Notable Deaths - 1928
1928 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Loie Fuller, Loie Fuller |
Jan 2 |
Emily Stevens, The Place of the Honeymoons |
Jan 3 |
Dorothy Donnelly, The Student Prince |
Jan 3 |
Claude France, Madonna of the Sleeping Cars |
Jan 6 |
Alvin C Kraenzlein, track star (Olympic-4 gold-1900), dies at 51 |
Jan 6 |
Ben Landeck, Tommy Atkins |
Jan 8 |
Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, composer, dies at 61 |
Jan 10 |
Chester De Vonde, Voices |
Jan 11 |
Thomas Hardy, English novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd) and poet, dies near Dorchester at 87 |
Jan 11 |
Charles Horan, The Splendid Lie |
Jan 11 |
Thomas Hardy, Tess |
Jan 11 |
Rapley Holmes, The Fable of the Cold Gray Dawn of the Morning After |
Jan 12 |
Ruth Snyder, 1st woman to die in electric chair |
Jan 12 |
Rudolf Tesnohlídek, The Cunning Little Vixen |
Jan 13 |
Johan Peter Koch, Danish officer/explorer, dies at 57 |
Jan 20 |
Jarmila Horáková, Paní Katynka z Vajecného trhu |
Jan 21 |
George Goethals, American army engineer (b. 1858) |
Jan 26 |
Earl Metcalfe, Ignorance |
Jan 26 |
William A. Carroll, The Conscience of Hassan Bey |
Jan 26 |
Edwin Denison, The Secret of the Storm Country |
Jan 27 |
Marie Verstraete, actress (Frou-Frou/Nora), dies at 74 |
Jan 27 |
Wallace McCutcheon Jr., The Fight for Freedom |
Jan 27 |
Marie Verstraete, Mooi Juultje van Volendam |
Jan 28 |
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Blood and Sand |
Jan 29 |
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig/field marshal (WW I), dies at 66 |
Jan 29 |
Douglas Haig, The First World War |
Jan 30 |
Douglas Haig, Brit fieldmarshal (Sudan/Boer war/WW I), dies at 66 |
Jan 30 |
Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1867) |
Jan 30 |
Forrest Winant, The Brink |
Feb 1 |
Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869) |
Feb 1 |
Hughie Jennings, The Baseball Revue of 1917 |
Feb 3 |
Ted McNamara, Shore Leave |
Feb 4 |
Hendrik A Lorentz, physicist (L transformation-Nobel 1902), dies at 74 |
Feb 6 |
Elizabeth Dejeans, The Tiger's Coat |
Feb 13 |
Henry F. Downing, A Daughter of the Congo |
Feb 14 |
Lincoln Plumer, Mike's Hero |
Feb 15 |
Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (L, 1908-16) dies at 75 |
Feb 15 |
H.H. Asquith, |
Feb 16 |
Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (b. 1856) |
Feb 16 |
Reggie Morris, His Social Rise |
Feb 16 |
Eddie Foy, A Favorite Fool |
Feb 20 |
Antonín Pech, Rudi na záletech |
Feb 21 |
Basil Macdonald Hastings, That Sort |
Feb 29 |
Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist, dies at 65 |
Feb 29 |
Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24), dies at 66 |
Feb 29 |
Ina Coolbrith, first poet laureate of California (b. 1841) |
Feb 29 |
Karl Noll, Dobrý voják Svejk |
Mar 1 |
Albert Herbert Brewer, composer, dies at 62 |
Mar 1 |
Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer, dies at 77 |
Mar 3 |
Jan [Jean] T Toorop, Dutch graphic artist (3 Brides), dies at 69 |
Mar 5 |
Lidia Quaranta, Cabiria |
Mar 7 |
Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851) |
Mar 7 |
William H. Crane, The Saphead |
Mar 8 |
Philip Bech, Solskinsdalen |
Mar 12 |
Nils Krok, Ingeborg Holm |
Mar 16 |
Emilia Rózanska, Ochrana warszawska i jej tajemnice |
Mar 18 |
Paul van Ostaijen, Flemish writer (Outlawed), dies at 32 |
Mar 18 |
Julie Abich, Das Gelübde |
Mar 19 |
Nora Bayes, Transatlantic Coffee |
Mar 21 |
Thomas A. Wise, A Gentleman from Mississippi |
Mar 26 |
Lydia Dickson, Don't Marry |
Mar 27 |
Leslie Stuart, composer, dies at 64 |
Mar 27 |
Leslie Stuart, The Iron Lady |
Mar 28 |
Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63 |
Mar 29 |
Keble Howard, The Fast Lady |
Mar 31 |
Gustave Ador, president of Austria (1919), dies at 82 |
Mar 31 |
Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits), dies at 69 |
Apr 1 |
Nils Aréhn, The Phantom Carriage |
Apr 1 |
R.C. Carton, Rolling in Money |
Apr 2 |
Theodore Richards, US chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies |
Apr 2 |
Georgia O'Ramey, The $5,000,000 Counterfeiting Plot |
Apr 5 |
Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar/archaeologist, dies |
Apr 5 |
Roy Kilner, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1924-26), dies at 38 |
Apr 5 |
Chauncey Depew, The Millionaires' Playground |
Apr 7 |
Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (b. 1873) |
Apr 10 |
Stanley J. Weyman, Under the Red Robe |
Apr 10 |
Georg Busch, Lille Dorrit |
Apr 13 |
Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer, dies at 36 |
Apr 16 |
Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founder of Henri Birks and Sons (b. 1840) |
Apr 18 |
Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer, dies at 58 |
Apr 19 |
Ladislav Klíma, In the Light of the King's Love |
Apr 22 |
Frank Currier, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ |
Apr 24 |
Ferdinand B Hummel, composer, dies at 72 |
Apr 24 |
Ferdinand Hummel, Schwert und Herd |
Apr 24 |
Erwin Kopp, Tischlein deck dich, Eselein streck dich, Knüppel aus dem Sack |
Apr 25 |
Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron general, dies at 49 |
Apr 26 |
François de Curel, Le bois des amants |
Apr 28 |
Gertrude Claire, The Coward |
Apr 29 |
Henrich Federer, Switz, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61 |
May 4 |
Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch), dies at 63 |
May 4 |
Percy Winter, Patsy, Married and Settled |
May 5 |
Barry Pain, A Blind Bargain |
May 7 |
Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan, composer, dies at 56 |
May 7 |
Aleksandr Spendiarov, Second Armenian Film-Concert |
May 8 |
Clara Williams, Hell's Hinges |
May 9 |
Constantin Dimitrescu, composer, dies at 81 |
May 9 |
Hal Salter, The Law of Nature |
May 10 |
Ferdinando Paolieri, The Corsair |
May 14 |
Max Auzinger, Michael |
May 16 |
Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies |
May 16 |
Edmund Gosse, The Lady of the Camellias |
May 19 |
Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, composer, dies at 59 |
May 19 |
Max Scheler, German philosopher, dies at 53 |
May 19 |
Henry F. Gilbert, Down to the Sea in Ships |
May 21 |
Martin Kukucin, Rysavá jalovica |
May 22 |
William HT Gairdner, Engl missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at 54 |
May 22 |
Alfred Bishop, The Brass Bottle |
May 23 |
Xena Longenová, Prach a broky |
May 31 |
Ludwig Enneccerus, German leader, dies at 85 |
May 31 |
Manuel de Oliveira Lima, Brazilian historian, dies at 60 |
Jun 2 |
Helen Carlisle, The Usurper |
Jun 3 |
Li Yüan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (b. 1864) |
Jun 6 |
Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer, dies at 67 |
Jun 7 |
Chiang Tsolin, Chinese warlord of North-China, murdered |
Jun 7 |
Johnny Dooley, Skinning Skinners |
Jun 8 |
Ranja Izawa, Chimata no ko |
Jun 8 |
Robert H. Fordyce, Our Mutual Girl, No. 43 |
Jun 9 |
James Lindsay, The Disappearance of the Judge |
Jun 10 |
Dennis Eadie, Disraeli |
Jun 11 |
Frederick Knight Logan, Truman |
Jun 12 |
Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexicans poet, dies |
Jun 12 |
Milorad Petrovic, Karadjordje |
Jun 13 |
Damaso Ledesma, composer, dies at 60 |
Jun 14 |
Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist, dies |
Jun 14 |
Emmeline Pankhurst, Eighty Million Women Want - ? |
Jun 16 |
Dr. Mark Keppel, County Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928 (b. 1867) |
Jun 17 |
Ramon de Basterra, Spanish writer/diplomat (Virulo, mocedades), dies |
Jun 17 |
Presley M. Rixey, President McKinley |
Jun 17 |
Charles Agnew MacLean, The Mainspring |
Jun 18 |
Roald E G Amundsen, Norwegian pole explorer, dies |
Jun 18 |
Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne, Wings of the Morning |
Jun 18 |
Roald Amundsen, Roald Amundsen |
Jun 20 |
Harry Lamberts-Paulsen, Der Bettler vom Kölner Dom |
Jun 22 |
George Siegmann, actor (Birth of Nation, Queen of Sheba), dies at 46 |
Jun 22 |
A. B. Frost, American illustrator (b. 1851) |
Jun 22 |
Franz Glawatsch, Vienna, City of Song |
Jun 22 |
George Siegmann, The Birth of a Nation |
Jun 23 |
Thomas H Rollinson, composer, dies at 84 |
Jun 24 |
Holbrook Blinn, Zander the Great |
Jun 25 |
Gerald C. Duffy, Her Wild Oat |
Jun 27 |
Ede Sas, Petöfi |
Jun 27 |
Robert B. Mantell, Under the Red Robe |
Jun 28 |
Leo Ditrichstein, The Great Lover |
Jul 1 |
Avery Hopwood, Gold Diggers of 1933 |
Jul 1 |
Frankie Yale, American Justice: Target - Mafia |
Jul 4 |
Sidney Smith, Out Bound |
Jul 7 |
Álvaro Obregón, La última semana del general Alvaro Obregon entre nosotros |
Jul 8 |
Joseph J. Dowling, The Kentucky Colonel |
Jul 10 |
Martinius Nielsen, Lykketyven |
Jul 15 |
Cecil Owen, The Girl by the Roadside |
Jul 17 |
Alvaro Obregon, general/pres of Mexico, assassinated |
Jul 17 |
Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921), dies |
Jul 20 |
Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (b. 1896) |
Jul 21 |
Ellen A Terry, Brits actress/dir (Imperial Theatre), dies at 81 |
Jul 21 |
Ellen Terry, Potter's Clay |
Jul 21 |
Ward Crane, Sherlock Jr. |
Jul 23 |
Thomas A. Brierley, The Toll Gate |
Aug 5 |
László Bakó, A bánya titka |
Aug 5 |
Albert Paul, Der Krieg brachte Frieden |
Aug 6 |
William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68 |
Aug 6 |
Corinne Barker, The Silent Barrier |
Aug 7 |
Alphonse MAJ Ariëns, Dutch RC pastor/social worker, dies at 68 |
Aug 8 |
Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies |
Aug 8 |
Stjepan Radic, |
Aug 9 |
Frederik II W, grand duke of Baden (1907-18), dies at 71 |
Aug 10 |
Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897) |
Aug 10 |
Rex Cherryman, Camille |
Aug 10 |
Arthur J. Lamb, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford |
Aug 10 |
Hjalmar Selander, Herr Arnes pengar |
Aug 12 |
Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b. 1854) |
Aug 12 |
Leos Janácek, The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
Aug 13 |
Fernand de La Tombelle, composer, dies at 74 |
Aug 14 |
Klabund, [Alfred Henschke], German writer (Spuk/Rasputin), dies at 37 |
Aug 14 |
Klabund, X Y Z |
Aug 15 |
Einar Forchhammer, Min ven privatdetektiven |
Aug 24 |
Augustin MacHugh, The Meanest Man in the World |
Aug 26 |
Colin Campbell, Monte Cristo |
Aug 26 |
Bernhard Lehmann, Episode #1.2015 |
Aug 28 |
Paul von Woringen, Die Siegerin |
Aug 29 |
Richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor, dies at 72 |
Aug 29 |
Gabriel Marie, Little Caesar |
Aug 30 |
Wilhelm Wien, Ger physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies at 64 |
Aug 30 |
Robert Reinert, Nerves |
Sep 6 |
Józef Mikulski, Tredowata |
Sep 8 |
Ulrich Graf, |
Sep 9 |
Will Machin, The Cycle of Fate |
Sep 9 |
Kazimierz Kaminski, Niebezpieczny kochanek |
Sep 13 |
Italo Svevo, [Ettore Schmitz], Italian writer (Una Vita), dies at 66 |
Sep 13 |
Italo Svevo, Careless |
Sep 15 |
Fay Adams, A Daughter of the Sioux |
Sep 16 |
Pomeroy Cannon, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
Sep 19 |
Sedley Brown, How Spriggins Took Lodgers |
Sep 23 |
Geza Farago, Ungarische Rhapsodie |
Sep 25 |
Karl Schneider, cricketer (South Aust bat), dies of leukaemia at 23 |
Sep 25 |
Richard F. Outcault, Buster's Dog to the Rescue |
Sep 27 |
Miles McCarthy, Fear Not |
Sep 28 |
Con Conrad, dies |
Sep 29 |
Arnold Kent, dies |
Sep 29 |
Lido Manetti, dies |
Sep 29 |
Steinitz, mathematician, dies |
Sep 29 |
Arnold Kent, Brinneso! |
Oct 1 |
Edna Luby, Shadows |
Oct 5 |
George Beban, His Sweetheart |
Oct 8 |
Larry Semon, comedian (b. 1889) |
Oct 8 |
Larry Semon, The Wizard of Oz |
Oct 10 |
Paul Doucet, The Devil's Daughter |
Oct 13 |
Maria Fyodorova, The Tempest |
Oct 15 |
Leedham Bantock, Old Scrooge |
Oct 15 |
Earl Mohan, Riders of the Kitchen Range |
Oct 16 |
Septimus Kinneir, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies |
Oct 16 |
Czarina Maria Fyodorovna, Enkekejserinde Dagmars Ankomst |
Oct 16 |
Jack Boyle, Meet Boston Blackie |
Oct 19 |
Harry Eytinge, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas |
Oct 19 |
Edward Hickman, |
Oct 20 |
Józef Kotarbinski, Milosc za zycie. Symfonia ludzkosci |
Oct 22 |
Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862) |
Oct 23 |
F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies |
Oct 23 |
George Barr McCutcheon, Brewster's Millions |
Oct 26 |
Felix Dormann, The Smiling Lieutenant |
Oct 28 |
Mari K. Demjén, White Rose |
Oct 30 |
Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, composer, dies at 55 |
Nov 6 |
Arnold Rothstein, US businessman/gambler, shot to death at 46 |
Nov 6 |
Arnold Rothstein, American Justice: Target - Mafia |
Nov 7 |
Suzanne Le Bret, Aline ou la double vie |
Nov 7 |
Mattia Battistini, Donna Lisa |
Nov 7 |
Árpád Tóth, A bor lelke |
Nov 8 |
Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Streets of sin), dies at 45 |
Nov 8 |
Marius Sestier, The Melbourne Cup |
Nov 10 |
Anita Berber, Eerie Tales |
Nov 13 |
Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist, dies at 60 |
Nov 13 |
Enrico Cecchetti, Coppélia, A ballet in three acts |
Nov 15 |
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, American Geologist and educator, dies at 85 |
Nov 17 |
Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865) |
Nov 18 |
Mauritz Stiller, Gösta Berlings saga |
Nov 18 |
Jeanne Bérangère, La fille de Jephté |
Nov 19 |
Achille Simonetti, composer, dies at 71 |
Nov 19 |
Louis R. Grisel, The Holy City |
Nov 21 |
Hermann Sudermann, German author (Frau Sorge), dies |
Nov 21 |
Hermann Sudermann, Sunrise |
Nov 21 |
Edward Connelly, The Saphead |
Nov 22 |
Erich Kaiser-Titz, Problematische Naturen |
Nov 26 |
Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I), dies at 65 |
Nov 27 |
Louis Liggett, Street Angel |
Nov 28 |
Werner Pittschau, Mária növér |
Dec 1 |
José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888) |
Dec 1 |
José Eustasio Rivera, La voragine |
Dec 3 |
Valentina Zimina, La Boheme |
Dec 4 |
Ralph Yearsley, Tol'able David |
Dec 5 |
Johannes F "Johan" Bakker Sr, actor/husband of Truus Soete, dies at 61 |
Dec 5 |
Gyula Dezséri, A Csodagyerek |
Dec 10 |
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (b. 1868) |
Dec 10 |
Donald I. Buchanan, The Silver Lining |
Dec 12 |
Harry Garrity, Unseen Forces |
Dec 12 |
Ferdinand Gregori, Herzog Ferrantes Ende |
Dec 12 |
Fred Wright, Cinders |
Dec 13 |
Howard Enstedt, The Radio Detective |
Dec 14 |
Theodore Roberts, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments), dies at 77 |
Dec 14 |
Theodore Roberts, The Ten Commandments |
Dec 16 |
Elinor Wylie, American poet and writer (b. 1885) |
Dec 16 |
Elinor Wylie, Incantation |
Dec 18 |
Lucien Capet, composer, dies at 55 |
Dec 19 |
Silvio Hein, Dear Mildred |
Dec 19 |
J. Hartley Manners, Happiness |
Dec 21 |
Harry Butt, cricketer (England wicket-keeper v South Africa 1895-96), dies |
Dec 21 |
Luigi Cadorna, Italian fieldmarshal (WW I, Caporetto), dies at 78 |
Dec 25 |
Kaoru Osanai, Rojô no reikion |
Dec 25 |
Fred Thomson, Thundering Hoofs |
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