Editing 1928 (section)

==Deaths==

===January===
[[File:Bernhard_III_(Saxe-Meiningen).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen]]]]
[[File:Hendrik Antoon Lorentz.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Hendrik Lorentz]]]]
[[File:Herbert Henry Asquith.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[H. H. Asquith]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Loie Fuller]], American dancer (b. [[1862]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Magill | first = Frank | title = Dictionary of world biography | publisher = Routledge | location = Oxfordshire, England New York | year = 1999 | isbn = 9781136593345 | page=1261}}</ref>
* [[January 3]] – [[Emily Stevens (actress)|Emily Stevens]], American actress (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/79807/Emily-Stevens |title=Emily Stevens |website=[[Playbill]] |access-date=March 4, 2015 }}</ref>
* [[January 6]] – [[Alvin Kraenzlein]], American athlete (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/alvin-kraenzlein|title=Alvin Kraenzlein|website=Olympic.org|access-date=13 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[January 11]] – [[Thomas Hardy]], British writer (b. [[1840]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Widdowson | first = Peter | title = Thomas Hardy : Selected Poetry and Non-Fictional Prose | publisher = Macmillan Education, Limited | location = London | year = 1996 | isbn = 9781349250820  | page=xx | language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 12]] – [[Ruth Snyder]], American murderer (executed) (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1928/01/13/page/2/article/ruths-brother-and-mother-object-to-prison-post-mortem|title=Story of the Crime|date=January 13, 1928|publisher=Chicago Tribune|page=2|accessdate=May 9, 2015}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] – [[Earle Nelson]], American serial killer and rapist (executed) (b. [[1897]])<ref>[https://allthatsinteresting.com/earle-nelson 50 Years Before Ted Bundy, Earle Nelson Was The Most Prolific Serial Killer In American History]</ref>
* [[January 16]] – [[Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen]] (b. [[1851]])
* [[January 21]]
** [[Nikolai Astrup]], Norwegian painter (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Terje Leiren|author2=Jan Sjåvik|title=Historical Dictionary of Norway|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=98SrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36|date=8 October 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-5381-2312-6|pages=36}}</ref>
** [[John de Robeck|Sir John de Robeck]], British admiral (b. [[1862]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Vicente Blasco Ibáñez]], Spanish novelist and screenwriter (b. [[1867]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cuquerella |first1=Toni |title=La complicada historia de la tumba de Blasco Ibáñez, el escritor y político que quería reposar en una València republicana |url=https://www.eldiario.es/comunitat-valenciana/vulneraciones-ideologicas-tumba-republicano-anticlerical-vicente-blasco-ibanez_1_7387228.html |access-date=12 April 2021 |work=ElDiario.es |date=11 April 2021 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[January 29]] – [[Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig]], British field marshal (b. [[1861]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gary Sheffield|title=Douglas Haig: From the Somme to Victory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=82MmDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT467|date=19 May 2016|publisher=Aurum|isbn=978-1-78131-617-7|pages=467}}</ref>
* [[January 30]] – [[Johannes Fibiger]], Danish scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1867]])

===February===
* [[February 1]] – [[Hughie Jennings]], American baseball player, [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1869]])
* [[February 4]] – [[Hendrik Lorentz]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1853]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Grundmann | first = Siegfried | title = The Einstein dossiers : science and politics—Einstein's Berlin period with an appendix on Einstein's FBI file | publisher = Springer | location = Berlin New York | year = 2005 | isbn = 9783540311041 | page=238 }}</ref>
* [[February 8]] – [[Theodor Curtius]], German chemist (b. [[1857]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Daintith | first = John | title = Biographical encyclopedia of scientists | publisher = Institute of Physics Pub | location = Bristol Philadelphia | year = 1994 | isbn = 9780750302876 | page=195}}</ref>
* [[February 12]] – [[Count Manfred von Clary-Aldringen|Manfred von Clary-Aldringen]], Austro-Hungarian nobleman, statesman and former prime minister of Austria (b. [[1852]])
* [[February 15]] – [[H. H. Asquith]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1852]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Eddie Foy Sr.]], American vaudevillian (b. [[1856]])<ref>Cullen, Frank; Hackman, Florence; and McNeilly, Donald. ''Vaudeville, Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America''.  Routledge Press, September 2006, {{ISBN|0-415-93853-8}}. pp. 406–410</ref>
* [[February 21]] – [[Hans von Koester]], German admiral (b. [[1844]])<ref>{{NDB|12|405||Koester, Hans von|[[Walther Hubatsch]]}}</ref>
* [[February 25]] – [[Toribio Romo González]], Mexican [[Roman Catholic]] priest, martyr and saint (b. [[1900]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Juan Vázquez de Mella]], Spanish scholar, politician (b. [[1861]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky]], German diplomat, noble (b. [[1860]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Armando Diaz]], Italian general, Marshal of Italy (b. [[1861]])

===March===
* [[March 7]] – [[Robert Abbe]], American surgeon (b. [[1851]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Mateo Elías Nieves Castillo]], Mexican [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed (b. [[1882]])
* [[March 19]] 
** [[Nora Bayes]], American singer, actress (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alice M. Robinson|author2=Vera Mowry Roberts|author3=Milly S. Barranger|title=Notable Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJMYAAAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-27217-2|page=65}}</ref>
** [[Emil Wiechert]], German physicist and geophysicist (b. [[1861]])<ref>Bormann, P. (Ed.). (2012). Dedication to the 150th birthday of Emil WIECHERT (1861-1928). In P. Bormann (Ed.), New Manual of Seismological Observatory Practice 2 (NMSOP 2) (pp. 1–2). Potsdam: Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ.</ref>
* [[March 21]] – [[Edward Walter Maunder]], British astronomer (b. [[1851]])<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituary Notices: Fellows:- Maunder, Edward Walter|journal=[[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society]]|date=February 1929|volume=89|page=313|url=http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/seri/MNRAS/0089//0000317.000.html?high=512695a29c29710|bibcode = 1929MNRAS..89..313.|doi=10.1093/mnras/89.4.313|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[March 25]] – [[Nina Bang]], Danish politician (b. [[1866]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://danmarkshistorien.dk/vis/materiale/nina-bang-1866-1928|title=Nina Bang, 1866-1928|website=danmarkshistorien.dk}}</ref>

===April===
[[File:Amundsen in fur skins.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Roald Amundsen]]]]
* [[April 2]] – [[Theodore William Richards]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1868]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1914/richards/facts/|title=Theodore W. Richards – Facts|website=NobelPrize.org|access-date=August 22, 2021}}</ref>
* [[April 5]] – [[Roy Kilner]], English cricketer (b. [[1890]])<ref>[https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/roy-kilner-15884 Roy Kilner England]</ref>
* [[April 13]] – [[Gonzalo Córdova]], 21st president of Ecuador (b. [[1863]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Pavel Axelrod]],  Russian Menshevik (b. [[1850]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Dorus Rijkers]], Dutch sailor, savior of over 500 men, women and children (b. [[1847]])
* [[April 25]]
**[[Floyd Bennett]], American aviator (b. [[1890]])
**[[Pyotr Wrangel]], Russian general, anti-Bolshevik leader (b. [[1878]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Alessandro Guidoni]], Italian air force general (b. [[1880]])

===May===
* [[May 1]] – [[Ebenezer Howard|Sir Ebenezer Howard]], British urban planner (b. [[1850]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Clara Williams]], American actress (b. [[1888]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Ivan Merz]], Yugoslav [[Roman Catholic]] blessed (b. [[1896]])
* [[May 18]]
** [[Moritz von Auffenberg]], Austro-Hungarian general and politician (b. [[1852]])
**[[Bill Haywood]], American labor leader (b. [[1869]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Max Scheler]], German philosopher (b. [[1874]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Francis Dunlop|title=Thinkers of Our Time: Scheler|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mTUqAQAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Claridge Press|isbn=978-1-870626-71-2|page=15}}</ref>
* [[May 21]] – [[Hideyo Noguchi]], Japanese bacteriologist (b. [[1876]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Francisco López Merino]], Argentine poet (b. [[1904]])

===June===

* [[June 2]] – [[Otto Nordenskjöld]], Finnish and Swedish geologist, geographer and polar explorer (road traffic accident) (b. [[1869]])
* [[June 3]]
** [[Alexander Hamilton (priest)|Alexander Hamilton]], American priest and blessed (b. [[1847]])
**[[Li Yuanhong]], Fourth President of the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Zhang Zuolin]], Chinese warlord (assassinated) (b. [[1875]])
* [[June 5]] – [[Liege Hulett|Sir Liege Hulett]], South African politician, [[sugar]] magnate (b. [[1838]])
* [[June 12]] – [[Salvador Díaz Mirón]], Mexican poet (b. [[1853]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire]], British politician and colonial governor (b. [[1843]])
* [[June 14]] – [[Emmeline Pankhurst]], British women's suffrage campaigner (b. [[1858]])
* [[June 17]] – [[Euphemia Wilson Pitblado]], American activist, social reformer and writer (b. [[1849]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Roald Amundsen]], Norwegian polar explorer (aviation accident) (b. [[1872]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Graf | first = Miller | title = Arctic journeys : a history of exploration for the Northwest Passage | publisher = P. Lang | location = New York | year = 1992 | isbn = 9780820417455 | page=322 | language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 22]]
** [[A. B. Frost]], American illustrator (b. [[1851]])
** [[George Siegmann]], American silent film actor (pernicious anemia) (b. [[1882]])
* [[June 28]] – [[Leo Ditrichstein]], Austrian-born actor, playwright (b. [[1865]])

===July===
[[File:Wilhelm Wien 1911.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Wilhelm Wien]]]]
* [[July 1]]
** [[Avery Hopwood]], American playwright (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Sharrar | first = Jack | title = Avery Hopwood: his life and plays | publisher = University of Michigan Press | location = Ann Arbor | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780472109630 | page=3}}</ref>
**[[Frankie Yale]], American gangster (b. [[1893]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frankie-Yale Frankie Yale
American gangster]</ref>
* [[July 12]] – [[Emilio Carranza]], Mexican aviator (b. [[1905]]; plane crash)<ref>{{cite book|author=Meredith Arms Bzdak|title=Public Sculpture in New Jersey: Monuments to Collective Identity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3DqAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-2699-7|page=131}}</ref>
* [[July 17]] 
** [[Álvaro Obregón]], Mexican military officer, 39th [[President of Mexico]] (assassinated) (b. [[1880]])<ref name=Obregon>{{cite web|url=https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/o/obregon_alvaro.htm|publisher=Biografias y Vidas|title=Álvaro Obregón|language=es|access-date=May 29, 2019}}</ref>
** [[Giovanni Giolitti]], Italian politician, 13th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (b. [[1842]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Luigi Villari|title=Italy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cf3QAAAAMAAJ|year=1929|publisher=C. Scribner's sons|page=183}}</ref>
* [[July 21]]
**[[Mihail Savov]], Bulgarian general (b. [[1857]])
**Dame [[Ellen Terry]], British actress (b. [[1847]])<ref>Holroyd, Michael. ''A Strange Eventful History'', Farrar Straus Giroux, 2008. {{ISBN|0-7011-7987-2}} pages 508-9</ref>
* [[July 30]] – [[John Christopher Cutler]], 2nd Governor of Utah (suicide) (b. [[1846]])

===August===
* [[August 8]]
** [[Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden]] (b. [[1857]])
** [[Stjepan Radić]], Croatian politician (assassinated) (b. [[1871]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Leoš Janáček]], Czech composer (b. [[1854]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Horsbrugh | first = Ian | title = Leoš Janáček, the field that prospered | publisher = David & Charles Scribner's | location = Newton Abbot New York | year = 1981 | isbn = 9780684174433 | page=239 | language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 16]] – [[Carlo Del Prete]], Italian aviator (b. [[1897]])
* [[August 19]] 
** [[Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane]], British politician, lawyer (b. [[1856]])
** [[Stephanos Skouloudis]], 34th prime minister of Greece (b. [[1838]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Alfred Meyer-Waldeck]], German admiral (b. [[1864]])
* [[August 27]] – [[Émile Fayolle]], French general (b. [[1852]])
* [[August 30]]
** [[Hugh Evan-Thomas|Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas]], British admiral (b. [[1862]])
** [[Wilhelm Wien]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1864]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1911/wien/facts/|title=Wilhelm Wien – Facts|website=NobelPrize.org|access-date=August 22, 2021}}</ref>

===September===
* [[September 13]] – [[Italo Svevo]], Italian writer, businessman (b. [[1861]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Gatt-Rutter|author2=Lecturer in the School of Humanities John GATT-Rutter|title=Italo Svevo: A Double Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5EFdAAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-815848-6|page=336}}</ref>
* [[September]] (unknown date) – [[Ioan Culcer]], Romanian general and politician (b. [[1853]])

===October===
[[File:Andrewfisher2.JPG|thumb|110px|[[Andrew Fisher]]]]
[[File:Arnold Rothstein Chicago 1919.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Arnold Rothstein]]]]
[[File:HeinrichXXVII.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line]]]]
* [[October 1]] – [[Cecilia Eusepi]], Italian religious leader and blessed (b. [[1910]])
* [[October 8]] – [[Larry Semon]], American film actor (b. [[1889]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)|Dagmar of Denmark, later Maria Fyodorovna]], wife of [[Alexander III of Russia|Tsar Alexander III]] and Empress Consort of Russia (b. [[1847]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Andrew Fisher]], 5th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1862]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Robert Lansing]], U.S. Secretary of State (b. [[1864]])

===November===
* [[November 6]] – [[Arnold Rothstein]], Jewish-American businessman, gangster (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Leo|last=Katcher|title=The Big Bankroll: The Life and Times of Arnold Rothstein|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|location=New York City|date=1959|isbn=978-0306805653|page=8}}</ref>
* [[November 10]] – [[Alexander Trepov]], former prime minister of the Russian Empire (b. [[1862]])
* [[November 13]] 
** [[Enrico Cecchetti]], Italian ballet dancer (b. [[1850]])
** [[Oskar Victorovich Stark]], Russian admiral, explorer (b. [[1846]])
* [[November 17]] – [[Lala Lajpat Rai]] (''The Lion of Punjab''), [[Indian independence movement]] leader (b. [[1865]])
* [[November 18]] – [[Mauritz Stiller]], Finnish screenwriter, director (b. [[1883]])
* [[November 21]] – [[Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line]], German prince (b. [[1858]])
* [[November 24]] – [[Alphonse Jacques de Dixmude]], Belgian general (b. [[1858]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Reinhard Scheer]], German admiral (b. [[1863]])
* [[November 27]] – [[Frank Hedges Butler]], British wine merchant, founding member of the [[Aero Club of Great Britain]] (b. [[1855]])

===December===
* [[December 1]]
** [[Arthur Gore (tennis)|Arthur Gore]], British tennis player (b. [[1868]])
** [[José Eustasio Rivera]], Colombian writer (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Dr. Jose E. Rivera, Author, Dies Here. Colombian Was Writing English Edition of His Novel 'La Voragine'. Prominent Diplomat |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F0CE4DB1331E33ABC4A53DFB4678383639EDE |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=December 2, 1928 |accessdate=2015-11-25 }}</ref>
* [[December 2]] – [[Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson]], 2nd Governor-General of Australia (b. [[1852]])
* [[December 10]] – [[Charles Rennie Mackintosh]], British architect (b. [[1868]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Brodie | first = Antonia | title = Directory of British architects, 1834–1914 | publisher = Continuum | location = London New York | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780826455147 | page=109}}</ref>
* [[December 11]] – [[Lewis Howard Latimer]], American inventor (b. [[1848]])
* [[December 12]] – Patriarch [[Gregory IV of Antioch]] (b. [[1859]])
* [[December 14]]
**[[Theodore Roberts]], American actor (b. [[1861]])
**[[Pierre Ruffey]], French general (b. [[1851]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Elinor Wylie]], American poet and novelist (b. [[1885]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Eglantyne Jebb]], British human rights activist, co-founder of ''Save the Children'' (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Bueren | first = Geraldine | title = The international law on the rights of the child | publisher = Martinus Nijhoff Kluwer Law International | location = The Hague | year = 1998 | isbn = 9789041110916 | page=9}}</ref>
* [[December 19]] – [[Italo Svevo]], Italian writer (b. [[1861]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Sorrel Kerbel|title=The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqQsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1072|date=23 November 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-45607-8|pages=1072}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] – [[Luigi Cadorna]], Italian general (b. [[1850]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Fred Thomson]], American actor (b. [[1890]])