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

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

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

1943  On this day in history death of steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885)   

1945  Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1946  On December - 28 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 this day in history 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 this day in history death of fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897)   

1956  On this day in history 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  Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89 on December - 28.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1986  Andrei Tarkovsky, dies on this day in history.   

1987  On December - 28 charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81   

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

1484  On this day in history 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  Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688) was born on this day in history.   

1631  On this day in history birth of ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist   

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)