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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 28th of October 0097 | EVENT | Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard, to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor. |
| 28th of October 0306 | EVENT | Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor. |
| 28th of October 0312 | EVENT | Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman Emperor. |
| 28th of October 1061 | EVENT | Empress Agnes, acting as Regent for her son, brings about the election of Bishop Cadalus, the Antipope Honorius II. |
| 28th of October 1516 | EVENT | Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza. |
| 28th of October 1531 | EVENT | Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad's control. |
| 28th of October 1538 | EVENT | The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomas de Aquino, is established. |
| 28th of October 1628 | EVENT | The Siege of La Rochelle, which had lasted for 14 months, ends with the surrender of the Huguenots. |
| 28th of October 1636 | EVENT | A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University. |
| 28th of October 1664 | EVENT | The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established. |
| 28th of October 1707 | EVENT | The 1707 Hoei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, Japan |
| 28th of October 1775 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston. |
| 28th of October 1776 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains : British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans. |
| 28th of October 1834 | EVENT | The Battle of Pinjarra is fought in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists. |
| 28th of October 1835 | EVENT | The United Tribes of New Zealand is established with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. |
| 28th of October 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks) ends : Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia. |
| 28th of October 1886 | EVENT | In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty. |
| 28th of October 1891 | EVENT | The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture. |
| 28th of October 1893 | EVENT | Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathetique, receives its premiere performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death. |
| 28th of October 1915 | EVENT | Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin. |
| 28th of October 1918 | EVENT | World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years. |
| 28th of October 1918 | EVENT | New Polish government in Western Galicia is established. |
| 28th of October 1919 | EVENT | The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January. |
| 28th of October 1922 | EVENT | March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government. |
| 28th of October 1928 | EVENT | Declarated of Youth Pledge in Indonesia , the first time Indonesia Raya song was sung |
| 28th of October 1929 | EVENT | Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval. |
| 28th of October 1936 | EVENT | U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary. |
| 28th of October 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania, marking Greece's entry into World War II. |
| 28th of October 1942 | EVENT | The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska. |
| 28th of October 1948 | EVENT | Swiss chemist Paul Muller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT. |
| 28th of October 1954 | EVENT | The modern Kingdom of the Netherlands is re-founded as a federal monarchy. |
| 28th of October 1958 | EVENT | John XXIII, is elected as Pope. |
| 28th of October 1962 | EVENT | Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. |
| 28th of October 1964 | EVENT | Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam. |
| 28th of October 1965 | EVENT | Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed. |
| 28th of October 1965 | EVENT | Nostra Aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760 year-old declaration. |
| 28th of October 1971 | EVENT | Britain launches its first satellite, Prospero, into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket. |
| 28th of October 1982 | EVENT | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party wins elections, leading to first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe Gonzalez becomes Prime Minister-elect. |
| 28th of October 1985 | EVENT | Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government. |
| 28th of October 1986 | EVENT | The centenary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty is celebrated in New York Harbor. |
| 28th of October 1995 | EVENT | 289 people are killed and 265 injured in Baku Metro fire, the deadliest subway disaster. |
| 28th of October 1998 | EVENT | An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan. |
| 28th of October 2005 | EVENT | Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. |
| 28th of October 2006 | EVENT | Funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s : early 1940s are reburied. |
| 28th of October 2007 | EVENT | Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina. |
| 28th of October 2009 | EVENT | NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program. |
| 28th of October 2009 | EVENT | The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213. |
| 28th of October 1466 | BIRTHDAY | Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch theologian and Catholic priest (d. 1536) |
| 28th of October 1510 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Borgia, Spanish duke and Jesuit priest (d. 1572) |
| 28th of October 1585 | BIRTHDAY | Cornelius Jansen, Dutch bishop (d. 1638) |
| 28th of October 1667 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Anna of Neuburg, second wife of Charles II of Spain (d. 1740) |
| 28th of October 1691 | BIRTHDAY | Peder Tordenskjold, Norwegian naval hero (d. 1720) |
| 28th of October 1697 | BIRTHDAY | Canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768) |
| 28th of October 1703 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768) |
| 28th of October 1718 | BIRTHDAY | Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary (d. 1793) |
| 28th of October 1767 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel of Denmark and Norway (d. 1852) |
| 28th of October 1793 | BIRTHDAY | Eliphalet Remington, American firearms manufacturer (d. 1861) |
| 28th of October 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Francois Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (d. 1849) |
| 28th of October 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (d. 1883) |
| 28th of October 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shogun (d. 1913) |
| 28th of October 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Edward P. Allen, American politician (d. 1909) |
| 28th of October 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Zygmunt Florenty Wroblewski, Polish physicist (d. 1888) |
| 28th of October 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Auguste Escoffier, French chef (d. 1935) |
| 28th of October 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Marie Guyau, French philosopher and poet (d. 1888) |
| 28th of October 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Jigoro Kano, Japanese martial artist (d. 1938) |
| 28th of October 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Adolfo Camarillo, American-born Mexican land owner and rancher (d. 1958) |
| 28th of October 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, American geographer and editor (d. 1966) |
| 28th of October 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1952) |
| 28th of October 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Channing H. Cox, American politician (d. 1968) |
| 28th of October 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Soderstrom, Swedish athlete (d. 1969) |
| 28th of October 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Vin Coutie, Australian footballer |
| 28th of October 1884 | BIRTHDAY | William Douglas Cook, New Zealander horticulturalist (d. 1967) |
| 28th of October 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (d. 1922) |
| 28th of October 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Juliette Beliveau, Quebec comedian (d. 1975) |
| 28th of October 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Ormer Locklear, American movie stunt pilot (d. 1920) |
| 28th of October 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Dink Johnson, American musician (d. 1954) |
| 28th of October 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Hanson, American composer (d. 1981) |
| 28th of October 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Edith Head, American costume designer (d. 1981) |
| 28th of October 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (d. 1979) |
| 28th of October 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Elsa Lanchester, British-born actress (d. 1986) |
| 28th of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Evelyn Waugh, English writer (d. 1966) |
| 28th of October 1907 | BIRTHDAY | John Hewitt, Northern Irish poet (d. 1987) |
| 28th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Arturo Frondizi, Argentine politician (d. 1995) |
| 28th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Bacon, Irish painter (d. 1992) |
| 28th of October 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (d. 2005) |
| 28th of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Seale, English actor (d. 1999) |
| 28th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995) |
| 28th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Robert Davis, American politician (d. 1988) |
| 28th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994) |
| 28th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Soo, American actor (d. 1979) |
| 28th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Azumafuji Kin'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (the 40th Yokozuna) (d. 1973) |
| 28th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball coach (d. 2007) |
| 28th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Gershon Kingsley, German composer |
| 28th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwe politician (d. 2003) |
| 28th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Creus, Spanish racecar driver (d. 1996) |
| 28th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d. 2006) |
| 28th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Bowie Kuhn, American baseball executive (d. 2007) |
| 28th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Cleo Laine, British singer |
| 28th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Roza Makagonova, Russian actress (d. 1995) |
| 28th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general |
| 28th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Iry LeJeune, American musician (d. 1955) |
| 28th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Plowright, British actress |
| 28th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor (d. 1988) |
| 28th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | John Hollander, American poet |
| 28th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bernie Ecclestone, English motorsports figure |
| 28th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Suzy Parker, American actress (d. 2003) |
| 28th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Spyros Kyprianou, Cyprian politician (d. 2002) |
| 28th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983) |
| 28th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Clarke, British film director (d. 1990) |
| 28th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Daniels, American musician |
| 28th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Davis, American-born British conductor and composer |
| 28th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player and coach |
| 28th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Budd, American basketball player |
| 28th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Perry, English-born novelist |
| 28th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | David Dimbleby, English television commentator |
| 28th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Miroslav Cerar, Yugoslav gymnast |
| 28th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Alexander, American actress |
| 28th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Harris, American television writer and producer |
| 28th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Marvin, English guitarist |
| 28th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Curtis Lee, American singer |
| 28th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | John Hallam, Irish actor (d. 2006) |
| 28th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Kees Verkerk, Dutch speed skater |
| 28th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Conny Froboess, German singer |
| 28th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Charo Lopez, Spanish actress |
| 28th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Franz, American actor |
| 28th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Schlecker, German businessman |
| 28th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Coluche, French comedian and actor (d. 1986) |
| 28th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (d. 2006) |
| 28th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Fontana, British singer (The Mindbenders) |
| 28th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and coach |
| 28th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | John Hewson, Australian politician |
| 28th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress (Tony Orlando and Dawn) |
| 28th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Jenner, American athlete |
| 28th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Tracy Reed, American actress |
| 28th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian human rights activist |
| 28th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ludo Delcroix, Belgian cyclist |
| 28th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Annie Potts, American actress |
| 28th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Desmond Child, American songwriter |
| 28th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Boivin, Canadian businessman and hockey executive |
| 28th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Gates, American software executive |
| 28th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Wyndorf, American singer (Monster Magnet) |
| 28th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian politician |
| 28th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Morris, British musician (Joy Division and New Order) |
| 28th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Zach Wamp, American politician |
| 28th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ashok Chavan, Indian politician |
| 28th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | William Reid, Scottish musician (The Jesus and Mary Chain) |
| 28th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Wittman, American basketball player |
| 28th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Landon Curt Noll, American computer scientist |
| 28th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Derwin, American actor |
| 28th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Daphne Zuniga, American actress |
| 28th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Scotty Nguyen, Vietnamese-born American professional poker player |
| 28th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Thorstvedt, Norwegian footballer |
| 28th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Holly, American actress |
| 28th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | James Miller, American parachutist and paraglider pilot (d. 2002) |
| 28th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Eros Ramazzotti, Italian singer |
| 28th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Sheryl Underwood, American comedian |
| 28th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jami Gertz, American actress |
| 28th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Atwater, American football player |
| 28th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Aris Spiliotopoulos, Greek politician |
| 28th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Richter, American comedian and actor |
| 28th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Roberts, American actress |
| 28th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Monica Chan, Hong Kong actress and beauty pageant winner |
| 28th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | John Romero, American video game designer |
| 28th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein |
| 28th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Macdonald, Scottish film director |
| 28th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Lievremont, French rugby union footballer and coach |
| 28th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Harper, American musician |
| 28th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Puerto Rican screenwriter and producer |
| 28th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Terrell Davis, American football player |
| 28th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Paisley, American musician |
| 28th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandar Stanojevic, Serbian football manager and former player |
| 28th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Alvin Burke, Jr., American professional wrestler |
| 28th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Joaquin Phoenix, American actor |
| 28th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Vicente Moreno, Spanish footballer |
| 28th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Braden Looper, American baseball player |
| 28th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Dejan Stefanovic, Serbian footballer |
| 28th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Dayanara Torres, Puerto Rican actress and beauty queen |
| 28th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Keiron Cunningham, Welsh rugby league player |
| 28th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Woodland, American actress |
| 28th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Marta Etura, Spanish actress |
| 28th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Guarini, American singer |
| 28th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Skoula, Czech ice hockey player |
| 28th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Aki Hakala, Finnish musician |
| 28th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kanzi, American bonobo |
| 28th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Christy Hemme, American professional wrestler |
| 28th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitri Liakopoulos, Greek actor |
| 28th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Smith, English footballer |
| 28th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Solomon Andargachew, Ethiopian footballer |
| 28th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Milan Baros, Czech footballer |
| 28th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Montgomery, English footballer |
| 28th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Nate McLouth, American baseball player |
| 28th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Mai Kuraki, Japanese singer |
| 28th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Bonderman, American baseball player |
| 28th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Lerew, American baseball player |
| 28th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Smith, English actor |
| 28th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jarrett Jack, American basketball player |
| 28th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Thomas, English actor |
| 28th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer |
| 28th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Bryn Evans, New Zealander rugby player |
| 28th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Paige, American model |
| 28th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Troian Bellisario American Actress |
| 28th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Griffith, English footballer |
| 28th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Devon Murray, Irish singer and actor |
| 28th of October 0312 | DEATH | Maxentius, Roman emperor (Born c.278) |
| 28th of October 1225 | DEATH | Jien, Japanese poet and historian (Born 1155) |
| 28th of October 1312 | DEATH | Queen Elisabeth of Tirol (Born 1262) |
| 28th of October 1412 | DEATH | Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (Born 1353) |
| 28th of October 1485 | DEATH | Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist (Born 1443) |
| 28th of October 1520 | DEATH | Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate (Born 1480) |
| 28th of October 1568 | DEATH | Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (Born 1539) |
| 28th of October 1627 | DEATH | Emperor Jahangir of India (Born 1569) |
| 28th of October 1639 | DEATH | Stefano Landi, Italian composer (Born 1587) |
| 28th of October 1646 | DEATH | William Dobson, English painter (Born 1610) |
| 28th of October 1661 | DEATH | Agustin Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (Born 1518) |
| 28th of October 1676 | DEATH | Jean Desmarets, French writer (Born 1595) |
| 28th of October 1703 | DEATH | John Wallis, English mathematician (Born 1616) |
| 28th of October 1704 | DEATH | John Locke, English philosopher (Born 1632) |
| 28th of October 1708 | DEATH | Prince George of Denmark, consort of Anne of England (Born 1653) |
| 28th of October 1716 | DEATH | Stephen Fox, British politician (Born 1627) |
| 28th of October 1740 | DEATH | Empress Anna of Russia (Born 1693) |
| 28th of October 1754 | DEATH | Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (Born 1708) |
| 28th of October 1755 | DEATH | Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (Born 1689) |
| 28th of October 1763 | DEATH | Heinrich, count von Bruhl, German statesman (Born 1700) |
| 28th of October 1768 | DEATH | Michel Blavet, French flutist (Born 1700) |
| 28th of October 1792 | DEATH | Paul Mohring, German physician and scientist (Born 1710) |
| 28th of October 1792 | DEATH | John Smeaton, British civil engineer (Born 1724) |
| 28th of October 1800 | DEATH | Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (Born 1727) |
| 28th of October 1806 | DEATH | Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (Born 1749) |
| 28th of October 1818 | DEATH | Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (Born 1744) |
| 28th of October 1841 | DEATH | Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (Born 1792) |
| 28th of October 1857 | DEATH | Louis Eugene Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (Born 1802) |
| 28th of October 1877 | DEATH | Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (Born 1835) |
| 28th of October 1879 | DEATH | Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (Born 1799) |
| 28th of October 1899 | DEATH | Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (Born 1854) |
| 28th of October 1900 | DEATH | Max Muller, German-born orientalist (Born 1823) |
| 28th of October 1914 | DEATH | Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer, music critic and teacher (Born 1850) |
| 28th of October 1916 | DEATH | Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (Born 1838) |
| 28th of October 1916 | DEATH | Oswald Boelcke, German WWI pilot (Born 1891) |
| 28th of October 1917 | DEATH | Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (Born 1831) |
| 28th of October 1918 | DEATH | Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (Born 1845) |
| 28th of October 1929 | DEATH | Bernhard von Bulow, German statesman (Born 1849) |
| 28th of October 1939 | DEATH | Alice Brady, American actress (Born 1892) |
| 28th of October 1952 | DEATH | Billy Hughes, Australian politician (Born 1862) |
| 28th of October 1957 | DEATH | Ernst Grafenberg, German physician and scientist (Born 1881) |
| 28th of October 1959 | DEATH | Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary figure (Born 1932) |
| 28th of October 1965 | DEATH | Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (Born 1913) |
| 28th of October 1969 | DEATH | Constance Dowling, American actress (Born 1920) |
| 28th of October 1970 | DEATH | Baby Huey, American soul singer (Born 1944) |
| 28th of October 1973 | DEATH | Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (Born 1889) |
| 28th of October 1973 | DEATH | Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (Born 1883) |
| 28th of October 1975 | DEATH | Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (Born 1932) |
| 28th of October 1975 | DEATH | Georges Carpentier, French boxer (Born 1894) |
| 28th of October 1986 | DEATH | John Braine, British novelist (Born 1922) |
| 28th of October 1987 | DEATH | Andre Masson, French artist (Born 1896) |
| 28th of October 1989 | DEATH | Henry Hall, British bandleader (Born 1898) |
| 28th of October 1990 | DEATH | Erich Gostl German WWII figure (Born 1925) |
| 28th of October 1997 | DEATH | Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (Born 1915) |
| 28th of October 1998 | DEATH | Ted Hughes, British poet (Born 1930) |
| 28th of October 2000 | DEATH | Lida Baarova, Czech actress (Born 1914) |
| 28th of October 2000 | DEATH | Andujar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player (Born 1969) |
| 28th of October 2000 | DEATH | Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (Born 1912) |
| 28th of October 2001 | DEATH | Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (Born 1910) |
| 28th of October 2002 | DEATH | Margaret Booth, American film editor (Born 1898) |
| 28th of October 2002 | DEATH | Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur (Born 1917) |
| 28th of October 2004 | DEATH | Jimmy McLarnin, Northern Irish-born boxer (Born 1907) |
| 28th of October 2005 | DEATH | Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (Born 1926) |
| 28th of October 2005 | DEATH | Bob Broeg, American sports writer (Born 1918) |
| 28th of October 2005 | DEATH | Raymond Hains, French artist (Born 1926) |
| 28th of October 2005 | DEATH | Tony Jackson, American basketball player (Born 1942) |
| 28th of October 2005 | DEATH | Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician (Born 1922) |
| 28th of October 2005 | DEATH | Ljuba Tadic, Serbian actor (Born 1929) |
| 28th of October 2005 | DEATH | Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1943) |
| 28th of October 2006 | DEATH | Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and executive (Born 1917) |
| 28th of October 2006 | DEATH | Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (Born 1955) |
| 28th of October 2006 | DEATH | Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (Born 1920) |
| 28th of October 2007 | DEATH | Jimmy Makulis, Greek singer (Born 1935) |
| 28th of October 2007 | DEATH | Porter Wagoner, American country singer (Born 1927) |
| 28th of October 2010 | DEATH | James MacArthur, American actor (Born 1937) |
| 28th of October 2010 | DEATH | Gerard Kelly, Scottish actor (Born 1959) |
| 28th of October 2010 | DEATH | Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlander statesman (Born 1938) |
| 28th of October 2010 | DEATH | Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (Born 1934) |
| 28th of October 2010 | DEATH | Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist (Born 1932) |