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 December - 28.   

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

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

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 this day in history 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 December - 28.   

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

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

1952  Death of Fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897) on this day in history.   

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

1959  On December - 28 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  Death of Kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887) on this day in history.   

1963  Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies on December - 28.   

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 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  Freddie King, rocker, dies at 42 on this day in history.   

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

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  Frederick Douglass Hall, composer, dies at 84 on December - 28.   

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  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  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 December - 28.   

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

1655  On December - 28 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)