August 28 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 388 - Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper


• 430 - Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354)


• 1341 - King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309)


• 1481 - King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432)


• 1645 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)


• 1654 - Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)


• 1678 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)


• 1757 - David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)


• 1784 - Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713)


• 1785 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)


• 1793 - Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740)


• 1805 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)


• 1818 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, founder of Chicago


• 1820 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)


• 1839 - William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)


• 1900 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838)


• 1903 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)


• 1933 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)


• 1943 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)


• 1947 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)


• 1955 - Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon (b. 1941)


• 1959 - Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)


• 1965 - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)


• 1975 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)


• 1976 - Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)


• 1978 - Robert Shaw, English actor and writer (b. 1927)


• 1981 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)


• 1985 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)


• 1987 - John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)


• 1988 - Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)


• 1990 - Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1913)


• 1993 - William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914)


• 1995 - Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906)


• 2003 - Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (b. 1956)


• 2005 - Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)


• 2005 - Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)


• 2005 - George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)


• 2006 - Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)


• 2006 - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)


• 2007 - Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (b. 1926)


• 2007 - Hilly Kristal, American Founder of CBGB/Punk rock legend (b. 1932)


• 2007 - Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (b. 1925)


• 2007 - Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)


• 2007 - Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)


• 2007 - Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929)


• 2007 - Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913)