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Events during the year 1928 in Italy.

Incumbents

12 April – A bomb, directed against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, kills 18 people at the Milan Trade Fair.^[1]
24 May – The airship Italia reaches the North Pole, with expedition leader Umberto Nobile on board. The ship crashes on its return journey.^[2]
24 June – Umberto Nobile and survivors of the crash of the airship Italia are rescued by the crew of a Swedish aeroplane.
2 August – Italy and Ethiopia sign the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty.

2 January – Alberto Zedda, conductor and musicologist (died 2017)^[3]
9 January – Domenico Modugno, singer, songwriter, actor and politician (died 1994)^[4]
5 June – Umberto Maglioli, racing driver (died 1999)
6 June – Elio Sgreccia, cardinal (died 2019)^[5]
29 June – Alfredo Biondi, politician and lawyer (died 2020)
4 July – Giampiero Boniperti, footballer (died 2021)^[6]
26 July – Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of Italy (died 2010)^[7]
16 October – Nando Gazzolo, actor and voice actor (died 2015)
22 December
- Piero Angela, writer, journalist and television presenter^[8]
- Luisa Massimo, pediatrician (died 2016)

28 February – Armando Diaz, 66, general, Marshal of Italy
31 March – Medardo Rosso, 70, sculptor
25 May (lost in the crash of the airship Italia)^[2]
- Aldo Pontremoli, 32, physicist
- Renato Alessandrini, 37, explorer
17 July – Giovanni Giolitti, 85, 13th Prime Minister of Italy^[9]

^ Jonathan Dunnage (2012). Mussolini's Policemen: Behaviour, Ideology and Institutional Culture in Representation and Practice. Oxford University Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-7190-8139-2.
^ ^a ^b Basil Collier (1974). The airship: a history. Putnam. p. 261. ISBN 978-0-399-11430-4.
^ David Salazar (7 March 2017). "Obituary: Rossini Specialist Alberto Zedda Passes Away At 89". OperaWire. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
^ Gino Moliterno (11 September 2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. Routledge. p. 526. ISBN 978-1-134-75876-0.
^ "Sgreccia Card. Elio". Holy See Press Office. Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
^ Gigi Garanzini. "BONIPERTI, Giampiero" (in Italian). Treccani: Enciclopedia dello Sport (2002). Retrieved 20 June 2021.
^ Michael Ellul (1998). History on Marble: A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Presidential Palaces in Valletta, San Anton and Verdala, Malta. PEG, Publishers enterprises group. p. 477. ISBN 978-99909-0-103-0.
^ Ravizza, Simona (1 July 2010). "Piero Angela "Sono del 28 e guido bene, più pericolosi i ragazzi"" [PIERO ANGELA "I'm from 1928 and I drive well, young people are more dangerous"]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian): 27. Archived from the original on 2 December 2012. Retrieved 24 Oct 2019.
^ Giovanni Giolitti, DIZIONARIO BIOGRAFICO