On This Day — October 28
3937 noted people were born and 1839 died on October 28 in our archive, including Bill Gates, Andreas Zeller and August Batsch.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on October 28
Bill Gates
b. 1955
Andreas Zeller
b. 1965
August Batsch
1761 – 1802
Charles Morerod
b. 1961
Claude Bourdet
1909 – 1996
Danièle Sallenave
b. 1940
Dmitri Ivanovsky
1864 – 1920
Doron Lancet
b. 1948
Enrico Giusti
1940 – 2024
Erich Mende
1916 – 1998
F. Thomson Leighton
b. 1956
Fania Oz-Salzberger
b. 1960
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch
1867 – 1941
Hans-Joachim Gehrke
b. 1945
Harry Oppenheimer
1908 – 2000
Jan Nielubowicz
1915 – 2000
Jane L. Kelly
b. 1964
John Sibthorp
1758 – 1796
Jonas Salk
1914 – 1995
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
b. 1956
Manuel Pinho
b. 1954
Marcian Hoff
b. 1937
Michel Broué
b. 1946
Musa Qasımlı
b. 1957
Oksana Markarova
b. 1976
Oleg Dobrodeev
b. 1959
Patrick Boucheron
b. 1965
Peeter Tulviste
1945 – 2017
Per-Olov Löwdin
1916 – 2000
Pierre Frieden
1892 – 1959
Richard Doll
1912 – 2005
Richard Laurence Millington Synge
1914 – 1994
Robert Liston
1794 – 1847
Saul Dubow
b. 1959
Surin Pitsuwan
1949 – 2017
Tadeusz Iwiński
b. 1944
Theodor Magnus Fries
1832 – 1913
Vyacheslav Boguslayev
b. 1938
Wilhelm Anderson
1880 – 1940
Yuri Ryzhov
1930 – 2017
Abba P. Lerner
1903 – 1982
Achta Djibrine Sy
b. 1962
Adam Kwasman
b. 1982
Albert Maltz
1908 – 1985
Alessandro Molon
b. 1971
Alexei Yerkhov
b. 1960
Alikram Hummatov
1948 – 2022
Anthony Fantano
b. 1985
Armando Uribe
1933 – 2020
Arturo Frondizi
1908 – 1995
Augusto Gansser-Biaggi
1910 – 2012
Ayad Akhtar
b. 1970
Boris Abalyan
b. 1947
Byron Donalds
b. 1978
Carlos Fernando Rosenkrantz
b. 1958
Carlos Noguera
1943 – 2015
Caroline Dinenage
b. 1971
Cecil Hurst
1870 – 1963
Charles Weibel
b. 1950
Chris Anyanwu
b. 1951
Claudio De Vincenti
b. 1948
Coluche
1944 – 1986
Concha García Campoy
1958 – 2013
Conrado del Campo
1878 – 1953
Constand Viljoen
1933 – 2020
Cornelis van Eck
1662 – 1732
Cornelius Jansen
1585 – 1638
Daryna Maxymets
b. 1956
David Dimbleby
b. 1938
David Finkel
b. 1955
Delfin Lorenzana
b. 1948
Dezső Bánffy
1843 – 1911
Digby Jones
b. 1955
Dmitry Goritsky
b. 1970
Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis
1892 – 1965
Edward Purdy Ney
1920 – 1996
Elena Milashina
b. 1978
Ella Orr Campbell
1910 – 2003
Emanuel Mendel
1839 – 1907
Erast Parmasto
1928 – 2012
Ethel Sargant
1863 – 1918
Eugène Prévinaire
1805 – 1877
Federico Silva Muñoz
1923 – 1997
Felix Platter
1536 – 1614
Florence Provendier
b. 1965
Frances Hellman
b. 1956
Fred Chaney
b. 1941
Frédéric Martel
b. 1967
Fyodor Palitzin
1851 – 1923
Ganjar Pranowo
b. 1968
Geoff Sutcliffe
b. 1961
Gerhart Baum
1932 – 2025
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor
1875 – 1966
Giulio Angioni
1939 – 2017
Gohar Muradyan
b. 1957
Grigory Kulik
1890 – 1950
Gulielma Lister
1860 – 1949
Hans Gram
1685 – 1748
Hans Speidel
1897 – 1984
Henry Koewing Schenck
b. 1963
Hermann Spieckermann
b. 1950
Honor Moore
b. 1945
Howard Blake
b. 1938
Howard Hanson
1896 – 1981
Hugo Barra
b. 1976
Hugo Preuß
1860 – 1925
Ihor Zvarych
1952 – 2026
Ilarion Ciobanu
1931 – 2008
Ilmari Turja
1901 – 1998
Jacques Curie
1855 – 1941
Jane Alexander
b. 1939
Javier Pérez-Ramírez
b. 1974
Jawed Karim
b. 1979
Jean-Luc Bouilleret
b. 1953
Jennifer Dionne
b. 1981
Jesús Padilla Gálvez
b. 1959
John Bardo
1948 – 2019
John Hewson
b. 1946
John L. Magee
1914 – 2005
Joram Lindenstrauss
1936 – 2012
Joseph DeLee
1869 – 1942
José Rebolledo de Palafox, 1st Duke of Saragossa
1775 – 1847
Juan Orlando Hernández
b. 1968
Ján Babjak
b. 1953
Karalyn Patterson
b. 1943
Karol Niemira
1881 – 1965
Kevin Lincoln
b. 1980
Knut Dahl
1871 – 1951
Kostjantyn Hryščenko
b. 1953
Lajos Ligeti
1902 – 1987
Landon Curt Noll
b. 1960
Leonard Webb
1920 – 2004
Leonard Wild
1889 – 1970
Leonardus Antonius Lightenvelt
1795 – 1873
Louis E. McComas
1846 – 1907
Louis Pierre Alexis Pothuau
1815 – 1882
László 7th Prince Batthyány-Strattmann
1870 – 1931
Magnus Jung
b. 1971
Manuel Núñez Pérez
b. 1933
Marie-Françoise Bucquet
1937 – 2018
Marietje Schaake
b. 1978
Marju Lepajõe
1962 – 2019
Merrell Vories Hitotsuyanagi
1880 – 1964
Michaela Šojdrová
b. 1963
Michel Vergé-Franceschi
b. 1951
Miyako Yoshida
b. 1965
Nemir Kirdar
1936 – 2020
Neville Lyttelton
1845 – 1931
Nicholas A. Veliotes
1928 – 2024
Nigel F. Palmer
1946 – 2022
Nordal Wille
1858 – 1924
Paavo Suomalainen
1907 – 1976
Paul Jourdain
1878 – 1948
Peter Horrocks
b. 1959
Pierre Deval
1757 – 1829
Pierre François Verhulst
1804 – 1849
Pyotr Möller-Zakomelsky
1755 – 1823
Rachel Levine
b. 1957
Raymond Saunders
1934 – 2024
Rex Richards
1922 – 2019
Richard F. Cleveland
1897 – 1974
Richard Pan
b. 1965
Robert Daniel Murphy
1894 – 1978
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
b. 1951
Roman Viktiuk
1936 – 2020
Romeo Saganash
b. 1961
Rosalie Slaughter Morton
1876 – 1968
Ruben Hambardzumyan
b. 1941
Saktiandi Supaat
b. 1973
Sandra Sade
b. 1949
Scott Hahn
b. 1957
Simon Lokodo
1957 – 2022
Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet
1826 – 1893
Siri Kannangara
1944 – 2024
Spiros Cyprianou
1932 – 2002
Sreenath Sreenivasan
b. 1970
Tengku Mahmood Mahyideen
1908 – 1954
Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff
1807 – 1882
Thomas J. Herbert
1894 – 1974
Thomas Upington
1844 – 1898
Timofey Florinskiy
1854 – 1919
Todd Starnes
b. 1967
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
1837 – 1913
Tom Preston-Werner
b. 1979
Urjit Patel
b. 1963
Vernon Haggard
1874 – 1960
Vincent Van Peteghem
b. 1980
Volodymyr Ivashko
1932 – 1994
William Johnstone Ritchie
1813 – 1892
William Nicholson
1863 – 1932
Yang Yong
1913 – 1983
Zygmunt Wróblewski
1845 – 1888
Aaron Harrison
b. 1994
Abdirahman Saylici
b. 1956
Aditi Rao Hydari
b. 1986
Adolfo Camarillo
1864 – 1958
Adolfo del Campo
b. 1981
Agnes L. Rogers
1884 – 1943
Agostino Santillo
b. 1974
Aharon Abuhatzira
1938 – 2021
… and 3,737 more
Died on October 28
Yannis Sakellarakis
1936 – 2010
Edward Kennard Rand
1871 – 1945
Egil Andersen Hylleraas
1898 – 1965
Eugenio Elia Levi
1883 – 1917
Franz Kamphaus
1932 – 2024
Friedrich Max Müller
1823 – 1900
Gustav Rümelin
1815 – 1889
Jean Carbonnier
1908 – 2003
John Wallis
1616 – 1703
Luis Miguel Enciso Recio
1930 – 2018
Nalini Ambady
1959 – 2013
Olivier Elzéar Mathieu
1853 – 1928
Paul Gasq
1860 – 1944
Pol Swings
1906 – 1983
Rafael Calvo Ortega
1933 – 2025
Richard Smalley
1943 – 2005
Sir Edmund Monson, 1st Baronet
1834 – 1909
Taha Hussein
1889 – 1973
Tahsin Özgüç
1916 – 2005
Ted Hughes
1930 – 1998
Théodore Reinach
1860 – 1928
Tommy Flowers
1905 – 1998
Ulisse Dini
1845 – 1918
Akio Suzuki
1929 – 2010
Alain Rey
1928 – 2020
Alexander Krivoshein
1857 – 1921
Alexander Morris
1826 – 1889
Alexander Tselikov
1904 – 1984
Angelo Minich
1817 – 1893
Anthony Clare
1942 – 2007
Artemas Ward
1727 – 1800
Athanasius
1887 – 1962
Bernhard von Bülow
1849 – 1929
Breese J. Stevens
1834 – 1903
Bruce L. Edwards
1952 – 2015
Bruno Streckenbach
1902 – 1977
Caridad Mercader
1892 – 1975
Charles-Joseph Bouchard
1837 – 1915
Chrisostomos I of Athens
1868 – 1938
Christopher Wenner
1954 – 2021
Cleveland Abbe
1838 – 1916
Dina Cocea
1912 – 2008
Edgar Tinel
1854 – 1912
Erika Weinzierl
1925 – 2014
Ernő Osvát
1877 – 1929
Frederick M. Crunden
1847 – 1911
Galway Kinnell
1927 – 2014
Gerard Hengeveld
1910 – 2001
Grigori Chukhrai
1921 – 2001
Grigori Shtern
1900 – 1941
Harrison Gray Otis
1765 – 1848
Helen Magill White
1853 – 1944
Henri Dor
1835 – 1912
Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke
1765 – 1818
Henry Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie
1827 – 1921
Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead
1824 – 1897
Ian Jack
1945 – 2022
Ike Skelton
1931 – 2013
Ilie Murgulescu
1902 – 1991
Isabella Abbott
1919 – 2010
Jacques Sauvageot
1943 – 2017
James MacArthur
1937 – 2010
Jerry Morris
1910 – 2009
Jiří Gruša
1938 – 2011
Johannes Ludwig Janson
1849 – 1914
John Backus
1911 – 1988
John P. Saylor
1908 – 1973
Jonathan Motzfeldt
1938 – 2010
Joseph Hunkin
1887 – 1950
Juan Guiteras
1852 – 1925
Jules Hardy
1932 – 2022
Juozas Ambrazevičius
1903 – 1974
Juri Lotman
1922 – 1993
K. N. Ezhuthachan
1911 – 1981
Kaj Birket-Smith
1893 – 1977
Kong Te-cheng
1920 – 2008
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac
1802 – 1857
Louise Hay
1935 – 1989
Ludwig Greiner
1796 – 1882
Marga Klompé
1912 – 1986
Marie Maynard Daly
1921 – 2003
Mikhail Dragomirov
1830 – 1905
Mykhailo Stepanenko
1942 – 2019
Newton Moore
1870 – 1936
Nicholas Brathwaite
1925 – 2016
Paddy Glynn
1855 – 1931
Pak Song-chol
1913 – 2008
Pavel Rychagov
1911 – 1941
Philippe Gildas
1935 – 2018
Pierre Rosenstiehl
1933 – 2020
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
1831 – 1917
Ramón Franco Bahamonde
1896 – 1938
Reginald Horace Blyth
1898 – 1964
Richard Gill
1941 – 2018
Richard Pakenham
1797 – 1868
Ronald Getoor
1929 – 2017
Saleemul Huq
1952 – 2023
Stephen Fox
1627 – 1716
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
1927 – 2013
Ted Taylor
1925 – 2004
Thomas Fowell Buxton
1837 – 1915
Thomas Graham Brown
1882 – 1965
Thomas Richardson Colledge
1796 – 1879
Tivadar Millner
1899 – 1988
Vera Pashennaya
1887 – 1962
Viktor Glondys
1882 – 1949
Walter Capps
1934 – 1997
Walter Hinton
1888 – 1981
Wilber M. Brucker
1894 – 1968
William E. Wallace
1917 – 2004
William Hussey
1862 – 1926
William Speirs Bruce
1867 – 1921
Yakov Smushkevich
1902 – 1941
Yevfimiy Vasilyevich Putyatin
1803 – 1883
A. Linwood Holton, Jr.
1923 – 2021
A. M. Miller
1861 – 1929
Abigail Adams
1744 – 1818
Adriaan de Buck
1892 – 1959
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi
1856 – 1921
Al Bianchi
1932 – 2019
Albert Berrer
1857 – 1917
Albert Grünwedel
1856 – 1935
Albert Hastings Markham
1841 – 1918
Alexander Crum Brown
1838 – 1922
Alexander John Ellis
1814 – 1890
Alexander Lowen
1910 – 2008
Alexander Voznesensky
1898 – 1950
Alexey Manikovsky
1865 – 1920
Alva B. Lasswell
1905 – 1988
Andrew Tracy
1797 – 1868
André Masson
1896 – 1987
Arlo L. Olson
1918 – 1943
Arthur Britton Smith
1920 – 2023
Ashton Dovell
1885 – 1949
August Deusser
1870 – 1942
Augustus Noble Hand
1869 – 1954
Barbara Ronson
1942 – 2018
Bernard Grandmaître
1933 – 2025
Bill Schramm
1886 – 1962
Billy Hughes
1862 – 1952
Bob Broeg
1918 – 2005
Bursalı Mehmed Tahir Bey
1861 – 1925
Calvin O. Butts
1949 – 2022
Carl Georg Barth
1860 – 1939
Carl Wille Schnitler
1879 – 1926
Carter Harrison III
1825 – 1893
Cecil Rawling
1870 – 1917
Charles G. Oakman
1903 – 1973
Charles Lumley Hill
1840 – 1909
Count Karl Ferdinand von Buol
1797 – 1865
Daniel Dumaresq
1712 – 1805
David Brighty
1939 – 2025
David Jones
1895 – 1974
Dimitrios Votsis
1841 – 1917
Dimitry of Rostov
1651 – 1709
Earl Snell
1895 – 1947
Eaton Faning
1850 – 1927
Edmund Dell
1921 – 1999
Edward Bouchet
1852 – 1918
Edward Dwurnik
1943 – 2018
Ernst Gräfenberg
1881 – 1957
Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville
1870 – 1946
Eunice Kazembe
1952 – 2013
Evelyn Hamann
1942 – 2007
Ewa Ligocka
1947 – 2022
Ferdinand Fellmann
1939 – 2019
Frances Gillmor
1903 – 1993
Francis Blundell
1880 – 1936
Francisco Bulnes Sanfuentes
1917 – 1999
François Laruelle
1937 – 2024
Fred C. Norton
1928 – 2000
Frédéric-Charles-Victor de Vernon
1858 – 1912
Gabriel Langfeldt
1895 – 1983
George Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall
1873 – 1931
George K. Nash
1842 – 1904
Giuseppe Biancheri
1821 – 1908
Giuseppe Scarabelli
1820 – 1905
Gordon Bilney
1939 – 2012
Gurgen Yeghiazaryan
1948 – 2020
Hafiz Alam Sairani
1960 – 2024
Hakkı Tunaboylu
1895 – 1958
Hakuchō Masamune
1879 – 1962
Hamidur Rahman
1953 – 1971
Hamish Munro
1915 – 1994
Harold Hitz Burton
1888 – 1964
Heinrich Friedrich Otto Abel
1824 – 1854
Heinrich von Brühl
1700 – 1763
Henry I. Emerson
1871 – 1953
Hilda Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford
1869 – 1956
Hisato Ohzawa
1907 – 1953
Hubert Astier
1938 – 2020
Héctor Noguera
1937 – 2025
I. John Hesselink
1928 – 2018
Ian Marter
1944 – 1986
Ira E. Robinson
1869 – 1951
Isidor Hilberg
1852 – 1919
Jacques-Charles Bonnard
1765 – 1818
Jaime Suárez Bastidas
1931 – 1993
Jakob Beurlin
1520 – 1561
James Meredith Helm
1855 – 1927
… and 1,639 more