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 )

* 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 )

* January 14 – Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord ( b. 1628 )

In 1628, Tokugawa Iemitsu's daughter had a set of lacquer boxes made for her wedding ; Prince Toshitada received a pair of silk genji-e screens, painted by Kanō Tan ' yū as a wedding gift in 1649.

Among the more famous rakugoka of the Tokugawa Era were performers like Anrakuan Sakuden ( 1554 – 1642 ), the author of the Seisuishō ( Laughter to Chase Away Sleep, 1628 ), a collection of more than 1, 000 stories.

** Torii Tadamasa, Japanese nobleman ( d. 1628 )

The already troubled relations with Japanese merchants in Tayouan took a turn for the worse in 1628 when tensions boiled over.

In 1628, during the War of the Mantuan Succession, Barcelonnette and the other towns of the Ubaye Valley were pillaged and burned by Jacques du Blé d ' Uxelles and his troops, as they passed through towards Italy to the Duke of Mantua's aid.

* 1628 – François Girardon, French sculptor ( d. 1715 )

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

* 1576 – Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary ( d. 1628 )

** Johannes Junius, Burgomeister of Bamberg ( d. 1628 )

** Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester ( d. 1628 )

* October 3 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet ( d. 1628 )

** Tobias Matthew, archbishop of York ( d. 1628 )

** Gregor Aichinger, German composer ( d. 1628 )

** Adam Sędziwój Czarnkowski, Polish nobleman ( d. 1628 )

** François de Malherbe, French poet ( d. 1628 )

** Jan Zbigniew Ossoliński, Polish nobleman ( d. 1628 )

** Richard Whitbourne, English colonist ( d. 1628 )

* November 17 – Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary ( d. 1628 )