August 28 - Deaths

Deaths

• 388 – Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper
• 430 – Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354)
• 1341 – King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309)
• 1481 – King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432)
• 1645 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)
• 1654 – Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
• 1678 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)
• 1757 – David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
• 1784 – Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713)
• 1785 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
• 1793 – Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740)
• 1805 – Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
• 1818 – Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, founder of Chicago
• 1820 – Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)
• 1839 – William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)
• 1900 – Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838)
• 1903 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
• 1933 – Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
• 1943 – King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
• 1947 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
• 1955 – Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon (b. 1941)
• 1959 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
• 1965 – Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
• 1971 – Reuvein Margolies, Austrian-Hungarian-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar (b. 1889)
• 1975 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
• 1976 – Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
• 1978 – Robert Shaw, English actor and writer (b. 1927)
• 1981 – Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
• 1982 – Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer (b. 1911)
• 1985 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)
• 1987 – John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)
• 1988 – Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)
• 1990 – Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1913)
• 1991 – Alekos Sakellarios, Greek writer and film director (b. 1913)
• 1993 – William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906)
• 2003 – Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (b. 1956)
• 2005 – Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
• 2005 – George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)
• 2006 – Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Hilly Kristal, American musician (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Paul MacCready, 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)
• 2008 – Phil Hill, American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Adam Goldstein, American DJ also known as DJ AM (b. 1973)
• 2009 – Wayne Tippit, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2010 – William P. Foster, American band director and educator (b. 1919)