The arrangement mirrors the one designed by Bernini for the Tomb of Urban VIII ( 1628 – 47 ), with a central hieratic sculpture of the pope seated in full regalia and offering a hand of blessing, while at his feet, two allegorical female figures flank his sarcophagus.

* Alfonso III d ' Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio ( 1628 – 44 ).

* Alfonso III d ' Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio ( 1628 – 1644 )

* 1592 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman ( d. 1628 )

* 1628 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English statesman ( d. 1701 )

* 1628 – The Swedish warship sinks in the Stockholm harbour after only about 20 minutes of her maiden voyage.

Some continued to use one or other of the calendars in force in the 1628 – 1969 period.

* 1662 – Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria ( b. 1628 )

1565 – 21 January 1628 ) was a German composer.

This conflict ended in the Siege of La Rochelle ( 1627 – 1628 ), in which Protestants and their English supporters were defeated.

* 1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.

* 1628 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher ( b. 1547 )

* 1628 – Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord ( d. 1701 )

* 1574 – Thomas Platter the Younger, Swiss physician ( d. 1628 )

* 1628 – François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general ( d. 1695 )

In September 2001, a document known as the " Chinon Parchment " dated 17 – 20 August 1308 was discovered in the Vatican Secret Archives by Barbara Frale, apparently after having been filed in the wrong place in 1628.

The Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ) text of the Wubei Zhi ( Treatise on Armament Technology ), written by Mao Yuanyi in 1628, outlined the use of land mines that were triggered by the heat of a slow-burning incandescent material in an underground bowl placed directly above the train of fuses leading to the mines buried 3 ft beneath.

* 1603 – 1628: Zidane el-Nasser

* 1628 – 1631: Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik II

* 1628 – Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate that every county in England ( not just seaport towns ) pay ship tax by this date.

* 1547 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher ( d. 1628 )

* 1702 – Dominique Bouhours, French essayist and critic ( b. 1628 )

* 1628 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician ( d. 1694 )

* 1628 – Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway ( d. 1685 )

* April 16 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman ( b. 1628 )

* George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham of England ( 1592 – 1628 ), nobleman, statesman, and military commander

* August 28 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman ( died 1628 )

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham KG (; 28 August 1592 – 23 August 1628 ) was the favourite, claimed by some to be the lover, of King James I of England.

Buckingham with his wife Katherine Manners, their daughter Mary and son George, 1628

* Roger Lockyer, Buckingham, the Life and Political Career of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, 1592 – 1628 ( Longman, 1981 ).

His last and best patron was George Berkeley, 1st Earl Berkeley ( 1628 – 1698 ), of Cranford House, Middlesex, whose chaplain he was, and who gave him Cranford rectory ( 1658 ).

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 20th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, KG, PC, FRS ( 10 January 1628 – 16 April 1687 ) was an English statesman and poet.

* George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham ( 1592 – 1628 ), courtier of James I of England, minister to Charles I

* George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham ( 1628 – 1687 ), English politician, son of the first Duke, exiled with Charles II

* George Coventry, 3rd Baron Coventry ( 1628 – 1680 )

* George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham ( 1592 – 1628 ) was a favourite of James I of England

* George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham ( 1628 – 1687 ), younger son of the 1st Duke, died without issue, and most of his titles went extinct

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham ( 1592 – 1628 ), by Peter Paul Rubens, 1625

Those holding this view include: 1600s: Sussex Baptists d. 1612: Edward Wightman 1627: Samuel Gardner 1628: Samuel Przypkowski 1636: George Wither 1637: Joachim Stegmann 1624: Richard Overton 1654: John Biddle ( Unitarian ) 1655: Matthew Caffyn 1658: Samuel Richardson 1608 – 1674: John Milton 1588 – 1670: Thomas Hobbes 1605 – 1682: Thomas Browne 1622 – 1705: Henry Layton 1702: William Coward 1632 – 1704: John Locke 1643 – 1727: Isaac Newton 1676 – 1748: Pietro Giannone 1751: William Kenrick 1755: Edmund Law 1759: Samuel Bourn 1723 – 1791: Richard Price 1718 – 1797: Peter Peckard 1733 – 1804: Joseph Priestley Francis Blackburne ( 1765 ) ( 1765 ).

Having served in France, Germany and the Netherlands, Grenville gained the favour of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, took part in the expeditions to Cádiz, to the island of Rhé and to La Rochelle, was knighted, and in 1628 became member of parliament for Fowey, Cornwall.

John Felton ( c. 1595 – 29 November 1628 ) was a lieutenant in the English army who stabbed George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham to death in Portsmouth on 23 August 1628.

* George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 20th Baron de Ros ( 1628 – 1687 ) ( barony abeyant 1687 )

George Feilding was created Earl of Desmond in 1628 ( see below ).

George Feilding, second son of the first Earl of Denbigh, was created Baron Fielding, of Lecaghe in the County of Tipperary, and Viscount Callan, of Callan in the County of Kilkenny, in 1622, and was made Earl of Desmond in 1628.

The fourth creation was in 1628 for George Feilding, 1st Viscount Callan.

George Cottington, a former employee of Calvert, suggested in 1628 that Calvert's conversion had been in progress a long time before it was made public.