Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 28
- 1703 – Birth of Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768)
- 1703 – Death of John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616)
- 1792 – Death of Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
- 1804 – Birth of Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (d. 1849)
- 1841 – Death of Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
- 1845 – Birth of Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (d. 1888)
- 1877 – Death of Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
- 1914 – Birth of Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995)
- 1914 – Birth of Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
- 1918 – Death of Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
- 1957 – Death of Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist (b. 1881)
- 1960 – Birth of Landon Curt Noll, Astronomer, Cryptographer and Mathematician: youngest to hold the world record for the largest known prime 3 times
- 1970 - Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas
- 2005 – Death of Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)