About the day » Thursday October 11, 1928Calender converter

• Anna Theresia Mars († 2015)
• Arie Dingeman Rietveld, Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Nederland († 1999)
• Betty Annette Meints, Comstock, Kalamazoo, Michigan (USA) († 2021)
• Aukje Veenstra, Tuk, Steenwijkerwold († 2013)
• Alfonso Antonio Vicente Blas Angel Francisco Borja Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton, Madrid, Madrid, Spain († 1957)
• Edna Mae Harger, Bloomington, Franklin, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Cobus ter Linde, Jaarsveld, Utrecht, Nederland († 1930)
• Anton Bernard Beckx, Malang, Oost-Java († 1999)
• Cornelis Adriaanse, Hapert († 2013)
• Antonius Maria Schoof, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1989)

• Berendina Aleida Sleijster (74), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bastiaantje van Pelt (17), Ridderkerk
• Anna Kain (52), Whittemore, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Sanders (44), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adolph A Justin (56), Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
• Anna Neeske (Jans) van DOESBURG (69), Geldermalsen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Auke BECKERINGH LANKHORST (69), Bloemendaal,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Johanna Spee (55), Venray,, Limburg, Nederland
• Bartholomeus Wirken (58), Ginneken en Bavel
• Adriaan Louwerensen (78), Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1926 » Earle Hyman, American actor († 2017)
• 1926 » Jean Alexander, English actress († 2016)
• 1926 » Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese monk, author, and poet
• 1926 » Yvon Dupuis, Canadian politician († 2017)
• 1927 » Jim Prior, Baron Prior, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland († 2016)
• 1927 » Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium († 2005)
• 1928 » Alfonso de Portago, Spanish race car driver and bobsledder († 1957)
• 1928 » Geoffrey Tordoff, Baron Tordoff, English businessman and politician († 2019)
• 1928 » Roscoe Robinson, Jr., American general († 1993)
• 1929 » Curtis Amy, American saxophonist and clarinetist († 2002)

• 1896 » Edward Benson, English archbishop (b. 1829)
• 1897 » Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer (b. 1862)
• 1904 » Mary Tenney Gray, American editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (b. 1833)
• 1908 » Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican poet, educator, and activist (b. 1846)
• 1932 » William Alden Smith, American lawyer and politician (b. 1859)
• 1935 » Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
• 1940 » Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
• 1941 » Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician (b. 1879)
• 1941 » Mihkel Pung, Estonian politician, 11th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1876)
• 1958 » Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (b. 1876)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
• September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
• September 27 » The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
• October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
• October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
• December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
• December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

The temperature on October 11, 1928 was between 3.5 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 18.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.