# October 28

* October 28 in recent years
* 2024 (Monday)
* 2023 (Saturday)
* 2022 (Friday)
* 2021 (Thursday)
* 2020 (Wednesday)
* 2019 (Monday)
* 2018 (Sunday)
* 2017 (Saturday)
* 2016 (Friday)
* 2015 (Wednesday)
October 28 is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 64 days remain until the end of the year.

## Events
### Pre-1600

* 97 – Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.
* 306 – Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.
* 312 – Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West.
* 969 – The Byzantine Empire recovers Antioch from Arab rule.
* 1344 – The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Latin Christians in response to Aydınid piracy during the Smyrniote crusades.
* 1420 – Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty when the Forbidden City is completed.
* 1449 – Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
* 1453 – Ladislaus the Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague.
* 1492 – Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World, surmising that it is Japan.
* 1516 – Second Ottoman–Mamluk War: Mamluks fail to stop the Ottoman advance towards Egypt at the Battle of Yaunis Khan.
* 1520 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean.
* 1531 – Abyssinian–Adal war: The Adal Sultanate seizes southern Ethiopia.
* 1538 – The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now the Dominican Republic.

### 1601–1900

* 1628 – French Wars of Religion: The Siege of La Rochelle ends with the surrender of the Huguenots after fourteen months.
* 1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University.
* 1640 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, ending the hostilities of the Second Bishops’ War.
* 1664 – The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
* 1707 – The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Japan.
* 1726 – The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift is published.
* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.
* 1834 – The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists.
* 1835 – The United Tribes of New Zealand are established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
* 1864 – American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital of Richmond is repulsed.
* 1886 – US president Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
* 1891 – The Mino–Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, occurs.
* 1893 – Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.

### 1901–present

* 1918 – World War I: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War.
* 1918 – World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city of Prague, thus establishing the First Czechoslovak Republic.
* 1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
* 1922 – Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
* 1928 – Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem of Indonesia, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
* 1940 – World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later.
* 1942 – The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.
* 1948 – Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
* 1948 – Ecological disaster in Donora, Pennsylvania.
* 1949 – An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board.
* 1956 – Hungarian Revolution: A de facto ceasefire comes into effect between armed revolutionaries and Soviet troops, who begin to withdraw from Budapest. Communist officials and facilities come under attack by revolutionaries.
* 1954 – Aeroflot Flight 136 crashes near Krasnoyarsk, killing 19.
* 1958 – John XXIII is elected Pope.
* 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
* 1965 – Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Roman Catholic Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.
* 1971 – Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket.
* 1982 – The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
* 1989 – Aloha Island Air Flight 1712, a Twin Otter 300, crashed into terrain at night in Hawaii killing all 20 occupants onboard.
* 1990 – Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule.
* 1995 – The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured.
* 2006 – A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.
* 2007 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina.
* 2009 – The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
* 2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.
* 2009 – US President Barack Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
* 2013 – Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China.
* 2014 – A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia.
* 2018 – Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million votes, with Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad as the runner-up. It is the first time in 16 years that a Workers' Party candidate is not elected president.
* 2023 – The 2023 Rugby World Cup final is held at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France. It saw South Africa defeat New Zealand 11 to 12, claiming their fourth Webb Ellis Cup, becoming the first nation to do so.

## Births
### Pre-1600

* 1017 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
* 1466 – Erasmus, Dutch philosopher (d. 1536)
* 1479 – John Gage, English courtier (d. 1556)
* 1510 – Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Spanish priest and saint, 3rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1572)
* 1550 – Stanislaus Kostka, Polish saint (d. 1568)
* 1585 – Cornelius Jansen, Dutch bishop and theologian (d. 1638)
* 1599 – Marie of the Incarnation, foundress of the Ursuline Monastery in Quebec (d. 1672)

### 1601–1900

* 1610 – Jacob Kettler, 3rd duke of Courland and Semigallia (d. 1682)
* 1667 – Maria Anna of Neuburg, Queen consort of Spain
* 1690 – Peter Tordenskjold, Norwegian admiral (d. 1720)
* 1693 – Šimon Brixi, Czech composer (d. 1735)
* 1696 – Maurice de Saxe, French general (d. 1750)
* 1703 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1768)
* 1718 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer (d. 1793)
* 1733 – Franz Ignaz von Beecke, German composer (d. 1803)
* 1754 – John Laurens, American soldier (d. 1782)
* 1767 – Marie of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1852)
* 1793 – Eliphalet Remington, American businessman, founded Remington Arms (d. 1861)
* 1794 – Robert Liston, Scottish surgeon (d. 1847)
* 1804 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician and theorist (d. 1849)
* 1815 – Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak philologist and politician (d. 1856)
* 1816 – Malwida von Meysenbug, German writer (d. 1903)
* 1837 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1913)
* 1839 – Edward P. Allen, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 1909)
* 1845 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (d. 1888)
* 1846 – Auguste Escoffier, French chef and author (d. 1935)
* 1854 – Jean-Marie Guyau, French philosopher and poet (d. 1888)
* 1860 – Kanō Jigorō, Japanese martial artist (d. 1938)
* 1864 – Adolfo Camarillo, Mexican-American rancher and philanthropist (d. 1958)
* 1867 – Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian nurse, author, and educator (d. 1911)
* 1875 – Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, Turkish-Canadian journalist (d. 1966)
* 1877 – Joe Adams, American baseball player and manager (d. 1952)
* 1879 – Channing H. Cox, American lawyer and politician, 49th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1968)
* 1880 – Wilhelm Anderson, Belarusian-Estonian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1940)
* 1880 – Billy Wedlock, English footballer (d. 1965)
* 1881 – Vin Coutie, Australian footballer (d. 1951)
* 1884 – William Douglas Cook, New Zealand horticulturalist, founded Eastwoodhill Arboretum (d. 1967)
* 1886 – O. G. S. Crawford, British archaeologist (d. 1957)
* 1886 – Noel Macklin, English soldier and engineer (d. 1946)
* 1888 – Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham (d. 1964)
* 1889 – Juliette Béliveau, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1975)
* 1892 – Dink Johnson, American pianist, drummer, and clarinet player (d. 1954)
* 1893 – Christopher Kelk Ingold, British chemist (d. 1970)
* 1896 – Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1981)
* 1897 – Edith Head, American costume designer (d. 1981)
* 1897 – Hans Speidel, German general (d. 1984)

### 1901–present

* 1901 – Ambrogio Gianotti, Italian partigiano and priest (d. 1969)
* 1901 – Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (d. 1979)
* 1902 – Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress and singer (d. 1986)
* 1903 – John Chamberlain, American historian, journalist, and critic (d. 1995)
* 1903 – Evelyn Waugh, English journalist, author, and critic (d. 1966)
* 1904 – George Dangerfield, English-American historian, journalist, and author (d. 1986)
* 1905 – Tatyana Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician (d. 1984)
* 1907 – John Hewitt, Irish poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1987)
* 1908 – Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (d. 1995)
* 1909 – Francis Bacon, Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1992)
* 1912 – Richard Doll, English physiologist and epidemiologist (d. 2005)
* 1914 – Glenn Robert Davis, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1988)
* 1914 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995)
* 1914 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
* 1916 – Pearl Hackney, English actress (d. 2009)
* 1917 – Jack Soo, American actor and singer (d. 1979)
* 1919 – Walt Hansgen, American race car driver (d. 1966)
* 1919 – Hans Klenk, German race car driver (d. 2009)
* 1921 – Azumafuji Kin'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna (d. 1973)
* 1922 – Gershon Kingsley, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2019)
* 1922 – Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician, 1st Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
* 1922 – Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball player and coach (d. 2007)
* 1923 – John Connell, American actor (d. 2015)
* 1924 – Antonio Creus, Spanish race car driver and motorcycle racer (d. 1996)
* 1924 – Peddibhotla Suryakantam, Telugu actress (d. 1994)
* 1925 – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Bahamian-Scottish poet, sculptor, and gardener (d. 2006)
* 1926 – Bowie Kuhn, American lawyer and businessman, 5th Commissioner of Baseball (d. 2007)
* 1927 – Cleo Laine, English singer and actress
* 1928 – Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general (d. 2021)
* 1928 – William Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
* 1929 – Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1988)
* 1929 – Virginia Held, American philosopher, author, and academic
* 1929 – John Hollander, American poet, critic, and educator (d. 2013)
* 1929 – Joan Plowright, English actress (d. 2025)
* 1930 – Bernie Ecclestone, English businessman
* 1931 – Harold Battiste, American saxophonist, pianist, and composer (d. 2015)
* 1932 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (d. 2002)
* 1932 – Suzy Parker, American model and actress (d. 2003)
* 1933 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
* 1933 – Michael Noakes, English painter and illustrator (d. 2018)
* 1934 – Charles A. Gargano, American diplomat, businessman and government official
* 1935 – Alan Clarke, English director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
* 1936 – Charlie Daniels, American singer-songwriter, fiddle-player and guitarist (d. 2020)
* 1936 – Ted Hawkins, American soul-blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995)
* 1937 – Graham Bond, English keyboard player, singer, and saxophonist (d. 1974)
* 1937 – Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player and coach
* 1938 – Keigo Abe, Japanese martial artist and coach (d. 2019)
* 1938 – Kenneth Best, Liberian journalist, founded The Daily Observer
* 1938 – Howard Blake, English composer and conductor
* 1938 – Dave Budd, American basketball player
* 1938 – Gary Cowan, Canadian golfer
* 1938 – David Dimbleby, English journalist
* 1938 – Anne Perry, English author (d. 2023)
* 1939 – Jane Alexander, American actress and producer
* 1939 – Andy Bey, American singer and pianist
* 1939 – Miroslav Cerar, Slovenian gymnast and lawyer
* 1939 – Curtis Lee, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
* 1940 – Susan Harris, American screenwriter and producer
* 1941 – Hank Marvin, English singer and guitarist
* 1942 – Terence Donovan, English-Australian actor
* 1942 – Abdelkader Fréha, Algerian footballer (d. 2012)
* 1942 – Gillian Lovegrove, English computer scientist and academic
* 1942 – Kees Verkerk, Dutch speed skater
* 1943 – Jimmy McRae, Scottish race car driver
* 1943 – Karalyn Patterson, English psychologist and academic
* 1944 – Gerry Anderson, Irish radio and television host (d. 2014)
* 1944 – Coluche, French comedian and actor (d. 1986)
* 1944 – Dennis Franz, American actor
* 1944 – Anton Schlecker, German businessman, founded the Schlecker Company
* 1945 – Sandy Berger, American lawyer and politician, 19th United States National Security Advisor (d. 2015)
* 1945 – Wayne Fontana, English pop singer (d. 2020)
* 1945 – Don Iverson, American golfer
* 1946 – John Hewson, Australian economist and politician
* 1946 – Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2022)
* 1946 – Sharon Thesen, Canadian poet and academic
* 1948 – Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress
* 1949 – Dwight Davis, American basketball player
* 1949 – Caitlyn Jenner, American decathlete and actress
* 1950 – Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian journalist and activist
* 1950 – Ludo Delcroix, Belgian cyclist
* 1951 – Peter Hitchens, English journalist and author
* 1951 – Joe R. Lansdale, American martial artist and author
* 1952 – Annie Potts, American actress
* 1953 – Pierre Boivin, Canadian businessman
* 1953 – Desmond Child, American musician, songwriter, and producer
* 1955 – Bill Gates, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft
* 1955 – Indra Nooyi, Indian-American businesswoman
* 1956 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian engineer and politician, 6th President of Iran
* 1956 – Volker Zotz, Austrian philosopher, scholar, and author
* 1957 – Marian Bell, English economist and academic
* 1957 – Stephen Morris, English drummer
* 1957 – Zach Wamp, American businessman and politician
* 1958 – Concha García Campoy, Spanish journalist (d. 2013)
* 1958 – Ashok Chavan, Indian businessman and politician, 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
* 1958 – William Reid, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1959 – James Keelaghan, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
* 1959 – Toshio Masuda, Japanese composer
* 1959 – Randy Wittman, American basketball player and coach
* 1960 – Landon Curt Noll, American computer scientist and mathematician
* 1962 – Erik Thorstvedt, Norwegian footballer and manager
* 1962 – Daphne Zuniga, American actress
* 1963 – Kevin Dineen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
* 1963 – Lauren Holly, American actress
* 1963 – Sheryl Underwood, American comedian, actress, and talk show host
* 1964 – Andrew Bridgen, English soldier and politician
* 1964 – Peter Coyne, Australian rugby league player
* 1965 – Jami Gertz, American actress
* 1965 – David Warburton, English composer, businessman, and politician
* 1965 – Miyako Yoshida, Japanese ballerina
* 1966 – Steve Atwater, American football player
* 1966 – Chris Bauer, American actor
* 1966 – Matt Drudge, American blogger and activist, founded the Drudge Report
* 1966 – Andy Richter, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
* 1966 – Aris Spiliotopoulos, Greek politician, Greek Minister of Education and Religious Affairs
* 1967 – Kevin Macdonald, Scottish director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1967 – Julia Roberts, American actress and producer
* 1967 – John Romero, American video game designer, co-founded Id Software
* 1968 – Chris Broussard, American journalist and sportscaster
* 1968 – Marc Lièvremont, French rugby player and coach
* 1968 – Mayumi Ozaki, Japanese wrestler
* 1969 – Steven Chamuleau, Dutch cardiologist
* 1969 – Jeremy Davies, American actor
* 1969 – Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Puerto Rican screenwriter and producer
* 1969 – Ben Harper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1969 – Wolfgang Kocevar, Austrian politician
* 1969 – Noriyoshi Omichi, Japanese baseball player and coach
* 1970 – Alan Peter Cayetano, Filipino politician and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines
* 1970 – Greg Eagles, American voice actor and producer
* 1971 – Roxana Briban, Romanian soprano and actress (d. 2010)
* 1971 – Caroline Dinenage, English businesswoman and politician
* 1972 – Terrell Davis, American football player and sportscaster
* 1972 – Brad Paisley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1972 – Trista Sutter, American reality star
* 1973 – Montel Vontavious Porter, American wrestler and actor
* 1973 – Aleksandar Stanojević, Serbian footballer and manager
* 1974 – Braden Looper, American baseball player
* 1974 – Vicente Moreno, Spanish footballer and manager
* 1974 – Joaquin Phoenix, American actor and producer
* 1974 – Dejan Stefanović, Serbian footballer and coach
* 1974 – Dayanara Torres, Puerto Rican actress and singer, Miss Universe 1993
* 1976 – Keiron Cunningham, British rugby league player and coach
* 1976 – Martin Lepa, Estonian footballer
* 1976 – Simone Loria, Italian footballer
* 1978 – Gwendoline Christie, English actress
* 1978 – Justin Guarini, American singer-songwriter and actor
* 1979 – Olcay Çetinkaya, Turkish footballer
* 1979 – Jawed Karim, American computer scientist
* 1979 – Natina Reed, American rapper and actress (d. 2012)
* 1979 – Martin Škoula, Czech ice hockey player
* 1980 – Christy Hemme, American wrestler and ring announcer
* 1980 – Agnes Obel, Danish singer-songwriter and pianist
* 1980 – Alan Smith, English footballer and coach
* 1981 – Milan Baroš, Czech footballer
* 1981 – Shane Gore, English footballer
* 1981 – Nate McLouth, American baseball player
* 1981 – Nick Montgomery, English-Scottish footballer
* 1982 – Jeremy Bonderman, American baseball player
* 1982 – Enver Jääger, Estonian footballer
* 1982 – Anthony Lerew, American baseball player
* 1982 – Hironori Saruta, Japanese footballer
* 1982 – Matt Smith, English actor and director
* 1983 – Jarrett Jack, American basketball player
* 1983 – Kayo Noro, Japanese singer and actress
* 1983 – Joe Thomas, English actor and screenwriter
* 1984 – Bryn Evans, New Zealand rugby player
* 1984 – Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer
* 1984 – Finn Wittrock, American actor
* 1985 – Tyrone Barnett, English footballer
* 1985 – Troian Bellisario, American actress
* 1985 – Anthony Fantano, American music critic
* 1986 – May Calamawy, Egyptian-Palestinian actress
* 1986 – Isabelle Eriksson, Swedish athlete
* 1986 – Anthony Griffith, English footballer
* 1986 – Aki Toyosaki, Japanese voice actress and singer
* 1987 – Frank Ocean, American singer-songwriter
* 1988 – Edd Gould, English cartoonist and animator (d. 2012)
* 1988 – Devon Murray, Irish actor
* 1988 – Jamie xx, English musician, DJ, record producer and remixer
* 1989 – Devin Ebanks, American basketball player
* 1989 – Camille Muffat, French swimmer (d. 2015)
* 1991 – Lucy Bronze, English footballer
* 1992 – Lexi Ainsworth, American actress
* 1992 – Jeon Ji-hee, South Korean table tennis player
* 1992 – Maria Sergejeva, Estonian figure skater
* 1994 – Andrew Harrison, American basketball player
* 1995 – Glen Kamara, Finnish footballer
* 1995 – Jae'Sean Tate, American basketball player
* 1995 – An Ye-seul, South Korean singer
* 1996 – Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress
* 1996 – Jack Eichel, American ice hockey player
* 1996 – Una Raymond-Hoey, Irish cricketer
* 1997 – Stetson Bennett, American football player
* 1997 – Taylor Fritz, American tennis player
* 1997 – Georgia Godwin, Australian artistic gymnast
* 1998 – Nolan Gould, American actor
* 2001 – Sonay Kartal, British tennis player
* 2006 – Yoon Do-young, South Korean footballer

## Deaths
### Pre-1600

* 312 – Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. 278)
* 457 – Ibas of Edessa, Syrian bishop
* 816 – Beggo, count of Toulouse and Paris
* 875 – Remigius of Lyon, Frankish archbishop
* 1138 – King Bolesław III Wrymouth of Poland
* 1225 – Jien, Japanese monk, historian, and poet (b. 1155)
* 1266 – Saint Arsenije I Sremac
* 1310 – Ecumenical Patriarch Athanasius I of Constantinople (b. 1230)
* 1312 – Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany (b. 1262)
* 1412 – Margaret I of Denmark (b. 1353)
* 1468 – Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (b. 1425)
* 1568 – Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shōgun (b. 1539)
* 1592 – Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Flemish diplomat
* 1594 – Ōkubo Tadayo, Japanese general (b. 1532)

### 1601–1900

* 1627 – Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1569)
* 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)
* 1818 – Abigail Adams, American writer and second First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
* 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)

### 1901–present

* 1906 – Jean Benner, French artist (b. 1836)
* 1914 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
* 1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
* 1916 – Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (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)
* 1936 – Newton Moore, Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1870)
* 1939 – Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
* 1941 – Filipp Goloshchyokin, Soviet politician (b. 1876)
* 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)
* 1959 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban soldier (b. 1932)
* 1963 – Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1882)
* 1965 – Thomas Graham Brown, Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (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)
* 1976 – Aarne Juutilainen, Finnish army captain (b. 1904)
* 1978 – Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan singer and actress (b. 1923)
* 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)
* 1993 – Juri 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)
* 2003 – Sally Baldwin, Scottish social sciences professor (b. 1940)
* 2004 – Eugene K. Bird, American colonel and author, US Commandant of Spandau Prison (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 – 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 – Gordon Bilney, Australian dentist and politician (b. 1939)
* 2012 – John Cheffers, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1936)
* 2012 – Jack Dellal, English businessman (b. 1923)
* 2013 – Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
* 2013 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1927)
* 2013 – Aleksandar Tijanić, Serbian journalist (b. 1949)
* 2013 – Rajendra Yadav, Indian author (b. 1929)
* 2014 – Galway Kinnell, American poet and academic (b. 1927)
* 2014 – Michael Sata, Zambian police officer and politician, 5th President of Zambia (b. 1937)
* 2018 – Colin Sylvia, Australian rules footballer (b. 1985)
* 2022 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1935)
* 2023 – Matthew Perry, American-Canadian actor (b. 1969)
* 2023 – Adam Johnson, American ice hockey player (b. 1994)
* 2024 – Renato Martino, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1932)
* 2024 – Paul Morrissey, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
* 2024 – Jamshid Sharmahd, German-American affiliate of Kingdom Assembly of Iran (b. 1955)
* 2024 – Kazuo Umezu, Japanese manga artist (b. 1936)

## Holidays and observances

* Christian feast day:
** Abdias of Babylon
** Abgar V of Edessa (Eastern Orthodox Church)
** Eadsige
** Faro
** Fidelis of Como (Roman Catholic Church)
** Firmilian
** Godwin of Stavelot
** Job of Pochayiv (repose) (Eastern Orthodox Church)
** The Apostles Simon and Jude (Western Christianity)
** Lord of Miracles (Lima)
** October 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
* Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho-Slovak State, celebrates the independence of Czechoslovakia from Austria-Hungary in 1918. (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
* International Animation Day (ASIFA)
* Ohi Day (Greece, Cyprus and the Greek communities), a national day in Greece.
* Prefectural Earthquake Disaster Prevention Day (Gifu Prefecture)
* Youth Pledge Day or Hari Sumpah Pemuda (Indonesia)
* Anniversary of the liberation of Ukraine from the Nazis, celebrating the liberation from Nazi German troops of the territory of current Ukraine