Famous Deaths In December - 28

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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1164  On December - 28 birth of emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176)  

1484  On this day in history birth of joachim Vadianus, [von Watt], Swiss physician/mayor of Sankt Gallen  

1522  Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583) was born on December - 28.  

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

1631  Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist was born on December - 28.  

1635  Princess Elizabeth of England (d. 1650) was born on this day in history.  

1655  Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698) was born on December - 28.  

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