Famous Deaths on 28 May

Famous Deaths on 28 May

1357 - King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
1556 - Saitō Dōsan, Japanese daimyo (b. 1494?)
1672 - John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
1747 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)
1750 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
1787 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)
1805 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)
1808 - Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720)
1811 - Henry Dundas, British minister (b. 1742)
1816 - Ras Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord
1828 - Daikokuya Kōdayū, Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
1843 - Noah Webster, American author, politician, and lexicographer (b. 1758)
1849 - Anne Brontë, English author (b. 1820)
1864 - Simion Bărnuţiu, Romanian philosopher and liberal politician (b. 1808)
1878 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
1916 - Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)
1927 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
1937 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
1940 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen (b. 1868)
1947 - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)
1948 - Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer (b. 1914)
1953 - Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer (b. 1904)
1968 - Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (b. 1908)
1971 - Audie Murphy, American actor and war hero (b. 1924)
1971 - Jean Vilar, French actor (b. 1912)
1972 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894
1975 - Ezzard Charles, Heavyweight champion (b. 1921)
1976 - Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922)
1978 - Arthur Brough, English actor (b. 1905)
1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
1981 - Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński, Archbishop of Warsaw (b. 1901)
1982 - Lt Col 'H'. Jones VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1940)
1983 - Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (b. 1909)
1984 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise) (b. 1926)
1988 - Sy Oliver, Jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader (b. 1910)
1993 - Billy Conn, American boxer and actor (b. 1917)
1994 - Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
1994 - Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (b. 1916)
1998 - Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian (b. 1948)
2001 - Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
2001 - Joe Moakley, American politician (b. 1927)
2002 - Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909)
2003 - Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
2003 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
2003 - Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
2004 - Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (b. 1934)
2006 - Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920)
2007 - Marquise Hill, American football player (b. 1982)
2007 - Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
2008 - David Mitton, Scottish-born director (b. 1938)
2008 - Robert Justman, American television producer (b. 1926)