August 15 - Deaths

Deaths

• 423 – Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (b. 384)
• 778 – Roland, Frankish commander
• 1038 – King Stephen I of Hungary
• 1057 – Macbeth, King of Scotland
• 1118 – Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1048)
• 1196 – Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)
• 1274 – Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and educator (b. 1201)
• 1369 – Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of Edward III of England
• 1528 – Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485)
• 1552 – Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)
• 1621 – John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582)
• 1666 – Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
• 1714 – Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1654)
• 1728 – Marin Marais, French composer and viol player (b. 1656)
• 1758 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (b. 1698)
• 1799 – Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (b. 1729)
• 1852 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (b. 1760)
• 1859 – Nathaniel Claiborne, American politician (b. 1777)
• 1880 – Adelaide Neilson, English actress (b. 1848)
• 1907 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)
• 1909 – Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (b. 1866)
• 1917 – Thomas J. Higgins, American Union Army soldier (b. 1831)
• 1925 – Konrad Mägi, Estonian artist (b. 1878)
• 1931 – Nigar Shikhlinskaya, Azerbaijani WWI nurse (b. ca. 1878)
• 1935 – Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898)
• 1935 – Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (b. 1879)
• 1935 – Paul Signac, French painter (b. 1863)
• 1936 – Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1871)
• 1942 – Mahadev Desai, personal secretary of Mahatma Gandhi (b.1892)
• 1945 – Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (b. 1887)
• 1951 – Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (b. 1882)
• 1953 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
• 1959 – Blind Willie McTell, American singer (b. 1901)
• 1962 – Lei Feng, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1940)
• 1967 – René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
• 1971 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1887)
• 1975 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladeshi statesman (b. 1920)
• 1975 – Clay Shaw, American lawyer and John F. Kennedy assassination investigator (b. 1913)
• 1982 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903)
• 1989 – Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek Army officer (b. 1897)
• 1990 – Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician (b. 1962)
• 1995 – John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (b. 1906)
• 1999 – Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and artist (b. 1910)
• 2001 – Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (b. 1972)
• 2003 – Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish songwriter and singer (heart attack) (b. 1957)
• 2004 – Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Semiha Berksoy, first Turkish opera singer (b. 1910)
• 2004 – Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (b. 1941)
• 2005 – Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Te Atairangi Kaahu, Māori queen (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Rick Bourke, Australian rugby league player (b. c. 1955)
• 2006 – Coenraad Bron, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1937)
• 2006 – Faas Wilkes, Dutch international footballer (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Richard Bradshaw, British opera conductor, (b. 1944)
• 2007 – John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Geoffrey Orbell, New Zealand bush walker (b. 1908)
• 2007 – Sam Pollock, Canadian sports executive (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Jerry Wexler, American music producer (b. 1917)
• 2008 – James Orthwein, American businessman (b. 1924)
• 2008 – Leroy Sievers, American journalist (b. 1955)
• 2008 – Vic Toweel, South African boxer (b. 1929)