Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 28

1917  Death of Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (b. 1892) on this day in history.   

1918  On December - 28 george H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies   

1919  Death of Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854) on this day in history.   

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

1924  Death of Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866) on this day in history.   

1932  John Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies on this day in history.   

1935  On this day in history clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies   

1937  Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62 on December - 28.   

1938  On December - 28 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 December - 28.   

1946  On this day in history carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85   

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

1948  Death of Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated on December - 28.   

1949  On December - 28 jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/athlete (Olympic-gold-1936), dies at 39   

1952  On December - 28 death of fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897)   

1956  On December - 28 roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76   

1959  Death of Ante Pavelić, leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia (b. 1889) on this day in history.   

1961  On this day in history edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89   

1962  Death of Kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887) on December - 28.   

1963  On this day in history abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies   

1967  On December - 28 béla Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90   

1969  On December - 28 henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), dies at 78   

1970  On this day in history 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  Death of Amir Elahi, cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die on this day in history.   

1981  Death of Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885) on December - 28.   

1982  Frederick Douglass Hall, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1983  On this day in history death of dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39   

1984  On this day in history sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59   

1986  Andrei Tarkovsky, dies on December - 28.   

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 December - 28.   

1619  On December - 28 birth of antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)   

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

1635  Princess Elizabeth of England (d. 1650) was born on December - 28.   

1655  Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698) was born on this day in history.   

1665  George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716) was born on this day in history.