Deaths on 28 October
2000s
Renato Martino
2024
Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (1932–2024)
Paul Morrissey
2024
American film director (1938–2024)
Jamshid Sharmahd
2024
German affiliate of Kingdom Assembly of Iran (1955–2024)
Kazuo Umezu
2024
Japanese manga artist (1936–2024)
Matthew Perry
2023
American and Canadian actor (1969–2023)
Adam Johnson (ice hockey)
2023
American ice hockey player (1994–2023)
Jerry Lee Lewis
2022
American musician (1935–2022)
Colin Sylvia
2018
Australian rules footballer (1985–2018)
Galway Kinnell
2014
American poet
Michael Sata
2014
President of Zambia from 2011 to 2014
Tetsuharu Kawakami
2013
Japanese baseball player and manager (1920–2013)
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
2013
40th Prime Minister of Poland (1989–91)
Aleksandar Tijanić
2013
Serbian journalist
Rajendra Yadav
2013
Indian writer (1929–2013)
Gordon Bilney
2012
Australian politician (1939–2012)
John Cheffers
2012
Australian rules footballer
Jack Dellal
2012
British property investor (1923–2012)
Tom Addington
2011
British Army soldier
Liang Congjie
2010
Chinese historian and activist
James MacArthur
2010
American actor and recording artist (1937–2010)
Jonathan Motzfeldt
2010
Prime Minister of Greenland (1979–1991; 1997–2002)
Ehud Netzer
2010
Israeli archaeologist
Taylor Mitchell
2009
Canadian singer-songwriter (1990–2009)
Takao Fujinami
2007
Japanese politician (1932–2007)
Porter Wagoner
2007
American country singer (1927–2007)
Red Auerbach
2006
American basketball coach and executive (1917–2006)
Trevor Berbick
2006
Jamaican boxer (1954–2006)
Marijohn Wilkin
2006
American songwriter (1920–2006)
Bob Broeg
2005
American sportswriter
Raymond Hains
2005
French visual artist (1926–2005)
Tony Jackson (basketball, born 1942)
2005
American basketball player
Fernando Quejas
2005
Cape Verdean singer-songwriter
Richard Smalley
2005
American chemist and Nobel laureate (1943–2005)
Ljuba Tadić
2005
Serbian actor
Eugene K. Bird
2004
US army officer; commandant of Spandau Prison from 1964 to 1972
Sally Baldwin
2003
British social scientist (1940–2003)
Margaret Booth
2002
American film editor (1898–2002)
Erling Persson
2002
Swedish businessman
Gerard Hengeveld
2001
Dutch musician
Andújar Cedeño
2000
Dominican baseball player (1969–2000)
1900s
Antonios Katinaris
1999
Greek musician
Ted Hughes
1998
English poet and children's writer (1930–1998)
Paul Jarrico
1997
American screenwriter (1915–1997)
Juri Lotman
1993
Estonian-Russian semiotician, literary scholar
Henry Hall (bandleader)
1989
English bandleader (1898–1989)
André Masson
1987
French painter
John Braine
1986
English writer (1922–1986)
Otto Messmer
1983
American animator (1892–1983)
Rukmani Devi
1978
Sri Lankan actress and singer (1923–1978)
Aarne Juutilainen
1976
Finnish army captain (1904–1976)
Georges Carpentier
1975
French boxer (1894–1975)
Oliver Nelson
1975
American composer and bandleader (1932–1975)
Taha Hussein
1973
Egyptian writer (1889–1973)
Sergio Tofano
1973
Italian actor, theatre director and playwright
Baby Huey (singer)
1970
American singer
Constance Dowling
1969
American actress
Thomas Graham Brown
1965
Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (1882–1965)
Mart Saar
1963
Estonian composer (1882–1963)
Camilo Cienfuegos
1959
Cuban revolutionary leader and guerrilla (1933–Missing 1959)
Ernst Gräfenberg
1957
German-born scientist (1881–1957)
Billy Hughes
1952
Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923
Kesago Nakajima
1945
Japanese general
Filipp Goloshchyokin
1941
Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician (1876–1941)
Alice Brady
1939
American actress (1892–1939)
Newton Moore
1936
Australian army officer and politician (1870–1936)
Bernhard von Bülow
1929
Chancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909
Ulisse Dini
1918
Italian mathematician and politician (1845–1918)
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
1917
German prince and British royal (1831–1917)
Dimitrios Votsis
1917
Greek politician
Cleveland Abbe
1916
American meteorologist (1838–1916)
Oswald Boelcke
1916
German World War I flying ace (1891–1916)
Richard Heuberger
1914
Austrian composer
Jean Benner
1906
French painter
Max Müller
1900
British philologist (1823–1900)
1800s
Ottmar Mergenthaler
1899
German-American inventor (1854–1899)
Marie Roch Louis Reybaud
1879
French writer, political economist and politician
Robert Swinhoe
1877
English diplomat and naturalist (1836–1877)
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac
1857
French general and politician (1802–1857)
Johan August Arfwedson
1841
Abigail Adams
1818
First Lady of the United States from 1797 to 1801
Charlotte Smith (writer)
1806
English poet and novelist (1749–1806)
Artemas Ward
1800
Continental Army general (1727–1800)
Before 1800
Paul Möhring
1792
German naturalist (1710–1792)
John Smeaton
1792
British engineer (1724–1792)
Johann Karl August Musäus
1787
German author (1735–1787)
Michel Blavet
1768
French flutist and composer
Heinrich von Brühl
1763
Polish-Saxon statesman (1700–1763)
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
1755
French composer (1689–1755)
Friedrich von Hagedorn
1754
German poet (1708–1754)
Anna of Russia
1740
Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740
Stephen Fox
1716
British politician (1627-1716)
Prince George of Denmark
1708
Consort of Queen Anne from 1702 to 1708
John Locke
1704
English philosopher and physician (1632–1704)
John Wallis
1703
English mathematician (1616–1703)
Jean Desmarets
1676
French writer and dramatist
Agustín Moreto y Cavana
1661
17th century Spanish playwright
William Dobson
1646
English painter (1611–1646)
Stefano Landi
1639
Italian composer (1587–1639)
Jahangir
1627
Mughal emperor from 1605 to 1627
Ōkubo Tadayo
1594
Samurai of the Sengoku era; major samurai ally of the Tokugawa clan
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
1592
Flemish scholar and diplomat (1522–1592)
Ashikaga Yoshihide
1568
Military ruler of Japan in 1568
Bianca Maria Visconti
1468
Duchess of Milan (1425–1468)
Margaret I of Denmark
1412
Scandinavian queen (1353–1412)
Elisabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany
1312
Queen of Germany from 1298 to 1308
Athanasius I of Constantinople
1310
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1289 to 1293 and from 1303 to 1309
Arsenije Sremac
1266
Serbian saint
Jien
1225
Japanese poet
Bolesław III Wrymouth
1138
Duke of Poland from 1107 to 1138
Remigius of Lyon
875
Bego of Paris
816
Count of Paris from 813 to 816
Ibas of Edessa
457
Syrian bishop (fl. c. 435 – 457)
Maxentius
312
Roman emperor from 306 to 312