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June 28th
140 Notable deaths
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Indian scientist and statistician.
Born June 29th, 1893 in Kolkata.
Died June 28th, 1972 at 78 years old in Kolkata.
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).
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]
Mikhail Tal
Soviet-latvian chess player.
Born November 9th, 1936 in Riga.
Died June 28th, 1992 at 55 years old in Moscow (kidney failure).
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg
Wife of archduke franz ferdinand of austria.
Born March 1st, 1868 in Stuttgart. [ref]
Died June 28th, 1914 at 46 years old in Sarajevo (ballistic trauma). [ref]
Stanley Baker
Welsh actor and film producer (1928-1976).
Born February 28th, 1928 in Ferndale. [ref]
Died June 28th, 1976 at 48 years old in Málaga (pneumonia, lung cancer, cancer). [ref]
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]
Philippe Cousteau
French documentary filmmaker; son of jacques-yves cousteau.
Born December 30th, 1940 in Toulon. [ref]
Died June 28th, 1979 at 38 years old in Alverca do Ribatejo. [ref]
Scotty Moore
American musician (1931-2016).
Born December 27th, 1931 in Gadsden.
Died June 28th, 2016 at 84 years old in Nashville. [ref]
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Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore