15 October Deaths

Published : 15 Oct 2017, 11:06

Jagoroniya Desk

October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 77 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56).

Deaths

412 – Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria
892 – Al-Mu'tamid, Muslim caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate
898 – Lambert of Italy (b. 880)
912 – Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Spanish emir (b. 844)
925 – Rhazes, Persian polymath (b. 864)
961 – Abd-al-Rahman III, caliph of Córdoba
1002 – Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
1080 – Rudolf of Rheinfelden (b. 1025)
1173 – Petronilla of Aragon (b. 1135)
1326 – Walter de Stapledon, English bishop and politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1261)
1385 – Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow
1389 – Pope Urban VI (b. 1318)
1496 – Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (b. 1443)
1564 – Andreas Vesalius, Belgian-Greek anatomist, physician, and author (b. 1514)
1622 – Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (d. 1686)
1674 – Robert Herrick, English poet (b. 1591)
1690 – Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter and illustrator (b. 1622)
1715 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1675)
1788 – Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735)
1810 – Alfred Moore, American captain and judge (b. 1755)
1811 – Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (b. 1735)
1817 – Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (b. 1746)
1819 – Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1744)
1820 – Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (b. 1771)
1837 – Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (b. 1760)
1891 – Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English author and songwriter (b. 1837)
1900 – Zdeněk Fibich, Czech pianist and 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 guru and saint (b. 1838)
1930 – Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (b. 1866)
1934 – Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (b. 1860)
1940 – Lluís Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia (b. 1882)
1945 – Pierre Laval, French lawyer and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (b. 1883)
1946 – Hermann Göring, German general and politician (b. 1893)
1948 – Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
1955 – Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
1958 – Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1907)
1958 – Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (b. 1908)
1959 – Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (b. 1909)
1959 – Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1880)
1960 – Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (b. 1890)
1961 – Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (b. 1896)
1963 – Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (b. 1908)
1964 – Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (b. 1891)
1965 – Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
1966 – Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1876)
1968 – Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
1976 – Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1902)
1978 – W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (b. 1918)
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)
1983 – Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
1987 – Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949)
1987 – Donald Wandrei, American author and poet (b. 1908)
1988 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English pianist, composer, and critic (b. 1892)
1990 – Delphine Seyrig, French actress and director (b. 1932)
1993 – Aydın Sayılı, Turkish historian and academic (b. 1913)
1994 – Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic (b. 1934)
1995 – Bengt Åkerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1967)
1995 – Marco Campos, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1976)
1999 – Josef Locke, British-Irish soldier, policeman, tenor and actor (b. 1917)
2000 – Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
2000 – Vincent Canby, American journalist and critic (b. 1924)
2003 – Ben Metcalfe, Canadian journalist and activist (b. 1919)
2005 – Jason Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977)
2005 – Matti Wuori, Finnish lawyer and 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 soldier and poet (b. 1914)
2008 – Jack Narz, American game show host and announcer (b. 1922)
2009 – Heinz Versteeg, Dutch-German 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 lieutenant and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1920)
2012 – Erol Günaydın, Turkish actor and screenwriter (b. 1933)
2012 – Maria Petrou, Greek-English computer scientist and academic (b. 1953)
2012 – Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1922)
2012 – Pat Ward, American lawyer and politician (b. 1957)
2013 – Donald Bailey, American drummer (b. 1933)
2013 – Nevill Drury, English-Australian journalist and publisher (b. 1947)
2013 – Cancio Garcia, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1937)
2013 – Gloria Lynne, American singer (b. 1931)
2013 – Rudy Minarcin, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)
2013 – Hans Riegel, German businessman (b. 1923)
2014 – Giovanni Reale, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1931)
2014 – Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic designer (b. 1929)
2014 – Robert Tiernan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
2014 – Nobby Wirkowski, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1926)
2015 – Sergei Filippenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1971)
2015 – Nate Huffman, American basketball player (b. 1975)
2015 – Neill Sheridan, American baseball player (b. 1921)
2015 – Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian businessman and diplomat (b. 1934)
2015 – Tyrone Young, American football player (b. 1960)

Source: wikipedia

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