Historical Deaths Today: 28 September

Deaths

• 48 BC - Pompey, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)


• 235 - Saint Pontianus, Pope


• 876 - Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (b. 804)


• 935 - Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 907)


• 1104 - Pedro I, king of Aragon and Navarre (b. 1068)


• 1197 - Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1165)


• 1429 - Cymburgis of Masovia, wife of Duke Ernest of Austria


• 1582 - George Buchanan, Scottish historian (b. 1506)


• 1618 - Joshua Sylvester, English poet (b. 1563)


• 1687 - Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (b. 1623)


• 1694 - Gabriel Mouton, French scientist (b. 1618)


• 1702 - Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, English statesman (b. 1640)


• 1742 - Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (b. 1663)


• 1781 - William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (b. 1717)


• 1844 - Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman (b. 1769)


• 1873 - Émile Gaboriau, French writer and journalist (b. 1832)


• 1891 - Herman Melville, American novelist (b. 1819)


• 1895 - Louis Pasteur, French scientist (b. 1822)


• 1914 - Richard Sears, businessman (Sears, Roebuck and Company) (b. 1863)


• 1915 - Saitou Hajime, 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi died under name of Goro Fujita (b. 1844)


• 1918 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)


• 1918 - Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)


• 1935 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (b. 1860)


• 1953 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (b. 1889)


• 1956 - William Edward Boeing, American aviation pioneer (b. 1881)


• 1957 - Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and musician(b. 1888)


• 1959 - Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (b. 1901)


• 1964 - Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1888)


• 1966 - André Breton, French poet (b. 1896)


• 1970 - John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896)


• 1970 - Gamal Abdel Nasser, the second President of Egypt (b. 1918)


• 1978 - Pope John Paul I (b. 1912), after just 33 days in office


• 1979 - John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b. 1921)


• 1981 - Rómulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)


• 1982 - Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)


• 1988 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)


• 1989 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (b. 1917)


• 1991 - Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)


• 1993 - Peter De Vries, American novelist (b. 1910)


• 1993 - Fraser MacPherson, Canadian jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)


• 1993 - Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)


• 1994 - Urmas Alender, Estonian singer and musician (b. 1953)


• 1994 - José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician (assassinated) (b. 1946)


• 1994 - Harry Saltzman, American film producer (b. 1915)


• 2000 - Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)


• 2002 - Patsy Mink, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1927)


• 2002 - Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman (Molson family), senator and sports executive (Montreal Canadiens) (b. 1907)


• 2003 - Althea Gibson, American tennis player (b. 1927)


• 2003 - Elia Kazan, Greek-born American film director (b. 1909)


• 2003 - George Odlum, Saint Lucian politician (b. 1934)


• 2004 - Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1924)


• 2004 - Scott Muni, American disc jockey (b. 1930)


• 2005 - Constance Baker Motley, American judge (b. 1921)


• 2007 - Wally Parks, Founder of the NHRA (b. 1913)