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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020 October
October 28 is the 301st day of the year (302nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
64 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
AD 97 Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard
to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor. ·
306 Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor. ·
312
Constantine I defeats
Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West. ·
969
The Byzantine Empire recovers
Antioch from Arab rule. ·
1344
The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Crusaders in
response to Aydınid piracy. ·
1420 Beijing is officially designated the
capital of the Ming dynasty when
the Forbidden City is
completed. ·
1449 Christian I is
crowned king of Denmark. ·
1453 Ladislaus the
Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague. ·
1492 Christopher Columbus lands
in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World. ·
1516 Second
OttomanMamluk War: Mamluks fail to stop the Ottoman advance
towards Egypt at the Battle of Yaunis
Khan. ·
1531 AbyssinianAdal war:
The Adal Sultanate seizes southern
Ethiopia. ·
1538
The Universidad
Santo Tomαs de Aquino is founded in what is now the Dominican
Republic. ·
1628 French Wars of
Religion: The Siege of La Rochelle ends
with the surrender of the Huguenots after fourteen months. ·
1636
The Massachusetts
Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which
would later become Harvard University. ·
1664
The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as
the Royal Marines,
is established. ·
1707
The 1707 Hōei
earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Japan. ·
1726
The novel Gulliver's Travels is
published. ·
1776
American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton
Hill from the Continental Army. ·
1834
The Pinjarra massacre occurs
in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by
British colonists. ·
1835
The United Tribes of New Zealand are established with the signature of
the Declaration of Independence. ·
1864
American Civil War: A Union attack on
the Confederate capital is repulsed. ·
1886
President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty. ·
1891
The MinoOwari
earthquake is the largest inland earthquake in Japan's
history. ·
1893
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.
6 in B Minor, Pathιtique receives its premiθre
performance only nine days before the composer's death. ·
1918
First World War: o A new Polish government in western Galicia
is established, triggering the PolishUkrainian War. o Czech politicians peacefully take over the
city of Prague, thus establishing the First
Czechoslovak Republic.[1] ·
1919
The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Wilson's
veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January. ·
1922
Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian
government. ·
1928
The "Indonesia Raya",
now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress. ·
1940
Second World War: Greece rejects Italy's
ultimatum. Italy invades
Greece through Albania a few hours later. ·
1942
The Alaska Highway first
connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada. ·
1948
Paul Mόller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his
discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT. ·
1949
An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in
the Azores, killing all 48 people on board. ·
1956 Hungarian
Revolution: A de facto ceasefire comes into
effect between armed revolutionaries and Soviet troops, who begin to withdraw
from Budapest. Communist officials and facilities come under attack by
revolutionaries. ·
1956
Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV. ·
1958 John XXIII is elected Pope. ·
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis:
Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. ·
1965
Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Church
officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths. ·
1971 Prospero becomes
the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket. ·
1982
The Spanish
general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish
Socialist Workers' Party. ·
1990
Georgia holds its only
free election under Soviet rule. ·
1995
The Baku Metro fire sees
289 people killed and 270 injured. ·
2005
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is indicted due to his involvement in
the Plame affair. ·
2006
A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for those Ukrainians
who were killed by the Soviet secret police. ·
2007 Cristina
Fernαndez de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected
female President of Argentina. ·
2009
The 28
October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213. ·
2009
NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket
launch for its short-lived Constellation program. ·
2013
Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into
barriers at the Tiananmen Square in China. ·
2014
A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to
the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the
Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. Births[edit] ·
1017 Henry III,
Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056) ·
1466 Erasmus, Dutch philosopher (d. 1536) ·
1479 John Gage,
English courtier (d. 1556) ·
1510 Francis
Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandνa, Spanish priest and saint, 3rd Superior
General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1572) ·
1550 Stanislaus Kostka,
Polish saint (d. 1568) ·
1585 Cornelius Jansen, Dutch bishop and
theologian (d. 1638) ·
1599 Marie
of the Incarnation, foundress of the Ursuline Monastery in Quebec
(d. 1672) ·
1610 Jacob Kettler, German noble (d. 1682) ·
1667 Maria Anna of
Neuburg, Queen consort of Spain ·
1690 Peter Tordenskjold,
Norwegian admiral (d. 1720) ·
1693 imon Brixi, Czech composer (d. 1735) ·
1696 Maurice de Saxe, French general (d. 1750) ·
1703 Antoine Deparcieux,
French mathematician and engineer (d. 1768) ·
1718 Ignacije
Szentmartony, Croatian priest, mathematician, astronomer, and
explorer (d. 1793) ·
1733 Franz Ignaz von
Beecke, German composer (d. 1803) ·
1754 John Laurens, American soldier (d. 1782) ·
1767 Marie of
Hesse-Kassel (d. 1852) ·
1793 Eliphalet Remington,
American businessman, founded Remington Arms (d. 1861) ·
1794 Robert Liston, Scottish surgeon (d. 1847) ·
1804 Pierre Franηois
Verhulst, Belgian mathematician and theorist (d. 1849) ·
1815 Ľudovνt tϊr,
Slovak philologist and politician (d. 1856) ·
1816 Malwida von
Meysenbug, German writer (d. 1903) ·
1837 Tokugawa Yoshinobu,
Japanese shōgun (d. 1913) ·
1839 Edward P. Allen, American captain, lawyer,
and politician (d. 1909) ·
1845 Zygmunt
Florenty Wrσblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (d. 1888) ·
1846 Auguste Escoffier,
French chef and author (d. 1935) ·
1854 Jean-Marie Guyau, French philosopher and
poet (d. 1888) ·
1860 Kanō Jigorō, Japanese martial
artist (d. 1938) ·
1864 Adolfo Camarillo, Mexican-American rancher
and philanthropist (d. 1958) ·
1867 Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian nurse, author,
and educator (d. 1911) ·
1875 Gilbert Hovey
Grosvenor, Turkish-Canadian journalist (d. 1966) ·
1877 Joe Adams,
American baseball player and manager (d. 1952) ·
1879 Channing H. Cox, American lawyer and
politician, 49th Governor of
Massachusetts (d. 1968) ·
1880 Wilhelm Anderson, Belarusian-Estonian
astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1940) ·
1880
Billy Wedlock,
English footballer (d. 1965) ·
1881 Vin Coutie, Australian footballer (d. 1951) ·
1884 William Douglas Cook,
New Zealand horticulturalist, founded Eastwoodhill
Arboretum (d. 1967) ·
1885 Velimir Khlebnikov,
Russian poet and playwright (d. 1922) ·
1886 Noel Macklin, English soldier and engineer
(d. 1946) ·
1888 Christopher
Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant
of Durham (d. 1964) ·
1889 Juliette Bιliveau,
Canadian actress and singer (d. 1975) ·
1892 Dink Johnson, American pianist, drummer, and
clarinet player (d. 1954) ·
1893 Christopher Kelk
Ingold, British chemist (d. 1970) ·
1896 Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor,
and educator (d. 1981) ·
1897 Edith Head, American costume designer (d.
1981) ·
1897 Hans Speidel, German general (d. 1984) ·
1901 Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (d. 1979) ·
1902 Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress
and singer (d. 1986) ·
1903 John
Chamberlain, American historian, journalist, and critic (d. 1995) ·
1903
Evelyn Waugh,
English journalist, author, and critic (d. 1966) ·
1904 George Dangerfield,
English-American historian, journalist, and author (d. 1986) ·
1905 Tatyana
Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician (d. 1984) ·
1907 John Hewitt,
Irish poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1987) ·
1908 Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and
politician, 32nd President of
Argentina (d. 1995) ·
1909 Francis Bacon,
Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1992) ·
1912 Richard Doll, English physiologist and
epidemiologist (d. 2005) ·
1914 Glenn Robert Davis,
American lieutenant and politician (d. 1988) ·
1914
Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician
(d. 1995) ·
1914
Richard
Laurence Millington Synge, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1994) ·
1916 Pearl Hackney, English actress (d. 2009) ·
1917 Jack Soo, American actor and singer (d.
1979) ·
1919 Walt Hansgen, American race car driver (d.
1966) ·
1919
Hans Klenk, German race car driver (d. 2009) ·
1921 Azumafuji Kin'ichi,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna (d. 1973) ·
1922 Gershon Kingsley, German-American pianist,
composer, and conductor (d. 2019) ·
1922
Simon Muzenda,
Zimbabwe politician, 1st Vice President
of Zimbabwe (d. 2003) ·
1922
Butch van Breda
Kolff, American basketball player and coach (d. 2007) ·
1923 John Connell,
American actor (d. 2015) ·
1924 Antonio Creus, Spanish race car driver and
motorcycle racer (d. 1996) ·
1924
Peddibhotla
Suryakantam, Telugu actress (d. 1994) ·
1925 Ian Hamilton Finlay,
Bahamian-Scottish poet, sculptor, and gardener (d. 2006) ·
1926 Bowie Kuhn, American lawyer and businessman
(d. 2007) ·
1927 Cleo Laine, English singer and actress ·
1928 Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general ·
1928
William Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, English
politician, Shadow
Secretary of State for Defence ·
1929 Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 1988) ·
1929
Virginia Held,
American philosopher, author, and academic ·
1929
John Hollander,
American poet, critic, and educator (d. 2013) ·
1929
Joan Plowright,
English actress ·
1930 Bernie Ecclestone,
English businessman ·
1931 Harold Battiste, American saxophonist,
pianist, and composer (d. 2015) ·
1932 Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and
politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (d.
2002) ·
1932
Suzy Parker, American model and actress (d.
2003) ·
1933 Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983) ·
1933
Michael Noakes,
English painter and illustrator (d. 2018) ·
1934 Charles A. Gargano,
American diplomat, businessman and government official ·
1935 Alan Clarke, English director and
screenwriter (d. 1990) ·
1936 Charlie Daniels, American singer-songwriter,
fiddle-player and guitarist (d. 2020) ·
1936
Ted Hawkins, American soul-blues
singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995) ·
1937 Graham Bond, English keyboard player,
singer, and saxophonist (d. 1974) ·
1937
Lenny Wilkens,
American basketball player and coach ·
1938 Keigo Abe, Japanese martial artist and coach ·
1938
Kenneth Best,
Liberian journalist, founded The Daily Observer ·
1938
Howard Blake,
English composer and conductor ·
1938
Dave Budd, American basketball player ·
1938
Gary Cowan, Canadian golfer ·
1938
David Dimbleby,
English journalist ·
1938
Anne Perry, English author ·
1939 Jane Alexander, American actress and
producer ·
1939
Andy Bey, American singer and pianist ·
1939
Miroslav Cerar,
Slovenian gymnast and lawyer ·
1939
Curtis Lee, American singer-songwriter (d.
2015) ·
1940 Susan Harris, American screenwriter and
producer ·
1941 Hank Marvin, English singer and guitarist ·
1942 Terence Donovan,
English-Australian actor ·
1942
Abdelkader Frιha,
Algerian footballer (d. 2012) ·
1942
Kees Verkerk,
Dutch speed skater ·
1942
Gillian Lovegrove,
English computer scientist and academic ·
1943 Jimmy McRae, Scottish race car driver ·
1943
Karalyn Patterson,
English psychologist and academic ·
1944 Gerry
Anderson, Irish radio and television host (d. 2014) ·
1944
Coluche, French comedian and actor (d. 1986) ·
1944
Dennis Franz,
American actor ·
1941
Ian Marter, English actor and writer (d.
1986)[2] ·
1944
Anton Schlecker,
German businessman, founded the Schlecker Company ·
1945 Sandy Berger, American lawyer and
politician, 19th United
States National Security Advisor (d. 2015) ·
1945
Elton Dean, English saxophonist and keyboard
player (d. 2006) ·
1945
Wayne Fontana,
English pop-rock singer ·
1945
Don Iverson, American golfer ·
1946 John Hewson, Australian economist and
politician ·
1946
Wim Jansen, Dutch footballer and manager ·
1946
Sharon Thesen,
Canadian poet and academic ·
1948 Telma Hopkins, American singer and actress ·
1949 Caitlyn Jenner, American decathlete and
actress ·
1950 Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian journalist and
activist ·
1950
Ludo Delcroix,
Belgian cyclist ·
1951 Peter Hitchens, English journalist and
author ·
1951
Joe R. Lansdale,
American martial artist and author ·
1952 Tuck Andress, American jazz guitarist ·
1952
Annie Potts, American actress ·
1953 Pierre Boivin, Canadian businessman ·
1953
Desmond Child,
American songwriter and producer ·
1955 Ronnie Bass, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1955
Bill Gates, American businessman and
philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft ·
1955
Digby
Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham, English businessman, lawyer, and
politician, Minister of
State for Trade ·
1955
Indra Nooyi, Indian-American businesswoman ·
1955
Gary Lavergne,
American author ·
1956 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
Iranian engineer and politician, 6th President of Iran ·
1956
Dave Wyndorf,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1956
Volker Zotz, Austrian philosopher, scholar,
and author ·
1957 Marian Bell,
English economist and academic ·
1957
Stephen Morris,
English drummer ·
1957
Zach Wamp, American businessman and
politician ·
1958 Concha Garcνa Campoy,
Spanish journalist (d. 2013) ·
1958
Ashok Chavan,
Indian businessman and politician, 16th Chief
Minister of Maharashtra ·
1958
William Reid,
Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1959 James Keelaghan, Canadian singer-songwriter
and producer ·
1959
Toshio Masuda,
Japanese composer ·
1959
Randy Wittman,
American basketball player and coach ·
1960 Landon Curt Noll, American computer
scientist and mathematician ·
1962 Erik Thorstvedt, Norwegian footballer and
manager ·
1962
Daphne Zuniga,
American actress ·
1963 Lauren Holly, American actress ·
1963
Sheryl Underwood,
American comedian, actress, and talk show host ·
1964 Andrew Bridgen, English soldier and
politician ·
1964
Peter Coyne,
Australian rugby league player ·
1965 Jami Gertz, American actress ·
1965
David Warburton,
English composer, businessman, and politician ·
1965
Miyako Yoshida,
Japanese ballerina ·
1966 Steve Atwater, American football player ·
1966
Matt Drudge, American blogger and activist,
founded the Drudge Report ·
1966
Andy Richter,
American actor, producer, and screenwriter ·
1966
Aris Spiliotopoulos,
Greek politician, Greek Minister of Education and Religious Affairs ·
1967 Kevin
Macdonald, Scottish director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1967
Julia Roberts,
American actress and producer ·
1967
John Romero, American video game designer,
co-founded Id Software ·
1968 Chris Broussard, American journalist and
sportscaster ·
1968
Marc Liθvremont,
French rugby player and coach ·
1968
Mayumi Ozaki,
Japanese wrestler ·
1969 Javier
Grillo-Marxuach, Puerto Rican-American screenwriter and producer ·
1969
Ben Harper, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1969
Noriyoshi Omichi,
Japanese baseball player and coach ·
1970 Greg Eagles, American voice actor and
producer ·
1970
Alan Peter Cayetano,
Filipino politician and Secretary of
Foreign Affairs of the Philippines ·
1971 Roxana Briban, Romanian soprano and actress
(d. 2010) ·
1971
Caroline Dinenage,
English businesswoman and politician ·
1972 Terrell Davis, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1972
Brad Paisley,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ·
1972
Trista Sutter,
American reality star ·
1973 Montel
Vontavious Porter, American wrestler and actor ·
1973
Aleksandar
Stanojević, Serbian footballer and manager ·
1974 Braden Looper, American baseball player ·
1974
Vicente Moreno,
Spanish footballer and manager ·
1974
Joaquin Phoenix,
American actor and producer ·
1974
Dejan
Stefanović, Serbian footballer and coach ·
1974
Dayanara Torres,
Puerto Rican actress and singer, Miss Universe 1993 ·
1976 Keiron Cunningham,
British rugby league player and coach ·
1976
Martin Lepa, Estonian footballer ·
1976
Simone Loria,
Italian footballer ·
1978 Justin Guarini, American singer-songwriter
and actor ·
1979 Natina Reed, American rapper and actress (d.
2012) ·
1979
Martin koula,
Czech ice hockey player ·
1979
Olcay Ηetinkaya,
Turkish footballer ·
1979
Jawed Karim, American computer scientist ·
1980 Christy Hemme, American wrestler and ring
announcer ·
1980
Agnes Obel, Danish singer-songwriter and
pianist ·
1980
Alan
Smith, English footballer and coach ·
1981 Solomon Andargachew,
Ethiopian footballer ·
1981
Milan Baro, Czech
footballer ·
1981
Shane Gore, English footballer ·
1981
Nate McLouth,
American baseball player ·
1981
Nick Montgomery,
English-Scottish footballer ·
1982 Jeremy Bonderman, American baseball player ·
1982
Enver Jδδger,
Estonian footballer ·
1982
Anthony Lerew,
American baseball player ·
1982
Hironori Saruta,
Japanese footballer ·
1982
Matt Smith,
English actor and director ·
1983 Jarrett Jack, American basketball player ·
1983
Kayo Noro, Japanese singer and actress ·
1983
Joe Thomas,
English actor and screenwriter ·
1984 Bryn
Evans, New Zealand rugby player ·
1984
Obafemi Martins,
Nigerian footballer ·
1984
Finn Wittrock,
American actor ·
1985 Tyrone Barnett, English footballer ·
1985
Anthony Fantano,
American music critic ·
1986 Anthony
Griffith, English footballer ·
1986
Aki Toyosaki,
Japanese voice actress and singer ·
1987 Frank Ocean, American singer-songwriter ·
1988 Edd Gould, English cartoonist and animator
(d. 2012) ·
1988
Jamie xx, English musician, DJ, record
producer and remixer ·
1989 Camille Muffat, French swimmer (d. 2015) ·
1991 Lucy Bronze, English footballer ·
1992 Maria Sergejeva, Estonian figure skater ·
1994 - Maro Itoje, English rugby union player ·
1995 Glen Kamara, Finnish footballer ·
1996 Jasmine Jessica
Anthony, American actress ·
1996
Jack Eichel, American ice hockey player ·
1996
Una Raymond-Hoey,
Irish cricketer ·
1997 Taylor Fritz, American tennis player ·
1997
Georgia Godwin,
Australian artistic gymnast[3] ·
1998 Nolan Gould, American actor Deaths[edit] ·
312 Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. 278) ·
457 Ibas of Edessa, Syrian bishop ·
816 Beggo,
count of Toulouse and Paris ·
875 Remigius of Lyon, Frankish archbishop ·
1138
King Bolesław
III Wrymouth of Poland ·
1225 Jien,
Japanese monk, historian, and poet (b. 1155) ·
1266 Saint Arsenije I Sremac ·
1310 Ecumenical Patriarch Athanasius I of Constantinople (b.
1230) ·
1312 Elizabeth
of Carinthia, Queen of Germany (b. 1262) ·
1412 Margaret I of
Denmark (b. 1353) ·
1468 Bianca Maria
Visconti, Duchess of Milan (b. 1425) ·
1568 Ashikaga Yoshihide,
Japanese shōgun (b. 1539) ·
1592 Ogier Ghiselin
de Busbecq, Flemish diplomat ·
1594 Ōkubo Tadayo, Japanese general (b.
1532) ·
1627 Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1569) ·
1639 Stefano Landi, Italian composer and educator
(b. 1587) ·
1646 William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610) ·
1661 Agustνn Moreto y
Cavana, Spanish priest and playwright (b. 1618) ·
1676 Jean Desmarets, French author, poet, and
playwright (b. 1595) ·
1703 John Wallis, English mathematician and
cryptographer (b. 1616) ·
1704 John Locke, English physician and philosopher
(b. 1632) ·
1708 Prince George of
Denmark (b. 1653) ·
1716 Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627) ·
1740 Anna of Russia (b. 1693) ·
1754 Friedrich von
Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708) ·
1755 Joseph Bodin
de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689) ·
1763 Heinrich von Brόhl,
German general and politician (b. 1700) ·
1768 Michel Blavet, French flute player and
composer (b. 1700) ·
1787 Johann Karl
August Musδus, German author (b. 1735) ·
1792 Paul Mφhring, German physician, botanist,
and zoologist (b. 1710) ·
1792
John Smeaton,
English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (b. 1724) ·
1800 Artemas Ward, American general and
politician (b. 1727) ·
1806 Charlotte Turner
Smith, English poet and author (b. 1749) ·
1818 Abigail Adams, American writer and
second First
Lady of the United States (b. 1744) ·
1841 Johan August
Arfwedson, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1792) ·
1857 Louis-Eugθne
Cavaignac, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister
of France (b. 1802) ·
1877 Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and
entomologist (b. 1835) ·
1879 Marie Roch Louis
Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799) ·
1899 Ottmar Mergenthaler,
German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854) ·
1900 Max Mόller, German philologist and
orientalist (b. 1823) ·
1914 Richard Heuberger,
Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850) ·
1916 Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and
academic (b. 1838) ·
1916
Oswald Boelcke,
German WWI flying ace (b. 1891) ·
1917 Prince
Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831) ·
1917
Dimitrios Votsis,
Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841) ·
1918 Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and
politician (b. 1845) ·
1929 Bernhard von Bόlow,
German soldier and politician, Chancellor
of Germany (b. 1849) ·
1936 Newton Moore, Australian soldier and
politician, 8th Premier of
Western Australia (b. 1870) ·
1939 Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892) ·
1941 Filipp Goloshchyokin,
Soviet politician (b. 1876) ·
1945 Kesago Nakajima, Japanese general (b. 1881) ·
1952 Billy Hughes, English-Australian politician,
7th Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1862)[4] ·
1957 Ernst Grδfenberg,
German-American physician and gynecologist (b. 1881) ·
1959 Camilo Cienfuegos,
Cuban soldier (b. 1932) ·
1963 Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer
(b. 1882) ·
1965 Thomas Graham Brown,
Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (b. 1882) ·
1969 Constance Dowling,
American model and actress (b. 1920) ·
1970 Baby Huey,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1944) ·
1973 Taha Hussein, Egyptian historian, author,
and academic (b. 1889) ·
1973
Sergio Tofano,
Italian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1883) ·
1975 Georges Carpentier,
French boxer and actor (b. 1894) ·
1975
Oliver Nelson,
American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (b. 1932) ·
1978 Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan singer and actress
(b. 1923) ·
1983 Otto Messmer, American animator and
screenwriter (b. 1892) ·
1986 John Braine, English author (b. 1922) ·
1987 Andrι Masson, French soldier and painter (b.
1896) ·
1989 Henry Hall,
English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1898) ·
1993 Yuri Lotman, Russian-Estonian historian and
scholar (b. 1922) ·
1997 Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and
producer (b. 1915) ·
1998 Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright (b.
1930) ·
1999 Antonios Katinaris,
Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1931) ·
2000 Andϊjar Cedeρo,
Dominican baseball player (b. 1969) ·
2001 Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch pianist, composer,
and educator (b. 1910) ·
2002 Margaret Booth, American screenwriter and
producer (b. 1898) ·
2002
Erling Persson,
Swedish businessman, founded H&M (b. 1917) ·
2004 Eugene K. Bird, American colonel and author,
US Commandant of Spandau Prison (b. 1926) ·
2005 Bob Broeg, American soldier and journalist
(b. 1918) ·
2005
Raymond Hains,
French photographer (b. 1926) ·
2005
Tony
Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942) ·
2005
Fernando Quejas,
Cape Verdean-Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1922) ·
2005
Richard Smalley,
American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1943) ·
2005
Ljuba Tadić,
Serbian actor and screenwriter (b. 1929) ·
2006 Red Auerbach, American basketball player and
coach (b. 1917) ·
2006
Trevor Berbick,
Jamaican-Canadian boxer (b. 1954) ·
2006
Marijohn Wilkin,
American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1920) ·
2007 Takao Fujinami, Japanese lawyer and
politician (b. 1932) ·
2007
Porter Wagoner,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1927) ·
2009 Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1990) ·
2010 Liang Congjie, Chinese historian and
activist, founded Friends of
Nature (b. 1932) ·
2010
James MacArthur,
American actor (b. 1937) ·
2010
Jonathan Motzfeldt,
Greenlandic politician, 1st Prime
Minister of Greenland (b. 1938) ·
2010
Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist,
architect, and educator (b. 1934) ·
2011 Tom Addington, English soldier (b. 1919) ·
2012 Gordon Bilney, Australian dentist and
politician (b. 1939) ·
2012
John Cheffers,
Australian footballer and coach (b. 1936) ·
2012
Jack Dellal, English businessman (b. 1923) ·
2013 Tetsuharu Kawakami,
Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1920) ·
2013
Tadeusz Mazowiecki,
Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister
of Poland (b. 1927) ·
2013
Aleksandar
Tijanić, Serbian journalist (b. 1949) ·
2013
Rajendra Yadav,
Indian author (b. 1929) ·
2014 Galway Kinnell, American poet and academic
(b. 1927) ·
2014
Michael Sata,
Zambian police officer and politician, 5th President of Zambia (b.
1937) ·
2018 Colin Sylvia, Australian rules footballer
(b. 1985) Holidays and observances[edit] o Abgar V of Edessa (Eastern Orthodox
Church) o Eadsige o Faro o Fidelis of Como (Roman Catholic
Church) o Job of Pochayiv (repose) (Eastern Orthodox
Church) o The Apostles Simon and Jude (Western Christianity) o Lord of Miracles (Lima) o October
28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho-Slovak
State, celebrates the independence of Czechoslovakia from Austria-Hungary in 1918. (Czech Republic and Slovakia) ·
International
Animation Day (ASIFA) ·
Ohi Day (Greece, Cyprus and the Greek communities),
a national day in
Greece. ·
Prefectural
Earthquake Disaster Prevention Day (Gifu Prefecture) ·
Youth Pledge Day or Hari Sumpah
Pemuda (Indonesia) ·
Anniversary of
the liberation of Ukraine from the Nazis, celebrating the
liberation from Nazi German troops
of the territory of current Ukraine |
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