About the day » Thursday October 4, 1928Calender converter

• Arie Rodenburg, Vlaardingen († 2004)
• Arij Rodenburg, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2004)
• Alice Messerschmidt, Shelby,IA., Verenigde Staten († 1972)
• Arij Rodenburg, Vlaardingen († 2004)
• Clara Engelander, Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Cornelia Petronella van den Boogaart, Gilze en Rijen († 1992)
• Cornelia Maria van der Meer, Aalsmeer († 2017)
• Adrianus Cornelis Leonardus Alkemade, Noordwijk († 2015)
• Conqueror Eng William I, Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
• Cornelis Joseph Broerse, Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland († 1986)

• anna plonia VISSER (85), zwijndrecht
• Aagje Kuipers (75), Sneek
• Berend Wind (64), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje van der Hoef (56), Steenwijk, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Josephina van Meel (75), den haag
• Anna Niemeijer (78), Beerta, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Keimpes van der Berg (60), Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aartje Brunekreeft (37), Ede, Gelderland, NL
• Anna Plonia VISSER (85), Zwijndrecht
• Bouke Abels Wolters (78), Grootegast

• 1925 » Roger Wood, Belgian-American journalist († 2012)
• 1926 » Raymond Watson, American businessman († 2012)
• 1927 » Wolf Kahn, American painter and academic
• 1928 » Alvin Toffler, German-American journalist and author († 2016)
• 1928 » Torben Ulrich, Danish-American tennis player
• 1929 » John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author († 2004)
• 1929 » Leroy Van Dyke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1929 » Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer († 1968)
• 1931 » Basil D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer and footballer († 2011)
• 1931 » Terence Conran, English designer and businessman

• 1904 » Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
• 1904 » Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
• 1910 » Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
• 1935 » Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (b. 1849)
• 1935 » Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano, actress, and director (b. 1874)
• 1943 » Irena Iłłakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (b. 1906)
• 1944 » Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York (b. 1873)
• 1946 » Barney Oldfield, American race car driver and actor (b. 1878)
• 1947 » Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1951 » Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (b. 1920)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Petrus
8. Gerrit
9. Adrianus
10. Jacob
11. Gerardus
12. Jacobus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Antonius
15. Arie
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Margaretha
14. Grietje
15. Aaltje
16. Helena

• 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.
• March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
• March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
• May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
• May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
• September 28 » Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
• 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.

The temperature on October 4, 1928 was between 3.6 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.