1950 – Ian Bradley, English writer and academic
• 1950 – Kamala, American wrestler
• 1952 – Roger Briggs, American composer, conductor, pianist, and educator
• 1953 – Pierre Gauthier, Canadian ice hockey manager
• 1953 – Arto Lindsay, American singer, guitarist, producer, and composer (DNA, The Golden Palominos, The Lounge Lizards, and Ambitious Lovers)
• 1954 – John Tory, Canadian politician
• 1954 – Townsend Coleman, American voice actor
• 1954 – Andy Hamilton, English comedian, director, and screenwriter
• 1954 – Youri Egorov, Russian pianist (d. 1988)
• 1955 – John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (Magazine, Visage, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Public Image Ltd, and The Armoury Show) (d. 2004)
• 1955 – Mark Howe, American ice hockey player
• 1956 – Julie Peasgood, English actress
• 1956 – Jerry Douglas, American musician and producer (The Country Gentlemen and Strength in Numbers)
• 1956 – Markus Höttinger, Austrian race car driver (d. 1980)
• 1957 – Kirk Gibson, American baseball player
• 1957 – Ben Howland, American basketball coach
• 1957 – Colin Barnes, English footballer
• 1959 – John Morgan, English etiquette expert and author (d. 2000)
• 1960 – Mark Sanford, American politician, 115th Governor of South Carolina
• 1961 – Michelle Collins, English actress
• 1962 – Roland Gift, English singer and actor (Fine Young Cannibals and Akrylykz)
• 1962 – Brandon Cruz, American actor
• 1962 – James Michael Tyler, American actor
• 1963 – Houman Younessi, Iranian scientist
• 1963 – Gavin Harrison, English musician (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson, and OSI)
• 1964 – Jeff Fenech, Australian boxer
• 1964 – Armen Gilliam, American basketball player (d. 2011)
• 1964 – Christa Miller, American actress
• 1964 – David Baddiel, American-English comedian, actor, and author
• 1964 – Phil Vassar, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1964 – Zsa Zsa Padilla, Filipino singer and actress (Hotdog)
• 1965 – Chris Ballew, American singer and bassist (The Presidents of the United States of America and Caspar Babypants)
• 1966 – Ashley Laurence, American actress
• 1967 – Glen Rice, American basketball player
• 1967 – Emma Kennedy, English actress
• 1968 – Kylie Minogue, Australian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1969 – Mike DiFelice, American baseball player
• 1969 – Justin Kirk, American actor
• 1969 – Rob Ford, Canadian politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto
• 1970 – Jimi Goodwin, English singer-songwriter and musician (Doves and Sub Sub)
• 1970 – Ian Cashmore, English paranormal investigator and actor
• 1970 – Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
• 1970 – Bobby Bognar, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Piper Downs)
• 1970 – Paul Sinha, English comedian and broadcaster
• 1971 – Isabelle Carré, French actress
• 1971 – Marco Rubio, American politician
• 1971 – Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian figure skater
• 1972 – Michael Boogerd, Dutch cyclist
• 1972 – Kate Ashfield, English actress
• 1972 – Doriva, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 – Marco Paulo, Portuguese footballer
• 1974 – Alicia Minshew, American actress
• 1974 – Hans-Jörg Butt, German footballer
• 1974 – Romain Duris, French actor
• 1975 – Charmaine Sheh, Hong Kong actress
• 1975 – Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer
• 1975 – Maura Johnston, American writer
• 1976 – Roberto Goretti, Italian footballer
• 1976 – Glenn Morrison, Australian rugby player
• 1976 – Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast
• 1976 – Liam O'Brien, American voice actor
• 1977 – Jeremy Borash, American wrestling announcer
• 1977 – Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American talk show host and author
• 1978 – Rufa Mae Quinto, Filipino actress and comedian
• 1979 – Jesse Bradford, American actor
• 1979 – Ronald Curry, American football player
• 1979 – Joeri Jansen, Belgian athlete
• 1979 – Monica Keena, American actress
• 1979 – Abdulaziz al-Omari, Saudi hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 (d. 2001)
• 1980 – Mark Feehily, Irish singer-songwriter and pianist (Westlife)
• 1980 – Miguel Pérez, Spanish footballer
• 1980 – Jørgen Strickert, Norwegian comedian, writer, and radio host
• 1981 – Daniel Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
• 1981 – Eric Ghiaciuc, American football player
• 1981 – Adam Green, American singer-songwriter, musician, and filmmaker (The Moldy Peaches)
• 1981 – Aaron Schock, American politician
• 1981 – Victoria Legrand, American singer-songwriter and keyboardist (Beach House)
• 1982 – Alexa Davalos, American actress
• 1982 – Jhonny Peralta, Dominican baseball player
• 1982 – Desiree del Valle, Filipino actress
• 1983 – Steve Cronin, American soccer player
• 1983 – Toby Hemingway, English actor
• 1983 – Humberto Sánchez, Dominican baseball player
• 1984 – Beth Allen, New Zealand actress
• 1985 – Colbie Caillat, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1985 – Pablo Andrés González, Argentine footballer
• 1985 – Kostas Mendrinos, Greek footballer
• 1985 – Carey Mulligan, English actress
• 1986 – Berrick Barnes, Australian rugby player
• 1986 – Seth Rollins, American wrestler
• 1986 – Joseph Cross, American actor
• 1986 – Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican model
• 1986 – Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer
• 1986 – Michael Oher, American football player
• 1988 – NaVorro Bowman, American football player
• 1988 – Percy Harvin, American football player
• 1988 – Craig Kimbrel, American baseball pitcher
• 1988 – Meisa Kuroki, Japanese actress, model, and singer
• 1988 – David Perron, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Kyle Walker, English footballer
• 1993 – Bárbara Luz, Portuguese tennis player
• 1993 – Jonnie Peacock, English sprinter
• 1993 – Mason Shefa, American director, writer, and producer
• 1995 – Jacob Kogan, American actor
• 1998 – Riho Sayashi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
• 1999 – Cameron Boyce, American actor and dancer

Deaths

• 576 – Germain of Paris, French bishop (b. 496)
• 1023 – Wulfstan, English archbishop and writer
• 1357 – Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
• 1509 – Caterina Sforza, Italian noblewoman (b. 1463)
• 1556 – Saitō Dōsan, Japanese daimyo (b. 1494)
• 1672 – John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
• 1747 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)
• 1750 – Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
• 1787 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)
• 1805 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)
• 1808 – Richard Hurd, English Bishop of Worcester and writer (b. 1720)
• 1811 – Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Scottish lawyer and politician (b. 1742)
• 1816 – Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord (b. 1745)
• 1828 – Daikokuya Kōdayū, Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
• 1831 – William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, English admiral (b. 1756)
• 1843 – Noah Webster, American writer and lexicographer (b. 1758)
• 1849 – Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1820)
• 1864 – Simion Bărnuțiu, Romanian philosopher and politician (b. 1808)
• 1878 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
• 1916 – Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)
• 1927 – Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
• 1937 – Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
• 1940 – Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (b. 1868)
• 1946 – Carter Glass, American politician (b. 1858)
• 1947 – August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)
• 1948 – Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer (b. 1914)
• 1952 – Philippe Desranleau, Canadian archbishop (b. 1882)
• 1953 – Tatsuo Hori, Japanese writer (b. 1904)
• 1968 – Fyodor Okhlopkov, Soviet sniper (b. 1908)
• 1971 – Audie Murphy, American actor and soldier (b. 1924)
• 1971 – Jean Vilar, French actor (b. 1912)
• 1972 – Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
• 1975 – Ezzard Charles, American boxer (b. 1921)
• 1976 – Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922)
• 1978 – Arthur Brough, English actor (b. 1905)
• 1980 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
• 1981 – Stefan Wyszyński, Polish prelate, Primate of Poland (b. 1901)
• 1981 – Mary Lou Williams, American pianist, composer, and arranger (b. 1910)
• 1982 – H. Jones, English army officer, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1940)
• 1983 – Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (b. 1909)
• 1984 – Eric Morecambe, English comedian and actor (b. 1926)
• 1988 – Sy Oliver, American trumpeter, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (b. 1916)
• 1998 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor and comedian (b. 1948)
• 2000 – George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (b. 1926)
• 2001 – Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
• 2001 – Joe Moakley, American politician (b. 1927)
• 2001 – Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-French guitarist and novelist (b. 1929)
• 2002 – Mildred Benson, American journalist and children's writer (b. 1905)
• 2002 – Jean Berger, German pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1909)
• 2003 – Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Soviet astronaut (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Umberto Agnelli, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Francis Brunn, German juggler (b. 1922)
• 2004 – Michael Buonauro, American artist and writer
• 2006 – Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Marquise Hill, American football player (b. 1982)
• 2007 – David Lane, American white nationalist, founding member of The Order (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
• 2008 – Beryl Cook, English painter (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Robert H. Justman, American director and producer (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Gary Coleman, American actor (b. 1968)
• 2011 – Alys Robi, French-Canadian singer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Hugh Dawnay, English soldier and polo player (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Bob Edwards, English journalist (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Ludovic Quistin, Guadeloupean footballer (b. 1984)
• 2012 – Yuri Susloparov, Ukrainian-Russian footballer and coach (b. 1958)
• 2012 – Matthew Yuricich, American special effects artist (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances

• Armed Forces Day (Croatia)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Bernard of Menthon
  • Germain of Paris
  • Lanfranc
  • Margaret Pole
  • William of Gellone
  • May 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Downfall of the Derg Day, a National Day. (Ethiopia)
• Flag Day (Philippines)
• Republic Day (Nepal)
• Republic Day, celebrates the declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918. (Azerbaijan and Armenia)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On this day in Canada

• Days of the year
• May