Famous Deaths on 28 Dec

Famous Deaths on 28 Dec

1367 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330)
1446 - Antipope Clement VIII
1503 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1471)
1558 - Hermann Finck, German composer (b. 1527)
1622 - Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (b. 1567)
1663 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)
1671 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611)
1694 - Queen Mary II of England (b. 1662), of the famed joint monarchy William and Mary.
1703 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664)
1706 - Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (b. 1647)
1708 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist (b. 1656)
1715 - William Carstares, Scottish minister (b. 1649)
1734 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (b. 1671)
1736 - Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (b. 1670)
1795 - Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (b. 1747)
1859 - Thomas Macaulay, British poet (b. 1800)
1872 - James Van Ness, Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856) (b. 1808)
1877 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
1897 - Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (b. 1833)
1900 - Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer (b. 1846)
1916 - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (b. 1835)
1917 - Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (b. 1892)
1918 - Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (b. 1865)
1919 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854)
1924 - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)
1932 - Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
1937 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (b. 1875)
1938 - Florence Lawrence, American actress (b. 1886)
1943 - Steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1945 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (b. 1871)
1947 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869)
1949 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (b. 1910)
1952 - Fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897)
1959 - Ante Pavelić, leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia (b. 1889)
1962 - Kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887)
1963 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895)
1967 - Otis Redding, Black American soul singer (b. 1941)
1967 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (b. 1875)
1971 - Max Steiner, Austrian-born American film music composer (b. 1888)
1976 - Katharine Byron, American politician (b. 1903)
1976 - Freddie King, American musician (b. 1934)
1981 - Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885)
1983 - Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1944)
1983 - Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (b. 1910)
1983 - William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)
1984 - Sam Peckinpah, American film director (b. 1925)
1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (b. 1932)
1989 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist (b. 1894)
1991 - Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (b. 1952)
1992 - Sal Maglie, American baseball player (b. 1917)
1993 - William L. Shirer, American journalist (b. 1904)
1994 - Jean-Louis Lévesque, French Canadian entrepreneur (b. 1911)
1999 - Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)
2001 - Samuel A. Goldblith, American food scientist (b. 1919)
2001 - William X. Kienzle, American novelist (b. 1928)
2003 - Benjamin Hacker, American admiral (b. 1935)
2004 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (b. 1935)
2004 - Susan Sontag, American writer (b. 1933)
2006 - Jamal Karimi-Rad, Iranian Minister of Justice (b. 1956)
2007 - Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani Prime Minister (b. 1953)
300 - Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria