Died on
Who died on October 28
114 figures who shaped history died on October 28.
- 114deaths
- 57events
Best known
Best known
Maxentius
Roman emperor from 306 to 312
Bolesław III Wrymouth
Duke of Poland from 1107 to 1138
Elisabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany
Queen of Germany from 1298 to 1308
Margaret I of Denmark
Scandinavian queen and founder of the Kalmar Union
Bianca Maria Visconti
Duchess of Milan
Ashikaga Yoshihide
Military ruler of Japan in 1568
Maxentius — Roman emperor from 306 to 312, who died on October 28 312.
Bolesław III Wrymouth — Duke of Poland from 1107 to 1138, who died on October 28 1138.
Elisabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany — Queen of Germany from 1298 to 1308, who died on October 28 1312.
Margaret I of Denmark — Scandinavian queen and founder of the Kalmar Union, who died on October 28 1412.
Bianca Maria Visconti — Duchess of Milan, who died on October 28 1468.
Ashikaga Yoshihide — Military ruler of Japan in 1568, who died on October 28 1568.
All entries
- 457IIbas of EdessaSyrian bishop (fl. c. 435 – 457)
- 816BBego of ParisCount of Paris from 813 to 816
- 875RRemigius of Lyon
- 1225
JienJapanese poet - 1266
Arsenije SremacSerbian archbishop and saint - 1310AAthanasius I of ConstantinopleEcumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1289 to 1293 and from 1303 to 1309
- 1592
Ogier Ghiselin de BusbecqFlemish scholar and diplomat - 1594
Ōkubo TadayoSamurai of the Sengoku era; major samurai ally of the Tokugawa clan - 1627
JahangirMughal emperor from 1605 to 1627 - 1639
Stefano LandiItalian composer - 1646
William DobsonEnglish painter - 1661
Agustín Moreto y Cavana17th-century Spanish playwright - 1676
Jean DesmaretsFrench writer and dramatist - 1703
John WallisEnglish mathematician - 1704
John LockeEnglish philosopher and physician - 1708
Prince George of DenmarkConsort of Queen Anne from 1702 to 1708 - 1716
Stephen FoxEnglish politician - 1740
Anna of RussiaEmpress of Russia from 1730 to 1740 - 1754
Friedrich von HagedornGerman poet - 1755
Joseph Bodin de BoismortierFrench composer - 1763
Heinrich von BrühlPolish-Saxon statesman - 1768
Michel BlavetFrench flutist and composer - 1787
Johann Karl August MusäusGerman author - 1792
Paul MöhringGerman naturalist - 1792
John SmeatonEnglish engineer - 1800
Artemas WardContinental Army general - 1806
Charlotte Smith (writer)English poet and novelist - 1818
Abigail AdamsFirst Lady of the United States from 1797 to 1801 - 1841
Johan August ArfwedsonSwedish chemist - 1857
Louis-Eugène CavaignacFrench general and politician - 1877
Robert SwinhoeEnglish diplomat and naturalist - 1879
Marie Roch Louis ReybaudFrench writer, political economist and politician - 1899
Ottmar MergenthalerGerman-American inventor - 1900
Max MüllerBritish philologist - 1906
Jean BennerFrench painter - 1914
Richard HeubergerAustrian composer - 1916
Cleveland AbbeAmerican meteorologist - 1916
Oswald BoelckeGerman World War I flying ace - 1917
Prince Christian of Schleswig-HolsteinGerman prince and British royal - 1917
Dimitrios VotsisGreek politician - 1918
Ulisse DiniItalian mathematician and politician - 1929
Bernhard von BülowChancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909 - 1936
Newton MooreAustralian army officer and politician - 1939
Alice BradyAmerican actress - 1941
Filipp GoloshchyokinBolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician - 1945
Kesago NakajimaJapanese general - 1952
Billy HughesPrime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923 - 1957
Ernst GräfenbergGerman-born scientist - 1959
Camilo CienfuegosCuban revolutionary leader and guerrilla (1933–Missing 1959) - 1963
Mart SaarEstonian composer - 1965
Thomas Graham BrownScottish mountaineer and physiologist - 1969
Constance DowlingAmerican actress - 1970
Baby Huey (singer)American singer - 1973
Taha HusseinEgyptian writer - 1973
Sergio TofanoItalian actor, theatre director and playwright - 1975
Georges CarpentierFrench boxer - 1975
Oliver NelsonAmerican composer and bandleader - 1976
Aarne JuutilainenFinnish army captain - 1978
Rukmani DeviSri Lankan actress and singer - 1983
Otto MessmerAmerican animator - 1986
John BraineEnglish writer - 1987
D. DjajakusumaIndonesian film director and promoter of traditional art forms
- 1987
André MassonFrench painter - 1989
Henry Hall (bandleader)English bandleader
- 1993
Juri LotmanEstonian-Russian semiotician, literary scholar - 1997PPaul JarricoAmerican screenwriter
- 1998
Ted HughesEnglish poet and children's writer - 1999
Antonios KatinarisGreek musician - 2000
Andújar CedeñoDominican baseball player - 2001
Gerard HengeveldDutch musician - 2002
Margaret BoothAmerican film editor - 2002EErling PerssonSwedish businessman
- 2003SSally BaldwinBritish social scientist
- 2004EEugene K. BirdUS army officer; commandant of Spandau Prison from 1964 to 1972
- 2005
Bob BroegAmerican sportswriter - 2005
Raymond HainsFrench visual artist - 2005
Tony Jackson (basketball, born 1942)American basketball player - 2005FFernando QuejasCape Verdean singer-songwriter
- 2005
Richard SmalleyAmerican chemist and Nobel laureate - 2005
Ljuba TadićSerbian actor - 2006
Red AuerbachAmerican basketball coach and executive - 2006
Trevor BerbickJamaican boxer - 2006
Marijohn WilkinAmerican songwriter - 2007TTakao FujinamiJapanese politician
- 2007
Porter WagonerAmerican country singer - 2009
Taylor MitchellCanadian singer-songwriter - 2010
Liang CongjieChinese historian and activist - 2010
James MacArthurAmerican actor and recording artist
- 2010
Jonathan MotzfeldtPrime Minister of Greenland (1979–1991; 1997–2002) - 2010
Ehud NetzerIsraeli archaeologist
- 2011
Tom AddingtonBritish Army soldier - 2012
Gordon BilneyAustralian politician - 2012JJohn CheffersAustralian rules footballer
- 2012JJack DellalBritish property investor
- 2013
Tetsuharu KawakamiJapanese baseball player and manager - 2013
Tadeusz Mazowiecki40th Prime Minister of Poland - 2013
Aleksandar TijanićSerbian journalist - 2013
Rajendra YadavIndian writer - 2014
Galway KinnellAmerican poet - 2014
Michael SataPresident of Zambia from 2011 to 2014 - 2018
Colin SylviaAustralian rules footballer - 2022
Jerry Lee LewisAmerican musician - 2023
Matthew PerryAmerican and Canadian actor - 2023
Adam Johnson (ice hockey)American ice hockey player - 2024
Renato MartinoItalian Roman Catholic cardinal - 2024
Paul MorrisseyAmerican film director - 2024
Jamshid SharmahdGerman affiliate of Kingdom Assembly of Iran - 2024
Kazuo UmezuJapanese manga artist
Frequently asked questions
Who died on October 28?
114 people with a Wikipedia article died on October 28, including Maxentius, Bolesław III Wrymouth, Elisabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany. The list is in chronological order by year of death and spans all of documented history, from antiquity to the present day. For each person you find their occupation, the year and a link to the Wikipedia biography, where the full story and its sources can be read.
What happened on October 28?
57 documented historical events happened on October 28, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy: Constantine the Great defeated Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in Rome. On the same day, in another year: Ladislaus the Posthumous was crowned King of Bohemia, although George of Poděbrady remained in control of the government. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
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