Famous Deaths on 28 Jul

Famous Deaths on 28 Jul

1057 - Pope Victor II
1128 - William Clito, Count of Flanders (b. 1102)
1230 - Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
1285 - Queen Keran of Armenia, consort of Leo III of Armenia
1527 - Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador
1540 - Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1495)
1631 - Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619)
1667 - Abraham Cowley, English poet (b. 1618)
1675 - Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
1685 - Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
1718 - Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
1741 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)
1762 - George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
1794 - Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1758)
1794 - Louis de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1767)
1818 - Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
1835 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
1842 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
1844 - Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)
1849 - King Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
1869 - Jan Evangelista PurkynÄ›, Czech anatomist (b. 1787)
1878 - George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (b. 1820)
1895 - Edward Beecher, American theologian (b. 1803)
1930 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1934 - Louis Tancred, Former South African cricketer (b. 1876)
1934 - Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (b. 1868)
1942 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
1957 - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
1965 - Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (b. 1894)
1967 - Karl W. Richter, Lieutenant, USAF, American aviator (b. 1942)
1968 - Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
1969 - Ramón Grau, Cuban president (b. 1882)
1971 - Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
1971 - Charles E. Pont, American artist (b. 1898)
1972 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
1972 - Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)
1979 - Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
1981 - Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (b. 1935)
1982 - Keith Green, American gospel singer and pianist (b. 1953)
1990 - Jill Esmond, British actress (b. 1908)
1996 - Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and educator (b. 1908)
1997 - Seni Pramoj, Thai politician (b. 1905)
1998 - Lenny McLean, English bareknuckle fighter (b. 1949)
1999 - Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
2000 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
2002 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
2003 - Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish politician and activist (b. 1918)
2004 - Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
2004 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2004 - Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
2004 - Eugene Roche, American actor (b. 1928)
2006 - David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
2007 - Jim LeRoy, Airshow pilot
2007 - Karl Gotch, Belgian professional wrestler (b. 1924)
450 - Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (b. 401)