Famous Deaths In December - 28

1917  On this day in history death of alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (b. 1892)   

1918  George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies on this day in history.   

1919  On December - 28 death of johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854)   

1923  On December - 28 alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91   

1924  On this day in history death of léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)   

1932  John Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies on December - 28.   

1935  On this day in history clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies   

1937  On this day in history maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62   

1938  Florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48 on December - 28.   

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

1945  On December - 28 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  On this day in history victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78   

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 December - 28.   

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 this day in history.   

1963  On this day in history abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies   

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 this day in history.   

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 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 December - 28.   

1982  Frederick Douglass Hall, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1983  Death of Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39 on December - 28.   

1984  On December - 28 sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59   

1986  On December - 28 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  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  On December - 28 birth of margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583)   

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 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 this day in history.   

1665  On December - 28 birth of george FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716)