June 28 - Deaths

Deaths

• 548 – Theodora, Byzantine Empress, wife of Justinian I (b. c. 500)
• 572 – Alboin, King of the Lombards (b. c. 530)
• 767 – Pope Paul I (b. 700)
• 928 – Louis the Blind, King of Provence and Holy Roman Emperor (b. c. 880)
• 1061 – Floris I, Count of Holland (b. c. 1020)
• 1175 – Andrei I Bogolyubsky, Russian prince (b. c. 1111)
• 1194 – Emperor Xiaozong of Song, Emperor of China (b. 1127)
• 1385 – Andronikos IV Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1348)
• 1389 – Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia (b. 1329)
• 1586 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (b. 1508)
• 1598 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer (b. 1527)
• 1716 – George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general (b. 1665)
• 1813 – Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (b. 1755)
• 1834 – Joseph Bové, Russian architect (b. 1784)
• 1836 – James Madison, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)
• 1880 – Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor and cowboy (b. 1846)
• 1881 – Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (b. 1798)
• 1889 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b. 1818)
• 1892 – Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
• 1913 – Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
• 1914 – Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1863)
• 1914 – Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868)
• 1915 – Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1916 – Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
• 1922 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet (b. 1885)
• 1929 – Edward Carpenter, English poet (b. 1844)
• 1960 – Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1898)
• 1962 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1962 – Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)
• 1965 – Red Nichols, American jazz cornetist and composer (b. 1905)
• 1971 – Franz Stangl, Austrian Nazi commander of concentration camps (b. 1908)
• 1974 – Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1975 – Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
• 1975 – Serge Reding, Belgian weightlifter (b. 1941)
• 1975 – Rod Serling, American television scriptwriter (b. 1924)
• 1976 – Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer (b. 1927)
• 1978 – Clifford Dupont, First President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
• 1980 – José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
• 1981 – Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)
• 1984 – Yigael Yadin, Israeli archeologist, politician and Military Chief of Staff (b. 1917)
• 1985 – Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (b. 1913)
• 1989 – Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1898)
• 1992 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
• 1993 – GG Allin, American punk rock singer (The Jabbers, The Cedar Street Sluts, The Scumfucs) (b. 1956)
• 1995 – Petri Walli, Finnish rock guitarist and singer (Kingston Wall) (b. 1969)
• 2000 – Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
• 2000 – Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (b. 1908)
• 2001 – Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
• 2001 – Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Wim Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Brenda Howard, American LGBT activist (b. 1946)
• 2006 – Jim Baen, American science fiction publisher and editor (b. 1943)
• 2006 – George Page, American television host (b. 1935)
• 2006 – Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author (b. 1919)
• 2006 – George Unwin, British WWII fighter ace (b. 1913)
• 2007 – Eugene Bennett Fluckey, American Naval Officer and WW II submarine commander, winner of the Medal of Honor and of four Navy Crosses) (b. 1913)
• 2007 – Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b. 1987)
• 2009 – Billy Mays, American television pitchman (b. 1958)
• 2009 – Fred Travalena, American comedian and impressionist (b. 1942)
• 2009 – A. K. Lohithadas, Indian screenwriter, director, and producer (b. 1955)
• 2010 – Bill Aucoin, American rock band manager (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Robert Byrd, American politician (b. 1917)