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 – 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 )

* 1628 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman ( d. 1687 )

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 )

* 1628 – John Bunyan, English cleric and author ( d. 1688 )

), De Tallagio non Concedendo, though it is printed among the statutes of the realm, and was cited as a statute in the preamble to the Petition of Right in 1628, and by the judges in John Hampden's case in 1637, is probably an imperfect and unauthoritative abstract of the Confirmatio Cartarum.

* August 31 – John Bunyan, English writer ( b. 1628 )

* John Bull of England ( 1562 ?- 1628 ), composer and musician

* August 22 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman ( b. 1628 )

** John Bull, English composer ( d. 1628 )

* John Frescheville, 1st Baron Frescheville, who family seat was in Staveley was elected a Member of Parliament 1628 – 9 and 1661 – 9.

The antiquary was satirised in John Earle's Micro-cosmographie of 1628 (" Hee is one that hath that unnaturall disease to bee enamour'd of old age, and wrinkles, and loves all things ( as Dutchmen doe Cheese ) the better for being mouldy and worme-eaten "), in Jean-Siméon Chardin's painting " Le Singe Antiquaire " ( c. 1726 ), in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Antiquary ( 1816 ), in the caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson, and in many other places.

; John Chamberlain ( 1553 – 1628 ) reported at the time that the King " hath long had a desire to remove him from about the lord of Rochester, as thinking it a dishonour to him that the world should have an opinion that Rochester ruled him and Overbury ruled Rochester ".

* John Bunyan ( 1628 – 1688 ), author of Pilgrim's Progress

* John Callahan, former Division Chief of the Accidents and Investigations Branch of the FAA, Washington D. C., also a Disclosure Project witness, said that following the Japan Air Lines flight 1628 incident that involved a giant UFO over Alaska, recorded by air and ground radar, the FAA conducted an investigation.

This came to a head in what was almost the last case of torture in England, the case of John Felton in 1628.

* A Turbulent, Seditious, and Factious People: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628 – 1688 ( 1988 ), ISBN 0-19-812818-5 -- published in the United States as A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-1688 ( 1989 ), ISBN 0-394-57242-4

* Sir John Coke ( 1625 – 1628 )

** John Doddridge, lawyer, politician, antiquarian and writer ( died 1628 )

** John Chamberlain, letter writer ( died 1628 )

Buckingham, who continued in office as chief minister into the reign of James's son, Charles I, was responsible for a policy of war against Spain and France, and was assassinated by a Puritan fanatic, John Felton, in 1628 as he prepared an expedition to relieve the Huguenots of La Rochelle.

His father was a son of John Doddridge ( 1621 – 1689 ), rector of Shepperton, Middlesex, who resigned his living after the Act of Uniformity of 1662 and became a nonconformist minister, and a great-nephew of the judge and MP Sir John Doddridge ( 1555 – 1628 ).

In 1672 or before he married a daughter of Sir John Kirke who had been involved in the 1628 capture of Quebec.

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 ).