| 85441 | July 28 | Death | 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre, French lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the Committee of Public Safety (b. 1758) |
| 85442 | July 28 | Death | 1794 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French soldier and politician (b. 1767) |
| 85443 | July 28 | Death | 1808 – Selim III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1761) |
| 85444 | July 28 | Death | 1809 – Richard Beckett, English cricketer and captain (b.1772) |
| 85445 | July 28 | Death | 1818 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1746) |
| 85446 | July 28 | Death | 1835 – Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise, French general and politician, 15th Prime Minister of France (b. 1768) |
| 85447 | July 28 | Death | 1836 – Nathan Mayer Rothschild, German-English banker and financier (b. 1777) |
| 85448 | July 28 | Death | 1842 – Clemens Brentano, German author and poet (b. 1778) |
| 85449 | July 28 | Death | 1844 – Joseph Bonaparte, French brother of Napoleon (b. 1768) |
| 85450 | July 28 | Death | 1849 – Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798) |
| 85451 | July 28 | Death | 1869 – Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist and physiologist (b. 1787) |
| 85452 | July 28 | Death | 1878 – George Law Curry, American publisher and politician (b. 1820) |
| 85453 | July 28 | Death | 1895 – Edward Beecher, American minister and theologian (b. 1803) |
| 85454 | July 28 | Death | 1930 – John DeWitt, American hammer thrower (b. 1881) |
| 85455 | July 28 | Death | 1930 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862) |
| 85456 | July 28 | Death | 1933 – Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, 30th yokozuna (b. 1890) |
| 85457 | July 28 | Death | 1934 – Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1868) |
| 85458 | July 28 | Death | 1934 – Louis Tancred, South African cricketer and pilot (b. 1876) |
| 85459 | July 28 | Death | 1935 – Meletius IV of Constantinople (b. 1871) |
| 85460 | July 28 | Death | 1942 – Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist and academic (b. 1853) |
| 85461 | July 28 | Death | 1957 – Edith Abbott, American economist, social worker, and educator (b. 1876) |
| 85462 | July 28 | Death | 1957 – Isaac Heinemann, German-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1876) |
| 85463 | July 28 | Death | 1965 – Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic (b. 1894) |
| 85464 | July 28 | Death | 1965 – Attallah Suheimat, Jordanian politician (b. 1875) |
| 85465 | July 28 | Death | 1967 – Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1942) |
| 85466 | July 28 | Death | 1968 – Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879) |
| 85467 | July 28 | Death | 1969 – Ramón Grau, Cuban physician and politician, 6th President of Cuba (b. 1882) |
| 85468 | July 28 | Death | 1969 – Frank Loesser, American composer (b. 1910) |
| 85469 | July 28 | Death | 1971 – Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, Canadian colonel and diplomat (b. 1890) |
| 85470 | July 28 | Death | 1971 – Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908) |