June 15 - Deaths

Deaths

• 923 – King Robert I of France (b. 866)
• 991 – Empress Theophanu, Byzantine wife of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 960)
• 1073 – Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (b. 1034)
• 1246 – Duke Frederick II of Austria (b. 1219)
• 1341 – Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1297)
• 1381 – John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. c. 1346)
• 1381 – Wat Tyler, English rebel (b. 1341)
• 1383 – John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. c. 1292)
• 1389 – Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1326)
• 1389 – Prince Lazar, Serbian Orthodox saint (b. 1329)
• 1467 – Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396)
• 1521 – Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)
• 1560 – William Sommers, Best known court jester of Henry VIII of England (b.1525)
• 1614 – Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)
• 1679 – Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
• 1724 – Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674)
• 1768 – James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
• 1772 – Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (b. 1694)
• 1844 – Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (b. 1777)
• 1849 – James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)
• 1858 – Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter (b. 1795)
• 1888 – Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (b. 1831)
• 1889 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (b. 1850)
• 1890 – Unryū Kyūkichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 10^th Yokozuna (b. 1822)
• 1917 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
• 1934 – Alfred Bruneau, French composer (b. 1857)
• 1941 – Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875)
• 1941 – Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873)
• 1961 – Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
• 1962 – Alfred Cortot, French-Swiss pianist (b. 1877)
• 1965 – E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902)
• 1965 – Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1968 – Sam Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1880)
• 1968 – Wes Montgomery, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1971 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
• 1976 – Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
• 1983 – Srirangam Srinivasarao (Sri Sri), Indian Telugu poet (b. 1910)
• 1984 – Meredith Willson, American composer (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Andy Stanfield, American sprinter (b. 1927)
• 1985 – Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (b. 1961)
• 1989 – Victor French, American actor (b. 1934)
• 1989 – Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
• 1991 – Happy Chandler, American politician and commissioner of baseball (b. 1898)
• 1993 – John Connally, American politician (b. 1917)
• 1993 – James Hunt, English racing driver and 1976 Formula One world champion (b. 1947)
• 1994 – Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925)
• 1995 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (b. 1903)
• 1996 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
• 1996 – Dick Murdoch, American professional wrestler (b. 1946)
• 2000 – Jules Roy, French writer (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (b. 1909)
• 2002 – Choi Hong Hi, South Korean founder of Taekwondo (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Suzanne Flon, French actress (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Raymond Devos, French humourist (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Herb Pearson, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1910)
• 2007 – Claudia Cohen, American gossip columnist and socialite (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler and valet (b. 1958)
• 2008 – Stan Winston, American special effects and makeup artist, and film director (b. 1946)