December 28 - Deaths

Deaths

• 300 – Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria
• 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 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)
• 1897 – Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (b. 1833)
• 1900 – Alexandre 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, Canadian actress (b. 1886)
• 1941 – Hermann Wilker, German rower (b. 1874)
• 1942 – Alfred Flatow, German gymnast and Holocaust victim (b. 1869)
• 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)
• 1956 – Louis Handley, Italian-born American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1874)
• 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 – 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 – William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)
• 1983 – Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (b. 1910)
• 1983 – Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1944)
• 1984 – Sam Peckinpah, American film director (b. 1925)
• 1986 – Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1922)
• 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)
• 1993 – Howard Caine, American film and television actor (b. 1926)
• 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 – Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iran national basketball team player (b. 1982)
• 2008 – Irene Lieblich, Polish-born painter (b. 1923)
• 2009 – James Owen "The Rev" Sullivan, American musician drummer and back-up vocalist of Avenged Sevenfold (b. 1981)
• 2010 – Billy Taylor, American musician (b. 1921)