1928 in Italy

Incumbents

• Monarch: Victor Emmanuel III
• Prime Minister: Benito Mussolini

Events

• 12 April – A bomb, directed against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, kills 18 people at the Milan Trade Fair.
• 24 May – The airship Italia reaches the North Pole, with expedition leader Umberto Nobile on board. The ship crashes on its return journey.
• 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.

Births

• 2 January – Alberto Zedda, conductor and musicologist
• 9 January – Domenico Modugno, singer, songwriter, actor and politician
• 5 June – Umberto Maglioli, racing driver
• 6 June – Elio Sgreccia, cardinal
• 29 June – Alfredo Biondi, politician and lawyer
• 4 July – Giampiero Boniperti, footballer
• 26 July – Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of Italy
• 13 September – Franzo Grande Stevens, lawyer
• 16 October – Nando Gazzolo, actor
• 22 December
• * Piero Angela, writer, journalist and television presenter
• * Luisa Massimo, pediatrician

Deaths

• 28 February – Armando Diaz, 66, general, Marshal of Italy
• 31 March – Medardo Rosso, 70, sculptor
• 25 May
• *Aldo Pontremoli, 32, physicist
• *Renato Alessandrini, 37, explorer
• 17 July – Giovanni Giolitti, 85, 13th Prime Minister of Italy