October 28th
166 Notable deaths
Ottmar Mergenthaler
German inventor of linotype.
Born May 10th, 1854 in Bad Mergentheim. [ref]
Died October 28th, 1899 at 45 years old in Baltimore (tuberculosis).
Jonathan Motzfeldt
Prime minister of greenland (1938-2010).
Born September 25th, 1938 in Qassimiut. [ref]
Died October 28th, 2010 at 72 years old in Qaqortoq (cerebral hemorrhage). [ref]
Klaus Wunderlich
German musician.
Born June 18th, 1931 in Chemnitz.
Died October 28th, 1997 at 66 years old in Engen (myocardial infarction).
Gil Mellé
American artist, jazz musician and film composer (1931-2004).
Born December 31st, 1931 in Jersey City.
Died October 28th, 2004 at 72 years old in Los Angeles (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Grigori Shtern
Soviet general.
Born August 6th, 1900 in Smila.
Died October 28th, 1941 at 41 years old in Samara.
Shrilal Shukla
Indian writer (1925–2011).
Born December 31st, 1925 in Atrauli.
Died October 28th, 2011 at 85 years old in Lucknow. [ref]
Isabella Abbott
Hawaiian-american professor of botany, ethnobotanist and specialist in algology (1919-2010).
Died October 28th, 2010 at 91 years old in Honolulu. [ref]
Blas Piñar
Spanish politician (1918–2014).
Born November 22nd, 1918 in Toledo. [ref]
Died October 28th, 2014 at 95 years old in Madrid.
Juri Lotman
Russian-estonian semiotician (1922–1993).
Born February 28th, 1922 in Saint Petersburg.
Died October 28th, 1993 at 71 years old in Tartu.
Renato Martino
Italian roman catholic cardinal (1932–2024).
Born November 23rd, 1932 in Salerno. [ref]
Died October 28th, 2024 at 91 years old in Rome. [ref]
Deaths 81 to 90 of 166
Death is a distant rumor to the young. Andrew A. Rooney