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December 28 Deaths in History - December 28 Birthdays - December 28 Events
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December 28, 2004 Jerry Orbach, actor, Law and Order, dies at 69 December 28, 2004 Susan Sontag, "writer, activist", On Photography, dies at 71 December 28, 1999 Clayton Moore, actor, The Lone Ranger, dies at 85 December 28, 1997 George Fleming, cyclist, dies at 80 December 28, 1997 James Lees-Milne, architecural historian, dies at 89 December 28, 1997 Ronald Clive Williams, actor/comedian, dies at 68 December 28, 1995 Harold Francis Collison, trade unionist, dies at 84 December 28, 1994 Julian Belfrage, theatre agent, dies at 60 December 28, 1993 Howard Caine, dies December 28, 1993 Joop Vervoort, Dutch soccer referee, dies at 61 December 28, 1993 William L Shirer, writer (Rise and Fall of 3rd Reich), dies at 89 December 28, 1992 Mort Greene, U.S. songwriter (My Grandfather's Clock), dies at 80 December 28, 1991 Cassandra Harris, actress (For Your Eyes Only), dies of cancer at 39 December 28, 1991 Jacques Aubuchon, actor (Hoax, Thunder Road), dies of heart failure December 28, 1990 Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Sweet Life), dies at 65 December 28, 1990 Kiel Martin, actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 46 December 28, 1990 Lucas Polhaupessy, Moluccan leader, dies December 28, 1989 Robert Wickler, dies December 28, 1988 Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director, dies of cancer at 59 December 28, 1987 Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81 December 28, 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky, dies December 28, 1986 Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 77 December 28, 1984 Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59 December 28, 1983 Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39 December 28, 1983 William Demarest, actor (My 3 Sons), dies in Palm Springs at 91 December 28, 1982 Frederick Douglass Hall, composer, dies at 84 December 28, 1980 Amir Elahi, cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die December 28, 1980 Jersey calf, lived 222 days with an artificial heart December 28, 1978 Harry Winston, U.S. jeweler for the "rich and famous", dies at 82 December 28, 1976 Freddie King, rocker, dies at 42 December 28, 1971 Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83 December 28, 1970 Charles "Sonny" Liston, heavyweight boxer champ (1962-64), dies December 28, 1970 L Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65 December 28, 1969 Henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), dies at 78 December 28, 1967 Bela Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90 December 28, 1963 Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies December 28, 1963 Paul Hindemith, German composer (Composer's World), dies at 68 December 28, 1961 Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89 December 28, 1956 Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76 December 28, 1949 Jack Lovelock, NZ/U.S. surgeon/athlete 1936 Olympics gold, dies at 39 December 28, 1949 W Hervey Allen, U.S. writer/poet (Anthony Adverse), dies at 60 December 28, 1948 Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated December 28, 1947 Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78 December 28, 1946 Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85 December 28, 1945 Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74 December 28, 1938 Florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48 December 28, 1937 Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62 December 28, 1935 Clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies December 28, 1923 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91 December 28, 1918 George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies December 28, 1916 Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at 81 December 28, 1915 Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer/politician, dies at 78 December 28, 1903 George [Robert] Gissing, English novelist, dies at 46 December 28, 1891 Alfred Cellier, composer, dies at 47 December 28, 1884 Gerben Colmjon, Frisian linguist/publisher, dies at 56 December 28, 1878 Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer, dies at 90 December 28, 1876 Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish poet (Abels dod), dies at 67 December 28, 1870 Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov, composer, dies at 72 December 28, 1870 Peter van Schendel, Dutch painter, dies at 64 December 28, 1862 Joaquim Casimiro Junior, composer, dies at 54 December 28, 1860 Cornelius Broere, Dutch RC clergyman/poet, dies at 57 December 28, 1859 Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies December 28, 1830 Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer, dies at 83 December 28, 1793 Louis earl of Bylandt, Dutch admiral, dies at about 75 December 28, 1779 Gennaro Manna, composer, dies at 64 December 28, 1775 Peter A van de Parra, Governor-General of (Netherlands Indies), dies at 61 December 28, 1772 Ernst J earl van/of Biron, Russian duke of Courland, dies at 82 December 28, 1706 Pierre Bayle, French theologist (History of Criticism), dies at 59 December 28, 1694 Mary II, Queen of England, dies after 5 years of rule at 32 December 28, 1673 Joan Blaeu, Dutch cartographer/publisher (Atlas Major), dies at 77 December 28, 1622 Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55 December 28, 1542 Albert Pigge, [Pighius], Dutch theologist/astronomer, dies at about 52 December 28, 1446 Clemens VIII, [Aegyd Munoz], Spanish anti-pope (1423-29), dies |