Deaths on 28 December
2000s
Brigitte Bardot
2025
French actress and activist (1934–2025)
Charles Dolan
2024
American billionaire businessman (1926–2024)
Vijayakanth
2023
Indian actor and politician (1952–2023)
Philomena Franz
2022
German Romani author (1922–2022)
Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff
2021
French physicists, authors and TV presenters
John Madden
2021
American football coach and announcer (1936–2021)
Harry Reid
2021
American politician (1939–2021)
Rose Marie
2017
American actress, singer, and comedian (1923–2017)
Debbie Reynolds
2016
American actress and singer (1932–2016)
Jean-Christophe Victor
2016
French political scientist (1947-2016)
John Bradbury (drummer)
2015
Musical artist
Eloy Inos
2015
Northern Marianas politician
Lemmy
2015
English rock musician (1945–2015)
Leelah Alcorn
2014
American transgender girl (1997–2014)
Vahan Hovhannisyan
2014
Armenian politician (1956-2014)
Frankie Randall (singer)
2014
American singer, pianist (1938–2014)
Halton Arp
2013
American astronomer (1927-2013)
Esther Borja
2013
Cuban operatic soprano (1913–2013)
Andrew Jacobs Jr.
2013
American politician (1932–2013)
Alfred Marshall (businessman)
2013
American businessman
Joseph Ruskin
2013
American actor (1924–2013)
Ilya Tsymbalar
2013
Ukrainian-Russian footballer (1969–2013)
Nicholas Ambraseys
2012
Greek seismologist (1929-2012)
Mark Crispin
2012
Father of Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
Václav Drobný
2012
Czech footballer
Frankie Walsh
2012
Waterford hurler
Billy Taylor
2010
American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster, and educator (1921–2010)
Terry Peder Rasmussen
2010
American serial killer (1943–2010)
The Rev
2009
American musician (1981–2009)
Irene Lieblich
2008
Polish-American painter
Jamal Karimi-Rad
2006
Iranian politician
Jerry Orbach
2004
American actor and singer (1935–2004)
Susan Sontag
2004
American writer, critic and public intellectual (1933–2004)
Benjamin Thurman Hacker
2003
United States Navy admiral (1935–2003)
Samuel Goldblith
2001
American food scientist (1919–2001)
William X. Kienzle
2001
American novelist
1900s
Clayton Moore
1999
American actor (1914–1999)
Jean-Louis Lévesque
1994
Canadian entrepreneur, thoroughbred racehorse owner and philanthropist
William L. Shirer
1993
American journalist, war correspondent, and author (1904–1993)
Sal Maglie
1992
American baseball player (1917–1992)
Warren Skaaren
1990
American screenwriter (1946–1990)
Hermann Oberth
1989
Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894–1989)
John D. MacDonald
1986
American writer (1916–1986)
Jan Nieuwenhuys
1986
Dutch painter
Sam Peckinpah
1984
American film director (1925–1984)
Mary Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch
1984
British politician and educator (1903–1984)
Peter Kihss
1984
American journalist (1912–1984)
Dennis Wilson
1983
American musician (1944–1983)
Allan Dwan
1981
American film director & screenwriter (1885–1981)
Katharine Byron
1976
American politician (1903–1976)
Max Steiner
1971
Austrian-born American composer (1888–1971)
David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie
1968
Scottish peer, soldier and courtier (1893–1968)
Katharine McCormick
1967
American suffragist and philanthropist
Paul Hindemith
1963
German composer (1895–1963)
Philippe Panneton
1960
Canadian physician, academic, diplomat and writer
Ante Pavelić
1959
Dictator of the Independent State of Croatia from 1941 to 1945
Jack Lovelock
1949
New Zealand athlete (1910–1949)
Victor Emmanuel III
1947
King of Italy from 1900 to 1946
Elie Nadelman
1946
American sculptor
Theodore Dreiser
1945
American novelist and journalist (1871–1945)
Steve Evans (baseball)
1943
American baseball player (1885–1943)
Alfred Flatow
1942
German gymnast (1869–1942)
Florence Lawrence
1938
Canadian-American actress (1886–1938)
Maurice Ravel
1937
French composer (1875–1937)
Clarence Day
1935
American writer (1874–1935)
Jack Blackham
1932
Australian cricketer
Léon Bakst
1924
Russian painter (1866–1924)
Johannes Rydberg
1919
Swedish physicist (1854–1919)
Olavo Bilac
1918
Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator
Alfred Edwin McKay
1917
Canadian flying ace
Eduard Strauss
1916
Austrian composer
Ahmet Mithat
1913
Ottoman journalist and author (1844–1912)
Louise Granberg
1907
Swedish playwright, translator and theatre director
Alexandre de Serpa Pinto
1900
Portuguese explorer and soldier (1846–1900)
1800s
William Corby
1897
American Catholic priest and army chaplain
Dennis Miller Bunker
1890
American painter
James Van Ness
1872
7th mayor of San Francisco, from 1855 to 1856
Thomas Babington Macaulay
1859
British historian and politician (1800–1859)
Before 1800
Eugenio Espejo
1795
Spanish physician (1747–1795)
Peter Ernst Wilde
1785
Baltic German physician and Estophile
Antonio Caldara
1736
Italian composer (c.1670–1736)
Rob Roy MacGregor
1734
Scottish Jacobite and outlaw (1671–1734)
William Carstares
1715
Scottish religious minister (1649–1715)
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
1708
French botanist (1656–1708)
Pierre Bayle
1706
French philosopher and writer (1647–1706)
Mary II
1694
Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1694
Johann Friedrich Gronovius
1671
German classical scholar, librarian and critic (1611–1671)
Francesco Maria Grimaldi
1663
Italian priest and mathematician
Francis de Sales
1622
Bishop of Geneva and Catholic saint (1567–1622)
Hermann Finck
1558
German composer
Konrad Peutinger
1547
German humanist (1465–1547)
Andrea Gritti
1538
Doge of Venice from 1523 to 1538
Piero the Unfortunate
1503
Lord of Florence from 1492 to 1494
Bertoldo di Giovanni
1491
Italian Renaissance sculptor
Antipope Clement VIII
1446
Antipope at Avignon from 1423 to 1429
Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina
1394
Basilissa
Ashikaga Yoshiakira
1367
Military ruler of Japan from 1358 to 1367
David II Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl
1326
Scottish Earl
Hugh Aycelin
1297
French Cardinal
Robert II, Count of Dreux
1218
French count (1154-1218)
Wang Zongbi
925
Shu general (died 925)