28 October Deaths

October 28 is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 64 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).

312 – Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. 278)
457 – Ibas of Edessa, Syrian bishop
1225 – Jien, Japanese monk, historian, and poet (b. 1155)
1312 – Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany (b. 1262)
1412 – Margaret I of Denmark (b. 1353)
1568 – Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
1594 – Ōkubo Tadayo, Japanese general (b. 1532)
1639 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer and educator (b. 1587)
1646 – William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
1661 – Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish priest and playwright (b. 1618)
1676 – Jean Desmarets, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1595)
1703 – John Wallis, English mathematician and cryptographer (b. 1616)
1704 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher (b. 1632)
1708 – Prince George of Denmark (b. 1653)
1716 – Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627)
1740 – Anna of Russia (b. 1693)
1754 – Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
1755 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689)
1763 – Heinrich von Brühl, German general and politician (b. 1700)
1768 – Michel Blavet, French flute player and composer (b. 1700)
1787 – Johann Karl August Musäus, German author (b. 1735)
1792 – Paul Möhring, German physician, botanist, and zoologist (b. 1710)
1792 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (b. 1724)
1800 – Artemas Ward, American general and politician (b. 1727)
1806 – Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and author (b. 1749)
1841 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1792)
1857 – Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1802)
1877 – Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)
1879 – Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
1899 – Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
1900 – Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
1914 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
1916 – Oswald Boelcke, German captain and pilot (b. 1891)
1917 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
1917 – Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841)
1918 – Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845)
1929 – Bernhard von Bülow, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
1939 – Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
1945 – Kesago Nakajima, Japanese general (b. 1881)
1952 – Billy Hughes, English-Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
1957 – Ernst Gräfenberg, German-American physician and gynecologist (b. 1881)
1958 – Stephen Butterworth, English physicist and engineer (b. 1885)
1959 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban soldier (b. 1932)
1963 – Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1882)
1969 – Constance Dowling, American model and actress (b. 1920)
1970 – Baby Huey, American singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
1973 – Taha Hussein, Egyptian historian, author, and academic (b. 1889)
1973 – Sergio Tofano, Italian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1883)
1975 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer and actor (b. 1894)
1975 – Oliver Nelson, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (b. 1932)
1978 – Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan singer and actress (b. 1923)
1980 – Leon Janney, American actor (b. 1917)
1983 – Otto Messmer, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1892)
1986 – John Braine, English author (b. 1922)
1987 – André Masson, French soldier and painter (b. 1896)
1989 – Henry Hall, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1898)
1990 – Erich Göstl, Austrian SS officer (b. 1925)
1993 – Yuri Lotman, Russian-Estonian historian and scholar (b. 1922)
1997 – Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1915)
1998 – Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright (b. 1930)
1999 – Antonios Katinaris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
2000 – Andújar Cedeño, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
2001 – Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1910)
2002 – Margaret Booth, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1898)
2002 – Erling Persson, Swedish businessman, founded H&M (b. 1917)
2004 – Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-American boxer and actor (b. 1907)
2005 – Eugene K. Bird, American colonel (b. 1926)
2005 – Bob Broeg, American soldier and journalist (b. 1918)
2005 – Raymond Hains, French photographer (b. 1926)
2005 – Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
2005 – Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean-Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
2005 – Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
2005 – Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)
2006 – Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (b. 1917)
2006 – Tina Aumont, American actress (b. 1946)
2006 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer (b. 1954)
2006 – Marijohn Wilkin, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1920)
2007 – Takao Fujinami, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
2007 – Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1927)
2009 – Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1990)
2010 – Liang Congjie, Chinese historian and activist, founded Friends of Nature (b. 1932)
2010 – James MacArthur, American actor (b. 1937)
2010 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938)
2010 – Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist, architect, and educator (b. 1934)
2011 – Tom Addington, English soldier (b. 1919)
2012 – Merry Anders, American actress (b. 1932)
2012 – Gordon Bilney, Australian dentist and politician (b. 1939)
2012 – Bob Brunner, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1934)
2012 – John Cheffers, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1936)
2012 – Jack Dellal, English businessman (b. 1923)
2012 – Kevin Reilly, American soldier, businessman, and politician (b. 1928)
2013 – Nalini Ambady, Indian-American psychologist and academic (b. 1959)
2013 – Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
2013 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1927)
2013 – Ike Skelton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1931)
2013 – Aleksandar Tijanić, Serbian journalist (b. 1949)
2013 – Rajendra Yadav, Indian author (b. 1929)
2014 – Koichiro Kimura, Japanese mixed martial artist and wrestler (b. 1969)
2014 – Galway Kinnell, American poet and academic (b. 1927)
2014 – J. Ross Mackay, Canadian geographer and academic (b. 1915)
2014 – Michael Sata, Zambian police officer and politician, 5th President of Zambia (b. 1937)
2015 – Diane Charlemagne, English singer-songwriter (b. 1964)
2015 – Nancy Dye, American historian and academic (b. 1947)
2015 – Bruce L. Edwards, American scholar and academic (b. 1952)

Source: Wikipedia