Famous Deaths on 15th April

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1053 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex
1220 - Adolf I, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1415 - Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian
1472 - Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Philodoxis), dies at 68
1502 - Jan IV Chalon, prince of Orange, dies
1607 - Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78
1610 - Johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond, dies at about 62
1621 - John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony
1632 - George Calvert, Proprietor of the Avalon (Maryland) Colony (b. 1580)
1641 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581)
1652 - Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church
1659 - Simon Dach, German poet, dies
1719 - Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer, dies at 76
1719 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
1754 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)
1756 - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer, dies at 29
1761 - Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)
1761 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696)
1764 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721) of tuberculosis aged 42
1765 - Michail v Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53
1788 - Giuseppi Bonno, composer, dies at 77
1793 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718)
1804 - Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)
1811 - Ernest Louis Muller, composer, dies at 70
1824 - Theodorus F van Capellen, vice-admiral (Algiers), dies at 61
1853 - Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer, dies at 67
1854 - Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773)
1863 - Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer, dies at 90
US President Abraham Lincoln (1865) 1865 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th American president, dies from gunshot wound at 56
1866 - William Jackson, composer, dies at 51
1888 - Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65
1889 - Father Damien, Belgian missionary (b. 1840)
1891 - Stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49
1898 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
1911 - Georg Knorr, German engineer, dies
1912 - Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850)
1912 - John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (b. 1864)
1912 - William T. Stead American author and journalist. (b. 1849)
1916 - Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanist, dies at 75
1920 - Jacob van Stolk Azn, art collector, dies at 74
1924 - Eduardo Caudella, composer, dies at 82
1925 - John Singer Sargent, US portrait painter, dies at 69
1926 - Frank Iredale, cricketer (14 Tests for Aust, 807 runs at 36 68), dies
Poet/Critic Matthew Arnold (1888) 1927 - Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47
1927 - Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868)
1929 - Antonio Smareglia, composer, dies at 74
1937 - Nikolai Artzibushev, composer, dies at 79
1938 - Caesar Vallejo, Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia & 1931), dies at 46
1942 - Robert Musil, Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), dies at 61
1943 - Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer, dies at 62
1943 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1882)
1947 - Wolstenholme, rocker, dies
1948 - Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (d. 1892)
1949 - Wallace Beery, US actor (The Champ), dies at 64
1954 - Juan Vicente Lecuna, composer, dies at 54
1956 - Emile Nolde [Hansen], German painter (Grablegung Christi), dies at 88
1957 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
1958 - Estelle Taylor, dies at 64
1962 - Clara Blandick, committed suicide at 80
1962 - Esther Minciotti, dies at 74
1962 - Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (b. 1911)
1963 - Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (b. 1903)
1965 - Syd Chaplin, dies at 80
1966 - Joseph Crehan, dies of stroke at 81
1967 - Antonio de Curtis Toto, comedian, dies of heart attack at 69
1968 - Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer, dies at 73
1969 - Victoria von Battenberg, wife of Spanish king Alfonso, dies at 81
1970 - Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1971 - Dan Reeves, American football team owner (b. 1912)
1972 - Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64
1974 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
1975 - Charles Marshall, dies
1975 - John B McKay, US test pilot (X-15), dies
1975 - Richard Conte, actor (Four Just Men, Jean Arthur Show), dies at 65
1976 - Gerald Smith, antisemite/catholic (Natl Christian Crusade), dies at 78
Writer Jean-Paul Sartre (1980) 1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher and writer (Nobel 1964), dies in Paris at 74
1980 - Marshall Reed, actor (Fred Asher-Lineup), dies at 62
1980 - Paul Langton, actor (Leslie-Peyton Place), dies at 76
1980 - Raymond Bailey, actor (Mr Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 75
1981 - French Duynstee, Dutch states rights leader, dies at 67
1982 - 5 murderers, of Egyptian pres Sadat, executed
1982 - Arthur Lowe, Brits actor (Capt Mainwaring in Dad's army), dies at 66
1982 - Louis M de Guiringaud, Fren forgn min (1976-78), commits suicide at 70
1983 - Gyula Illyes, Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80
1983 - Rodolfo Hoyos, actor (Luis-Viva Valdez), dies at 68
1983 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892)
1984 - Tommy Cooper, comedian, dies at 61
1984 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
1986 - Jean Genet, French criminal/novelist/dramatist, dies at 75
1986 - Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut, dies at 76
1986 - Tim McIntire, actor (Bob Younger-Legend of Jesse James), dies at 42
1988 - Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, Dutch poet (Zandloper), dies at 81
1988 - Kenneth Williams, dies at 61
1988 - Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (b. 1954)
1989 - Charles Vanel, dies at 96
1989 - Hu Yaobang, general sec of Chinese Commnist Party, dies
1989 - Nesuhi Ertegün, American record executive (b. 1917)
Actress Greta Garbo (1990) 1990 - Greta Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84
1991 - Marjorie Warfield, dies at 88
1991 - Martin Ashe, dies
1993 - George Ives, dies at 111
1993 - H H "Bull" Alexander, cricketer (Test for Aust 1933, avg 154), dies
1993 - Leslie Charteris, British mystery writer (Saint), dies at 85
1993 - William Bakewell, dies of leukemia at 84
1993 - John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (b. 1908)
1994 - John Curry, English figure skater (Oly-gold-76), dies of AIDS at 44
1995 - Cleo Brown, pianist, dies at 91
1995 - Denis Harding, soldier, dies at 79
1997 - Sam Moskowitz, SF fandom historian, dies at 76
1997 - Zdenek Mlynar, Sec of Czech Communist Central Committee (1968), dies
1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925)
1999 - Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer (b. 1944)
2000 - Edward Gorey, American illustrator (b. 1925)
2001 - Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
2002 - Damon Knight, American author (b. 1922)
2002 - Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917)
2003 - Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (b. 1941)
2003 - Reg Bundy, British performer (b. 1941)
2004 - Ray Condo, Canadian musician (b. 1950)
2005 - John Fred, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 - Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
2008 - Krister Stendahl, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop (b. 1921)
2008 - Benoît Lamy, Belgian Movie Director (b. 1945)
2009 - Clement Freud, British writer, broadcaster and former liberal MP (b.1924)
2010 - Jack Herer, American author and cannabis activist (b. 1939)
2011 - Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian peace activist (b. 1975)
2012 - Murray Rose, Australian Olympic gold winning swimmer, dies from leukemia at 73
2013 - Sal Castro, Mexican-American activist, dies from thyroid cancer at 79
2013 - Richard LeParmentier, American actor, dies at 66