Famous Deaths In December - 28

1917  Death of Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (b. 1892) on December - 28.   

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  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  On this day in history clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies   

1937  Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85   

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 this day in history 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  Death of Ante Pavelić, leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia (b. 1889) on December - 28.   

1961  On December - 28 edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89   

1962  Death of Kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887) on this day in history.   

1963  Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies on this day in history.   

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

1969  Henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1970  On this day in history l Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65   

1971  Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83 on December - 28.   

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  On this day in history death of allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885)   

1982  On this day in history frederick Douglass Hall, composer, dies at 84   

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 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 this day in history 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 December - 28 birth of margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (d. 1583)   

1619  Antoine Furetière, French writer (d. 1688) was born on December - 28.   

1631  On this day in history birth of ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist   

1635  On December - 28 birth of princess Elizabeth of England (d. 1650)   

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.