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• Durk Tjalsma, Offingawier († 1998)
• Arnoldus Gerardus (Nol) Tromp, amsterdam, Nederland († 2002)
• Berend de Boer, Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2001)
• Albert Duitscher, Sappemeer, Groningen, Nederland († 2009)
• A. L. Bryant, Smith County, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten († 1959)
• Cornelis Franciscus van der Veer († 2009)
• Carolina de Werd, Waalwijk († 1989)
• Abram Jan Blaak, Hoogezand, Groningen, Nederland († 1938)
• Jan Tjalsma, Offingawier († 1990)
• Betty Louise Hughes († 2021)

• Adriana Elisabeth Petronella Spoor (86), 's Gravenhage
• Augustus Dierickx (65), Schoten
• Adèle Eugénie PACOU, Petite-Synthe, 59640, Nord, Nord Pas-de-Calais, France
• Arie Marinus Vermeulen (84), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus BUSCOP Mzn (71), Utrecht, NL-UT
• Arie Jacob Van ZANTEN (86), 's-Gravendeel
• Cornelia Barnaart (64), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Cornelis Verbogt (8), Bergen Op Zoom, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Carel Frederik Klein Meulenkamp (15), Steenderen
• Adrianus Buscop (71), Utrecht

• 1925 » Antoine Gizenga, Congolese politician († 2019)
• 1925 » Gail Davis, American actress († 1997)
• 1925 » Herbert Kretzmer, South African-English journalist and songwriter
• 1926 » Avraham Adan, Israeli general († 2012)
• 1926 » Willi Unsoeld, American mountaineer and educator († 1979)
• 1928 » Louise Fitzhugh, American author and illustrator († 1974)
• 1929 » Bill Wirtz, American businessman († 2007)
• 1929 » Richard F. Gordon Jr., American captain, pilot, and astronaut († 2017)
• 1930 » Pavel Popovich, Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut († 2009)
• 1930 » Reinhard Selten, German economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 2016)

• 1918 » Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (b. 1888)
• 1921 » John Storey, Australian politician, 20th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1869)
• 1927 » Sam Warner, Polish-American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Warner Bros. (b. 1887)
• 1929 » Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly, Indian priest, founded the Sisters of the Destitute (b. 1876)
• 1930 » Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, Indian-English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Air (b. 1875)
• 1933 » Nikolai Yudenich, Russian general (b. 1862)
• 1933 » Renée Adorée, French-American actress (b. 1898)
• 1936 » J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and author (b. 1898)
• 1938 » Albert Ranft, Swedish actor and director (b. 1858)
• 1938 » Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun and saint (b. 1905)

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.
• April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
• June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
• June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
• October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
• November 12 » SSVestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
• 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 5, 1928 was between 2.2 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.