Famous Deaths In December - 28
Saturday, 07 September 2024
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 On this day in history 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 On this day in history john Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies
1935 Clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies on December - 28.
1937 On this day in history 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 Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85 on December - 28.
1947 On December - 28 victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78
1948 On December - 28 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 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 this day in history 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 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 On this day in history 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 On this day in history maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83
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 this day in history death of amir Elahi, cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die
1981 On December - 28 death of allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885)
1982 Frederick Douglass Hall, composer, dies at 84 on December - 28.
1983 Death of Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39 on this day in history.
1984 Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59 on this day in history.
1986 On December - 28 andrei Tarkovsky, dies
1987 Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81 on December - 28.
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