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December 28 Deaths in History - December 28 Birthdays - December 28 Events
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



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