May 28

In literary history

• 1849Anne Brontë died at twenty-nine in Scarborough, the youngest and least celebrated of the three sisters, her body buried far from the parsonage where they had all written. Charlotte did not discover the errors on the gravestone for another three years.

Writers born on May 28

• Ian Fleming (1908),
• Walker Percy (1916)

The Daily Canon for May 28

Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin (1791).