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History Deaths on October 28


Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell, American poet and academic (b. 1927)

#Galway_Kinnell

Gerard Hengeveld
Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1910)

#Gerard_Hengeveld

Bernhard von Bülow
Bernhard von Bülow, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)

#Bernhard_von_Bülow

Mart Saar
Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1882)

#Mart_Saar

Red Auerbach
Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (b. 1917)

#Red_Auerbach

Sergio Tofano
Sergio Tofano, Italian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1883)

#Sergio_Tofano

Jonathan Motzfeldt
Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlandic politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938)

#Jonathan_Motzfeldt

Louis-Eugène Cavaignac
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1802)

#Louis-Eugène_Cavaignac

Friedrich von Hagedorn
Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)

#Friedrich_von_Hagedorn

Dimitrios Votsis
Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841)

#Dimitrios_Votsis

Johann Karl August Musäus
Johann Karl August Musäus, German author (b. 1735)

#Johann_Karl_August_Musäus

Taha Hussein
Taha Hussein, Egyptian historian, author, and academic (b. 1889)

#Taha_Hussein

Raymond Hains
Raymond Hains, French photographer (b. 1926)

#Raymond_Hains

Max Müller
Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)

#Max_Müller

Richard Smalley
Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)

#Richard_Smalley

Ashikaga Yoshihide
Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese sh?gun (b. 1539)

#Ashikaga_Yoshihide

Michael Sata
Michael Sata, Zambian police officer and politician, 5th President of Zambia (b. 1937)

#Michael_Sata

Constance Dowling
Constance Dowling, American model and actress (b. 1920)

#Constance_Dowling

Jean Desmarets
Jean Desmarets, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1595)

#Jean_Desmarets

Agustín Moreto y Cavana
Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish priest and playwright (b. 1618)

#Agustín_Moreto_y_Cavana

Otto Messmer
Otto Messmer, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1892)

#Otto_Messmer

Ottmar Mergenthaler
Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)

#Ottmar_Mergenthaler

Johan August Arfwedson
Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1792)

#Johan_August_Arfwedson

Kesago Nakajima
Kesago Nakajima, Japanese general (b. 1881)

#Kesago_Nakajima

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689)

#Joseph_Bodin_de_Boismortier

Marie Roch Louis Reybaud
Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)

#Marie_Roch_Louis_Reybaud

Henry Hall (bandleader)
Henry Hall, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1898)

#Henry_Hall_(bandleader)

Artemas Ward
Artemas Ward, American general and politician (b. 1727)

#Artemas_Ward

Gordon Bilney
Gordon Bilney, Australian dentist and politician (b. 1939)

#Gordon_Bilney

Marijohn Wilkin
Marijohn Wilkin, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1920)

#Marijohn_Wilkin

Richard Heuberger
Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)

#Richard_Heuberger

Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1927)

#Tadeusz_Mazowiecki

Colin Sylvia
Colin Sylvia, Australian rules footballer (b. 1985)

#Colin_Sylvia

Jien
Jien, Japanese monk, historian, and poet (b. 1155)

#Jien

James MacArthur
James MacArthur, American actor (b. 1937)

#James_MacArthur

Tony Jackson (basketball, born 1942)
Tony Jackson, American basketball player (b. 1942)

#Tony_Jackson_(basketball,_born_1942)

Jahangir
Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1569)

#Jahangir

Filipp Goloshchyokin
Filipp Goloshchyokin, Soviet politician (b. 1876)

#Filipp_Goloshchyokin

Thomas Graham Brown
Thomas Graham Brown, Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (b. 1882)

#Thomas_Graham_Brown

Yuri Lotman
Yuri Lotman, Russian-Estonian historian and scholar (b. 1922)

#Yuri_Lotman

John Wallis
John Wallis, English mathematician and cryptographer (b. 1616)

#John_Wallis

Alice Brady
Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)

#Alice_Brady

Stephen Fox
Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627)

#Stephen_Fox

Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)

#Prince_Christian_of_Schleswig-Holstein

Tetsuharu Kawakami
Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1920)

#Tetsuharu_Kawakami

Paul Möhring
Paul Möhring, German physician, botanist, and zoologist (b. 1710)

#Paul_Möhring

Robert Swinhoe
Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)

#Robert_Swinhoe

Prince George of Denmark
Prince George of Denmark (b. 1653)

#Prince_George_of_Denmark

Aleksandar Tijani?
Aleksandar Tijani?, Serbian journalist (b. 1949)

#Aleksandar_Tijani?

John Smeaton
John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (b. 1724)

#John_Smeaton

Ulisse Dini
Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845)

#Ulisse_Dini

Billy Hughes
Billy Hughes, English-Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)

#Billy_Hughes

Antonios Katinaris
Antonios Katinaris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1931)

#Antonios_Katinaris

Margaret I of Denmark
Margaret I of Denmark (b. 1353)

#Margaret_I_of_Denmark

Bob Broeg
Bob Broeg, American soldier and journalist (b. 1918)

#Bob_Broeg

John Locke
John Locke, English physician and philosopher (b. 1632)

#John_Locke

Camilo Cienfuegos
Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban soldier (b. 1932)

#Camilo_Cienfuegos

Cleveland Abbe
Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)

#Cleveland_Abbe

Charlotte Turner Smith
Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and author (b. 1749)

#Charlotte_Turner_Smith

Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Flemish diplomat

#Ogier_Ghiselin_de_Busbecq

André Masson
André Masson, French soldier and painter (b. 1896)

#André_Masson

Oswald Boelcke
Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (b. 1891)

#Oswald_Boelcke

Bianca Maria Visconti
Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (b. 1425)

#Bianca_Maria_Visconti

Anna of Russia
Anna of Russia (b. 1693)

#Anna_of_Russia

Rajendra Yadav
Rajendra Yadav, Indian author (b. 1929)

#Rajendra_Yadav

Newton Moore
Newton Moore, Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1870)

#Newton_Moore

Ehud Netzer
Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist, architect, and educator (b. 1934)

#Ehud_Netzer

Maxentius
Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. 278)

#Maxentius

Ljuba Tadi?
Ljuba Tadi?, Serbian actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)

#Ljuba_Tadi?

?kubo Tadayo
?kubo Tadayo, Japanese general (b. 1532)

#?kubo_Tadayo

Heinrich von Brühl
Heinrich von Brühl, German general and politician (b. 1700)

#Heinrich_von_Brühl

William Dobson
William Dobson, English painter (b. 1610)

#William_Dobson

Georges Carpentier
Georges Carpentier, French boxer and actor (b. 1894)

#Georges_Carpentier

Porter Wagoner
Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1927)

#Porter_Wagoner

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams, American writer and second First Lady of the United States (b. 1744)

#Abigail_Adams

Jack Dellal, English businessman (b. 1923)
John Cheffers, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1936)
Tom Addington, English soldier (b. 1919)
Liang Congjie, Chinese historian and activist, founded Friends of Nature (b. 1932)
Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1990)
Takao Fujinami, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
Trevor Berbick, Jamaican-Canadian boxer (b. 1954)
Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean-Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
Eugene K. Bird, American colonel and author, US Commandant of Spandau Prison (b. 1926)
Erling Persson, Swedish businessman, founded H&M (b. 1917)
Margaret Booth, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1898)
Andújar Cedeño, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright (b. 1930)
Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1915)
John Braine, English author (b. 1922)
Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan singer and actress (b. 1923)
Oliver Nelson, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (b. 1932)
Baby Huey, American singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
Ernst Gräfenberg, German-American physician and gynecologist (b. 1881)
Michel Blavet, French flute player and composer (b. 1700)
Stefano Landi, Italian composer and educator (b. 1587)
Elizabeth of Carinthia, Queen of Germany (b. 1262)
Ecumenical Patriarch Athanasius I of Constantinople (b. 1230)
Saint Arsenije I Sremac
King Boles?aw III Wrymouth of Poland
Remigius of Lyon, Frankish archbishop
Beggo, count of Toulouse and Paris
Ibas of Edessa, Syrian bishop