Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 28
Wednesday, 02 July 2025
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 Death of Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854) on this day in history.
1923 On December - 28 alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91
1924 On December - 28 death of léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)
1932 On this day in history john Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies
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 Death of Steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885) on this day in history.
1945 Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74 on December - 28.
1946 On December - 28 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 Death of Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated on December - 28.
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 Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89 on December - 28.
1962 On December - 28 death of kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887)
1963 On December - 28 abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies
1967 On December - 28 béla Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90
1969 On this day in history henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), dies at 78
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 On this day in history freddie King, rocker, dies at 42
1978 Harry Winston, US jeweler for the "rich & famous", dies at 82 on December - 28.
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 this day in history death of dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39
1984 On December - 28 sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59
1986 Andrei Tarkovsky, dies on December - 28.
1987 Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81 on this day in history.
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