Deaths on 28 September
2000s
Winfield Dunn
2024
American politician (1927–2024)
Drake Hogestyn
2024
American actor (1953–2024)
Kris Kristofferson
2024
American singer and actor (1936–2024)
Coolio
2022
American rapper (1963–2022)
José José
2019
Mexican singer (1948–2019)
Predrag Ejdus
2018
Serbian actor (1947–2018)
Daniel Pe'er
2017
Israeli television host and newsreader
Agnes Nixon
2016
American soap opera screenwriter (1922–2016)
Gary Glasberg
2016
American television writer and producer
Shimon Peres
2016
Israeli politician (1923–2016)
Gloria Naylor
2016
American novelist (1950–2016)
Alexander Faris
2015
Northern Irish composer and conductor (1921–2015)
Walter Dale Miller
2015
American politician
Ignacio Zoco
2015
Spanish footballer (1939–2015)
Dannie Abse
2014
Welsh poet and physician (1923–2014)
Joseph H. Alexander
2014
United States Marine Corps officer and military historian (1938–2014)
Sheila Faith
2014
British politician
Tim Rawlings
2014
English footballer
Petr Skoumal
2014
Czech musician and composer (1938–2014)
James Emanuel
2013
American poet
Jonathan Fellows-Smith
2013
South African cricketer and rugby union player
George Amon Webster
2013
American singer
Avraham Adan
2012
Israeli military officer and author
Chris Economaki
2012
American journalist (1920–2012)
Brajesh Mishra
2012
Indian Diplomat and First National Security Advisor of India
Kurt Albert
2010
German rock climber
Arthur Penn
2010
American film and theatre director (1922–2010)
Dolores Wilson
2010
American actress
Guillermo Endara
2009
President of Panama from 1989 to 1994
Ulf Larsson
2009
Swedish actor, comedian, writer and director
René Desmaison
2007
Wally Parks
2007
American writer
Constance Baker Motley
2005
American judge and politician (1921–2005)
Geoffrey Beene
2004
American fashion designer (1924–2004)
Althea Gibson
2003
American tennis player (1927–2003)
Elia Kazan
2003
American director (1909–2003)
George Odlum
2003
Saint Lucian diplomat (died 2003)
Patsy Mink
2002
American politician (1927–2002)
Hartland Molson
2002
Canadian politician (1907–2002)
Pierre Trudeau
2000
Prime Minister of Canada (1968–1979; 1980–1984)
1900s
Escott Reid
1999
Canadian diplomat (1905–1999)
Urmas Alender
1994
Estonian singer and musician (1953–1994)
José Francisco Ruiz Massieu
1994
Mexican politician (1946–1994)
Harry Saltzman
1994
Canadian theatre and film producer (1915–1994)
K. A. Thangavelu
1994
Indian actor and comedian (1917–1994)
Peter De Vries
1993
American editor and novelist
Alexander A. Drabik
1993
American soldier in World War II
Miles Davis
1991
American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer (1926–1991)
Larry O'Brien
1990
American politician and basketball commissioner (1917–1990)
Ferdinand Marcos
1989
President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
Cihad Baban
1984
Turkish politician
Mabel Albertson
1982
American actress (1901–1982)
Rómulo Betancourt
1981
President of Venezuela, 1945–48 and 1959–64
John Herbert Chapman
1979
Canadian space researcher
Pope John Paul I
1978
Head of the Catholic Church in 1978
John Dos Passos
1970
American novelist (1896–1970)
Gamal Abdel Nasser
1970
President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970
André Breton
1966
French co-founder of Surrealism (1896–1966)
Harpo Marx
1964
American comedian (1888–1964)
Roger Nimier
1962
French novelist (1925–1962)
Rudolf Caracciola
1959
German racing driver (1901–1959)
Luis Cluzeau Mortet
1957
Musical artist
William E. Boeing
1956
American aviation pioneer (1881–1956)
Edwin Hubble
1953
American astronomer (1889–1953)
Chrysanthus of Athens
1949
Sam Ruben
1943
American chemist (1913–1943)
Filippo Illuminato
1943
Italian partisan
Marion Miley
1941
American amateur golfer (1914–1941)
Charles Duryea
1938
American automobile manufacturer
William Kennedy Dickson
1935
British-American inventor (1860–1935)
Paul Vermoyal
1925
French actor
Yu Gwan-sun
1920
Korean independence activist (1902–1920)
Georg Simmel
1918
German sociologist and philosopher (1858–1918)
Freddie Stowers
1918
African-American US Army corporal and Medal of Honor recipient killed in action in WWI
Saitō Hajime
1915
Japanese samurai (1844–1915)
Richard Warren Sears
1914
American businessman, founder of Sears
Lafcadio Hearn
1904
Writer and translator (1850–1904)
John Marks Moore
1902
American attorney and politician
1800s
Giovanni Segantini
1899
Italian painter
Louis Pasteur
1895
French chemist, pharmacist and microbiologist (1822–1895)
Annie Feray Mutrie
1893
British still-life painter (1826–1893)
Herman Melville
1891
American writer and poet (1819–1891)
Amunda Kolderup
1882
Norwegian opera singer (1846–1882)
Émile Gaboriau
1873
French writer (1832–1873)
Carl Ritter
1859
German geographer (1779–1859)
Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy
1844
Russian general (1769–1844)
Nikolay Raevsky
1829
Russian general and statesman (1771–1829)
Christoph Franz von Buseck
1805
German bishop and monarch
Before 1800
Jean Baptiste Massillon
1742
French Catholic prelate and preacher
Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland
1702
English nobleman and politician (1641–1702)
Gabriel Mouton
1694
French abbot and scientist (1618–1694)
Francis Turretin
1687
Genevan-Italian Reformed scholastic theologian (1623–1687)
Josuah Sylvester
1618
English poet (1563–1618)
Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby
1596
English noblewoman (1540–1596)
George Buchanan
1582
Scottish historian and humanist scholar (1506–1582)
Cymburgis of Masovia
1429
Duchess of Austria
Elizabeth of Bohemia (1292–1330)
1330
Queen consort of Bohemia
Gertrude of Merania
1213
Queen consort of Hungary
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
1197
Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 to 1197
Minamoto no Hiromasa
980
Japanese noble and musician (918–980)
Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia
935
Duke of Bohemia from 921 to 935
Leoba
782
Anglo-Saxon Benedictine nun and saint
AD 135
135
Calendar year
Pompey
-48
Roman general and statesman (106–48 BC)