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Known primarily for his work in comedy, he gained international fame for starring as Chandler Bing on the NBC television sitcom Friends (1994–2004), receiving his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2002 for the role.
Notable Deaths on October 28
2023 — Matthew Perry
American-Canadian actor (born 1969)
October 28 has 114 recorded notable deaths across history, from 312 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
114 source records
312 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on October 28
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1918 World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city of Prague, thus establishing the First Czechoslovak Republic. Source
- 2018 Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million votes, with Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad as the runner-up. It is the first time in 16 years that a Workers' Party candidate is not elected president. Source
- 2007 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina. Source
- 1918 World War I: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War. Source
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A pioneer of rock and roll and rockabilly music, Lewis made his first recordings in 1952 at Cosimo Matassa's J&M Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana, and early recordings in 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
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John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
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Abigail Adams is widely considered to be an influential figure in the founding of the United States, and was both the first second lady and second first lady of the United States, although such titles were not used at the time.
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Anna Ioannovna, also russified as Anna Ivanovna and sometimes anglicized as Anne, served as regent of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia from 1711 until 1730 and then ruled as Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740.
More major people who died on October 28
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2022
Jerry Lee Lewis
American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1935)
Jerry Lee Lewis was an American country music and rock and roll pianist, singer, and songwriter. Nicknamed "The Killer", he was described as "rock 'n' roll's first great wild man".
1704
John Locke
English physician and philosopher (born 1632)
John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
1818
Abigail Adams
American writer and second First Lady of the United States (born 1744)
Abigail Adams was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.
1740
Anna of Russia (born 1693)
Anna Ioannovna, also russified as Anna Ivanovna and sometimes anglicized as Anne, served as regent of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia from 1711 until 1730 and then ruled as Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740.
2006
Red Auerbach
American basketball player and coach (born 1917)
Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach was an American professional basketball coach and executive. As head coach, he led the Boston Celtics to eight consecutive NBA championships between 1959 to 1966.
1412
Margaret I of Denmark (born 1353)
Margaret I was queen regnant of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden from the late 1380s until her death, and the founder of the Kalmar Union that joined the Scandinavian kingdoms together for over a century.
2024
Kazuo Umezu
Japanese manga artist (born 1936)
Kazuo Umezu or Kazuo Umezz was a Japanese manga artist, musician and actor.
1939
Alice Brady
American actress (born 1892)
Alice Brady was an American actress of stage and film. She began her career in the theatre in 1911, and her first important success came on Broadway in 1912 when she created the role of Meg March in the original…
1592
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
Flemish diplomat
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, sometimes Augier Ghislain de Busbecq, was a 16th-century Flemish writer, herbalist and diplomat in the employ of three generations of Austrian monarchs.
2005
Raymond Hains
French photographer (born 1926)
Raymond Hains was a French visual artist and a founder of the Nouveau réalisme movement.
1978
Rukmani Devi
Sri Lankan singer and actress (born 1923)
Daisy Rasammah Daniels, known popularly as Rukmani Devi was a Sri Lankan film actress and singer who was often acclaimed as "The Nightingale of Sri Lanka".
2001
Gerard Hengeveld
Dutch pianist, composer, and educator (born 1910)
Gerard Hengeveld was a Dutch classical pianist, music composer and educationalist. He is especially known for his compositions of study material for piano.
1952
Billy Hughes
English-Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1862)
William Morris Hughes was an Australian politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923.
2024
Jamshid Sharmahd
German-American affiliate of Kingdom Assembly of Iran (born 1955)
Jamshid Sharmahd was a German national and software engineer, based in Los Angeles, California.
1900
Max Müller
German philologist and orientalist (born 1823)
Friedrich Max Müller was a German-born British comparative philologist and Orientalist. He was one of the founders of the Western academic disciplines of Indology and religious studies.
1993
Juri Lotman
Russian-Estonian historian and scholar (born 1922)
Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar, semiotician, and historian of Russian culture, who worked at the University of Tartu.
1929
Bernhard von Bülow
German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1849)
Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin, Prince of Bülow was a German politician who served as the imperial chancellor of the German Empire and minister-president of Prussia from 1900 to 1909.
2000
Andújar Cedeño
Dominican baseball player (born 1969)
Andújar Cedeño Donastorg was a Dominican Major League Baseball (MLB) shortstop who played from 1990 to 1996.
1975
Georges Carpentier
French boxer and actor (born 1894)
Georges Carpentier was a French boxer, actor and World War I pilot. A precocious pugilist, Carpentier fought in numerous categories.