August 28th famous deaths

List of celebrities and famous people who died on August 28th

2019 - 2010

Famous deaths on August 28th for the celebrities who died in the years 2019 - 2010

• William P Foster

  American educator and band director (Born 1919).

2009 - 2000

Famous deaths on August 28th for the celebrities who died in the years 2009 - 2000

• Adam Goldstein

  American keyboard player and producer (Crazy Town, TRV$DJAM). (d. 2009).

• Wayne Tippit

  American stage and television actor. He is best known for his role as Ted Adamson in the CBS soap operas of the 1970s and 1980s.

• Phil Hill

  American race car driver and F1 world champion (Born in 1927).

• Miyoshi Umeki

  Japanese-American actress, who won an Oscar for best supporting actress in 1958 for her role as Sayonara. She was also a part of the TV series "Courtship of Eddie's Father" in 1970.

• Arthur Jones

  American businessman founded Nautilus Inc. (d. 2007).

• Paul MacCready

  AeroVironment was founded by an American engineer (d. 2007).

• Hilly Kristal

  CBGB was founded by an American businessman (d. 2007).

• Melvin Schwartz

  American physicist and Nobel laureate (Born in 1932).

• Benoit Sauvageau

  French Canadian politician (Born 1963).

• Jacques Dufilho

  French comedian and actor on the screen and stage. In 1943, he released his first film. He has over 100 films and won many awards. In 1977, he was awarded the CA(c)sar Award for his supporting role in "Le Crabe Tambourand". In 1988, he received the MoliA're Prize for best actor for his role as Herb Garner in the movie …

• George Szekeres

  Hungarian mathematician (Born 1911)

• Esther Szekeres

  Hungarian mathematician (Born 1910)

• Brian Douglas Wells

  American criminal (failed). (Born 1956).

1999 - 1990

Famous deaths on August 28th for the celebrities who died in the years 1999 - 1990

• Lynda Carr

  Educationist dies at 50

• Phyllis Pearsall

  English cartographer and painter (d. 1996).

• Michael Ende

  German fantasy and children's author. His epic fantasy novel The Neverending Story is his most famous work. Other notable works include Momo, Jim Button, and Luke the Engine Driver. His works were translated into over 40 languages, sold more than 20,000,000 copies and have been used in motion pictures, stage plays and audiobooks.

• Michael VerMeulen

  Journalist dies at 38

• Earl Bascom

  American painter, printmaker and rodeo performer was raised in Canada and depicted his own experiences with cowboying and riding across the American West.

• Agnes Patrick

  Campaigner dies at 85

• David Wright

  Poet dies at 74

• Pieter de Cort

  Belgian rock guitarist Betty Goes Green dies at the age of 25

• William Stafford

  American essayist and poet (d. 1993).

• Christian Anders

  Actor/Composer (Death Stone and Love Cult).

• Eleanor Berry

  Actress (Death Valley Days).

• Alekos Sakellarios

  Greek filmmaker and writer (Born 1913).

• Willy Vandersteen

  Flemish cartoonist (Suske & Wiske)

1989 - 1980

Famous deaths on August 28th for the celebrities who died in the years 1989 - 1980

• Jean Marchand

  French general, military man and African explorer. He was the leader of the French expedition to the Sudan and occupied Fashoda on the 9/19/1898. He is known for his work in tracing the Niger River's source and exploring the region from Tengrela to the Niger. Marchand was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour and retired in 1919.

• Hazel Dawn

  US singer/actress (Under Clover Margie) dies at 98

• John Huston

  American screenwriter, actor, and director of film. The screenplays for many of the 37 feature films that he directed were written by him. These include The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1848), Key Largo (1848), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin rouge (1952), The Misfits (1961) and The Man Who Would be King …

• Ruth Gordon

  American actress, born in 1915. She is well-known for her eccentric roles, such as the hilarious comedy "Harold and Maude". In 1968, she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Rosemary's Baby. Gordon is the author or at least a dozen plays and screenplays. She was the mother of one child and two marriages.

• Jan Clayton

  Actress (Ellen Miller–Lassie), passes away at 66

• Geoff Chubb

  South African cricketer (Born in 1911).

• Bela Guttman

  Hungarian footballer (Born 1900)

1979 - 1970

Famous deaths on August 28th for the celebrities who died in the years 1979 - 1970

• Simonow

  Writer

• Robert Shaw

  American conductor and longtime musical director of Atlanta Symphony. He is also the dean of American Choral Conducting. Shaw founded the "Collegiate Chorale", which was part of the "RCA Victor Chorale," 1944-1948. He also directed the "The Robert Shaw Chorale," 1948-1948. He was appointed associate conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra eight years later. He loved to work with amateur singers …

• Bruce Catton

  At 78, US historian / writer (Civil War), is dead

• Anissa Jones

  American actress (Born 1958).

• Fritz Wotruba

  The Wotruba Church was designed by an Austrian sculptor (d. 1975).

• William HAF

  Engl prince/Grandson of George V, is killed in an accident at 29

• Nathan Leopold

  American homicide. He and Richard Loeb, his friend, planned the "perfect crime" to thrill. They were both the sons of influential and wealthy local families. They were considered brilliant students. They brutally murdered a young boy on 5/21/1924. Loeb, Leopold and their accomplices were captured and sentenced to life imprisonment. After spending his entire life behind bars from the age …

• Reuvein Margolies

  Austrian-Hungarian-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar (Born 1889)

1969 - 1960

Famous deaths on August 28th for the celebrities who died in the years 1969 - 1960

• Clarence R Hennecke

  Actor (Keystonekops), dies at the age of 74

• Nick Castle

  At 58, choreographer Dinah Shore, Judy Garland, dies.

• John Gordon Mein

  US ambassador in Guatemala

• Paul Muni [Muni Weisenfreund]

  Actor (Good Earth) dies at 71

• Charles Darrow

  Monopoly, an American game designer, was created in 1967.

• Giulio Racah

  Israeli physicist (Born 1909)

• Lumsden Hare

  Actor (Oregon Trail and Desert Fox), dies aged 89

• Thomas Connolly

  First baseball umpire to be elected to the hall of fame, is dead.

• Anton Lajovic

  Composer dies at 81

1959 - 1950

Famous deaths on August 28th for the celebrities who died in the years 1959 - 1950

• Bohuslav Jan Martinu

  Czech composer (Hryo Marti) dies at 68

• Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov

  Composer dies at 67

• Emmett Till kidnapped and lynched at age 14

  In Money, Mississippi, USA.

• Robert Walker

  American notable family, the son Jennifer Jones and Robert Walker.

1949 - 1940

Famous deaths on August 28th for the celebrities who died in the years 1949 - 1940

• Manolete

  Spanish bull fighter who was gored to death during a bull fight on 28 August 1947. He died the day after.

• Boris III

  Saksen-Coburg is the King of Bulgaria (1918-43)

• King Boris

  III of Bulgaria (Born in 1894)

1939 - 1930

Famous deaths on August 28th for the celebrities who died in the years 1939 - 1930

• Helen Dunbar

  American actress (Born 1863).

• Alvar Gullstrand

  Swedish optician (Nobel 1911)

1929 - 1920

Famous deaths on August 28th for the celebrities who died in the years 1929 - 1920

• Louis PMFG of Orleans

  Earl of Eu/ Brazil, Dies at 80

1919 - 1910

Famous deaths on August 28th for the celebrities who died in the years 1919 - 1910

• Francis W Warre-Cornish

  Engl vice-provost at Eton (1893-1916).

• Anatoli Liadov

  Composer dies at 59

1909 - 1900

Famous deaths on August 28th for the celebrities who died in the years 1909 - 1900

• Frederick Law Olmsted

  American landscape architect (Born 1822)

• August Labitzky

  Czech composer and conductor (d. 1903).

• Henry Sidgwick

  English philosopher and economist (d. 1900).