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  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  Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91 on December - 28.   

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 December - 28 maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62   

1938  On this day in history florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48   

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  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  On this day in history jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/athlete (Olympic-gold-1936), dies at 39   

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  On this day in history death of ante Pavelić, leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia (b. 1889)   

1961  Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89 on December - 28.   

1962  On this day in history death of kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887)   

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  L Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1971  On December - 28 maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83   

1976  On December - 28 freddie King, rocker, dies at 42   

1978  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

1983  On this day in history death of dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39   

1984  On this day in history sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59   

1986  On this day in history andrei Tarkovsky, dies   

1987  On December - 28 charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81   

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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 December - 28.   

1522  Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583) was born on this day in history.   

1619  On this day in history birth of antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688)   

1631  On December - 28 birth of ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist   

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

1655  On this day in history 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.