Historical Deaths

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - October 28, 2026

1899 C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies

1991 Sylvia Fine Kaye, US lyricist/composer, dies at 78

1991 G L Vitto entertainer, dies at 69

1779 Raphael Weiss, composer, dies at 66

1877 Johann Herbeck, composer, dies at 45

1919 Ted Wainwright, cricketer (Yorks stalwart, 5 Tests 1893-98), dies

1704 John Locke, English philosopher (2 treatises of govt), dies at 72

1703 John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (wig of W), dies

1957 Anthony J Morabito, co-owner of SF '49ers, dies while watching a game

1964 Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66

1963 Mart Saar, composer, dies at 81

1905 Alphonse Allais, French humorist/writer (Le chat noir), dies

1897 Hercules Robinson, S Africa Commissioner (1880-89,1895-97), dies at 72

1637 Foppe van Aitzema, diplomat, dies at about 57

1980 Leon Janney, actor (Jim Matthews-Another World, Hawk), dies at 63

1959 Abe Waddington, cricketer (Yorks left-arm quick, Test avg 119), dies

1970 Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer, dies at 99

1852 Gerhard M Roentgen, founder Fijenoord dockyard, dies at 57

1520 Great Worm, [Worm Gerlefs Donia?], Fries boer/rebel leader, dies

1589 Jean-Antoine de Ba‹f, French poet (Carminum Liber I), dies at 57

1922 Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer/poet (Flemish Motion), dies

1962 Pierre Froidebise, composer, dies at 48

1995 Katsumasu Roy Sakioka, propery owner, dies at 96

0900 Alfred the Great, English monarch, dies

1992 Joan Maloney Rio, dancer, dies of cancer at 57

1940 Andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71

1987 Woody Herman, US jazz clarinetist/composer, dies at 74

1138 Boleslaw III Kryzwousty, [scheefmond], duke of Poland, dies

1875 William Howard Glover, composer, dies at 56

1754 Friedrich von Hagedorn, poet (Fabeln und Erz„hlungen), dies at 46

1854 James P Carrell, composer, dies at 67

1768 Michel Blavet, French court flautist/composer, dies at 68

1996 Jack Tinker, drama critic, dies at 58

1996 Morey Amsterdam, comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 87

1627 Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India, dies

1740 Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47

1997 Toni Carabillo, writer (Feminist Chronicles), dies of lymphoma at 71

1987 Andr‚ Masson, France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91

1965 Ben Barka, Moroccan opposition leader, kidnapped & murdered in Paris

1971 Yves de La Casiniere, composer, dies at 74

1939 Alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee), dies at 46

1912 Edgar Tinel, Flemish composer (Le chant Gr‚gorien), dies at 58

1969 Constance Dowling, actress (Blind Spot), dies of cardiac arrest at 49

1927 Eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77

1994 Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies

1996 William Downie Forrest, journalist, dies at 94

1841 S ndor Kisfaludy, Hungarian literary (A Boldog Szerelem), dies at 69

1929 Hermann Ungar, writer, dies at 36

1993 Carmino Baelen, Belgian sleder, dies at 22

1986 Margaretha "Marga" Klomp‚, Dutch 1st female minister (CRM), dies at 74

1959 Egon Kornauth, composer, dies at 68

1818 Abigail Adams, 2nd first lady (1797-1801), dies at 73

1993 Doris Duke, heiress (American Tobacco Co), dies at 80

1755 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer, dies at 65

1968 Henricus WJM Keuls, lawyer/poet, dies at 85

1914 Richard Heuberger, composer, dies at 64

1991 Lydia Hodson Copeland, America's Jr Miss (1972), dies at 37

1991 Dudley McConnell, headed NASA's Earth Science Division, dies

1936 E G Winkler, writer, dies

1991 John Korbal, film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51

1970 Baby Huey, [James Ramey], vocalist (Baby Huey & Babysitters), dies

1929 FЃrst Bernhard von BЃlow, PM Prussia (1900-09), dies at 80

1995 Allan Leslie Merson, historian, dies at 79

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