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Deaths on December 28

1446 : Clemens VIII, [Aegyd Mu¤oz], Spanish anti-pope (1423-29), dies
1542 : Albert Pigge, [Pighius], Dutch theologist/astronomer, dies at about 52
1622 : Fran‡ois de Sales, French bishop of GenŠva/writer/saint, dies at 55
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]
1706 : Pierre Bayle, French theologist (History of Criticism), dies at 59
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
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
1876 : Frederik Paludan-Mller, Danish poet (Abels díd), dies at 67
1878 : Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer, dies at 90
1884 : Gerben Colmjon, Frisian linguist/publisher, dies at 56
1891 : Alfred Cellier, composer, dies at 47
1903 : George [Robert] Gissing, English novelist, dies at 46
1915 : Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer/politician, dies at 78
1916 : Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at 81
1918 : George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies
1923 : Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91
1932 : John Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies
1935 : Clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies
1937 : Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62
1938 : Florence Lawrence, silent screen actress (Confidence), dies at 48
1945 : Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74
1946 : Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (I Love You Truly), dies at 85
1947 : Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78
1948 : Mahmud Nokrashy Pasha, PM of Egypt (19..-48), assassinated
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
1956 : Roelof Kranenburg, Dutch social democratic party-chairman, dies at 76
1961 : Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89
1963 : Abbott Joseph Liebling, American journalist/writer, dies
1963 : Paul Hindemith, German composer (Composer's World), dies at 68
1967 : B‚la Schick, Hung/US children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90
1969 : Henry Oscar, actor (Saint in London), dies at 78
1970 : Charles "Sonny" Liston, heavyweight boxer champ (1962-64), dies
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
1978 : Harry Winston, US jeweler for the "rich & famous", dies at 82
1980 : Amir Elahi, cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die
1980 : Jersey calf, lived 222 days with an artificial heart
1982 : Frederick Douglass Hall, composer, dies at 84
1983 : Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39
1983 : William Demarest, actor (My 3 Sons), dies in Palm Springs at 91
1984 : Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59
1986 : Andrei Tarkovsky, dies
1986 : Louis van Lint, Belgian painter, dies at 77
1987 : Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81
1988 : Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director, dies of cancer at 59
1989 : Robert Wickler, dies
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
1991 : Cassandra Harris, actress (For Your Eyes Only), dies of cancer at 39
1991 : Jacques Aubuchon, actor (Hoax, Thunder Road), dies of heart failure
1992 : Mort Greene, US songwriter (My Grandfather's Clock), dies at 80
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
1994 : Julian Belfrage, theatre agent, dies at 60
1995 : Harold Francis Collison, trade unionist, dies at 84
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

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