July 28 - Deaths

Deaths

• 450 – Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (b. 401)
• 1057 – Pope Victor II (b. c. 1018)
• 1128 – William Clito, Count of Flanders (b. 1102)
• 1230 – Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
• 1285 – Keran, Queen of Armenia, consort of King Leo III of Armenia (birth year unknown)
• 1527 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador (b. 1460)
• 1540 – Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1495)
• 1631 – Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
• 1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619)
• 1667 – Abraham Cowley, English poet (b. 1618)
• 1675 – Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
• 1685 – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
• 1718 – Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
• 1741 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
• 1750 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)
• 1762 – George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
• 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1758)
• 1794 – Louis de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1767)
• 1809 – Richard Beckett, English soldier (b.1772)
• 1818 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
• 1835 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
• 1842 – Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
• 1844 – Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I (b. 1768)
• 1849 – King Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
• 1869 – Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist (b. 1787)
• 1878 – George Law Curry, American newspaper publisher and politician (b. 1820)
• 1895 – Edward Beecher, American theologian (b. 1803)
• 1930 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
• 1933 – Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 30^th Yokozuna (b. 1890)
• 1934 – Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (b. 1868)
• 1934 – Louis Tancred, South African cricketer (b. 1876)
• 1942 – William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
• 1957 – Edith Abbott, American social worker (b. 1876)
• 1957 – Isaac Heinemann, German-born Israeli scholar and professor of classical literature (b. 1876)
• 1965 – Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (b. 1894)
• 1965 – Sheikh Attallah Suheimat , Arab and Jordanian leader, politician ,and a statesperson. (b. 1875)
• 1967 – Karl W. Richter, American aviator (b. 1942)
• 1968 – Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
• 1969 – Ramón Grau, Cuban politician (b. 1882)
• 1971 – Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
• 1971 – Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, Canadian soldier and diplomat (b. 1890)
• 1971 – Charles E. Pont, American painter and printmaker (b. 1898)
• 1972 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
• 1972 – Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)
• 1979 – Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
• 1979 – Don Miller, American college football player (b. 1902)
• 1981 – Fr. Stanley Rother, American Roman Catholic Priest and missionary (b. 1935)
• 1982 – Keith Green, American gospel singer and pianist (b. 1953)
• 1990 – Jill Esmond, British actress (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and educator (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Seni Pramoj, Thai politician (b. 1905)
• 1997 – Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Lenny McLean, English bareknuckle fighter (b. 1949)
• 1999 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
• 2003 – Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish politician and activist (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Eugene Roche, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
• 2006 – David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
• 2006 – Patrick Allen, British actor and voice actor (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Jim LeRoy, American aerobatic pilot (b. 1961)
• 2007 – Karl Gotch, Belgian professional wrestler (b. 1924)
• 2008 – Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress (b. 1977)
• 2009 – Jim Johnson, American football coach (b.1941)
• 2010 – Ivy Bean, English internet celebrity (b. 1905)