Notable Deaths on December 28th
December 28th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
300 |
Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria |
1367 |
Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (b. 1330) |
1446 |
Clement VIII, (Sanchez Muñoz), Spanish anti-pope (1423-29), dies |
1503 |
Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1471) |
1542 |
Albert Pigge, [Pighius], Dutch theologist/astronomer, dies at about 52 |
1622 |
Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint, dies at 55 |
1663 |
Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618) |
1671 |
Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611) |
1673 |
Joan Blaeu, Dutch cartographer/publisher (Atlas Major), dies at 77 |
1694 |
Mary II, Queen of England, dies after 5 years of rule at 32 [NS=Jan 7] |
1703 |
Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664) |
1706 |
Pierre Bayle, French theologist (History of Criticism), dies at 59 |
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) |
1734 |
Rob Roy, Scottish folk hero and outlaw, dies at 63 |
1772 |
Ernst J earl van/of Biron, Russian duke of Courland, dies at 82 |
1775 |
Peter A van de Parra, gov-gen of (Neth Indies), dies at 61 |
1779 |
Gennaro Manna, composer, dies at 64 |
1793 |
Louis earl of Bylandt, Dutch admiral, dies at about 75 |
1795 |
Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (b. 1747) |
1830 |
Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer, dies at 83 |
1859 |
Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies |
1860 |
Cornelius Broere, Dutch RC clergyman/poet, dies at 57 |
1862 |
Joaquim Casimiro Junior, composer, dies at 54 |
1870 |
Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov, composer, dies at 72 |
1870 |
Peter van Schendel, Dutch painter, dies at 64 |
1872 |
James Van Ness, Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856) (b. 1808) |
1878 |
Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer, dies at 90 |
1884 |
Gerben Colmjon, Frisian linguist/publisher, dies at 56 |
1891 |
Alfred Cellier, composer, dies at 47 |
1897 |
Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (b. 1833) |
1900 |
Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer (b. 1846) |
1903 |
George [Robert] Gissing, English novelist, dies at 46 |
1903 |
George Gissing, The Turning Point |
1915 |
Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer/politician, dies at 78 |
1916 |
Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at 81 |
1917 |
Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (b. 1892) |
1918 |
George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies |
1918 |
Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (b. 1865) |
1919 |
Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854) |
1921 |
John Hare, A Pair of Spectacles |
1923 |
Frank Hayes, Fatty and Mabel Adrift |
1924 |
Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866) |
1925 |
Sergei Esenin, Yar |
1926 |
Ethel Ritchie, The Understudy |
1926 |
William A. Crinley, The Radio Detective |
1932 |
John Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies |
1932 |
Tom Wood, The Old Homestead |
1934 |
Lowell Sherman, Bachelor Apartment |
1935 |
Clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies |
1935 |
Clarence Day, Life with Father |
1936 |
Fred Walton, A Turkish Cigarette |
1937 |
Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62 |
1937 |
Milford W. Howard, The Bishop of the Ozarks |
1937 |
Maurice Ravel, The Dark Knight Rises |
1938 |
Florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48 |
1938 |
Florence Lawrence, Lady Helen's Escapade |
1940 |
Jack Stegall, The Devil on Horseback |
1942 |
Warren Gilbert, A Day's Pleasure |
1943 |
Steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885) |
1945 |
Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74 |
1945 |
Theodore Dreiser, A Place in the Sun |
1946 |
Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85 |
1946 |
Carrie Jacobs Bond, The King's Speech |
1946 |
Brian Hooker, Cyrano de Bergerac |
1947 |
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy (1900-46), dies at 78 |
1947 |
King Victor Emmanuel III, S. M. il Re ed il Capo del Governo per la battaglia del grano |
1948 |
Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated |
1948 |
Mowbray Berkeley, Fires of Faith |
1949 |
Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/athlete (Olympic-gold-1936), dies at 39 |
1949 |
W Hervey Allen, US writer/poet (Anthony Adverse), dies at 60 |
1949 |
Charley Brickley, The Hero of the Gridiron |
1949 |
Ivie Anderson, A Day at the Races |
1949 |
Hervey Allen, Anthony Adverse |
1949 |
Cleve F. Adams, The Fatal Witness |
1949 |
John Lovelock, Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations |
1950 |
William Garwood, The Evidence of the Film |
1950 |
Charles L. Johnson, Reds |
1951 |
Clifford Brooke, The Sea Hawk |
1952 |
Fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897) |
1952 |
Dronning Alexandrine, Aankomst en verblijf in Brussel van de Deense vorsten |
1952 |
Frank Tresselt, Cavalcade |
1953 |
Gavin Young, The Mission of a Bullet |
1953 |
George Henninger, Episode #1.2 |
1954 |
Jack Bechdolt, Little Boy with a Big Horn |
1956 |
Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76 |
1957 |
Hilda Vaughn, Dinner at Eight |
1957 |
Hermann Kner, Die verkaufte Braut |
1959 |
Ante Pavelić, leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia (b. 1889) |
1959 |
Ante Pavelic, |
1960 |
Frantisek Kreuzmann, The Merry Wives |
1960 |
Otto Hunte, Metropolis |
1961 |
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89 |
1962 |
Kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887) |
1963 |
Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies |
1963 |
Paul Hindemith, German composer (Composer's World), dies at 68 |
1963 |
Alyce Canfield, Models Inc. |
1963 |
A.J. Liebling, Ring Around the Clock |
1963 |
Paul Hindemith, Nouvelle vague |
1963 |
Elsie Cort, The Law of the Border |
1967 |
Béla Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90 |
1967 |
Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (b. 1875) |
1968 |
Clarke Morgan, Episode #1.131 |
1969 |
Henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), dies at 78 |
1970 |
L Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65 |
1971 |
Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83 |
1976 |
Freddie King, rocker, dies at 42 |
1976 |
Katharine Byron, American politician (b. 1903) |
1977 |
Clay Lambert, The Out of Towners |
1978 |
Harry Winston, US jeweler for the "rich & famous", dies at 82 |
1978 |
John Rathmell, Undersea Kingdom |
1978 |
Wladyslaw Nehrebecki, Bolek i Lolek |
1978 |
Gustav Zelibor, Die verhängnisvolle Faschingsnacht |
1979 |
Yuri Tolubeyev, Hamlet |
1980 |
Amir Elahi, cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die |
1980 |
Jersey calf, lived 222 days with an artificial heart |
1980 |
Sam Levene, ..And Justice for All |
1980 |
Charles Tannen, The Grapes of Wrath |
1981 |
Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885) |
1981 |
Castro Carazo, Brother Can You Spare a Dime |
1981 |
Mollie King, The Mystery of the Double Cross |
1981 |
Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima |
1982 |
Frederick Douglass Hall, composer, dies at 84 |
1982 |
Louise Stanley, The Oregon Trail |
1982 |
Chester Pate, The Ten Commandments |
1982 |
Shin Kishida, Shogun Assassin |
1983 |
Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39 |
1983 |
William Demarest, actor (My 3 Sons), dies in Palm Springs at 91 |
1983 |
Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (b. 1910) |
1983 |
William Demarest, Sullivan's Travels |
1983 |
Jimmy Demaret, Golfing with Demaret |
1983 |
Everett D. Klaumann, Around the World in Eighty Days |
1983 |
Mikhail Bolduman, Serebristaya pyl |
1984 |
Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59 |
1984 |
Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch |
1984 |
Konstantin Ershov, Viy |
1984 |
William Alley, The Westerner |
1985 |
Maudlee McDougall, Kiss Me, Stupid |
1985 |
Renato Castellani, Two Cents Worth of Hope |
1986 |
Andrei Tarkovsky, dies |
1986 |
Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 77 |
1986 |
Takamaru Sasaki, Throne of Blood |
1986 |
Cecil Beard, The New 3 Stooges |
1986 |
John D. MacDonald, Cape Fear |
1986 |
Anatoli Chemodurov, Dream of a Cossack |
1986 |
Hans Baumgartner, Wir sterben vor |
1987 |
Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81 |
1987 |
Harry Buckwitz, Die Irre von Chaillot |
1987 |
Chester Bayhi, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
1987 |
Yannick Andréi, La dame de Monsoreau |
1987 |
Patrick Bissell, American Ballet Theatre at the Met |
1988 |
Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director, dies of cancer at 59 |
1988 |
István Szatmári, A közlekedésröl |
1988 |
Juha Nevalainen, The Unknown Soldier |
1988 |
Björn Kurtén, Maailma muuttuu |
1988 |
Charles Mercer, The Sins of Rachel Cade |
1988 |
Xenia Lundstedt, Den store Gevinst |
1989 |
Robert Wickler, dies |
1989 |
Hermann Oberth, German physicist (b. 1894) |
1989 |
Sándor Csutoros, American Torso |
1989 |
Rolandas Butkyavichus, Tadas Blinda |
1989 |
José Moratalla, David the Gnome |
1989 |
Brian Coburn, Fiddler on the Roof |
1989 |
Robert Winkler, Sullivan's Travels |
1989 |
Ricardo López Méndez, Elegy |
1990 |
Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Sweet Life), dies at 65 |
1990 |
Kiel Martin, actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at 46 |
1990 |
Lucas Polhaupessy, Moluccan leader, dies |
1990 |
Gaia Romanini, Girl with a Suitcase |
1990 |
Kiel Martin, The Panic in Needle Park |
1990 |
Seiji Hisamatsu, House of Many Pleasures |
1990 |
Homero Dornellas, Brazil Symphony |
1990 |
Ron Beck, The Lion Was the First to Know |
1990 |
Ed Van Der Elsken, Bye |
1990 |
Warren Skaaren, Batman |
1991 |
Cassandra Harris, actress (For Your Eyes Only), dies of cancer at 39 |
1991 |
Jacques Aubuchon, actor (Hoax, Thunder Road), dies of heart failure |
1991 |
Jacques Aubuchon, Thunder Road |
1991 |
Cassandra Harris, For Your Eyes Only |
1991 |
Enrique Herrera, Every Madman to His Specialty |
1992 |
Mort Greene, US songwriter (My Grandfather's Clock), dies at 80 |
1992 |
Sal Maglie, Episode dated 5 September 1954 |
1992 |
J. Noé de la Peña, Carmen (la de Triana) |
1992 |
Helene LeBerthon, Religious Racketeers |
1992 |
Elfie Mayerhofer, Wiener Melodien |
1992 |
Daniela Perez, Episode #1.1 |
1992 |
Eugen Jegorov, Larks on a String |
1992 |
Cliff Ralke, Magnum Force |
1992 |
Leo Maguire, Back to Shaws |
1992 |
Mort Greene, Take My Granddaughter Please |
1992 |
Otto Lara Rezende, Garota de Ipanema |
1993 |
Howard Caine, dies |
1993 |
Joop Vervoort, Dutch soccer referee, dies at 61 |
1993 |
William L Shirer, writer (Rise & Fall of 3rd Reich), dies at 89 |
1993 |
William Austin, The Bat |
1993 |
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
1993 |
Ludwik Perski, Oczekiwanie |
1993 |
Hans Hansson, Bluff Stop |
1993 |
Raisa Pirozhenko, Song of the Forest |
1993 |
Howard Caine, Judgment at Nuremberg |
1993 |
Alfonso Balcázar, Colegialas lesbianas y el placer de pervertir |
1994 |
Julian Belfrage, theatre agent, dies at 60 |
1994 |
Ermengeld Konovalov, Dymka |
1994 |
Joseph Holland, Seeing-Eye Surgeon |
1994 |
Julius Adler, Tevya |
1994 |
Julian Belfrage, A Man of No Importance |
1994 |
Peter Refn, Violer er blå |
1994 |
Mariano Medina, Episode dated 18 September 1980 |
1994 |
Milton Rosen, Terror by Night |
1995 |
Harold Francis Collison, trade unionist, dies at 84 |
1995 |
Tibor Gerbár, Legato |
1995 |
Dick Pickens, The Gong Show |
1995 |
Michel Michelet, Impact |
1996 |
Edward C. Carfagno, Ben-Hur |
1996 |
Zlatko Lavanic, When Father Was Away on Business |
1996 |
Don Nagel, Bride of the Monster |
1996 |
Milos Zavrel, Osení |
1997 |
George Fleming, cyclist, dies at 80 |
1997 |
James Lees-Milne, architecural historian, dies at 89 |
1997 |
Ronald Clive Williams, actor/comedian, dies at 68 |
1997 |
Ronnie Williams, Twin Town |
1997 |
Erik Nielsen, Wally's Girl Trouble |
1997 |
Diana Rayworth, You Can't Live on Cake |
1997 |
Iris Marga, Miss Mary |
1997 |
Bill Anderson, Old Yeller |
1998 |
Bjørn Watt-Boolsen, Den kære familie |
1998 |
Edgar Oganesyan, Huso astgh |
1998 |
Art Riley, Mary Poppins |
1998 |
William Frankfather, Death Becomes Her |
1998 |
April Kent, The Incredible Shrinking Man |
1998 |
Werner Müller, The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse |
1999 |
Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914) |
1999 |
Franco Castellano, Il soldato di ventura |
1999 |
Lee R. Bobker, Isaac Stern: A Life - A Biography in Music |
1999 |
Harry Monty, The Lord of the Rings |
1999 |
Clayton Moore, The Lone Ranger |
1999 |
Vladimír Dvorák, Cosy Dens |
1999 |
Louis Féraud, Love Is My Profession |
1999 |
Leon Beck, MacArthur |
1999 |
Kitty de Hoyos, Adventure at the Center of the Earth |
1999 |
Chung Ping Geung, Mi yue jing hun |
2000 |
Teréz Bod, Angi Vera |
2000 |
William Jenner, |
2000 |
Danniebelle Hall, Family Reunion: A Gospel Music Celebration |
2001 |
Samuel A. Goldblith, American food scientist (b. 1919) |
2001 |
William X. Kienzle, American novelist (b. 1928) |
2001 |
Max Gulak, Your Turn, Darling |
2001 |
Djordje Milojevic, Vojvoda Zivojin Misic |
2001 |
Hovie Lister, Warren Roberts Presents |
2001 |
Frankie Gaye, Penitentiary |
2001 |
William X. Kienzle, The Rosary Murders |
2001 |
Bryan Drake, The Yeomen of the Guard |
2001 |
Jack Grossberg, Back to the Future |
2002 |
Koreyoshi Kurahara, Antarctica |
2002 |
Richard Horner, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure |
2002 |
José Cibrián, Jesus of Nazareth |
2002 |
Åke Lindström, The Last Adventure |
2002 |
Conny Anebrant, Mannequin in Red |
2002 |
Hollis Irving, The Facts of Life |
2003 |
Benjamin Hacker, American admiral (b. 1935) |
2003 |
Frantisek Miroslav Doubrava, The Girl on the Broomstick |
2003 |
Lynn F. Reynolds, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World |
2003 |
Aleksei Nikolayev, Akcionery |
2003 |
Manny Dworman, Comedian |
2003 |
Harold Gast, A Woman Called Golda |
2003 |
Helen Kleeb, Seven Days in May |
2004 |
Jerry Orbach, American actor (b. 1935) |
2004 |
Susan Sontag, American writer, dies from Myelodysplastic syndrome at 71 |
2004 |
Michael Ahnemann, A Wing and a Prayer |
2004 |
Johnny Downes, Boom Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show |
2004 |
Walter Ng, Chinese Legacy |
2004 |
Jerry Orbach, Beauty and the Beast |
2004 |
Susan Sontag, Duet for Cannibals |
2004 |
Lisl Valetti, Around the World in Eighty Days |
2004 |
Giulio Marini, Captain America |
2004 |
Günter Marczinkowsky, Jacob the Liar |
2004 |
Agathe Vannier, Le rouge de Chine |
2004 |
Gloria Gottschalk, The Odd Couple |
2005 |
Patrick Cranshaw, Best in Show |
2005 |
Candy Toxton, Knock on Any Door |
2005 |
Stevo Zigon, Rondo |
2005 |
Bruce Carver, Mean Streets |
2005 |
Audrey Harman, Assembly Ball |
2006 |
Jamal Karimi-Rad, Iranian Minister of Justice (b. 1956) |
2006 |
Aroldo Tieri, The Man Who Wagged His Tail |
2006 |
Ramón Reparaz, The Priest |
2006 |
Virgilio Scapin, The Birds, the Bees and the Italians |
2006 |
Jared Nathan, Zoom |
2006 |
Gracie Cole, Pantomania |
2006 |
Dean Turner, Girl from Tobacco Row |
2006 |
Komei Abe, Lawrence Jones and the King Salomon's Table |
2007 |
Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iran national basketball team player (b. 1982) |
2007 |
Hanne Passer, Cirkusrevyen 67 |
2007 |
Anna Bánd, Tapsikáné fülönfüggöje |
2007 |
Daolin Sun, Threshold of Spring |
2007 |
Patricia DeCou, The Blair Witch Project |
2007 |
Tab Thacker, Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach |
2007 |
Ilona Borska, Jak se zbavit Helenky |
2008 |
Quentin Aanenson, A Fighter Pilot's Story |
2008 |
Oliver Lundquist, War Department Report |
2008 |
Ruth Clokey, To the Rescue |
2008 |
Haide Göransson, Regementets ros |
2009 |
James Owen Sullivan, American drummer and songwriter (Avenged Sevenfold) dies aged 28 |
2009 |
Abraham Rogatnick, Citizen Sam |
2009 |
James Steward, Mr. Horn |
2009 |
Mark Purvis, Good Morning Tomorrow |
2009 |
Jason Fleiss, Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam |
2009 |
Stanley Parlan, Ten Gentlemen from West Point |
2009 |
Shirley Rich, Kramer vs. Kramer |
2009 |
The Rev, Avenged Sevenfold: All Excess |
2009 |
Aleksandr Starikov, The Sovereign's Servant |
2009 |
Vani Trako, Tana |
2010 |
Billy Taylor, American musician (b. 1921) |
2010 |
Hideko Takamine, Floating Clouds |
2010 |
Bill Lajoie, Mark Fidrych |
2010 |
Vladimir Vardunas, Window to Paris |
2010 |
Jean Wilkinson, Frank, Jeffry, Benji and Me |
2010 |
Billy Taylor, History of Jazz: Oxygen for the Ears |
2010 |
Billy Taylor, Ghosts of Mississippi |
2010 |
Sead Fetahagic, Devetnaest djevojaka i jedan mornar |
2010 |
Frederick Briskin, Heart of Gold |
2010 |
Win Opie, The Cliffwood Avenue Kids |
2010 |
Alta Corbin, Sock, the Businessman |
2010 |
Mean Gene Kelton, The Passage |
2010 |
Heidi Helmer, What Women Want |
2010 |
Jerzy Bielecki, Sól ziemi czarnej |
2010 |
Frank Bonilla, Mega Especiales: Celia Cruz |
2010 |
Vili Kavaldzhiev, Indianski igri |
2010 |
Jack Beaulieu, Laserblast |
2011 |
Charlotte Kerr, Mit siebzig hat man noch Träume |
2011 |
Margot Louro, O Cupim |
2011 |
Kaye Stevens, Episode #1.57 |
2011 |
Myron Roderick, Dan Gable |
2011 |
Don Mueller, 1955 MLB All-Star Game |
2011 |
Annapurna Akkineni, Kalyani |
2011 |
Loukia Rikaki, Dancing Soul |
2011 |
Vyacheslav Titov, Ironiya sudby. Prodolzhenie |
2011 |
Hasan Mutlucan, Namusum için |
2012 |
Jayne Cortez, African-American poet, dies at 76 |
2012 |
Tadeusz Paradowicz, Powrót wabiszczura |
2012 |
Barrie Edgar, Warwick |
2012 |
Atsuo Okamoto, Zoku ueru tamashii |
2012 |
Simon Lane, Qui va Pino va sano |
2012 |
Claude-Anne Lopez, Benjamin Franklin |
2012 |
Leif Krantz, Pojken med guldbyxorna |
2012 |
Jayne Cortez, Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future |
2012 |
Elin Bing, 2. stranddag |
2012 |
Christian Sarvig, Med kærlig hilsen |
2012 |
Jon Finch, Frenzy |
2013 |
George Jacobs, Like Father, Like Son |
2013 |
Halton C. Arp, The Universe: Cosmology Quest |
2013 |
Joseph Ruskin, Smokin' Aces |
2013 |
Sheila Guyse, Sepia Cinderella |
2013 |
Dwayne Burno, Ed's Next Move |
2013 |
Esther Borja, Adiós Buenos Aires |
2014 |
Leelah Alcorn, Episode dated 31 December 2014 |
2014 |
Leopoldo Federico, Café de los maestros |
2014 |
Frankie Randall, Episode #1.4 |
2014 |
Merrill Womach, He Restoreth My Soul |
2014 |
Earl Clark, Fire on the Mountain |
2015 |
Lemmy Kilmister, singer of Motorhead, dies at 70 |
2015 |
Artist Ellsworth Kelly Dies at 92 |
2015 |
Meadowlark Lemon, legendary Harlem Globetrotter, dead at 83 |
2016 |
Carrie Fisher, Star Wars' iconic Princess Leia, dies aged 60 |
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