October 15 - Deaths

Deaths

• 898 – Lambert II of Spoleto (b. 880)
• 912 – Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Spanish emperor (b. 844)
• 1080 – Rudolf of Rheinfelden (b. 1025)
• 1326 – Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (b. 1261)
• 1389 – Pope Urban VI (b. 1318)
• 1564 – Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (b. 1514)
• 1715 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (b. 1675)
• 1788 – Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735)
• 1810 – Alfred Moore, American judge (b. 1755)
• 1811 – Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (b. 1735)
• 1817 – Tadeusz Kościuszko, Lithuanian-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)
• 1891 – Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English author (b. 1837)
• 1900 – Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer (b. 1850)
• 1910 – Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (b. 1886)
• 1917 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer (b. 1876)
• 1918 – Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian guru (b. 1838)
• 1930 – Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (b. 1866)
• 1934 – Emil Beyer, American gymnast (b. 1876)
• 1934 – Raymond Poincaré, French politician, President of France (b. 1860)
• 1945 – Pierre Laval, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1883)
• 1946 – Hermann Göring, German nazi politician (b. 1893)
• 1948 – Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
• 1955 – Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
• 1959 – Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1880)
• 1960 – Clara Kimball Young, American actress (b. 1890)
• 1961 – Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (b. 1896)
• 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, English politician (b. 1876)
• 1976 – Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mobster (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, English race car driver (b. 1907)
• 1987 – Thomas Sankara, Burkinan military officer and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949)
• 1988 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer, music critic, pianist, and writer (b. 1892)
• 1994 – Sarah Kofman, French philosopher (b. 1934)
• 1995 – Bengt Åkerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1967)
• 1995 – Marco Campos, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1976)
• 1999 – Josef Locke, Irish tenor (b. 1917)
• 2000 – Konrad Emil Bloch, Prussian-American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2000 – Vincent Canby, American critic (b. 1924)
• 2001 – Zhang Xueliang, Chinese warlord (b. 1901)
• 2003 – Ben Metcalfe, Canadian journalist and activist (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Jason Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977)
• 2005 – Matti Wuori, Finnish politician (b. 1945)
• 2007 – Piet Boukema, Dutch jurist and politician (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Edie Adams, American actress and singer (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish poet (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Jack Narz, American game show host (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Heinz Versteeg, Dutch footballer (b. 1939)
• 2010 – Richard C. Miller, American photographer (b. 1912)
• 2010 – Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and activist (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Johnny Sheffield, American actor (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Betty Driver, English actress, singer, and author (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Claude Cheysson, French politician (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Patrick R. Cooney, American bishop (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Erol Günaydın, Turkish actor (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian king and politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Pat Ward, American politician (b. 1957)