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  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  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  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  On December - 28 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  Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85 on December - 28.   

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

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

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 this day in history.   

1959  On December - 28 death of ante Pavelić, leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia (b. 1889)   

1961  On this day in history 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 December - 28 abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies   

1967  Béla Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1976  Freddie King, rocker, dies at 42 on December - 28.   

1978  On December - 28 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  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 December - 28 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  Andrei Tarkovsky, dies on December - 28.   

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  Joachim Vadianus, [von Watt], Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen was born on December - 28.   

1522  On December - 28 birth of margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583)   

1619  Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688) was born on December - 28.   

1631  Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist was born on December - 28.   

1635  Princess Elizabeth of England (d. 1650) was born on December - 28.   

1655  On December - 28 birth of charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698)   

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