October 15 - Deaths

Deaths

• 412 – Pope Theophilus of Alexandria
• 898 – Lambert, Holy Roman Emperor
• 912 – Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Spanish-born Moor religious figure (b. 844)
• 1002 – Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
• 1080 – Rudolf of Rheinfelden, German noble (b.c. 1025)
• 1326 – Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (b. 1261)
• 1389 – Pope Urban VI
• 1564 – Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (b. 1514)
• 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 judrist (b. 1755)
• 1811 – Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (b. 1735)
• 1817 – Tadeusz Kościuszko, Lithuanian-born Polish military officer (b. 1746)
• 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)
• 1880 – Victorio, Apache leader
• 1891 – Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (b. 1837)
• 1900 – Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer (b. 1850)
• 1910 – Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (b. 1886)
• 1917 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)
• 1918 – Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian religious figure (b. c. 1838)
• 1930 – Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (b. 1866)
• 1934 – Raymond Poincaré, French statesman (b. 1860)
• 1945 – Pierre Laval, French politician (b. 1883)
• 1946 – Hermann Göring, German Nazi official (b. 1893)
• 1948 – Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
• 1959 – Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1880)
• 1960 – Clara Kimball Young, American actress (b. 1890)
• 1963 – Horton Smith. American golfer (b. 1908)
• 1964 – Cole Porter, American composer (b. 1891)
• 1965 – Abraham Fraenkel, Israeli mathematician (b. 1891)
• 1966 – Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, British politician (b. 1876)
• 1976 – Carlo Gambino, American organized crime figure (b. 1902)
• 1980 – Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1980 – Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896)
• 1981 – Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (b. 1907)
• 1987 – Thomas Sankara, Burkinan military officer and politician (b. 1949)
• 1988 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (b. 1892)
• 1994 – Sarah Kofman, French philosopher (b. 1934)
• 1995 – Bengt Åkerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1967)
• 1995 – Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1976)
• 1999 – Josef Locke, Irish-born tenor (b. 1917)
• 2000 – Konrad Emil Bloch, Prussian-born American biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
• 2001 – Zhang Xueliang, Chinese head of state (b. 1901)
• 2003 – Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Ben Metcalfe, Canadian environmental activist (b. 1919)
• 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 actress (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Jack Narz, American game show host (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Richard C. Miller, American photographer (b. 1912)
• 2010 – Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and pro-life activist (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Johnny Sheffield, American actor (b. 1931)