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  Death of Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854) on December - 28.   

1923  On this day in history alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91   

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

1932  On December - 28 john Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies   

1935  On December - 28 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  On December - 28 florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48   

1943  Death of Steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885) on December - 28.   

1945  On this day in history theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74   

1946  Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85 on December - 28.   

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

1961  On December - 28 edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89   

1962  Death of Kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887) on December - 28.   

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 December - 28.   

1969  On December - 28 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  Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83 on December - 28.   

1976  Freddie King, rocker, dies at 42 on this day in history.   

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

1980  Death of Amir Elahi, cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die on December - 28.   

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  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 this day in history.   

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  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  On December - 28 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.