November 28 - Deaths

Deaths

• 741 – St. Gregory III
• 1170 – Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd (b. c. 1100)
• 1262 – Shinran, Japanese religious leader (b. 1173)
• 1290 – Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I of England (b. 1241)
• 1574 – Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (b. 1502)
• 1585 – Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)
• 1667 – Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and scientist (b. 1633)
• 1675 – Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (b. c. 1608)
• 1675 – Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
• 1680 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian baroque sculptor (b. 1598)
• 1680 – Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606)
• 1694 – Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet (b. 1644)
• 1695 – Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Italian composer (b. c. 1637)
• 1695 – Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)
• 1698 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)
• 1763 – Naungdawgyi, King of Burma (b. 1734)
• 1785 – William Whipple, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1730)
• 1794 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (b. 1730)
• 1801 – Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist (b. 1750)
• 1815 – Johann Peter Salomon, German violinist, impresario, and composer (b. 1745)
• 1843 – József Ficzkó, Burgenland Croatian writer (b. 1772)
• 1852 – Ludger Duvernay, French printer and newspaper publisher (b. 1799)
• 1852 – Emmanuil Xanthos, figure of the Greek War of Independence, co-founder of Filiki Eteria (b. 1772)
• 1859 – Washington Irving, American writer (b. 1783)
• 1870 – Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)
• 1872 – Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
• 1878 – Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)
• 1880 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (b. 1837)
• 1890 – Jyotirao Phule, Indian social reformer
• 1904 – Hermann de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1847)
• 1907 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869)
• 1912 – Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon (b. 1870)
• 1915 – Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
• 1917 – Mikelis Avlichos, Greek poet (b. 1844)
• 1921 – `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844)
• 1930 – Greek Orthodox Patriarch Constantine VI of Constantinople (b. 1859)
• 1935 – Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)
• 1939 – James Naismith, Canadian creator of basketball (b. 1861)
• 1945 – Dwight F. Davis, U.S. Secretary of War and donor of the Davis cup (b. 1879)
• 1947 – Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (b. 1902)
• 1953 – Frank Olson, American biologist (b. 1910)
• 1954 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
• 1960 – Max Pruss, Prussian commander of the Hindenburg (b. 1891)
• 1960 – Richard Wright, American author (b. 1908)
• 1960 – Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 31st Yokozuna (b. 1896)
• 1962 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (b. 1880)
• 1963 – Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (b. 1941)
• 1967 – Leon M'ba, Gabonese politician (b. 1902)
• 1968 – Enid Blyton, British children's author (b. 1897)
• 1971 – Wasfi Tel, Jordanian Prime Minister (b. 1920)
• 1972 – Havergal Brian, British composer (b. 1875)
• 1973 – Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (b. 1886)
• 1976 – Rosalind Russell, American actress (b. 1907)
• 1977 – Trevor Bardette, American actor (b. 1902)
• 1977 – Bob Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1896)
• 1978 – Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Argentine football executive (b. 1902)
• 1983 – Christopher George, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1986 – Herb Vigran, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1987 – Choh Hao Li, Chinese biochemist (b. 1913)
• 1992 – Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (b. 1917)
• 1993 – Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf) (b. 1946)
• 1993 – Garry Moore, American entertainer (b. 1915)
• 1994 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)
• 1994 – Buster Edwards, English train robber (b. 1932)
• 1994 – Jerry Rubin, American activist (b. 1938)
• 1997 – Georges Marchal, French actor (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Kerry Wendell Thornley, co-founder of Discordianism (b. 1938)
• 2000 – Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)
• 2001 – Kal Mann, American lyricist (b. 1917)
• 2001 – William Reid, British aviator awarded the Victoria Cross (b. 1921)
• 2002 – Dave "Snaker" Ray, American blues musician (b. 1943)
• 2003 – Ted Bates, English footballer (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Antonia Forest, British children's author (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Marc Lawrence, American actor (b. 1910)
• 2006 – Lyubov Polishchuk, Russian actress (b. 1949)
• 2006 – Robert Volpe, Artist,Art Theft Detective (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Gudrun Wagner, co-director of the Bayreuth Festival (b. 1944)
• 2008 – Victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks:
  • Havaldar Gajender Singh, Indian NSG commando (birth date unknown)
  • Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Indian army Major (b. 1977)
• 2009 – Gilles Carle, Canadian screenwriter and film director (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Takeo Kajiwara, Japanese Go player (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Giorgos Fountas, Greek actor (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1926)