Notable Deaths on August 28th
August 28th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
388 |
Magnus Maximus, Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), executed |
430 |
Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (Belijdenissen), dies at 75 |
876 |
Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76), dies |
1065 |
Frederik van Luxembourg, duke of Neth-Lutherans (1046-65) |
1341 |
King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309) |
1481 |
Afonso V, King of Portugal, dies |
1484 |
Diogo, duke of Viseu, murdered |
1539 |
Lieven Pain, Flemish, beheaded at about 75 |
1544 |
Alardus Aemstelredamus, priest/humanist, dies at about 53 |
1550 |
Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle, Charles V's asst sec of state, dies |
1645 |
Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583) |
1646 |
Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53 |
1647 |
Johann Dilliger, composer, dies at 53 |
1654 |
Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent, dies at 71 |
1676 |
Joan Cererols, composer, dies at 57 |
1677 |
Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver/etcher/cartoonist, dies at 54 |
1678 |
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602) |
1757 |
David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705) |
1767 |
Johann Schobert, composer, dies |
1778 |
Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/shipminister, dies |
1784 |
Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713) |
1793 |
Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/parliament member, dies |
1798 |
James Wilson, Scot/US judge/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 55 |
1803 |
Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter, dies |
1805 |
Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (Moderator of the General Assembly 1770), dies at 83 |
1818 |
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies |
1820 |
Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754) |
1839 |
William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769) |
1885 |
Julius Hopp, composer, dies at 66 |
1900 |
Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Women on University), dies |
1903 |
August Labitzky, composer, dies at 70 |
1903 |
Frederick Law Olmsted, American writer and landscape architect (designed Central Park) dies aged 81 |
1910 |
Paolo Mantegazza, Un giorno a Madera |
1914 |
Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, composer (Baba Yaga), dies at 59 [NS] |
1914 |
Anatoli Liadov, composer, dies at 59 |
1914 |
Anatol Liadov, The Invisible Boy |
1915 |
John Davis Long, Secretary Long and Captain Sigsbee |
1916 |
Francis W Warre-Cornish, Engl vice-provost of Eton (1893-1916), dies |
1916 |
Petar Kocic, Mejdan Simeuna Djaka |
1918 |
Arthur Playfair, Judged by Appearances |
1920 |
Suzanne Grandais, Le mystère des roches de Kador |
1921 |
Frederick Upham Adams, The Bottom of the Well |
1922 |
Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Eu/Brazil, dies at 80 |
1922 |
William Musgrave, The Hero of Bunko Hill |
1925 |
Hans Wiers-Jenssen, Jan Herwitz |
1928 |
Paul von Woringen, Die Siegerin |
1930 |
Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish optician (Nobel 1911), dies |
1931 |
Jane Blyler, Hey There |
1932 |
Jean Nougués, Cyrano de Bergerac |
1933 |
Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863) |
1933 |
Cato Mertens-de Jaeger, De Pantoffelhelden |
1933 |
Helen Dunbar, Fine Manners |
1933 |
Carl Neisser, Das Geheimnis des Fabrikanten Henderson |
1934 |
Doris Ulmann, American photographer dies aged 52 |
1935 |
John Thorn, The Reverend Salamander Unattached |
1936 |
Paquin, Artists and Models Abroad |
1937 |
Frederick Opper, Hooligan Assists the Magician |
1938 |
May Yohe, The Hope Diamond Mystery |
1942 |
Arthur L. Todd, Monkey Business |
1943 |
Boris III, of Saksen-Coburg, King of Bulgaria (1918-43), dies |
1943 |
King Boris III, |
1944 |
Ernst Thalmann, German communist, dies in Buchenwald |
1944 |
Chaim Mordechaj Rumkowski, |
1946 |
Florence Turner, College |
1947 |
Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917) |
1947 |
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Over the Seven Seas |
1948 |
Gladden James, The Vanity Case |
1951 |
Robert Walker, actor/writer (Bataan, Madame Curie), dies at 32 |
1951 |
Robert Walker, Strangers on a Train |
1952 |
Lamar Trotti, The Ox-Bow Incident |
1952 |
J.G. Selby, The Wife Hunters |
1952 |
Holger Strøm, Alt for karrieren |
1953 |
Nikolai Golovanov, Boris Godunov |
1954 |
Torsten Hillberg, Vårat gäng |
1954 |
Ernst Stern, The Wildcat |
1955 |
Emmett Till, kidnapped & lynched at 14, in Money Mississippi |
1955 |
Emmett Till, |
1955 |
Gertrude Le Brandt, Through the Toils |
1957 |
Faire Binney, Open Your Eyes |
1957 |
Craig Rice, The Falcon's Brother |
1957 |
Erik Tuxen, Torment |
1958 |
Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov, composer, dies at 67 |
1958 |
Henri Forterre, Frédérica |
1958 |
Nikolay Voinov, The Twelve Months |
1958 |
Wladimir A. Timm, A Walk in the Clouds |
1959 |
Bohuslav Jan Martinu, Czech composer (Hry o Marti), dies at 68 |
1959 |
Heinz Goedecke, Acht Mädels im Boot |
1959 |
Ivo Pelay, Honeysuckle |
1959 |
George W. Meyer, Terms of Endearment |
1960 |
Anton Lajovic, composer, dies at 81 |
1961 |
Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies |
1961 |
Gaston Gabaroche, French Cancan |
1961 |
Carsten Carlsen, To levende og en død |
1962 |
John 'Uh huh' Collum, Fish Hooky |
1962 |
Janis Jaunsudrabins, Puika |
1962 |
James Ormont, The House of Mirrors |
1962 |
Renato Del Frate, Tomorrow Is Too Late |
1964 |
Gracie Allen, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen), dies at 62 |
1964 |
Lumsden Hare, actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox), dies at 89 |
1965 |
Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909) |
1966 |
Eddie Barry, A Bashful Bigamist |
1967 |
Charles Darrow, US inventor of Monopoly, dies |
1968 |
John Gordon Mein, US ambassador in Guatemala, dies |
1968 |
Nick Castle, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), dies at 58 |
1969 |
Clarence R Hennecke, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 74 |
1971 |
Nathan Leopold, US kidnapper/murderer of Bobby Franks (1924), dies |
1972 |
William HAF, Engl prince/grandson of George V, dies in accident at 29 |
1975 |
Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907) |
1975 |
Fritz Wotruba, Elektra |
1975 |
Al Zimbalist, Cat-Women of the Moon |
1978 |
Bruce Catton, US historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78 |
1978 |
Doris Warner, Lust for Life |
1979 |
Simonow, writer, dies |
1981 |
Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900) |
1982 |
G W A Chubb, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, 21 wickets), dies |
1982 |
Nini de Boel, Flemish operetta singer (White Horse), dies at 84 |
1982 |
Nini De Boël, Een zonde waard |
1983 |
Jan Clayton, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie), dies at 66 |
1983 |
Yuri Maksimov, Alyoshkina okhota |
1983 |
Jan Clayton, The Snake Pit |
1983 |
Beulah Kettle, Riders of the Whistling Pines |
1984 |
Wolfgang Kaehler, Das hat man nun davon |
1984 |
Corrado Annicelli, Episode #1.4 |
1985 |
Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88 |
1985 |
Ruth Gordon, Rosemary's Baby |
1985 |
Bruce Tegner, Good Times |
1985 |
Miguel Otero Silva, Cuando quiero llorar no lloro |
1985 |
Walter F. Fichelscher, Das Ekel |
1987 |
John Huston, US/Irish actor/director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81 |
1987 |
LaSesne Hilton, Deathmaster |
1987 |
Gun Holmqvist, Landskamp |
1987 |
Maria Axt, Die Banklady |
1987 |
John Huston, The Maltese Falcon |
1988 |
Hazel Dawn, US singer/actress (Under Clover, Margie), dies at 98 |
1988 |
Paul Whitelaw, cricketer (2 Tests NZ v England 1933), dies |
1988 |
Julian Gunzburg, House of Wax |
1988 |
Hazel Dawn, The Lone Wolf |
1988 |
Jean Marchand, Le confort et l'indifférence |
1988 |
Max Shulman, House Calls |
1988 |
Svetlana Loshchinina, Cain the XVIII-th |
1988 |
Osvaldo Moreno, Gran pensión La Alegría |
1989 |
Merle Gilson, Hollywood Bowl |
1990 |
Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske & Wiske), dies |
1990 |
Eva Stiberg, Eva |
1990 |
Willy Vandersteen, The Dark Diamond |
1990 |
Edmund H. North, Patton |
1990 |
Larry Jackson, 1957 MLB All-Star Game |
1991 |
Christian Anders, actor/composer (Death Stone, Love Cult), dies |
1991 |
Eleanor Berry, actress (Death Valley Days), dies |
1991 |
Vince Taylor, I Melt with You |
1991 |
Eleanor Berry, A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine, and Peaches |
1991 |
Eleanor Moore, The Victor Volante Story |
1991 |
Chris Anders, The Secret of Santa Vittoria |
1992 |
Ruth Southard, No Sad Songs for Me |
1992 |
Mimi Cecchini, Moonstruck |
1993 |
René Ray, English countess/actress (Farewell again), dies at 80 |
1993 |
William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914) |
1993 |
Vladimir Sidorov, Vykrutasy |
1993 |
René Ray, I Became a Criminal |
1993 |
Antonín Jedlicka, Proc? |
1993 |
Bernie Baum, Black Hawk Down |
1994 |
David Wright, poet, dies at 74 |
1994 |
Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian pater, murdered |
1994 |
Pieter de Cort, Belgian rock guitarist (Betty Goes Green), dies at 25 |
1994 |
Marie-Hélène Dasté, The Mark of the Day |
1995 |
Agnes Patrick, campaigner, dies at 85 |
1995 |
Michael Ende, German writer (Neverending Story), dies at 65 |
1995 |
Michael VerMeulen, journalist, dies at 38 |
1995 |
Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906) |
1995 |
Sloan Fischer, How the Tess Was Won - August 5, 1956 |
1995 |
Earl Bascom, Take Willy with Ya |
1995 |
Gerard Wilk, Przygoda z piosenka |
1996 |
Lynda Carr, educationist, dies at 50 |
1996 |
Phyllis Pearsall, painter/writer, dies at 89 |
1996 |
Victor Wayne Harris, Ghost Dad |
1996 |
Roman Khomyatov, Ishchite i naydyote |
1996 |
Helen Kushnick, Family Comedy Hour |
1996 |
Al Zarilla, The Winning Team |
1997 |
Eve Smith, Romancing the Stone |
1997 |
Hans-Jørgen Lembourn, The Ballad of Linda |
1997 |
Joyce Ebert, Mrs. Soffel |
1997 |
João Mendes, Portuguese Rhapsody |
1997 |
Walt Logan Field, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers |
1997 |
Logan Field, Blacula |
1997 |
Krystyna Bigelmajer, Three Colors: White |
1998 |
Borislav Punchev, Eshelonite |
1998 |
István Knoll, Korunk fényei |
1999 |
Grete Winton, The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton |
1999 |
Dave Pope, Game 4 |
2000 |
Joshua Blyden, The Dentist |
2000 |
Olga Mazeikyte, Fact |
2000 |
Penelope Russianoff, An Unmarried Woman |
2000 |
Steve Dunhill, The Fighting Generation |
2000 |
John Bultinck, Duifjes Julius Caesar |
2001 |
Lawrence B. Marcus, Witness for the Prosecution |
2001 |
David P. Harmon, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm |
2002 |
Else Petersen, Babette's Feast |
2002 |
Lucille Miller, The Campus Vamp |
2002 |
Bogdan Baer, Labedzi spiew |
2002 |
Clifford Turknett, The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox |
2003 |
Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (b. 1956) |
2003 |
Yuriy Saulskiy, Ostrov pogibshikh korabley |
2003 |
Rudy Del Campo, West Side Story |
2003 |
Peter Hacks, Margarete in Aix |
2003 |
Margaret Hill Ritter, BachelorMan |
2003 |
Peggy Helm, If You Could Only Cook |
2003 |
Norma Storch, The Six Million Dollar Man |
2004 |
Michael Milgrom, Training Day |
2004 |
Wanda-Gayle Logan, Bad Blood |
2004 |
Isidoro Blaisten, Keep Waiting for Me |
2004 |
Robert Lewin, Datalore |
2004 |
Mercedes Vecino, ¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII? |
2004 |
Silvana Jachino, Juliet of the Spirits |
2004 |
Bruce McGregor, A Time to Hate |
2005 |
Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914) |
2005 |
Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910) |
2005 |
George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911) |
2005 |
Wyott Ordung, Robot Monster |
2005 |
Richard Loring, House on Haunted Hill |
2005 |
Jacques Dufilho, War of the Buttons |
2005 |
Heinz Werner Hübner, Weltspiegel |
2005 |
Antoñita Colomé, El crimen de Pepe Conde |
2005 |
Hans Clarin, Pippi Longstocking |
2005 |
Ewa Kruk, Palace Hotel |
2005 |
Christoph Lindert, FotoSynthese |
2005 |
Curt Lincoln, Eläintarhanajo 1955 |
2006 |
Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963) |
2006 |
Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932) |
2006 |
Melvin Schwartz, American Physicist and Nobel Laureate (neutrinos - subatomic particles with no electric charge and virtually no mass), dies at 73 |
2006 |
Ed Benedict, The Swimming Pool |
2006 |
Rod Holton, West of the Alamo |
2006 |
Narasa Raju D.V., Ram Aur Shyam |
2006 |
Arthur Rozzo, Delirium |
2006 |
William F. Quinn, Episode dated 22 January 1961 |
2006 |
Roger Deegan, Life After Hockey |
2007 |
Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (b. 1926) |
2007 |
Hilly Kristal, American Founder of CBGB/Punk rock legend (b. 1932) |
2007 |
Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (b. 1925) |
2007 |
Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984) |
2007 |
Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935) |
2007 |
Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929) |
2007 |
Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913) |
2007 |
Paul B. MacCready, The Flight of the Gossamer Condor |
2007 |
José Antonio Puerta, El penalti más largo del mundo |
2007 |
Hilly Kristal, CBGB |
2007 |
Rita Colton, Project X |
2007 |
Arthur A. Jones, Savage! |
2007 |
Sokrates Kapsaskis, Love Stories |
2007 |
Dayton Anderson, Ghostbusters |
2007 |
Francisco Umbral, Episode dated 8 January 1993 |
2007 |
Draga Jonas, Evropa i Srbi: Draga Jonas |
2007 |
Miyoshi Umeki, Sayonara |
2007 |
Pertti Nieminen, Bad Boys |
2007 |
Kurt Grayson, The Octagon |
2008 |
Phil Hill, American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1927) |
2008 |
Jacky Lapointe, Jean de Florette |
2008 |
Chidananda Saraswati, A Parliament of Souls |
2008 |
Wonderful Smith, This Is Spinal Tap |
2008 |
Phil Hill, Grand Prix |
2008 |
Ralph Kovel, Flea Market Finds with the Kovels |
2008 |
John MacDonnell, The Black Velvet Gown |
2008 |
Alain Levent, Cleo from 5 to 7 |
2008 |
Milda Kletniece, Rainis |
2008 |
Orhan Günsiray, Oglum oglum |
2008 |
Alphonsus de Guimarães Filho, O Seminarista |
2009 |
Adam Goldstein, American DJ also known as DJ AM (b. 1973) |
2009 |
Adam Goldstein, What About Bob? |
2009 |
Emil Glad, The Elm-Chanted Forest |
2009 |
Wayne Tippit, Guiding Light |
2009 |
André Tahon, Episode dated 25 December 1974 |
2009 |
Kenneth Schwartz, Enrapture |
2009 |
Bob Nelson, Vale do Canaã |
2009 |
Eli Thompson, Species |
2009 |
Henk van Ulsen, De vergeten medeminnaar |
2009 |
Negrita Jayde, Safety Zone |
2009 |
Anna Zádori, Aszex |
2009 |
Bill Story, Florida and Carl |
2010 |
William P. Foster, notable band director and founder of the Marching 100 of Florida A&M University |
2010 |
Yûzô Hayakawa, Daikaijû kettô: Gamera tai Barugon |
2010 |
Joseph A. Howard, The Littlest Angel |
2010 |
Daniel Boone, The Pinch Singer |
2010 |
Lise Davidsen, De pokkers unger |
2010 |
Charly Bailly, Le furet |
2010 |
Sinan Hasani, Era e Lisi |
2010 |
Ulrich Schröder, Otto - Der Neue Film |
2011 |
Bernie Gallacher, British footballer (Aston Villa) (b. 1967) |
2011 |
Leonard Harris, Taxi Driver |
2011 |
John Giosa, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty |
2011 |
Rozalija Levai, Novogodisnja prica |
2011 |
Mel Curtis, The Phantom Planet |
2011 |
Jennifer Bement Sass, Shelf Life |
2012 |
Aleksander Wolejko, The Hexer |
2012 |
Leonid Golovnya, Vishnyovyy omut |
2012 |
Aleksandr Silin, Shtorm na sushe |
2012 |
Eva Figes, Nelly's Version |
2012 |
Rhodes Boyson, Crime |
2012 |
Mateusz Fabjanowski, Budowniczy |
2012 |
André Steiger, La femme de Rose Hill |
2012 |
Shulamith Firestone, Shulie |
2012 |
Vince Tortorici, The Lady from Sockholm |
2013 |
Mark McShane, Seance on a Wet Afternoon |
2013 |
Fernando Guerreiro, Xadrez e Vodka |
2013 |
Larry Pennell, General Hospital |
2013 |
John Bellany, Bellany: Fire in the Blood |
2013 |
Murray Gershenz, The Hangover |
2013 |
Ray Grebey, |
2014 |
Yuri Zakrevsky, Private Aleksandr Matrosov |
2014 |
Melinda Ottrubay, Hungary's Revival |
2014 |
David Murphy, Spies |
2014 |
Glenn Cornick, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus |
2014 |
Stuart Gordon, Adam |
2014 |
Pyotr Alatortsev, Vy ne ostavite menya |
2014 |
Bill Kerr, Gallipoli |
2014 |
Hal Finney, Adventures of Tron |
2014 |
Roberto Cairo, Fugitives |
2015 |
Teresa Gorman, Path to Power |
2015 |
Nelson Shanks, I Grew Up in Princeton |
2015 |
Jarmila Konecná, The Ninth Day |
2015 |
Al Arbour, Lord Stanley's Cup: Hockey's Ultimate Prize |
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