NNDB
This is a beta version of NNDB
Search: for
Died on December 28th

LISTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Hervey Allen
Poet
8-Dec-1889 28-Dec-1949 Ballads of the Border
Katharine Byron
Politician
25-Oct-1903 28-Dec-1976 Congresswoman from Maryland, 1941-43
Howard Caine
Actor
2-Jan-1928 28-Dec-1993 Maj. Hochstetter on Hogan's Heroes
Stoyan Christowe
Author
1-Sep-1898 28-Dec-1995 Heroes and Assassins
Clarence Day
Author
18-Nov-1874 28-Dec-1935 Life with Father
William Demarest
Actor
27-Feb-1892 28-Dec-1983 The Great McGinty
Jimmy Demaret
Golf
24-May-1910 28-Dec-1983 Winner of three Masters Tournaments
Terry Dolan
Activist
1950 28-Dec-1986 Conservative activist
Theodore Dreiser
Novelist
27-Aug-1871 28-Dec-1945 An American Tragedy
Allan Dwan
Film Director
3-Apr-1885 28-Dec-1981 Sands of Iwo Jima
Marjorie Fielding
Actor
17-Feb-1892 28-Dec-1956 English stage actress
St. Francis de Sales
Religion
21-Aug-1567 28-Dec-1622 Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary
Charlotte Greenwood
Actor
25-Jun-1890 28-Dec-1977 Aunt Eller in Oklahoma!
Horatio Hale
Anthropologist
3-May-1817 28-Dec-1896 Ethnologist studied polynesia
Paul Hindemith
Composer
16-Nov-1895 28-Dec-1963 Mathis der Maler
Freddie King
Guitarist
3-Sep-1934 28-Dec-1976 Blues guitarist, The Texas Cannonball
A. J. Liebling
Journalist
18-Oct-1904 28-Dec-1963 The New Yorker
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Historian
25-Oct-1800 28-Dec-1859 History of England
John D. MacDonald
Novelist
24-Jul-1916 28-Dec-1986 Travis McGee mystery novels
Kiel Martin
Actor
26-Jul-1944 28-Dec-1990 J. D. LaRue on Hill Street Blues
Queen Mary II
Head of State
30-Apr-1662 28-Dec-1694 Queen of England 1689-94
Clayton Moore
Actor
14-Sep-1914 28-Dec-1999 The Lone Ranger
Jerry Orbach
Actor
20-Oct-1935 28-Dec-2004 Lennie Briscoe from Law & Order
Sam Peckinpah
Film Director
21-Feb-1925 28-Dec-1984 Breakthrough director of ultraviolent film
J. Donald Rauth
Business
1918 28-Dec-2005 CEO of Martin Marietta, 1973-83
Maurice Ravel
Composer
7-Mar-1875 28-Dec-1937 Bolero
L. Mendel Rivers
Politician
28-Sep-1905 28-Dec-1970 Congressman from South Carolina, 1941-70
Rob Roy
Criminal
7-Mar-1671 28-Dec-1734 War leader of the Gregor clan
Johannes Rydberg
Physicist
8-Nov-1854 28-Dec-1919 Rydberg constant
Henry F. Schricker
Politician
30-Aug-1883 28-Dec-1966 Twice Governor of Indiana
William L. Shirer
Historian
23-Feb-1904 28-Dec-1993 Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Gerrit Smith
Activist
6-Mar-1797 28-Dec-1874 Anti-slavery and temperance reformer
Susan Sontag
Author
16-Jan-1933 28-Dec-2004 Novelist, critic, intellectual
Max Steiner
Composer
10-May-1888 28-Dec-1971 Gone With the Wind
Kaye Stevens
Singer
21-Jul-1932 28-Dec-2011 Ruckus at the Riviera
Robert C. Strong
Diplomat
29-Sep-1915 28-Dec-1999 US Ambassador to Iraq, 1963-67
Andrei Tarkovsky
Film Director
4-Apr-1932 28-Dec-1986 Solaris
Billy Taylor
Jazz Musician
24-Jul-1921 28-Dec-2010 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
James Van Ness
Politician
1808 28-Dec-1872 Mayor of San Francisco, 1855-56
Victor Emmanuel III
Royalty
11-Nov-1869 28-Dec-1947 King of Italy, 1900-46
George Henry White
Politician
18-Dec-1852 28-Dec-1918 Congressman from North Carolina, 1897-1901
James Wilkinson
Military
1757 28-Dec-1825 Duplicitous soldier and adventurer
Dennis Wilson
Musician
4-Dec-1944 28-Dec-1983 Founding member, The Beach Boys
Edith Wilson
First Lady
15-Oct-1872 28-Dec-1961 Second wife of US President Woodrow Wilson
Harry Woods
Actor
5-May-1889 28-Dec-1968 Perpetual Hollywood villain


Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile



Copyright ©2012 Soylent Communications

NNDB MAPPER


Obama's Picks & their Affiliations


Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.


Bibliographies

NNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. They may be accessed by the "Bibliography" tab at the top of most pages, or via the "Related Topics" box in the sidebar. Please feel free to suggest books that might be critical omissions.