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  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 this day in history john Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies   

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

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 this day in history.   

1946  Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85 on this day in history.   

1947  Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1948  Death of Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated on this day in history.   

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

1952  Death of Fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897) on December - 28.   

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 this day in history.   

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 December - 28.   

1963  Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies on this day in history.   

1967  Béla Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90 on December - 28.   

1969  Henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), dies at 78 on December - 28.   

1970  On December - 28 l Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65   

1971  Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83 on December - 28.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1983  On December - 28 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  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 this day in history.   

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 December - 28.   

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

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

1635  On this day in history 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 December - 28.   

1665  George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716) was born on December - 28.