Who Died?

I'm ripping off the awesome ShellHawk, because this is just such fun:

140,791 People

Unusual Deaths in 1982

* Vic morrow, actor, was decapitated by a helicopter blade during filming of twilight zone
* Vladimir smirnov, an olympic champion fencer, died of brain damage nine days after his opponent's foil snapped during a match, penetrated his mask, pierced his eyeball and entered his brain.

People who died on December 28 (various years)

* 2004 - Susan Sontag, American writer
* 2004 - Jerry Orbach, American actor
* 2003 - Benjamin Hacker, American admiral
* 2001 - William X. Kienzle, American novelist
* 2001 - Samuel A. Goldblith, American food scientist
* 1999 - Clayton Moore, American actor
* 1998 - Claudia Benton, Peruvian child psychologist
* 1994 - Jean-Louis Lévesque, French Canadian entrepreneur
* 1992 - Sal Maglie, American baseball player
* 1991 - Cassandra Harris, Australian actress
* 1989 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist
* 1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director
* 1984 - Sam Peckinpah, American film director
* 1983 - Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys)
* 1983 - Jimmy Demaret, American golfer
* 1983 - William Demarest, American actor
* 1981 - Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director
* 1976 - Freddie King, American musician
* 1976 - Katharine Byron, American politician
* 1971 - Max Steiner, Austrian-born American film music composer
* 1967 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist
* 1963 - Paul Hindemith, German composer
* 1962 - Kathleen Clifford, American actress
* 1952 - Fletcher Henderson, American musician
* 1949 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete
* 1947 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
* 1945 - Theodore Dreiser, American author
* 1943 - Steve Evans, American baseball player
* 1938 - Florence Lawrence, American actress
* 1937 - Maurice Ravel, French composer
* 1932 - Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer
* 1924 - Léon Bakst, Russian artist
* 1919 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist
* 1918 - Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet
* 1917 - Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace
* 1916 - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer
* 1900 - Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer
* 1877 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet
* 1872 - James Van Ness, Mayor of San Francisco (1855-1856)
* 1859 - Thomas Macaulay, British poet
* 1829 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist
* 1795 - Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist
* 1736 - Antonio Caldara, Italian composer
* 1734 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero
* 1715 - William Carstares, Scottish minister
* 1708 - Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, French botanist
* 1706 - Pierre Bayle, French philosopher
* 1703 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan
* 1694 - Queen Mary II of England (b. 1662), of the famed joint monarchy William and Mary.
* 1671 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar
* 1663 - Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist
* 1622 - Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint
* 1558 - Hermann Finck, German composer
* 1503 - Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence
* 1446 - Antipope Clement VIII
* 1367 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun
* 300 - Theonas, Patriarch of Alexandria