March 15 - Deaths

Deaths

• 44 BC – Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC)
• 220 – Cao Cao, King of Wei (b. 155)
• 493 – Odoacer, King of Italy (b. 435)
• 1145 – Pope Lucius II
• 1311 – Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens
• 1416 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)
• 1536 – Pargalı İbrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier under Suleiman the Magnificent
• 1575 – Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527)
• 1644 – Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (b. 1576)
• 1670 – John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597)
• 1673 – Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (b. 1615)
• 1701 – Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
• 1711 – Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645)
• 1820 – Clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (b. 1751)
• 1842 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (b. 1760)
• 1849 – Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
• 1891 – Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
• 1891 – Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
• 1898 – Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813)
• 1937 – H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
• 1941 – Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
• 1951 – John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1889)
• 1957 – Ernst Nobs, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1886)
• 1959 – Lester Young, American musician (b. 1909)
• 1962 – Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1966 – Abe Saperstein, American basketball executive (b. 1902)
• 1969 – Miles Malleson, British actor and dramatist (b. 1888)
• 1969 – Musashiyama Takeshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 33^rd Yokozuna (b. 1909)
• 1970 – Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (b. 1897)
• 1971 – Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)
• 1972 – Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910)
• 1975 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1900)
• 1977 – Antonino Rocca, Argentine professional wrestler (b. 1927)
• 1977 – Hubert Aquin, Quebec novelist, political activist and editor (b. 1929)
• 1981 – René Clair, French film director (b. 1898)
• 1983 – Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892)
• 1983 – Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Romanian football midfielder and manager (b. 1905)
• 1985 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (b. 1921)
• 1988 – Dmitri Polyakov, Soviet double-agent (b. 1926)
• 1989 – Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915)
• 1989 – Valerie Quennessen, French actress (b. 1957)
• 1990 – Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (b. 1958)
• 1990 – Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)
• 1991 – Bud Freeman, American jazz musician (b. 1906)
• 1997 – Gail Davis, American actress (b. 1925)
• 1997 – Victor Vasarely, Hungarian painter (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
• 2001 – Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
• 2003 – Dame Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911)
• 2003 – Paul Stojanovich, Reality TV pioneer (b. 1956)
• 2004 – Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910)
• 2004 – John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Bob Bellear, Australian judge (b. 1944)
• 2005 – Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (b. 1927)
• 2006 – George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Stuart Rosenberg, American film and television director (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Mikey Dread, Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
• 2008 – Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer, TV shows announcer (b. 1951)
• 2008 – Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Ron Silver, American actor (b. 1946)