May 28 - Deaths

Deaths

• 576 – Saint Germain of Paris, French bishop (b. 496)
• 1357 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
• 1556 – Saitō Dōsan, Japanese daimyo (b. 1494)
• 1672 – John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
• 1747 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)
• 1750 – Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
• 1787 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)
• 1805 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)
• 1808 – Richard Hurd, English Bishop of Worcester and writer (b. 1720)
• 1811 – Henry Dundas, Scottish politician (b. 1742)
• 1816 – Ras Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord (b. c. 1745)
• 1828 – Daikokuya Kōdayū, Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
• 1831 – William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1756)
• 1843 – Noah Webster, American writer and lexicographer (b. 1758)
• 1849 – Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1820)
• 1864 – Simion Bărnuţiu, Romanian philosopher and politician (b. 1808)
• 1878 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
• 1916 – Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)
• 1927 – Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
• 1937 – Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
• 1940 – Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (b. 1868)
• 1947 – August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)
• 1948 – Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer (b. 1914)
• 1953 – Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer (b. 1904)
• 1968 – Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Soviet sniper (b. 1908)
• 1971 – Audie Murphy, American actor and soldier (b. 1924)
• 1971 – Jean Vilar, French actor (b. 1912)
• 1972 – King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
• 1975 – Ezzard Charles, American heavyweight boxing champion (b. 1921)
• 1976 – Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922)
• 1978 – Arthur Brough, English actor (b. 1905)
• 1980 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
• 1981 – Stefan Wyszyński, Polish Cardinal Archbishop of Warsaw (b. 1901)
• 1981 – Mary Lou Williams, American singer (b. 1910)
• 1982 – Lt Col H. Jones VC, British army officer (b. 1940)
• 1983 – Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72^nd Mayor of Albany, New York (b. 1909)
• 1984 – Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise) (b. 1926)
• 1988 – Sy Oliver, American jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Billy Conn, American boxer and actor (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (b. 1916)
• 1998 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor and comedian (b. 1948)
• 2000 – George Irving Bell, American mountaineer (b. 1926)
• 2001 – Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
• 2001 – Joe Moakley, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts (b. 1927)
• 2001 – Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-born French musician and novelist (b. 1929)
• 2002 – Jean Berger, German composer (b. 1909)
• 2003 – Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born Belgian physical chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Umberto Agnelli, Italian automobile executive (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Francis Brunn, German juggler (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Marquise Hill, American football player (b. 1982)
• 2007 – David Lane, American white nationalist (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
• 2008 – Robert Justman, American television producer (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Gary Coleman, American actor (b. 1968)