Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 28

1917  Death of Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (b. 1892) on this day in history.   

1918  On this day in history 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  On December - 28 death of léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)   

1932  On this day in history 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 December - 28 maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62   

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

1943  Death of Steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885) on this day in history.   

1945  Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74 on December - 28.   

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  Death of Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated on December - 28.   

1949  On December - 28 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  On December - 28 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 December - 28.   

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

1962  On December - 28 death of kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887)   

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

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

1980  On December - 28 death of amir Elahi, cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die   

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

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  On December - 28 sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59   

1986  Andrei Tarkovsky, dies on December - 28.   

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

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1164  On December - 28 birth of emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176)   

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 December - 28.   

1619  On December - 28 birth of antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)   

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  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 December - 28.