February 15 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1145 – Pope Lucius II
• 1621 – Michael Praetorius, German composer (b. 1571)
• 1637 – Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1578)
• 1738 – Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
• 1775 – Peter Dens, Flemish Catholic theologian (b. 1690)
• 1781 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (b. 1729)
• 1818 – Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (b. 1746)
• 1835 – Henry Hunt, British politician (b. 1773)
• 1839 – Chevalier de Lorimier, Quebec notary (b. 1803)
• 1843 – Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek military figure (b. 1770)
• 1844 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1757)
• 1847 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1794)
• 1848 – Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (b. 1771)
• 1849 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (b. 1804)
• 1857 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (b. 1804)
• 1869 – Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796)
• 1905 – Lew Wallace, Union general in the American Civil War and novelist (b. 1827)
• 1911 – Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (b. 1859)
• 1924 – Lionel Monckton, English composer for the musical theatre (b. 1861)
• 1928 – H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
• 1932 – Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (b. 1865)
• 1939 – Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter (b. 1878)
• 1956 – Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney (b. 1878)
• 1959 – Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1879)
• 1961 – Bradley Lord, American figure skater (b. 1939)
• 1961 – Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
• 1964 – Robert L. Thornton, American businessman and politician (b. 1880)
• 1965 – Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
• 1966 – Camilo Torres Restrepo, Colombian Roman Catholic priest, member of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group (b. 1929)
• 1966 – Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect (b. 1909)
• 1970 – Sir Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (b. 1882)
• 1971 – Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast (b. 1885)
• 1973 – Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1973 – Tim Holt, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1974 – Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
• 1981 – Mike Bloomfield, American musician (b. 1943)
• 1981 – Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926)
• 1984 – Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908)
• 1988 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1918)
• 1992 – María Elena Moyano, Peruvian activist (b. 1960)
• 1992 – William Schuman, American composer (b. 1910)
• 1996 – Tommy Rettig, American actor (b. 1941)
• 1996 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1996 – Lucio Agostini, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1913)
• 1998 – Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician (b. 1919)
• 1998 – Louie Spicolli, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
• 1999 – Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
• 1999 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Howard K. Smith, American journalist (b. 1914)
• 2002 – Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
• 2004 – Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and jurist (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Jan Miner, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Samuel T. Francis, American journalist (b. 1947)
• 2005 – Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
• 2007 – Walker Edmiston, actor (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Ray Evans, American songwriter (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Amnon Netzer, Iranian-Israeli historian (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Ashley Callie, South African actress (b. 1976)
• 2009 – Joe Cuba, Puerto-Rican musician (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Dr. Diether H. Haenicke, university president (b. 1935)