March 15 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 44 BC – Julius Caesar, Roman general and statesman (b. 100 BC)
  • 220 – Cao Cao, King of Wei (b. 155)
  • 493 – Odoacer, King of Italy (b. 435)
  • 1145 – Pope Lucius II
  • 1311 – at the battle of the Cephissus:
    • Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens
    • Thomas III d'Autremencourt, Lord of Salona, Marshal of Achaea
    • Albert Pallavicini, Margrave of Bodonitza
    • Giorgio I Ghisi, Triarch of Euboea, Lord of Tinos, Mykonos, Serifos and Keos
  • 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 – Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
  • 1898 – Sir Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813)
  • 1937 – H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
  • 1938 – Nikolai Bukharin, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician (b. 1888)
  • 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 – Charles Bartliff, American soccer player (b. 1886)
  • 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 33rd 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 – Hubert Aquin, Canadian novelist, political activist and editor (b. 1929)
  • 1977 – Antonino Rocca, Argentine professional wrestler (b. 1927)
  • 1981 – René Clair, French film director (b. 1898)
  • 1983 – Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Romanian football midfielder and manager (b. 1905)
  • 1983 – Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892)
  • 1985 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (b. 1921)
  • 1986 – Alexandru Giugaru, Romanian actor (b. 1897)
  • 1987 – Douglas Abbott, Canadian politician (b. 1899)
  • 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)
  • 1999 – Guy D'Artois, Canadian army officer (b. 1917)
  • 2001 – Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
  • 2003 – Dame Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911)
  • 2003 – Paul Stojanovich, Reality TV producer (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 and actor (b. 1951)
  • 2008 – Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
  • 2009 – Ron Silver, American actor (b. 1946)
  • 2011 – Smiley Culture, British reggae singer (b. 1963)
  • 2011 – Nate Dogg, American rapper (213) (b. 1969)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “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)

    “On almost the incendiary eve
    Of deaths and entrances ...”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)