Famous Deaths In December - 28

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

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 December - 28 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  Clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies on December - 28.   

1937  Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62 on this day in history.   

1938  Florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48 on this day in history.   

1943  On December - 28 death of steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885)   

1945  On this day in history theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74   

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

1947  On December - 28 victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78   

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  Death of Fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897) on December - 28.   

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

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

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

1962  On this day in history death of kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887)   

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

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

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

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

1971  Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

1976  Freddie King, rocker, dies at 42 on December - 28.   

1978  On this day in history harry Winston, US jeweler for the "rich & famous", dies at 82   

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

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  Emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176) was born on December - 28.   

1484  Joachim Vadianus, [von Watt], Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen was born on December - 28.   

1522  Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583) was born on December - 28.   

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

1631  Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist was born on December - 28.   

1635  On this day in history 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  On December - 28 birth of george FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716)