About the day » Sunday October 28, 1888Calender converter

• Agnes Rozeveld, Falmouth, Missaukee County, Michigan († 1990)
• Anna Matthieu, Aalst, Alost, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Aafke Feites Hofman, Hommerts, Wymbritseradiel, Friesland, Netherlands († 1903)
• Anna Cornelia van Assendelft, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana NAAKTGEBOREN, Dubbeldam († 1889)
• Anna (Marieke) Maria Hubertina Scheepers, Beegden († 1976)
• Angenitha Zaaijer, Varik, Gelderland, Nederland († 1957)
• Alijda van den Broek, Stoutenburg {UT}
• Anna Catharina Mensen, Horsten gem. Onstwedde († 1890)
• Albertus Johannes Sprengers, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1921)

• Antonius Johannes van de Water (0), Vlijmen
• Arie Wassink (0), Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Adelia Alice Vaughter (34), Wilson County, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Wilhelmina Kroos (43), IJsselmonde
• Arie Wassink (0), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonie Hoogstraten (0), Brielle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bartholomeus Gijsbertsz Puijk (0), Laren
• Adrianus Dekkers (74), Kralingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Arthur Othon René Jeanty (3), Surakarta nederlands indie
• Antje Wilhelmina Kroos (44), IJsselmonde, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1880 » Billy Wedlock, English footballer († 1965)
• 1880 » Wilhelm Anderson, Belarusian-Estonian astrophysicist and astronomer († 1940)
• 1881 » Vin Coutie, Australian footballer († 1951)
• 1884 » William Douglas Cook, New Zealand horticulturalist, founded Eastwoodhill Arboretum († 1967)
• 1885 » Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright († 1922)
• 1886 » Noel Macklin, English soldier and engineer († 1946)
• 1888 » Christopher Vane, 10th Baron Barnard, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham († 1964)
• 1889 » Juliette Béliveau, Canadian actress and singer († 1975)
• 1892 » Dink Johnson, American pianist, drummer, and clarinet player († 1954)
• 1893 » Christopher Kelk Ingold, British chemist († 1970)

• 1877 » Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1835)
• 1879 » Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French economist and politician (b. 1799)
• 1899 » Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American engineer, invented the Linotype machine (b. 1854)
• 1900 » Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)
• 1914 » Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
• 1916 » Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (b. 1891)
• 1917 » Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
• 1918 » Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• April 3 » The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
• June 15 » Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
• August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
• September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
• October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
• October 21 » Foundation of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.

The temperature on October 28, 1888 was about 18.2 °C. The air pressure was 23 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%.