Famous Deaths on 28 Aug

Famous Deaths on 28 Aug

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 - George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)
2005 - Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
2005 - Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)
2006 - Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)
2006 - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
2007 - Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)
2007 - Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929)
2007 - Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
2007 - Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (b. 1925)
2007 - Hilly Kristal, American Founder of CBGB/Punk rock legend (b. 1932)
2007 - Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (b. 1926)
2007 - Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913)
388 - Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper
430 - Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354)