About the day » Tuesday November 6, 1928Calender converter

• Antonius Gerhardus Wijermars, Hellendoorn († 1992)
• Albert Lee Knight, Fairmont, Marion, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 1998)
• Catharina Lopes Dias, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Arthur Eugene Philips († 1985)
• Andries Hendrik Pietersz Pasterkamp, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1993)
• Adrianus Hendrik Pabst, Amerongen († 1929)
• Cornelis van Beem, Tiel († 2003)
• Annigje van Delden, Havelte († 2006)
• Achiel De Haes, Herselt (B) († 2002)
• Alberta BRANDON, Amsterdam († 2009)

• Adriana Van KRALINGEN (47), Hoogvliet
• Aagje Bongers (37), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Antonie BROEKHUIZEN (72), Schiedam, Gemeente Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands
• Dirk SCHOONDERWALDT (75), Kollumerland c.a. Friesland Netherlands
• Charles Franklin James (73)
• Aagje Bongers (37), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Doodgeboren kind van Neerven (0), Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dirk Schoonderwaldt (75), Westergeest
• Dina Last (67), Deventer
• Cornelis Adrianus Moerwijk (88), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1921 » Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricketer († 2006)
• 1924 » Harry Threadgold, English footballer († 1996)
• 1926 » Frank Carson, Northern Irish comedian and actor († 2012)
• 1926 » Zig Ziglar, American soldier, businessman, and author († 2012)
• 1930 » Derrick Bell, American scholar, author and critical race theorist († 2011)
• 1931 » Mike Nichols, German-born American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2014)
• 1932 » François Englert, Belgian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1933 » Else Ackermann, German physician and pharmacologist († 2019)
• 1937 » Leo Goeke, American tenor and actor († 2012)
• 1938 » Mack Jones, American baseball player († 2004)

• 1918 » Alan Arnett McLeod, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1899)
• 1942 » Emil Starkenstein, Czech pharmacologist and academic (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (b. 1925)
• 1965 » Clarence Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (b. 1899)
• 1984 » Gastón Suárez, Bolivian author and playwright (b. 1929)
• 1985 » Sanjeev Kumar, Indian film actor (b. 1938)
• 1991 » Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Sky Low Low, Canadian wrestler (b. 1928)
• 2000 » L. Sprague de Camp, American historian and author (b. 1907)

• 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 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
• June 4 » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
• 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 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
• November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
• November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.

The temperature on November 6, 1928 was between 1.3 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.