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 this day in history death of johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854)   

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  John Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies on December - 28.   

1935  On December - 28 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 December - 28 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  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 this day in history.   

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  Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76 on December - 28.   

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  Death of Kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887) on December - 28.   

1963  On December - 28 abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies   

1967  On this day in history béla Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90   

1969  On December - 28 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 December - 28.   

1976  Freddie King, rocker, dies at 42 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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 December - 28.   

1987  Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81 on December - 28.   

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1164  Emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176) was born on December - 28.   

1484  On December - 28 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 this day in history.   

1619  Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688) was born on this day in history.   

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  Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1698) was born on this day in history.   

1665  George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, British general (d. 1716) was born on December - 28.