David Jones Welsh poet and artist died.
October 28, 1970
Birth in Dublin of Sir Francis Bacon, painter
October 28, 1909
John Harold Hewitt, poet who wrote the Glens of Antrim, is born
October 28, 1907
Dr Henry Faulds, published a letter first evidence that fingerprints could be used as proof of guilt or innocence in legal cases.
October 28, 1880
Death of William Howard Glover, composer and music critic
October 28, 1875
Birth of Robert Liston in Linlithgow who was to carry out the first operation in Britain with the aid of an anesthetic.
October 28, 1794
Edward Moore, 5th Earl of Drogheda and former MP for Dunleer, drowns with his son Edward
October 28, 1758