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)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

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

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “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)