Notable Deaths on December 15th
December 15th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1025 |
Basilius II, the Bulgarendoder, Byzantine emperor (976-1025), dies |
1072 |
Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan in Persia (b. 1029) |
1230 |
Ottokar I, king of Bohemia (1197-1230), dies |
1263 |
King Haakon IV of Norway (b. 1204) |
1515 |
Alfonso de Albuquerque, viceroy of Portuguese Indies, dies |
1576 |
Joachim Hopperus, [Hoppers], Frisian lawyer/politician, dies at 53 |
1598 |
Philip van Marnix, Flemish ruler of St Aldegonde/poet, dies at 58 |
1621 |
Charles d'albert duke of Luynes/PM of France, dies at 43 |
1626 |
Adriaen de Vries, Dutch sculptor/painter, dies at about 70 |
1673 |
Margaret Cavendish, English writer (b. 1623) |
1675 |
Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter (Love Letter), dies at 43 |
1683 |
Izaak Walton, English writer (b. 1593) |
1688 |
Gaspar Fagel, lawyer/Neth grand pensionary (1672-88), dies at 54 |
1699 |
Henrik A van Reede tot Drakenstein, Dutch botanist, dies at about 63 |
1712 |
Sidney 1st earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance, dies at 67 |
1715 |
George Hickes, English linguist (Old German Philology), dies at 73 |
1753 |
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (b. 1694) |
1779 |
Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer, dies at 62 |
1792 |
Joseph Martin Kraus, composer, dies at 36 |
1816 |
Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 44 |
1817 |
Maria Walewska [Leszczinska], lover of emperor Napoleon I, dies |
1822 |
Ferenc Verseghy, composer, dies at 65 |
1826 |
William Browser, revolting slave, executed in NYC |
1831 |
Paul R Cantzlaar, gov of Saba/Curacao/Dutch-West Indies, dies at 60 |
1839 |
Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish court-painter, dies at 66 |
1855 |
Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803) |
1861 |
Gualtiero Sanelli, composer, dies at 45 |
1880 |
Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Ital minister of Justice, dies at 76 |
1889 |
Ferdinand II A F A, King of Portugal, dies at 73 |
1890 |
Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), killed by US Police aged 58 or 59 |
1892 |
Charles Balmer, composer, dies at 75 |
1896 |
John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67 |
1901 |
Elias Alvares Lobo, composer, dies at 67 |
1909 |
Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer, dies at 57 |
1909 |
Francisco Tárrega, Sideways |
1927 |
Romaine Fielding, The Rattlesnake |
1930 |
Diane Ellis, Laughter |
1934 |
Maggis Lena Walker, 1st US (black) woman to head a bank, dies at 69 |
1935 |
Henry Krauss, Poil de carotte |
1938 |
Armando Novello, Toto's Troubles |
1939 |
Tom McKibbin, cricketer (5 Tests for Aust 1895-1898, 17 wkts), dies |
1940 |
William H. Terhune, Babes in Toyland |
1942 |
William T. Horne, Half a Hero |
1943 |
Thomas W "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 39 in KC Missouri |
1943 |
Fats Waller, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
1943 |
Emilie Giesrau, Aufruhr im Damenstift |
1944 |
Glenn Miller, US band leader/jazz composer, dies at 40 |
1944 |
Gérard Bourgeois, Terror |
1944 |
William Grimes, Camille |
1944 |
Glenn Miller, The Aviator |
1945 |
Karl Haacker, Covered Tracks |
1945 |
Arnold Lucy, All Quiet on the Western Front |
1946 |
Conrad Haebler, historian (Hundert Kalenderinkunabeln), dies at 89 |
1946 |
Gordon Frederic Norton, composer, dies at 77 |
1946 |
A. Bromley Davenport, Jamaica Inn |
1946 |
Bill Madsen, The Pinch Singer |
1946 |
Frederick Norton, Chu-Chin-Chow |
1947 |
Arthur Machen, Welsh author (b. 1863) |
1947 |
Leo Samwell, Thundering Fleas |
1948 |
Arthur Wanzer, The Gossipy Plumber |
1949 |
Aladár Sarkadi, A Papagály |
1949 |
A. Carle Palm, The Drums of Jeopardy |
1950 |
Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer, dies at 66 |
1950 |
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader, Iron Man of India (b. 1875) |
1950 |
Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Congress Session in Bombay |
1950 |
Josep Maria Folch i Torres, Les aventures d'en Massagran IV |
1951 |
Eric Drummond, 1st sec-gen League of Nations (1919-33), dies at 75 |
1951 |
María Grever, Casino |
1952 |
Ernest Florman, Akrobat med otur |
1953 |
Kishio Hirao, composer, dies at 46 |
1953 |
Ed Barrow, The Pride of the Yankees |
1953 |
Cecil Trouncer, Pygmalion |
1954 |
José Martínez de la Vega, The Sign of Death |
1955 |
Dorothy Bernard, The Girl and Her Trust |
1957 |
Emily Barrye, Fast Fightin' |
1957 |
Alfonso Bedoya, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
1957 |
Mariano Asquerino, Eugenia de Montijo |
1958 |
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900) |
1958 |
Ottmar Ostermayr, Die Geierwally |
1958 |
Josua Bengtson, Gud fader och tattaren |
1959 |
Adolf Bouwmeester, De vier mullers |
1959 |
James Eagles, Sunset Range |
1960 |
Véra Clouzot, Diabolique |
1961 |
William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99 |
1961 |
Warren Burke, Road House |
1961 |
Margaret Armstrong, Annie Oakley |
1962 |
Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63 |
1963 |
Rikidôzan, Yagate aozora |
1964 |
Allen Q. Thompson, The Negro Soldier |
1966 |
Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation |
1968 |
Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86 |
1968 |
Antonio Barrette, Canadian politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1899) |
1971 |
Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician (b. 1886) |
1972 |
Edward Earle, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight), dies at 90 |
1972 |
Herbert Eimert, German composer (Glockenspiel), dies at 75 |
1973 |
Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer, dies at 61 |
1974 |
Erich Walter Sternberg, composer, dies at 83 |
1974 |
Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born screenwriter and film producer (b. 1902) |
1975 |
Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer, dies at 63 |
1977 |
Wilfred Kitching, the 7th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893) |
1977 |
Sidney Marshall, The Towering Inferno |
1978 |
Chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), dies at 75 |
1978 |
Chill Wills, Giant |
1979 |
Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66 |
1979 |
Bern Hoffman, Li'l Abner |
1979 |
Smacka Fitzgibbon, Episode dated 26 March 1975 |
1979 |
Pavel Massalsky, Ivan the Terrible, Part II |
1980 |
Jacqueline Jacoupy, Premier de cordée |
1980 |
Joe Twerp, In Old Chicago |
1981 |
Mikhail Zharov, Ivan the Terrible, Part I |
1981 |
Irving Birnbaum, The Mole People |
1982 |
Bert Freeman, The Adventures of Smilin' Jack |
1983 |
Eden Hartford, Invisible Invaders |
1983 |
David Markham, Gandhi |
1984 |
Avon Long, actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies at 74 |
1984 |
Jan Peerce, [Perelmuth], operatic tenor, dies at 80 following a stroke |
1984 |
Lennard Pearce, English actor (b. 1915) |
1984 |
Frank Spedding, Canadian Chemist whose uranium extraction process helped make possible the first atomic bomb, dies at 82 |
1984 |
Gilbert Houcke, The Artist in the Circus Dome: Clueless |
1984 |
Eddie Beal, Joe Adams Presents |
1984 |
Lennard Pearce, Face of Darkness |
1984 |
Jan Peerce, Hymn of the Nations |
1985 |
Endel Ani, Kevade |
1985 |
Vladimír Ptácek, Larks on a String |
1985 |
Herb Crisler, The Vanishing Prairie |
1985 |
Mikhail Shneiderov, Moscow Strikes Back |
1985 |
Albert Rudling, Souvenirs from Sweden |
1985 |
Arthur Mosquiera, When You're in Love |
1985 |
Alma Felix, Midnight Cowboy |
1986 |
David James, Scott of the Antarctic |
1986 |
John Zaremba, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers |
1986 |
J.W. King, These Bases Are Loaded |
1986 |
Frank Behrens, Cavender Is Coming |
1986 |
Serge Lifar, Serge Lifar Musagète |
1987 |
Bohumil Ríha, Divoký koník Ryn |
1987 |
Jonathan Kidd, The 7th Commandment |
1987 |
Ray Malavasi, Birthday Party/Ghostbreaker |
1987 |
Robert Chapin, Isle of Missing Men |
1988 |
Edgar Vetter, Romeo and Juliet |
1988 |
Jean Sacha, One Bullet Is Enough |
1988 |
Jack Griffin, Requiem for a Falling Star |
1988 |
Peter Dohanos, Diary of a Mad Housewife |
1988 |
Casey MacGregor, Triggers in Leash |
1988 |
Muriel Martin-Harvey, The Answer |
1988 |
István Tömpe, Hello, Vera |
1989 |
Arnold Moss, actor (Gambit), dies at 79 |
1989 |
Edward Underdown, English actor (b. 1908) |
1989 |
Arnold Moss, Viva Zapata! |
1989 |
Oliver Hartwell, A Man Called Peter |
1989 |
Ben Barzman, The Fall of the Roman Empire |
1989 |
Sadie Ornitz, Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist |
1989 |
Edward Underdown, Thunderball |
1990 |
Betty Warren actress (Passport to Pimlico), dies |
1990 |
Jean Paige, actress (Capt Blood, Black Beauty), dies |
1990 |
Betty Warren, Passport to Pimlico |
1990 |
Mariusz Gorczynski, Westerplatte |
1990 |
Armand Hammer, The Visit |
1990 |
Ed Parker, Curse of the Pink Panther |
1990 |
Jean Paige, Black Beauty |
1991 |
Horatio Luro, US horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90 |
1991 |
Ray Smith, British actor (And Then You Die), dies at 55 |
1991 |
James Whitworth, The Hills Have Eyes |
1991 |
Ray Smith, Rogue Male |
1992 |
Wilbert Bradley, Code of Silence |
1992 |
Sven Delblanc, Fjortonde delen |
1992 |
Liam O'Leary, Portrait of Dublin |
1992 |
Yolande Laffon, Mayerling |
1992 |
William Ware Theiss, Harold and Maude |
1992 |
Hermann Stövesand, Bear Ye One Another's Burden |
1992 |
Stojan Decermic, I Even Met Happy Gypsies |
1992 |
Otto Lington, Tretten Aar |
1992 |
Jim Musick, Hold 'Em Jail |
1993 |
Kakuei Tanaka, PM of Japan (1972-74), dies |
1993 |
Gene Neighbors, The Blue Lamp |
1993 |
Sol Barzman, The Magic Fluke |
1994 |
Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (Amsterdams Vrouwenkoor), dies at 86 |
1994 |
Harry Tobias, songwriter, dies at 99 |
1994 |
Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist, dies at 88 |
1994 |
Mollie Doreen Phillips, Brit figure skater (Eur-bronze-33), dies at 87 |
1994 |
Harry Tobias, Amélie |
1994 |
Ruth Luoma-Aho, Light Melody |
1994 |
Zinaida Vorkul, Andrei Rublev |
1995 |
James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88 |
1995 |
Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, PM of Defense of Spain (1977-81), dies at 83 |
1995 |
Gabriel Trupin, Madonna: Truth or Dare |
1995 |
Alan Smiler, Rocket Attack U.S.A. |
1995 |
Leevi Linko, The Unknown Soldier |
1995 |
Varela Silva, A Filha |
1995 |
Susan Sharkey, Enemies |
1996 |
Gerald Moverley, priest, dies at 74 |
1996 |
Guiseppe Dossetti, politician/priest, dies at 83 |
1996 |
Laurens jan van der Post, explorer/conservationist, dies at 90 |
1996 |
Harry Kemelman, The Nine Mile Walk |
1996 |
Charlotte Manson, Elegy |
1996 |
Laurens van der Post, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence |
1996 |
Frances Steens, Lucy the Babysitter |
1996 |
Roy Irving, Odd Man Out |
1996 |
Tristan Keuris, Oeroeg |
1997 |
Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at 98 |
1997 |
Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar, dies at 69 |
1997 |
Harriett Eells, One-Way Ticket |
1997 |
Borislav Mihajlovic-Mihiz, The Dervish and Death |
1997 |
Edward Walsh, Another 48 Hrs. |
1997 |
Bozidar Miletic, Moment |
1997 |
Jaromír Borek, The Inheritors |
1998 |
Friedrich Jahn, Friedrich Jahn |
1998 |
Dean Peters, WCW/NWO World War 3 |
1998 |
Vera Jovanovic, Innocence Unprotected |
1998 |
Georgia Dell, Child's Play |
1998 |
Richard Spero, The Stunt Man |
1999 |
Al Norman, King of Jazz |
1999 |
Paridon von Horn, The Old Clock at Ronneberga |
1999 |
Eddie Kazak, 1949 MLB All-Star Game |
1999 |
Rune Andréasson, Skattkartan |
1999 |
Irene Windust, The Five-Forty-Eight |
2000 |
Valerio Longoria Sr., Selena |
2000 |
Jacques Goddet, Les coulisses de l'exploit |
2000 |
Trevor Adams, The Wedding Party |
2000 |
Jose Gonzales-Gonzales, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear |
2000 |
Inigo Gallo, Theo Against the Rest of the World |
2001 |
Russ Haas, American professional wrestler (b. 1974) |
2001 |
Rufus Thomas, American musician (b. 1917) |
2001 |
Christopher Hitchens, author and journaist (Vanity Fair, New Statesman) dies of oesophageal cancer aged 62. |
2001 |
Rufus Thomas, Mystery Train |
2001 |
Wilkie Cooper, Jason and the Argonauts |
2001 |
Krzysztof Pankiewicz, Przeprowadzka |
2001 |
Leopold Borkowski, The Search |
2001 |
John Guedel, People Are Funny |
2001 |
Bianca Butthole, Betty Blowtorch: And Her Amazing True Life Adventures |
2002 |
Tadeusz Kamberski, Pierwsza milosc |
2002 |
Dick Stuart, Frank Robinson vs. Dick Stuart |
2002 |
Eino S. Repo, Suuri vaalikeskustelu |
2002 |
Arthur Jeph Parker, Silverado |
2002 |
Ole Søgaard, We Are All Demons |
2003 |
George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b. 1923) |
2003 |
Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1947) |
2003 |
Sue Tilling, Rhythm & Blues |
2003 |
Keith Magnuson, Bobby Orr |
2003 |
Edward Montagne, The Reluctant Astronaut |
2003 |
Nikolay Pogodin, The Girls |
2003 |
Jack Ragotzy, Viva Smart |
2003 |
Don Reed, The Fortune Cookie |
2003 |
Monty McFarlane, Curse of Smoky Ridge |
2003 |
Arto Rautvuori, Uuno Turhapuro |
2004 |
Pauline Gore, mother of Al Gore (b. 1912) |
2004 |
Carlos Lucas, The Day of the Beast |
2005 |
Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician (b. 1914) |
2005 |
Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (b. 1915) |
2005 |
William Proxmire, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1915) |
2005 |
Darrell Russell, American football player (b. 1976) |
2005 |
Ivana Kislinger, La noche de Venus |
2005 |
Charles Heard, Pistol Whipped |
2005 |
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Metti, una sera a cena |
2005 |
James Ingo Freed, Bauhaus in America |
2005 |
Heinrich Gross, |
2005 |
Maurice Beresford, Wharram Percy |
2005 |
Beach Dickerson, Creature from the Haunted Sea |
2005 |
Walter Haut, Where Are All the UFO's? |
2006 |
Clay Regazzoni, Swiss Formula One driver (b. 1939) |
2006 |
Mary Stolz, The Baby-Blue Expression |
2006 |
Henny Alma, A Bridge Too Far |
2006 |
Svein Wickstrøm, Himmelen kan vente |
2006 |
Angelyn Orr, Blondie's Lucky Day |
2006 |
Michael Colicchio, Brown Eye, Evil Eye |
2006 |
Antony Genov, Aszparuh |
2006 |
Allan Stone, Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? |
2006 |
Shaila Rubin, Life Is Beautiful |
2006 |
Clay Regazzoni, O Fabuloso Fittipaldi |
2007 |
John Berg (actor), American actor (b. 1949) |
2007 |
Julia Carson, U.S. Congresswoman from Indiana (b. 1938) |
2007 |
Nøste Schwab, Tante Pose |
2007 |
Sweet Louie, The Black Connection |
2007 |
Ace Vergel, Anak ng cabron |
2007 |
Karl Heinz Deickert, Feuerwanzen küß ich nicht |
2007 |
Roger Marshutz, Remembering Elvis |
2007 |
Diane Middlebrook, Sylvia Plath |
2007 |
St. Clair Bourne, John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk |
2007 |
Ryan Gracie, Renzo Gracie: Legacy |
2007 |
Giuseppe Rinaldi, Duck, You Sucker |
2007 |
Zane Bond, Pesticide |
2007 |
John Berg, Star Trek: Nemesis |
2007 |
Matjaz Klopcic, Fear |
2008 |
León Febres Cordero, Ecuador's former President (b. 1931) |
2008 |
Davy Graham, Bobby |
2008 |
Carl Bengs, The Green Slime |
2008 |
David Lieber, Prophets: Soul Catchers |
2008 |
Vitaliy Ilin, Priklyucheniya printsa Florizelya |
2008 |
Wanda Koczeska, Innocent Sorcerers |
2008 |
Christopher Webb, Spiral |
2008 |
Anne-Cath Vestly, Guro og Erle |
2008 |
Henry Shaffer, The Exorcist III |
2008 |
Georg-Michael Wagner, Startverbot |
2008 |
Hank Stohl, Capricorn One |
2009 |
Oral Roberts, American television evangelist and author (b. 1918) |
2009 |
Frank Brill, A Man Called Horse |
2009 |
Herbert Spiegel, RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy |
2009 |
Oral Roberts, Love Is |
2009 |
Phil Bowles, Touch of Evil |
2009 |
C.D.B. Bryan, Friendly Fire |
2009 |
Robert Turturice, Batman & Robin |
2009 |
Charlie Hayward, The Giving Tree |
2009 |
Guenter Wolfbauer, Libero |
2010 |
Blake Edwards, American film director (b. 1922) |
2010 |
Bob Feller, American baseball player (b. 1918) |
2010 |
Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, American political scientist (b. 1940) |
2010 |
Hilde Rossel Majdan, Der Rosenkavalier |
2010 |
Domini Blythe, The Trotsky |
2010 |
Blake Edwards, The Party |
2010 |
Barbara Mills, Gabriella, Gabriella |
2010 |
Rene Farell, Werkbeispiele |
2010 |
Richard Young, Not My Life |
2010 |
Silvia Koller, Regular Guys |
2010 |
Günther Grabbert, Die Bauernhochzeit |
2010 |
Peter O. Chotjewitz, Der Hut oder Mondo Novo |
2010 |
Rusty McNeil, The Little Patriot |
2010 |
Jeanette Briggs, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? |
2010 |
Ensio Itkonen, Episode #1.10 |
2010 |
Bob Feller, Signs of the Time |
2010 |
Jean Rollin, The Nude Vampire |
2010 |
Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach, Sportschau |
2011 |
Andy Carey, third baseman for 1950s New York Yankees, dies at 80 |
2011 |
Yûko Asuka, Dan Oniroku shoujo shibari ezu |
2011 |
Sándor Técsy, Burn After Reading |
2011 |
Walter Giller, Drei Mann in einem Boot |
2011 |
Heidi Helen Davis, Montana |
2011 |
Bob Brookmeyer, This Is Gary McFarland |
2011 |
Andy Carey, Mantle |
2011 |
Kurt Rehfeld, Night of the Ghouls |
2011 |
Christopher Hitchens, Hell's Angel |
2011 |
Emmett L. Bennett Jr., A Very English Genius |
2011 |
Carmen Rupe, I Can Make You Love Me |
2011 |
Jeff Sanders, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil |
2011 |
Aksel Rasmussen, Carlo & Ester |
2011 |
Fleur Chandler, A Token Attempt |
2012 |
Olga Zubarry, Plaza de almas |
2012 |
Jeffrey Potter, The Crash of 1929 |
2012 |
Carl Riha, Die Freuden der Frommen |
2012 |
Konstantin Vanshenkin, Tvoy brat Valentin |
2012 |
Fred Alexander, Days of Betrayal |
2012 |
Pavel Pípal, Horror Story |
2013 |
Joan Fontaine, British-American actress, dies of natural causes at 96 |
2013 |
Joan Fontaine, Rebecca |
2013 |
Denis Gravereaux, It's Not Me, I Swear! |
2013 |
Harold Camping, Apocalypse Later: Harold Camping vs The End of the World |
2013 |
Faith Geer, Wall Street |
2013 |
Hubert Trimmel, Erlebnis in der Unterwelt - 100 Jahre Erforschung der Dachsteinhöhlen |
2013 |
Sandeep Acharya, Do Dilon Ke Khel Mein |
2014 |
Rebecca Brooks, Delivery: The Beast Within |
2014 |
Donald Metcalf, Australian Biography |
2014 |
Enzo Costa, +1 -1 |
2014 |
Fausto Zapata, Díalogos políticos |
2014 |
Charles C. Thompson II, A Glimpse of Hell |
2014 |
Angie Daniels, Oneida County, NY: Girls |
2014 |
Chakri, Simha |
2014 |
Casey King, Dracula: Dead and Loving It |
2014 |
Bozena Mrowinska, Before Twilight |
2014 |
Michel Caen, Quelle horreur mon saigneur Dracula |
2014 |
Vladimir Ryabtzev, On svoyo poluchit |
2014 |
Booth Colman, General Hospital |
2014 |
Mustapha Maarof, Blood of Pontianak |
2015 |
Ken Pogue, Canadian actor, Died at 81 |
2016 |
Bewitched and Hogan's Heroes TV star Bernard Fox dies aged 89 in Los Angeles |
2016 |
Former jockey Garrett Gomez dies, aged 44 |
2017 |
Navajo Code Talker Teddy Draper Sr. dies at the age of 96 |
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