Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 28

1917  On December - 28 death of alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (b. 1892)   

1918  George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies on this day in history.   

1919  Death of Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854) on December - 28.   

1923  On this day in history alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91   

1924  On December - 28 death of léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)   

1932  John Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies on December - 28.   

1935  On December - 28 clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies   

1937  On December - 28 maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62   

1938  On this day in history florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48   

1943  Death of Steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885) on December - 28.   

1945  Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1946  On December - 28 carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85   

1947  Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1948  On December - 28 death of mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated   

1949  Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/athlete (Olympic-gold-1936), dies at 39 on this day in history.   

1952  On this day in history death of fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897)   

1956  Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76 on December - 28.   

1959  On this day in history death of ante Pavelić, leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia (b. 1889)   

1961  On December - 28 edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89   

1962  On December - 28 death of kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887)   

1963  On December - 28 abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies   

1967  Béla Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90 on this day in history.   

1969  On this day in history henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), dies at 78   

1970  On December - 28 l Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65   

1971  On December - 28 maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83   

1976  On this day in history freddie King, rocker, dies at 42   

1978  Harry Winston, US jeweler for the "rich & famous", dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1980  On December - 28 death of amir Elahi, cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die   

1981  On this day in history death of allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885)   

1982  On December - 28 frederick Douglass Hall, composer, dies at 84   

1983  Death of Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39 on this day in history.   

1984  Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59 on this day in history.   

1986  On this day in history andrei Tarkovsky, dies   

1987  On this day in history charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81   

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1164  On December - 28 birth of emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176)   

1484  On December - 28 birth of joachim Vadianus, [von Watt], Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen   

1522  Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583) was born on this day in history.   

1619  Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688) was born on this day in history.   

1631  Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist was born on this day in history.   

1635  On December - 28 birth of princess Elizabeth of England (d. 1650)   

1655  On this day in history birth of charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)   

1665  George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716) was born on December - 28.