| 123391 | October 28 | Death | 1703 – John Wallis, English mathematician and cryptographer (b. 1616) |
| 123392 | October 28 | Death | 1704 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher (b. 1632) |
| 123393 | October 28 | Death | 1708 – Prince George of Denmark (b. 1653) |
| 123394 | October 28 | Death | 1716 – Stephen Fox, English politician (b. 1627) |
| 123395 | October 28 | Death | 1740 – Anna of Russia (b. 1693) |
| 123396 | October 28 | Death | 1754 – Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708) |
| 123397 | October 28 | Death | 1755 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (b. 1689) |
| 123398 | October 28 | Death | 1763 – Heinrich von Brühl, German general and politician (b. 1700) |
| 123399 | October 28 | Death | 1768 – Michel Blavet, French flute player and composer (b. 1700) |
| 123400 | October 28 | Death | 1787 – Johann Karl August Musäus, German author (b. 1735) |
| 123401 | October 28 | Death | 1792 – Paul Möhring, German physician, botanist, and zoologist (b. 1710) |
| 123402 | October 28 | Death | 1792 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (b. 1724) |
| 123403 | October 28 | Death | 1800 – Artemas Ward, American general and politician (b. 1727) |
| 123404 | October 28 | Death | 1806 – Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and author (b. 1749) |
| 123405 | October 28 | Death | 1818 – Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (b. 1744) |
| 123406 | October 28 | Death | 1841 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1792) |
| 123407 | October 28 | Death | 1857 – Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of France (b. 1802) |
| 123408 | October 28 | Death | 1877 – Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835) |
| 123409 | October 28 | Death | 1879 – Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799) |
| 123410 | October 28 | Death | 1899 – Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854) |
| 123411 | October 28 | Death | 1900 – Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823) |
| 123412 | October 28 | Death | 1914 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850) |
| 123413 | October 28 | Death | 1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838) |
| 123414 | October 28 | Death | 1916 – Oswald Boelcke, German captain and pilot (b. 1891) |
| 123415 | October 28 | Death | 1917 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831) |
| 123416 | October 28 | Death | 1917 – Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841) |
| 123417 | October 28 | Death | 1918 – Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845) |
| 123418 | October 28 | Death | 1929 – Bernhard von Bülow, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849) |
| 123419 | October 28 | Death | 1939 – Alice Brady, American actress and singer (b. 1892) |
| 123420 | October 28 | Death | 1945 – Kesago Nakajima, Japanese general (b. 1881) |