Historical Deaths for Yesterday

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - Jul 28

0450 Theodosius II de Jongere, emperor Austrian Empire, dies

1057 Victor II, [Gebhard], Pope (1055-57), dies

1101 Su Tung-p'o, Chinese poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher, dies at 64

1330 Michael III, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies in battle

1540 Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed

1641 John Amner, composer, dies at 61

1655 Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris

1655 Savinien Cyrano seigneur de Bergerac, French author, dies at 36

1655 Suzuki Shosan, Samurai/monk/propagator of Zen Buddhism, dies at 76

1667 Abraham Cowley, English poet (Mistress/Sex libri plantarum), dies

1711 Gerard Lairesse, painter, buried

1723 Mariana Alcoforado, nun (schreef no Lettres Portuguese), dies at 63

1741 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian composer, dies at 63

1746 John Peter Zenger, journalist, involved in 1st amendment fight, dies

1750 Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue), dies at 65

1778 Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer, dies at 68

1794 Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39

1794 Maximilien Robespierre, Fr revolutionary/avocat (1781), guillotined

1794 Robespierre, & 22 other terrorists executed to thunderous cheers

1802 Giuseppe Sarti, Italian composer (Il er pastore, Ifigenia), dies at 72

1811 Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Coriolan), dies

1837 John Ross, composer, dies at 73

1838 Bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer, dies at 62

1842 C Brentano, writer, dies at 63

1849 Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49), dies

1850 Stefano Pavesi, composer, dies at 71

1863 James Deshler, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 30

1864 Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer, dies at 67

1864 Samuel Benton, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at about 44

1869 Carl G Carus, German arts/psychologist/philosopher, dies

1872 Friedrich Kaiser, astronomer (Kaiser-Compass), dies

1895 Joannes Kappeyne van Coppello, Internal minister (1877-89), dies at 72

1904 Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage), dies

1915 Vilbrun G Sam, rebellion leader/president of Haiti, lynched

1934 Louis Tancred, cricketer (fourteen Tests batting for S Africa 1905-14), dies

1934 Marie Dressler, actress (Dinner at 8, Anna Christie), dies at 64

1937 Abdul Muslim Mahomayev, composer, dies at 51

1937 Joseph Lee, father of Playgrounds movement, dies

1939 William J Mayo, US surgeon/co-founder Mayo Clinic, dies at 78

1940 Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer, dies at 66

1956 Ludwig Klages, German philosopher/graphologist, dies at 83

1965 Maurice Yvain, composer, dies at 74

1965 Minor Watson, actor (Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid), dies at 75

1968 Charles W Mayo, US surgeon, dies at 70

1968 Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89

1969 Ernst Tittel, composer, dies at 59

1969 Frank H Loesser, US songwriter/composer (Guys & Dolls), dies at 59

1969 Gabriel von Wayditch, composer, dies at 80

1970 John Barbirolli, English conductor (NY Philharmonic Orch), dies at 70

1971 Diane Arbus, [Nemerov], photographer (Vogue), commits suicide at 48

1972 Heal Traubel, US singer (Sieglinde in WalkЃre, Nightclubs), dies

1973 Royal Butler, actor, dies at 80

1974 Jack Ellis, cricketer (Victorian WK, Ashes tourist 1926), dies

1974 Truman Bradley, TV host (Science Fiction Theater), dies at 69

1976 Jacob Soetendorp, rabbi, dies at 62

1976 Lucie Mannheim, actress (39 Steps), dies at 77

1978 Jan Willem van Otterloo, composer, dies at 70

1980 Cecil Burleigh, composer, dies at 95

1982 George Kleinsinger, US composer (Tubby the Tuba), dies at 68

1983 Alec Marks, cricketer (good NSW batsman 1928-37), dies

1984 Bess Flowers, actress (View from Pompey's Head), dies at 85

1985 Grant Williams, actor (Shrinking Man), dies of toxic poisoning at 54

1986 Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter/sculptor (Iron Tower), dies at 91

1986 Syd Curnow, S African cricketer (168 runs in 7 Tests), dies

1987 James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism), dies at 81

1989 Jeff Richards, actor (Don't Go Near the Water), dies at 66

1990 Armando Frid, of Argentina (Born May 24, 1866 Guin rec), dies at 124

1990 Jill Esmond, actress (13 Women, My Pal Wolfe, FP 1), dies at 82

1990 Maurice Braddell, actor (Things to Come), dies

1991 Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer/exiled to Netherlands, dies at 45

1993 Herbert Joeks, [van Hugten], Dutch actor (Pipo the Clown), dies at 77

1994 Bernard Delfont, Rus/Brit impresario (Thorn EMI), dies at 84

1994 Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, dies at 69

1994 Conrad W M”nnich, theologist (The Away), dies at 79

1994 Selwyn Powell, art Editor, dies at 82

1996 Harold C Fox, Fashion designer/musician, dies at 86

1996 Mickey Fenn, docker/socialist, dies at 58

1996 Roger Tory Peterson, ornithologist/artist, dies at 87

1997 Louis Cohen, physicist, dies at 71

1997 Seni Pramoj, PM of Thailand (1945-46, 75, 76), dies

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