What happened on October 28 ?

312 - Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278)

1225 - Jien, Japanese poet and historian (b. 1155)

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 and freedom fighter

1568 - Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)

1627 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor 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 Queen Anne of England (b. 1653)

1716 - Stephen Fox, English 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, English civil engineer (b. 1724)

1800 - Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier (b. 1727)

1806 - Charlotte Turner Smith, English 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)

1897 - Hercules Robinson, British colonial administrator (b. 1824)

1899 - Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (tuberculosis) (b. 1854)

1900 - Max Müller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823)

1903 - Emma Booth, the fourth child of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1860)

1916 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)

1916 - Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)

1917 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1831)

1918 - Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)

1929 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)

1952 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)

1957 - Ernst Gräfenberg, German physican and scientist (b. 1881)

1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)

1965 - Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)

1973 - Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)

1973 - Sergio Tofano, Italian actor (b. 1883)

1975 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)

1986 - John Braine, English novelist (b. 1922)

1987 - André Masson, French artist (b. 1896)

1996 - Morey Amsterdam, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)

1998 - Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930)

2000 - Lída Baarová, Czech actress (b. 1914)

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, director of the Spandau prison (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, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, co-discoverer of fullerenes (b. 1943)

2005 - Ljuba Tadi?, Serbian actor (b. 1929)