Famous people died in 28 June

Robert Carlyle Byrd was an eminent 20th century American politician

Theodora was one of the most influential Byzantine empresses and the wife of Emperor Justinian I

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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was an Indian statistician who devised the Mahalanobis distance

Mikhail Tal was a Latvian Soviet chess Grandmaster and is regarded as the best attacking player of all time

Yanka Kupala was a Belarusian nationalist poet, who is famous for his poem ‘Ад сэрца’ (‘From the Heart’)

Franz Ferdinand was an Archduke of Austria-Este whose assassination sparked the First World War

Rod Serling was an American television producer, screenwriter, playwright and narrator

Terry Fox was a Canadian athlete who became a national hero by embarking on a marathon to raise funds for cancer research

Charlotte Brosnan was an English actress and the adopted daughter of Hollywood megastar Pierce Brosnan

GG Allin was a controversial American punk rock singer and songwriter