Famous Deaths on 15th October
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412 - Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria
892 - Al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies
898 - Lambert, Holy Roman Emperor
912 - Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Córdoba
1002 - Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
1080 - Rudolf von Schwaben, German anti-King, dies
1080 - Rudolf of Rheinfeld, Duke of Swabia
1268 - Dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies
1271 - Hostiensis, [Henricus the Segusia], cardinal/bishop of Ostia, dies
1326 - Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (b. 1261)
1389 - Urbanus VI, [Bartolomeo Prignano], Italian pope (1378-89), dies
1389 - Pope Urban VI
1512 - Antoon Keldermans, Flem builder (Middelburg town hall), dies at 72
1524 - Joachim Patinir, Flemish landscape painter, dies at about 45
1539 - Reynier Brunt, procureur-general of Court of Holland, dies
1595 - Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch E indies poet, dies at 48
1605 - Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, Mogol keizer of India (1556-1605), dies at 63
1682 - John Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 56
1715 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (b. 1675)
1730 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658)
1788 - Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735)
1810 - Alfred Moore, American judge (b. 1755)
1811 - Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (b. 1735)
1817 - Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish lt-general/freedom fighter, dies
1819 - F Louise W, daughter of viceroy Willem V, dies at 48
1819 - Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
1820 - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (b. 1771)
1837 - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet (b. 1760)
1883 - Francesco Schira, composer, dies at 74
1891 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (b. 1837)
1900 - Zdenek Fibich, composer, dies at 49
1910 - Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, heavy weight boxing champ, shot & killed
1914 - Aleksander Rozycki, composer, dies at 69
1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris
1918 - Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian saint (b. circa 1838)
1930 - Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (b. 1866)
1934 - Raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74
1937 - James Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail) dies at 70
1942 - Dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed
1944 - Philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau
1945 - Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62
1946 - Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison
1948 - Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
1955 - Fumio Hayasaka, composer, dies at 41
1958 - Jack Mason, cricketer (England all-rounder v Australia 1897-98), dies
1958 - John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist, dies at 72
1958 - John Hamilton, actor (Perry White-Superman), dies at 61
1959 - Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1880)
1960 - Clara Kimball Young, actress (Return of Chandu), dies of stroke at 70
1960 - Henny Porten, silent screen actress (Mother Love), dies at 70
1960 - Maude Eburne, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman), dies at 84
1963 - Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French writer (Ecoute Israel), dies
1963 - Horton Smith. American golfer (b. 1908)
1964 - Cole Porter, composer (Still of the Night), dies at 73
1965 - Carl Hoff, orch leader (Music Hall), dies at 60
1968 - Bea Benaderet, NYC, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction), dies at 62
1968 - Franz Reizenstein, composer, dies at 57
1969 - Rod[erique] La Rocque, US western actor (Mystery Woman), dies
1969 - Shermake, president of (Somalia), murdered
1976 - Carlo Gambino, US gangster, dies at 74
1977 - Ralph Truman, actor (Henry V, Treasure Island), dies at 77
1980 - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
1980 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896)
1981 - Frank DeKova, actor (Chief Wild Eagle-F Troop), dies
1981 - Justin Jud Strunk Jr, comedian (Laugh In), dies at 48
1981 - Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (b. 1907)
1982 - Elsie Randolph, actress (That'll Make You Whistle), dies
1983 - Pat O'Brien, actor (Some like it hot), dies of heart attack at 83
1985 - Meret Oppenheim, writer, dies at 72
1987 - Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies
1990 - Delphine Seyrig, dies of lung disease at 58
1990 - Leonard Bernstein, composer (West Side Story), dies at 72
1991 - Hotze de Roos, carpenter/kid book writer (Chameleon series), dies
1992 - Dorothy Helen Baker, mother of Diane Baker, dies at 78
1993 - Ken E Jones, musician (New Amsterdam Symph Orch), dies of AIDS at 34
1994 - Hannes Wustinger, Austrian race car driver, dies at 29
1994 - Karl Edward Wagner, writer, dies at 48
1994 - Sarah Kofman, philosopher, dies at 60
1994 - Wilhelmus HL "Willem" Tollenaar, actor/director (Elkerlyc), dies at 82
1995 - Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant, dies at 82
1995 - Phil Sidey, broadcaster, dies at 69
1996 - Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer, dies at 69
2000 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
2001 - Zhang Xueliang, Chinese ruler of Manchuria (b. 1901)
2003 - Ben Metcalfe, Canadian environmental activist (b. 1919)
2003 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2005 - Jason Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977)
2005 - Matti Wuori, Finnish politician (b. 1945)
2008 - Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish poet (b. 1914)
2008 - Edie Adams, American singer and Broadway actress (b. 1927)
2008 - Jack Narz, American game show host (b. 1922)
