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August 28 Deaths in History - August 28 Birthdays - August 28 Events
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August 28, 1996 Lynda Carr, educationist, dies at 50 August 28, 1996 Phyllis Pearsall, painter/writer, dies at 89 August 28, 1995 Agnes Patrick, campaigner, dies at 85 August 28, 1995 Michael Ende, German writer (Neverending Story), dies at 65 August 28, 1995 Michael VerMeulen, journalist, dies at 38 August 28, 1994 David Wright, poet, dies at 74 August 28, 1994 Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian pater, murdered August 28, 1994 Pieter de Cort, Belgian rock guitarist (Betty Goes Green), dies at 25 August 28, 1993 Rene Ray, English countess/actress (Farewell again), dies at 80 August 28, 1993 E. P. Thompson, British Historian August 28, 1991 Christian Anders, actor/composer (Death Stone, Love Cult), dies August 28, 1991 Eleanor Berry, actress (Death Valley Days), dies August 28, 1990 Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske and Wiske), dies August 28, 1988 Hazel Dawn, U.S. singer and actress (Under Clover, Margie), dies at 98 August 28, 1987 John Huston, US/Irish actor and director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81 August 28, 1985 Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88 August 28, 1983 Jan Clayton, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie), dies at 66 August 28, 1982 Nini de Boel, Flemish operetta singer (White Horse), dies at 84 August 28, 1979 Simonow, writer, dies August 28, 1978 Bruce Catton, U.S. historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78 August 28, 1972 William HAF, Engl prince/grandson of George V, dies in accident at 29 August 28, 1971 Nathan Leopold, U.S. kidnapper/murderer of Bobby Franks (1924), dies August 28, 1969 Clarence R Hennecke, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 74 August 28, 1968 John Gordon Mein, U.S. ambassador in Guatemala, dies August 28, 1968 Nick Castle, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), dies at 58 August 28, 1967 Charles Darrow, U.S. inventor of Monopoly, dies August 28, 1967 Paul Muni [Muni Weisenfreund] actor (Good Earth), dies at 71 August 28, 1964 Gracie Allen, Mrs. George Burns/comedian (Burns and Allen), dies at 62 August 28, 1964 Lumsden Hare, actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox), dies at 89 August 28, 1961 Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies August 28, 1960 Anton Lajovic, composer, dies at 81 August 28, 1959 Bohuslav Jan Martinu, Czech composer (Hry o Marti), dies at 68 August 28, 1958 Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov, composer, dies at 67 August 28, 1951 Robert Walker, actor and writer (Bataan, Madame Curie), dies at 32 August 28, 1944 Ernst Thalmann, German communist, dies in Buchenwald August 28, 1943 Boris III, of Saksen-Coburg, King of Bulgaria (1918-43), dies August 28, 1931 Francis Bellamy, American Clergyman August 28, 1930 Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish optician (Nobel 1911), dies August 28, 1922 Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Eu/Brazil, dies at 80 August 28, 1919 Louis Botha, South African Boer leader, dies August 28, 1916 Francis W. Warre-Cornish, Engl vice-provost of Eton (1893-1916), dies August 28, 1914 Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, composer (Baba Yaga), dies at 59 August 28, 1914 Anatoli Liadov, composer, dies at 59 August 28, 1903 August Labitzky, composer, dies at 70 August 28, 1903 Frederick Law Olmsted, American Architect August 28, 1900 Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Women on University), dies August 28, 1885 Julius Hopp, composer, dies at 66 August 28, 1861 William Lyon MacKenzie, Canadian Journalist August 28, 1859 James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Writer August 28, 1818 Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies August 28, 1803 Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter, dies August 28, 1798 James Wilson, Scot/US judge/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 55 August 28, 1793 Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/parliament member, dies August 28, 1778 Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/shipminister, dies August 28, 1767 Johann Schobert, composer, dies August 28, 1677 Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver/etcher/cartoonist, dies at 54 August 28, 1676 Joan Cererols, composer, dies at 57 August 28, 1654 Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent, dies at 71 August 28, 1647 Johann Dilliger, composer, dies at 53 August 28, 1646 Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53 August 28, 1645 Hugo Grotius, Dutch Theologian August 28, 1550 Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle, Charles V's asst sec of state, dies August 28, 1544 Alardus Aemstelredamus, priest/humanist, dies at about 53 August 28, 1539 Lieven Pain, Flemish, beheaded at about 75 August 28, 1484 Diogo, duke of Viseu, murdered August 28, 1481 Afonso V, King of Portugal, dies August 28, 1065 Frederik van Luxembourg, duke of Neth-Lutherans (1046-65) August 28, 876 Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76), dies August 28, 430 Aurelius Augustinus, church elder/thinker (Belijdenissen), dies at 75 August 28, 388 Magnus Maximus, Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), executed |