Famous Deaths In December - 28
Saturday, 30 September 2023
1917 On December - 28 death of alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (b. 1892)
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 this day in history.
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 Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62 on December - 28.
1938 Florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48 on December - 28.
1943 On December - 28 death of steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1945 On December - 28 theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74
1946 Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85 on this day in history.
1947 On December - 28 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 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 On this day in history edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89
1962 On December - 28 death of kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887)
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 L Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65 on this day in history.
1971 On this day in history maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83
1976 On December - 28 freddie King, rocker, dies at 42
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 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 December - 28.
1983 Death of Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39 on December - 28.
1984 Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59 on December - 28.
1986 Andrei Tarkovsky, dies on this day in history.
1987 On December - 28 charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81
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