About the day » Sunday June 28, 1908Calender converter

• Aaltje Span, Nieuweroord, Westerbork
• Anna Zandberg, Tietjerksteradeel
• Albertje Ent, Weststellingwerf, Boijl († 1989)
• Alexander Cornelis Smit, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aafien Wever, Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Elewina Catharina Lewerenz, Hardenberg
• Aafke Pama, Surhuisterveen, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Both, rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Abraham Willem Nortier, Poortvliet († 1988)
• Albertje Ent, Weststellingwerf-Noordwolde,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland († 1989)

• Berend Willem Hanskamp (85), Baak
• Arie Albertsz Wijker (87), Egmond aan Zee
• Wupke Kramer (61), Finsterwolde
• Berendina Bokking (71), Dedemsvaart
• Arie Wijker (87), Egmond aan Zee
• Akke Sytema (26), Warga, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Jasper (57), Águas Mornas, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Adrianus van Houten (35), Stoutenburg
• Adrianus Cornelis Joh Van den Bempt (16), Roosendaal
• Alijda Maria Driessen (22), Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands

• 1902 » Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer († 1979)
• 1906 » Maria Goeppert Mayer, Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1907 » Jimmy Mundy, American saxophonist and composer († 1983)
• 1907 » Yvonne Sylvain, First female Haitian physician († 1989)
• 1909 » Eric Ambler, English author and screenwriter († 1998)
• 1912 » Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher († 2007)
• 1913 » Franz Antel, Austrian director and producer († 2007)
• 1913 » George Lloyd, English soldier and composer († 1998)
• 1913 » Walter Oesau, German colonel and pilot († 1944)
• 1914 » Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician and Nazi war criminal († 1992)

• 1881 » Jules Armand Dufaure, French politician, 33rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1798)
• 1889 » Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and academic (b. 1818)
• 1892 » Alexandros Rizos Rangavis, Greek poet and politician, Greek Foreign Minister (b. 1810)
• 1913 » Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Brazil (b. 1841)
• 1914 » Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria (b. 1863)
• 1914 » Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg (b. 1868)
• 1915 » Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1917 » Ștefan Luchian, Romanian painter and educator (b. 1868)
• 1922 » Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1885)
• 1929 » Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (b. 1844)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Dirk
13. Hendrikus
14. Wilhelmus
15. Arie
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Aaltje
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Neeltje
16. Trijntje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
• January 21 » New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
• April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
• June 27 » A group of Vietnamese tirailleurs conducts a failed attempt to poison the entire French army's garrison in the Hanoi Citadel with the aim to make way for Hoàng Hoa Thám's rebel army to capture Hanoi.
• July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
• July 26 » United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
• September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.

The temperature on June 28, 1908 was between 9.9 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.