Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 28

1917  Death of Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (b. 1892) on December - 28.   

1918  On this day in history george H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies   

1919  On December - 28 death of johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854)   

1923  Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91 on December - 28.   

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

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

1935  Clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies on December - 28.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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  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 December - 28.   

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

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

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

1969  Henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1970  L Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65 on December - 28.   

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

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

1978  On December - 28 harry Winston, US jeweler for the "rich & famous", dies at 82   

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

1981  On December - 28 death of allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885)   

1982  On this day in history frederick Douglass Hall, composer, dies at 84   

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  On this day in history andrei Tarkovsky, dies   

1987  Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

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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 this day in history.   

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

1619  On this day in history birth of antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)   

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