June 15 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 923 – Robert I of France (b. 866)
  • 991 – Theophanu, Byzantine wife of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 960)
  • 1073 – Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (b. 1034)
  • 1246 – Frederick II, Duke of Austria (b. 1219)
  • 1341 – Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1297)
  • 1381 – John Cavendish, English lawyer and educator (b. 1346)
  • 1381 – Wat Tyler, English leader of the Peasants' Revolt (b. 1341)
  • 1383 – John VI Kantakouzenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1292)
  • 1389 – Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1326)
  • 1389 – Lazar of Serbia, Serbian saint (b. 1329)
  • 1467 – Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396)
  • 1521 – Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)
  • 1560 – William Sommers, English jester (b.1525)
  • 1614 – Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)
  • 1679 – Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
  • 1724 – Henry Sacheverell, English clergyman 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 K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)
  • 1858 – Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter (b. 1795)
  • 1888 – Frederick III, German Emperor (b. 1831)
  • 1889 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (b. 1850)
  • 1890 – Unryū Kyūkichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 10th Yokozuna (b. 1822)
  • 1917 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
  • 1934 – Alfred Bruneau, French composer (b. 1857)
  • 1938 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter and print-maker (b. 1880)
  • 1941 – Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873)
  • 1941 – Evelyn Underhill, English writer (b. 1875)
  • 1961 – Giulio Cabianca, Italian race car driver (b. 1923)
  • 1962 – Alfred Cortot, French-Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1877)
  • 1965 – Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917)
  • 1965 – E. A. Speiser, American scholar (b. 1902)
  • 1968 – Sam Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1880)
  • 1968 – Wes Montgomery, American guitarist (b. 1925)
  • 1971 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
  • 1976 – Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
  • 1983 – Sri Sri, Telugu poet and lyricist (b. 1910)
  • 1984 – Meredith Willson, American composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright (b. 1902)
  • 1985 – Andy Stanfield, American sprinter (b. 1927)
  • 1985 – Robert Stethem, American Seabee diver (b. 1961)
  • 1989 – Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
  • 1989 – Victor French, American actor (b. 1934)
  • 1991 – Happy Chandler, American businessman and politician, 49th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1898)
  • 1991 – Arthur Lewis, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
  • 1993 – John Connally, American politician (b. 1917)
  • 1993 – James Hunt, English race car driver (b. 1947)
  • 1994 – Manos Hatzidakis, Greek composer and theorist (b. 1925)
  • 1995 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and inventor, invented the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (b. 1903)
  • 1996 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
  • 1996 – Dick Murdoch, American wrestler (b. 1946)
  • 2000 – Jules Roy, French writer (b. 1907)
  • 2001 – Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (b. 1909)
  • 2001 – Maria Foka, Greek actress (b. 1917)
  • 2002 – Choi Hong Hi, South Korean army general and martial artist, founder of Taekwondo (b. 1918)
  • 2003 – Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (b. 1911)
  • 2005 – Suzanne Flon, French actress (b. 1918)
  • 2006 – Raymond Devos, Belgian-French comedian (b. 1922)
  • 2006 – Herb Pearson, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1910)
  • 2007 – Claudia Cohen, American columnist and journalist (b. 1950)
  • 2007 – Sherri Martel, American wrestler and manager (b. 1958)
  • 2008 – Stan Winston, American makeup artist and director (b. 1946)
  • 2011 – Bill Haast, American herpetologist (b. 1910)
  • 2012 – Günther Domenig, Austrian architect (b. 1934)
  • 2012 – Barry MacKay, American tennis player (b. 1935)
  • 2012 – Albino Mamede Cleto, Portuguese bishop (b. 1935)
  • 2012 – Alan Saunders, English-Australian broadcaster and philosopher (b. 1954)
  • 2012 – Jerry Tubbs, American football player (b. 1935)

Read more about this topic:  June 15

Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)

    “This is the 184th Demonstration.
    ...
    What we do is not beautiful
    hurts no one makes no one desperate
    we do not break the panes of safety glass
    stretching between people on the street
    and the deaths they hire.”
    —Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)