October 28 - Deaths

Deaths

• 312 – Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c.278)
• 1225 – Jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155)
• 1312 – Queen Elisabeth of Tirol (b. 1262)
• 1412 – Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway (b. 1353)
• 1485 – Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist (b. 1443)
• 1520 – Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate (b. 1480)
• 1568 – Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
• 1627 – Emperor Jahangir of India (b. 1569)
• 1639 – Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
• 1646 – William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)
• 1661 – Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1518)
• 1676 – Jean Desmarets, French writer (b. 1595)
• 1703 – John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616)
• 1704 – John Locke, English philosopher (b. 1632)
• 1708 – Prince George of Denmark, consort of Anne of England (b. 1653)
• 1716 – Stephen Fox, British politician (b. 1627)
• 1740 – Empress Anna of Russia (b. 1693)
• 1754 – Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
• 1755 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689)
• 1763 – Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (b. 1700)
• 1768 – Michel Blavet, French flutist (b. 1700)
• 1792 – Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
• 1792 – John Smeaton, British civil engineer (b. 1724)
• 1800 – Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (b. 1727)
• 1806 – Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
• 1818 – Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)
• 1841 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
• 1857 – Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician (b. 1802)
• 1877 – Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
• 1879 – Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer (b. 1799)
• 1899 – Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (b. 1854)
• 1900 – Max Müller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823)
• 1914 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer, music critic and teacher (b. 1850)
• 1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
• 1916 – Oswald Boelcke, German WWI pilot (b. 1891)
• 1917 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)
• 1918 – Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
• 1929 – Bernhard von Bülow, German statesman (b. 1849)
• 1939 – Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1952 – Billy Hughes, Australian politician (b. 1862)
• 1957 – Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist (b. 1881)
• 1959 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary figure (b. 1932)
• 1965 – Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
• 1969 – Constance Dowling, American actress (b. 1920)
• 1970 – Baby Huey, American soul singer (b. 1944)
• 1973 – Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
• 1973 – Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)
• 1975 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
• 1975 – Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (b. 1932)
• 1986 – John Braine, British novelist (b. 1922)
• 1987 – André Masson, French artist (b. 1896)
• 1989 – Henry Hall, British bandleader (b. 1898)
• 1990 – Erich Göstl German WWII figure (b. 1925)
• 1997 – Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Ted Hughes, British poet (b. 1930)
• 2000 – Lída Baarová, Czech actress (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Andujar Cedeno, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
• 2000 – Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
• 2001 – Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Margaret Booth, American film editor (b. 1898)
• 2002 – Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Jimmy McLarnin, Northern Irish-born boxer (b. 1907)
• 2005 – Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Bob Broeg, American sports writer (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Raymond Hains, French artist (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)
• 2005 – Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
• 2006 – Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Jimmy Makulis, Greek singer (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Porter Wagoner, American country singer (b. 1927)
• 2010 – James MacArthur, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2010 – Gerard Kelly, Scottish actor (b. 1959)
• 2010 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlander statesman (b. 1938)
• 2010 – Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (b. 1934)
• 2010 – Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist (b. 1932)