Historical Deaths

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - April 28, 2024

1977 Ricardo Cortez, actor/director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87

1896 Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian, dies

1989 Olaff J de Landell [JB van Sparwoude], Dutch writer, dies at 77

1974 Paul Page, actor (Girl from Havanna, Moth), dies at 70

1983 Ron James, cricketer (NSW's Sheffield Shield capt 1949-50), dies

1804 Hans Gram, composer, dies at 49

1966 Ralph Bunker, actor (Ghost Goes West), dies of a stroke at 77

1887 Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer, dies at 67

1925 Louis F J Bouwmeester, actor (Shakespeare), dies

1860 Isaac da Costa, poet/writer (R‚veil, Wachter!), dies at 62

1996 Giles Grangier, film director, dies at 84

1936 Foead I, king of Egypt (1922-36), dies

1995 Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster, dies at 67

1881 Robert W Ollinger, US warden/last victim of Billy the Kid, dies

1991 Floyd B McKissick, US founder (CORE), dies

1991 Ken Curtis, actor (Festus-Gunsmoke), dies at 74

1843 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies

1799 Fran‡ois Giroust, composer, dies at 62

1933 Robin Irvine, actor (Easy Virtue), dies at 31

1996 Henry Clarke, fashion photographer, dies at 75

1980 Dee Carroll, [Betty Jean Marsh], actress (Mad Bomber, Split), dies

1970 Ed Begley, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69

1945 Bernito Mussolini, Fascist leader (Italy), tried & shot

1955 Lode Cantens, Flemish playwrite (Gnomes of the City), dies at 43

1990 Jean Blazer Baney, entertainer, dies

1873 A Manzoni, writer, dies at 88

1992 Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82

1982 Bert van Dongen, [Abraham J Cohen], Dutch singer/actor, dies at 66

1965 Ferdinand Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer/writer (Character), dies at 80

1960 Anton Pancake, astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 87

1995 Henry C Rogers, press Agent, dies at 81

1979 Feliks Roderyk Labunski, composer, dies at 86

1995 Peaches Roy Davis, baseball pitcher, dies at 89

1109 Hugo van Cluny, 6th abbott of Cluny/saint, dies

1996 Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, politician, dies at 80

1973 Pat Henning, actor (Goodyear TV Playhouse), dies at 62

1976 Eugen Roth, writer, dies at 81

1853 Ludwig Tieck, writer, dies at 79

1987 Ben Linder, development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua

1935 Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Scotish composer, dies at 87

1996 William E Colby, director of CIA (1973-76), dies

1089 Dirk de Grote, bishop of Verdun/Basel/archbishop of Trier, dies

1945 Claretta Petacci, mistress of Mussolini, executed

1992 Olivier Messiaen, French composer (St Fran‡ois d'Assise), dies at 83

1980 Tommy Caldwell, rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies

1997 Susan Seddon Boulet, artist, dies of cancer at 45

1969 Johannes Rontgen, composer, dies at 70

1981 Mickey "Toy Bulldog" Walker, welterweight champ (1922-26) dies at 79

1984 Silvia A Warner, writer, dies

1770 Marie AC de Camargo, Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer, dies at 60

1993 Jim Valvano, basketball coach (NC State), dies of cancer at 47

1984 Glen H Taylor, US senator/VP candidate (1948), dies at 80

1982 EW "Nobby" Clark, Engl cricketer (32 wickets in 8 Tests 1929-34), dies

1945 Hans Bloesch, writer, dies

1975 Jan A de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 48

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