Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 28

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 this day in history.   

1919  Death of Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854) on December - 28.   

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 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  On December - 28 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 this day in history.   

1946  Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85 on December - 28.   

1947  On this day in history victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78   

1948  Death of Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated on this day in history.   

1949  Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/athlete (Olympic-gold-1936), dies at 39 on this day in history.   

1952  On December - 28 death of fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897)   

1956  Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

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 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  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  L Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65 on December - 28.   

1971  On this day in history maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83   

1976  Freddie King, rocker, dies at 42 on December - 28.   

1978  Harry Winston, US jeweler for the "rich & famous", dies at 82 on December - 28.   

1980  Death of Amir Elahi, cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die on December - 28.   

1981  On December - 28 death of allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885)   

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

1983  On December - 28 death of dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39   

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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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  On this day in history birth of margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583)   

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 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)