Famous people born on 28 October

• Jonas SalkJewish-American inventor of polio vaccine · 1914–1995
  80 yrs
• GarrinchaBrazilian association football player · 1933–1983
  49 yrs
• Marsilio FicinoItalian philosopher and Catholic priest · 1433–1499
  65 yrs
• Evelyn WaughBritish writer and journalist · 1903–1966
  62 yrs
• Francis BaconIrish-born British figurative painter · 1909–1992
  82 yrs
• Richard Laurence Millington Synge ↗British biochemist · 1914–1994
  79 yrs
• Elsa Lanchester ↗British-American actress · 1902–1986
  84 yrs
• Ľudovít Štúr ↗Slovak poet, philosopher, linguist, publicist, politician and writer · 1815–1856
  40 yrs
• Coluche ↗French comedian and actor · 1944–1986
  41 yrs
• Joan Plowright ↗British actress · 1929–2025
  95 yrs
• Camille Muffat ↗French swimmer · 1989–2015
  25 yrs
• Ramón María del Valle-Inclán ↗Spanish author · 1866–1936
  69 yrs
• Wim Jansen ↗Dutch association football player and manager · 1946–2022
  75 yrs
• Anna Jagiellon ↗Queen regnant of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania · 1523–1596
  72 yrs
• Auguste Escoffier ↗French chef and culinary writer · 1846–1935
  88 yrs
• Sister Nivedita ↗Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and disciple of Swami Vivekananda · 1867–1911
  43 yrs
• Guillaume IX ↗Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou · 1071–1126
  54 yrs
• John Fisher ↗English Roman Catholic cardinal and saint · 1469–1535
  65 yrs
• Maurice de Saxe ↗Marshal General of France · 1696–1750
  54 yrs
• Tokugawa Yoshinobu ↗15th and last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate · 1837–1913
  76 yrs
• Arturo Frondizi ↗President of Argentina · 1908–1995
  86 yrs
• Per Albin Hansson ↗Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden between 1932–1936 and 1936–1946 · 1885–1946
  60 yrs
• Dmytro Bortnianskyi ↗Ukrainian-born Russian Classical composer and conductor · 1751–1825
  73 yrs
• Cornelius Jansen ↗Bishop and theologian · 1585–1638
  52 yrs
• James Connolly ↗American triple jumper · 1868–1957
  88 yrs
• Jean-Marie Guyau ↗French writer and philosopher · 1854–1888
  33 yrs
• Maria Anna of Neuburg ↗Queen consort of Spain · 1667–1740
  72 yrs
• Edith Head ↗American film and television costumer · 1897–1981
  83 yrs
• Maria Spiridonova ↗Russian terrorist and politician · 1884–1941
  56 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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