| 49 | BC | Julius Caesar, who has the flu, visits Cicero at Formiae |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Gontrand, King of Orleans, and that of St. Peter Chanel, Patron of Oceania |
| 193 | | Didius Julianus bribes the Praetorians to make him Roman Emperor (Mar 28-Jun 1, 193) -- Learn More |
| 845 | | The Vikings sack Paris |
| 1461 | | Battle of Dintingdale: Lord Fauconberg defeats Lord Clifford |
| 1461 | | Battle of Ferrybridge: King Edward IV defeats the Dukes of Somerset & Rivers |
| 1774 | | Britain passes the Coercive Act, to punish Massachusetts for the Tea Party and other acts of resistance |
| 1782 | | George Washington authorizes the kidnapping of Prince William Henry, a midshipman in the British fleet at New York -- Learn More |
| 1799 | | NY State initiates the abolition of slavery, which is completed in 1827 |
| 1809 | | Battle of Medllin: The French defeat the Spanish |
| 1814 | | HMS's 'Phoebe' and 'Cherub' capture USS 'Essex' off Valparaiso, Chile |
| 1915 | | German submarine 'U-28' torpedoes the British liner 'Falaba' in St. George's Channel, 104 die |
| 1917 | | Turks expel the Jews from Tel Aviv & Jaffa |
| 1930 | | Turkey renames Constantinople as Istanbul, Angora as Ankara. |
| 1939 | | Franco captures Madrid; Spanish Civil War ends |
| 1941 | | Battle of Cape Matapan: An overnight action ending early on the 29th, results in heavy loses for the Italian Regia Marina by the British Royal Navy |
| 1942 | | RAF bombs Lubeck |
| 1942 | | Operation Chariot: Nocturnal RN/RM commando raid blocks the 'Normandie' dock in Nazi-occupied St Nazaire; five VCs awarded -- Learn More |
| 1945 | | Last V-1 buzz bomb attack on London |
| 1958 | | Elvis joins Co A, 2nd Bn, 37th Armor, 2nd Arm Div, Ft. Hood |
| 1 | | Jesus [Alt Trad] |
| 1468 | | Duke Charles I of Savoy (1482-1489) |
| 1515 | | St. Teresa of Avila, d. 1562 |
| 1584 | | Tsar Ivan IV "the Terrible" of Russia (1547-1584), at 53 -- Learn More |
| 1660 | | Duke and Elector Georg of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) (1698-1772), King George I of Great Britain (1714-1727) |
| 1727 | | Elector Maximilian III Joseph of Bavaria (1745-77) |
| 1818 | | Wade Hampton, Lt Gen, C.S.A., d. 1902 |
| 1840 | | Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer/Mehmet Emin Pasha, German adventurer, d. 1892 |
| 1862 | | Aristide Briand, Nobel Peace Prize in 1926 for "Outlawing" war, d. 1932 |
| 1872 | | Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general and conspirator, d. 1936 |
| 1912 | | Claretta Petacci, mistress to Benito Mussolini, k. 1945 |
| 1928 | | Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor (1977-1981) |
| 193 | | Roman Emperor Publius Helvius Pertinax (Jan 1-Mar 28 193), 66, murdered by the Praetorians -- Learn More |
| 592 | | King Guntram of the Burgundians (561-592), c. 67 |
| 1241 | | King Valdemar II of Denmark (1202-1241), 71 |
| 1285 | | Pope Martin IV - Simon de Brie (1281-1285), c. 65-70 |
| 1461 | | John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford (1455-1461), c. 25, Lancastrian, kia, Ferrybridge |
| 1461 | | John FitzWalter, 3rd Baron FitzWalter (1328-1361), c. 46, kia, Ferrybridge |
| 1462 | | Grand Prince Vasily II Vasiliyevich "the Blind" of Moscovy (1425-1462), 47 |
| 1757 | | Robert Francois Damiens, executed at 42, by skinned, doused with molten lead, castrated, and drawn and quartered, for attempting to kill Louis XV of France |
| 1801 | | Lt Gen Sir Ralph Abercrombie, 69, kia, Battle of Alexandria |
| 1850 | | Paolo Bartolomeo Avitabile, Neapolitan lieutenant, Persian colonel, Punjabi general, at c. 58 |
| 1868 | | Lt Gen James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, 70, inept cavalryman at Balaklava |
| 1881 | | Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, sometime Preobrazhensky Guardsman, composer ("Night on Bald Mountain"), at 42 and one week, from alcoholism |
| 1915 | | Leon C. Thrasher, drowned in the sinking of the 'Falaba' -- the first American civilian killed in WW I |
| 1944 | | The Chief Rabbi of Kovono, killed by the Nazis |
| 1969 | | Dwight Eisenhower, soldier, president (1953-1961), at 78 -- Learn More |
| 1987 | | Maria von Trapp, of Trapp family of singers, at 82 -- Learn More |
| 2013 | | Robert Remini, 91, US Navy veteran, historian ("The Life of Andrew Jackson", etc. |