On this day in literature
October 28
In literary history
- 1704John Locke died in Essex. He had published the Two Treatises of Government anonymously fifteen years earlier and went on refusing to own them for the rest of his life, acknowledging the most dangerous book he ever wrote only at the very end.
Writers born on October 28
- Evelyn Waugh (1903),
- George Dangerfield (1904)