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June 28th
165 Notable deaths
Frank Sutton
American actor (1923-1974).
Born October 23rd, 1923 in Clarksville.
Died June 28th, 1974 at 50 years old in Shreveport (myocardial infarction).
Vannevar Bush
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890–1974).
Born March 11th, 1890 in Everett. [ref]
Died June 28th, 1974 at 84 years old in Belmont (pneumonia). [ref]
Chris Squire
British musician.
Born March 4th, 1948 in Kingsbury.
Died June 28th, 2015 at 67 years old in Phoenix (acute erythroid leukemia).
Meshach Taylor
American actor (1947-2014).
Born April 11th, 1947 in Boston.
Died June 28th, 2014 at 67 years old in Altadena (colorectal cancer).
Mikhail Tal
Soviet-latvian chess player.
Born November 9th, 1936 in Riga.
Died June 28th, 1992 at 55 years old in Moscow (kidney failure).
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Indian scientist and statistician.
Born June 29th, 1893 in Kolkata.
Died June 28th, 1972 at 78 years old in Kolkata.
Kamala Sohonie
Indian biochemist. first indian woman to get her ph.d in a scientific discipline.
Born September 14th, 1912 in Indore.
Died June 28th, 1998 at 85 years old in New Delhi.
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg
Wife of archduke franz ferdinand of austria (1868–1914).
Born March 1st, 1868 in Stuttgart.
Died June 28th, 1914 at 46 years old in Sarajevo (gunshot wound).
Stanley Baker
Welsh actor (1928–1976).
Born February 28th, 1928 in Ferndale.
Died June 28th, 1976 at 48 years old in Málaga (pneumonia, cancer, lung cancer).
Franz Stangl
Austrian-born ss officer, commandant at first sobibór extermination camp and then treblinka extermination camp (1908-1971).
Born March 26th, 1908 in Altmünster. [ref]
Died June 28th, 1971 at 63 years old in Düsseldorf (heart failure). [ref]
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