Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 28

1917  On this day in history 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 December - 28.   

1923  On December - 28 alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91   

1924  Death of Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866) on December - 28.   

1932  On December - 28 john Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies   

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

1937  On this day in history maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62   

1938  Florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48 on December - 28.   

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

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

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

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

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

1961  Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89 on December - 28.   

1962  Death of Kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887) on this day in history.   

1963  On December - 28 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 this day in history 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 this day in history maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83   

1976  On December - 28 freddie King, rocker, dies at 42   

1978  Harry Winston, US jeweler for the "rich & famous", dies at 82 on December - 28.   

1980  Death of Amir Elahi, cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die on December - 28.   

1981  Death of Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885) on this day in history.   

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

1983  Death of Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39 on December - 28.   

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

1986  Andrei Tarkovsky, dies on December - 28.   

1987  Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81 on December - 28.   

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1164  On this day in history birth of emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176)   

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 this day in history.   

1619  Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688) was born on December - 28.   

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.