History Deaths on December 28

Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)

#Francesco_Maria_Grimaldi

Amos Oz, Israeli author and journalist (b. 1939)

#Amos_Oz

James Van Ness, American lawyer and politician, 7th Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1808)

#James_Van_Ness

Joseph Ruskin, American actor and producer (b. 1924)

#Joseph_Ruskin

Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)

#Jack_Blackham

Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist (b. 1871)

#Theodore_Dreiser

Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian captain and pilot (b. 1892)

#Alfred_Edwin_McKay

William Carstares, Scottish minister and academic (b. 1649)

#William_Carstares

Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (b. 1886)

#Florence_Lawrence

Halton Arp, American-German astronomer and critic (b. 1927)

#Halton_Arp

Katharine Byron, American politician (b. 1903)

#Katharine_Byron

Esther Borja, Cuban soprano and actress (b. 1913)

#Esther_Borja

Mary II of England (b. 1662)

#Mary_II_of_England

Antonio Caldara, Italian composer (b. 1670)

#Antonio_Caldara

Jack Lovelock, New Zealand runner and soldier (b. 1910)

#Jack_Lovelock

Sam Peckinpah, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)

#Sam_Peckinpah

Debbie Reynolds, American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1932)

#Debbie_Reynolds

Léon Bakst, Russian painter and costume designer (b. 1866)

#Léon_Bakst

Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina, queen of Epirus (b. 1350)

#Maria_Angelina_Doukaina_Palaiologina

Robert II, Count of Dreux (b. 1154)

#Robert_II,_Count_of_Dreux

Alfred Flatow, German gymnast (b. 1869)

#Alfred_Flatow

Allan Dwan, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1885)

#Allan_Dwan

Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German scholar and critic (b. 1611)

#Johann_Friedrich_Gronovius

Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (b. 1465)

#Konrad_Peutinger

John Bradbury, English drummer and songwriter (b. 1953)

#John_Bradbury_(drummer)

Lemmy, English musician, singer, and songwriter (b. 1945)

#Lemmy

Jean-Christophe Victor, French political scientist (b. 1947)

#Jean-Christophe_Victor

Harry C. Goode Jr., American soldier and politician, 51st Mayor of Melbourne, Florida (b. 1938)

#Harry_C._Goode_Jr.

Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (b. 1647)

#Pierre_Bayle

Elie Nadelman, Polish-American sculptor (b. 1882)

#Elie_Nadelman

Steve Evans, American baseball player (b. 1885)

#Steve_Evans_(baseball)

Antipope Clement VIII (b. 1369)

#Antipope_Clement_VIII

Benjamin Thurman Hacker, American admiral (b. 1935)

#Benjamin_Thurman_Hacker

Frankie Randall, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)

#Frankie_Randall_(singer)

Katharine McCormick, American biologist and philanthropist (b. 1875)

#Katharine_McCormick

Irene Lieblich, Polish-American painter and illustrator (b. 1923)

#Irene_Lieblich

Jerry Orbach, American actor and singer (b. 1935)

#Jerry_Orbach

Vahan Hovhannisyan, Armenian politician (b. 1956)

#Vahan_Hovhannisyan

Piero the Unfortunate, Italian ruler (b. 1471)

#Piero_the_Unfortunate

Eloy Inos, Mariana Islander businessman and politician, 8th Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands (b. 1949)

#Eloy_Inos

Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw (b. 1671)

#Rob_Roy_MacGregor

Francis de Sales, French bishop and saint (b. 1567)

#Francis_de_Sales

Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869)

#Victor_Emmanuel_III_of_Italy

Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet and journalist (b. 1865)

#Olavo_Bilac

Jimmy Sullivan, American musician, composer and songwriter. Known by his stage name The Rev (b. 1981)

#The_Rev

Paul Hindemith, German violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1895)

#Paul_Hindemith

Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1854)

#Johannes_Rydberg

Dennis Miller Bunker, American painter (b. 1861)

#Dennis_Miller_Bunker

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist and mycologist (b. 1656)

#Joseph_Pitton_de_Tournefort

Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach (b. 1917)

#Sal_Maglie

Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)

#Clayton_Moore

Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664)

#Mustafa_II

William Corby, American priest and academic (b. 1833)

#William_Corby

Eduard Strauss, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1835)

#Eduard_Strauss

William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)

#William_Demarest

Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer (b. 1894)

#Hermann_Oberth

William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (b. 1904)

#William_L._Shirer

Andrea Gritti, Doge of Venice (b. 1455)

#Andrea_Gritti

Bertoldo di Giovanni, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1435)

#Bertoldo_di_Giovanni

Susan Sontag, American novelist, essayist, critic, and playwright (b. 1933)

#Susan_Sontag

Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese sh?gun (b. 1330)

#Ashikaga_Yoshiakira

Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. 1846)

#Alexandre_de_Serpa_Pinto

Billy Taylor, American pianist and composer (b. 1921)

#Billy_Taylor

Ante Paveli?, Croatian war criminal, Holocaust/Porajmos perpetrator; Prime Minister of the Independent State of Croatia (b. 1889)

#Ante_Paveli?

Maurice Ravel, French pianist and composer (b. 1875)

#Maurice_Ravel

Shehu Shagari, 6th President of Nigeria (b. 1925)

#Shehu_Shagari

Dennis Wilson, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1944)

#Dennis_Wilson

Rose Marie, American actress and comedienne (b. 1923)

#Rose_Marie

Toshiko Fujita, Japanese actress, singer and narrator (b. 1950)

Leelah Alcorn, American transgender teenager (b. 1997)

Ilya Tsymbalar, Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager (b. 1969)

Alfred Marshall, American businessman, founded Marshalls (b. 1919)

Andrew Jacobs, Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1932)

Frankie Walsh, Irish hurler and manager (b. 1936)

Václav Drobný, Czech footballer (b. 1980)

Mark Crispin, American computer scientist and academic, designed the IMAP (b. 1956)

Nicholas Ambraseys, Greek-English seismologist and engineer (b. 1929)

Jamal Karimi-Rad, Iranian politician, Iranian Minister of Justice (b. 1956)

William X. Kienzle, American priest and author (b. 1928)

Samuel Abraham Goldblith, American lieutenant, biologist, and engineer (b. 1919)

Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1911)

Warren Skaaren, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1946)

Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1922)

John D. MacDonald, American colonel and author (b. 1916)

Mary Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch, British politician and educator (b. 1903)

Max Steiner, Austrian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1888)

David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier (b. 1893)

Philippe Panneton, Canadian physician, academic, and diplomat (b. 1895)

Clarence Day, American author and illustrator (b. 1874)

Ahmet Mithat Efendi, Turkish journalist and translator (b. 1844)

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, English historian and politician, Secretary at War (b. 1800)

Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian physician and lawyer (b. 1747)

Peter Ernst Wilde, Polish-Estonian physician and journalist (b. 1732)

Hermann Finck, German organist and composer (b. 1527)

Sir David II Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl, Constable of Scotland, and Chief Warden of Northumberland

Hugh Aycelin, French cardinal (b. 1230)

Wang Zongbi, general of the Chinese state of Former Shu