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• Contance HEYTING, Jakarta († 1961)
• Cornelis Henricus Maria Josephus van Sprang, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2018)
• Cecile Vanduynslager, St.-Eloois-Vijve († 2015)
• Cornelis (Kees) Breure, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2001)
• Christiaan Cornelis Wonink, Epe († 2011)
• Charles Emmett Mattingly, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky († 2003)
• Cornelis van Stenis, Hillegersberg (NL) († 2006)
• Aafko Broenink, Avereest († 2021)
• Betsy Adelphia PUFFER, Livermore Falls Maine U.S.A († 2002)
• Annie Herder, Hamersveld/Leusden († 2014)

• Anna Marie Minder (58), Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Sidney Raiford (56)
• Albertje Bruinius (80), Jipsingboertange, Sellingen, Groningen, Nederland
• "Caroline" Marie Marguerite Emilie Le Flô (82), Morlaix, Finistère, France
• Albertje Bruinius (80), Vlagtwedde,Groningen,Nederland
• Anko Adriaan Scholtens (2), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Knottenbelt (22), Warnsveld
• Albert Paul Joseph Schumann (22), Roermond, Limburg, Nederland
• Adella Spieker (25), Wesley, Kossuth County, Iowa
• Antonetta Ludovica Van Laeken, Brasschaat

• 1927 » Al Martino, American singer and actor († 2009)
• 1927 » Demetrio González, Spanish-Mexican film actor and singer († 2015)
• 1927 » R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author († 1989)
• 1928 » Ali Kafi, Pakistani politician († 2013)
• 1928 » José Messias, Brazilian composer, singer, writer, host and critic († 2015)
• 1928 » Lorna Wing, English autism researcher († 2014)
• 1929 » Graeme Ferguson, Canadian director and producer, co-founded the IMAX Corporation
• 1929 » Mariano Gagnon, American Catholic priest and author († 2017)
• 1929 » Robert Westall, English journalist and author († 1993)
• 1930 » Curtis Crider, American race car driver († 2012)

• 1906 » Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
• 1911 » John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist and physician (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
• 1925 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
• 1926 » Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and academic (b. 1856)
• 1933 » Alexander Peacock, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Harvey Williams Cushing, American neurosurgeon and academic (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1944 » Helmut Lent, German colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1950 » Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer (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.
• January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
• April 14 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
• September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
• September 18 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
• October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
• 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 7, 1928 was between 7.1 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.