Notable Deaths on July 15th
July 15th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
668 |
Constantius II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at 37 |
1085 |
Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia & Calabria, dies at 70 |
1262 |
Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1222) |
1274 |
John F Bonaventura, Ital/French theologist/dominican/saint, dies |
1291 |
Rudolf I, King of Germany & Holy Roman Empire, dies |
1381 |
John Ball, English priest/ideologist of Boer uprising, hanged |
1406 |
Duke William of Austria (b. c.1370) |
1410 |
Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, killed at the Battle of Grunwald (b. 1360) |
1411 |
Johannes Parvus, [Jean Petit], French theologist, dies |
1416 |
John, Duke of Berry, captain of Paris, dies |
1417 |
Willem J Eggert, financier (W E Center, Purmerend), dies |
1521 |
Juan Ponce de León, Spanish Explorer (b. 1458) |
1571 |
Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514) |
1609 |
Annibale Carracci, painter, dies |
1614 |
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer (b. c.1540) |
1655 |
Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570) |
1685 |
James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles 2, executed |
1738 |
Alexander Voznitsyn, Rus Naval officer converted to Judaism, executed |
1738 |
Antonio Maria Pacchioni, composer, dies at 84 |
1738 |
Baruch Leibov, converted Russian Naval officer to Judaism, executed |
1750 |
Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (b. 1686) |
1751 |
John Wilson, botanist, dies |
1765 |
Charles-André van Loo, French painter (b. 1705) |
1767 |
Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746) |
1782 |
Farinelli, Italian singer, dies at 77 |
1782 |
Robert Wainwright, composer, dies at 33 |
1784 |
Johan B Straub, South German sculptor, dies |
1789 |
Jacques Duphly, composer, dies at 74 |
1798 |
Gaetano Pugnani, composer, dies at 66 |
1810 |
Jean-Baptiste Rey, composer, dies at 75 |
1828 |
Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741) |
1839 |
Winthrop Mackworth Praed, politician/poet, dies |
1844 |
Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772) |
1854 |
Wincenty Studzinski, composer, dies at 39 |
1856 |
Margaretha J de Neufville, author (The Kidnap), dies at 81 |
1857 |
Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist/composer, dies at 66 |
1857 |
Carl Czerny, Vitus |
1862 |
David Emanuel Twiggs, US Confederate gen-mjr (Monterrey), dies at 72 |
1865 |
Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian, dies at 55 |
1868 |
William Thomas Morton, dentist (1st to use ether), dies |
1869 |
A J Haynes, US army captain and civil war veteren, assassinated by KKK |
1876 |
Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Zemstra), dies at 82 |
1876 |
Aleksander Fredro, The Revenge |
1881 |
Billy the Kid [William H Bonney], shot by sheriff Pat Garrett at 21 |
1883 |
Tom Thumb, famous small person (40"), dies of a stroke at 44 |
1883 |
Tom Thumb, |
1885 |
Rosalia de Castro, Spanish writer and poet in the Galician language ('Séculos Escuros') (b. 1837) |
1885 |
Rosalía de Castro, La hora bruja |
1890 |
Gottfried Keller, writer, dies at 70 |
1890 |
Gottfried Keller, Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe |
1898 |
Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1825) |
1904 |
Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (Uncle Vanya), dies at 44 |
1904 |
Anton Chekhov, Winter Sleep |
1910 |
Daniel Kinet, auto racer/1st Belgian flyer, dies |
1912 |
Francisco Lazaro, Portuguese marathon runner (Olympics), dies at 21 |
1915 |
Ludwik Grossman, composer, dies at 80 |
1919 |
Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate, commits suicide at 66 |
1921 |
Eunice Woodruff, Ashes |
1928 |
Cecil Owen, The Girl by the Roadside |
1929 |
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright/poet, dies |
1929 |
Jef Mertens, Jopie Gaat Trouwen |
1929 |
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Der Rosenkavalier |
1930 |
Leopold von Auer, Hungarian/US violinist, dies |
1930 |
Rudolph Schildkraut, A Ship Comes In |
1931 |
Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868) |
1933 |
Irving Babbitt, US writer (Democracy & Leadership), dies at 67 |
1933 |
Freddie Keppard, American musician (b. 1890) |
1933 |
Clément Maurice, Le duel d'Hamlet |
1934 |
Jules Renkin, Belgian PM (1931-32), dies |
1934 |
Louis F. Gottschalk, Orphans of the Storm |
1935 |
Alfred Archer, cricketer (England batsman in one Test 1899), dies |
1935 |
Pieter WA Cort van de Linden, Dutch premier (1913-18), dies at 89 |
1935 |
Julia Graham, Love in Bloom |
1935 |
Dillo Lombardi, Il mio diario di guerra |
1937 |
Walter Gay, artist, dies |
1937 |
Sam Ask, The Outlaw and His Wife |
1937 |
Wellington A. Playter, The Wicked Darling |
1939 |
Johon Mellanby, physiologist, dies |
1939 |
Percy Scott Worthington, architect, dies |
1939 |
Arnold Petersen, Da Skomager Fischer gik paa Maskerade |
1940 |
Donald Calthrop, dies at 52 |
1940 |
Robert Wadlow, world's tallest man (8'11.1"), dies at 32 |
1940 |
Robert Wadlow, Freaks Uncensored! |
1940 |
Mary Wong, The Good Earth |
1940 |
Donald Calthrop, Scrooge |
1941 |
Walter Ruttmann, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City |
1941 |
Frank Isbell, World Series Baseball Game |
1941 |
Max Kretzer, Meister Timpe |
1942 |
Denis Moloney, cricketer (during WW II 3 Tests for NZ 1937), dies |
1943 |
Marta Golden, A Janitor's Wife's Temptation |
1944 |
Widgey R. Newman, Strange to Relate |
1944 |
Bahiano, A Serrana |
1946 |
Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877) |
1947 |
Henry Kolker, dies at 76 |
1947 |
Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893) |
1947 |
Brandon Hurst, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
1947 |
Walter Donaldson, L.A. Confidential |
1947 |
Henry Kolker, Holiday |
1948 |
John J. Pershing, [Black Jack], US general (Mexico, WW I), dies at 87 |
1948 |
William Nicholas Selig, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
1948 |
John J. Pershing, Under Four Flags |
1948 |
Roy Clements, Big Moments from Little Pictures |
1950 |
Emile Stiebel, Regina von Emmeritz och konung Gustaf II Adolf |
1950 |
Buddy McQuoid, The Finishing Touch |
1951 |
Harry Ely, Ride 'em, Cowgirl |
1953 |
Servant of God Archbishop Mar Ivanios (b.1882) |
1953 |
John Christie, |
1954 |
Joseph Bernhard, Ruby Gentry |
1956 |
Edward Cooper, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp |
1956 |
John 'Skins' Miller, The Men |
1957 |
George Cleveland, actor (Grampa-Lassie), dies at 74 |
1957 |
Marie C of Zeggelen, author (Dessajongen), dies at 87 |
1957 |
James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870) |
1957 |
Vasily Maklakov, Russian orator and liberal politician (b. 1869) |
1957 |
James M. Cox, For the People |
1957 |
William McLaughlin, The Devil's Bowl |
1957 |
George Cleveland, Blue Steel |
1957 |
V.A. Maklakov, |
1957 |
Helene Riechers, Hexen |
1958 |
Julia Lennon, mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident |
1958 |
Nuries-Said, Iraqi soldier/statesman, assassinated, dies |
1958 |
Esther Lyon, The Dictator |
1958 |
Milutin 'Bata' Nikolic, Doktor Tokerama |
1958 |
Victor Wood, Hills of Home |
1959 |
Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78 |
1959 |
Peter A Egge, Norwegian writer (The Dream), dies |
1959 |
Vance Palmer, Australian author (b. 1885) |
1959 |
Ernest Bloch, Short Cuts |
1960 |
Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, baritone, dies after surgery at 63 |
1960 |
Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (b. 1897) |
1960 |
Lawrence Tibbett, The Rogue Song |
1960 |
Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Thais |
1960 |
Van Streeter, D.O.A. |
1960 |
Clemens Schmalstich, Regine |
1961 |
John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884) |
1961 |
Lou Bring, The Roy Rogers Show |
1964 |
Harold Winston, Arsenic and Old Lace |
1965 |
Francis Cherry, American politician (b. 1908) |
1966 |
Ann Stephens, Man of Evil |
1968 |
Lura Anson, dies in Woodland at 76 |
1969 |
Peter Van Eyck, dies after long illness at 56 |
1971 |
Guy Wilkerson, dies of cancer at 71 |
1971 |
Azarene Rogers, Gone with the Wind |
1972 |
Fonty Flock, |
1974 |
Christine Chubbuck, television news reporter (b.1944) |
1975 |
Charles Weidman, US dancer/choreographer (Fables for Our Time), dies |
1976 |
Paul William Gallico, writer, dies at 78 |
1976 |
Paul Gallico, Poseidon |
1977 |
Konstantin Fedin, writer, dies |
1978 |
Maston Williams, Whistling Bullets |
1978 |
Stepan Birillo, Oshibka Onore de Balzaka |
1978 |
Maria Mayen, Don Juan |
1978 |
Joan Dotras i Vila, Catalina de Inglaterra |
1979 |
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of Mexico (b. 1911) |
1979 |
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, IV informe de gobierno del licensiado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz |
1980 |
Eddie Jackson, comedian (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 84 |
1980 |
Henri Martelli, composer, dies at 85 |
1980 |
Norman Stevans, American Gigolo |
1981 |
Federico De Laurentiis, King Kong |
1982 |
Donald Beard, cricketer (4 Tests for NZ 1952-56), dies |
1982 |
Wendy Caulfield, 1st Green River victim, found near Seattle |
1982 |
Bill Justis, American musician and producer (b. 1926) |
1982 |
Enid Lorimer, The Butterfly That Stamped |
1982 |
Otto von Rohr, Die Hochzeit des Figaro |
1982 |
Dorothy Whitney, Breakfast at Tiffany's |
1982 |
Bill Justis, Great Balls of Fire! |
1983 |
Eddie Foy Jr, actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange), dies of cancer at 78 |
1983 |
Steve Rez, King Kong |
1983 |
Else Würtz, Sol over Danmark |
1983 |
Joe Oakie, Once Upon a Horse... |
1983 |
Eddie Foy Jr., The Pajama Game |
1984 |
Russel Trost, Incident of the Valley in Shadow |
1984 |
Karl Wolff, Genocide: 1941-1945 |
1984 |
Morty Gunty, Broadway Danny Rose |
1985 |
David Buck Wheat, Episode #13.7 |
1985 |
Peter Dane, The Damned |
1986 |
Benny Rubin, actor/comedian (Benny Rubin Show), dies at 87 |
1986 |
Florence Halop, actress (Florence-Night Court), dies at 63 |
1986 |
Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (b. 1923) |
1986 |
Bill Haughton, Episode #20.35 |
1986 |
Florence Halop, Episode #4.27 |
1986 |
Benny Rubin, Here Comes Mr. Jordan |
1987 |
Alfie Bass, actor (Moonraker, Are You Being Served), dies at 66 |
1987 |
Jack O'Hagan, cricketer/composer (Our Don Bradman), dies |
1987 |
Polly Elwes, The Rebels of Journey's End: The Fate of the Soup |
1987 |
Lee Ballanfant, Game 7 |
1987 |
Lee Gaines, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling |
1987 |
Alfie Bass, The Fearless Vampire Killers |
1987 |
Lars Baecklund, Under svällande segel |
1988 |
Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats), dies at 82 |
1988 |
Ottó Füzesy, Az elhagyott tábortüz |
1988 |
Rachel Moline, The Right to Happiness |
1988 |
Rufus L. McDonald, Here Come the Girls |
1988 |
Jack Heller, The Yanks Are Coming |
1989 |
Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956) |
1989 |
Maria Kuncewiczowa, Cudzoziemka |
1989 |
Nesuhi Ertegün, |
1989 |
Dieter Augustin, Woyzeck |
1989 |
Dennis Wilson, The Germans |
1990 |
Alison Leggatt, actress (Day of Triffids, Cows), dies at 86 |
1990 |
Margaret Mary Lockwood, actress (Man in Grey, Wicked Lady), dies at 73 |
1990 |
Troy Dixon, rapper (Trouble T-Roy of Heavy D), dies at 22 of a fall |
1990 |
Bud Thackery, Coogan's Bluff |
1990 |
Jorge Vaillant, Episode #1.1 |
1990 |
Margaret Lockwood, The Lady Vanishes |
1990 |
Alison Leggatt, Far from the Madding Crowd |
1990 |
Robert L. Kimble, Battlestar Galactica |
1990 |
Wilhelm Vorwerg, Der Fuchs von Paris |
1990 |
Norbert Pawlicki, National Treasure |
1991 |
Bert Convy, actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw), dies at 57 |
1991 |
Bert Convy, Episode dated 29 May 1986 |
1991 |
Willis Granger, Just Kitty |
1991 |
Stepan Kevorkov, Mountainous March |
1992 |
Henk van der Molen, guitarist/composer/writer (Martine Bijl), dies |
1992 |
Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijan's most noted journalist (b. 1960) |
1992 |
Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922) |
1992 |
Samuel Feijóo, The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin |
1992 |
Marianne Simson, Zwei Welten |
1992 |
Kris Kromas, You Can't Take It with You |
1992 |
Stewart Cohn, Runaway Girl |
1992 |
Ben Roseman, Dementia |
1993 |
David Brian, US actor (Damned Don't Cry, Fort Worth), dies at 78 |
1993 |
Bobby Kent, alleged Florida bully murdered by his friends (b. 1973) |
1993 |
Wladyslaw Glabik, Cien |
1993 |
Tela Tchaï, L'Atlantide |
1993 |
David Brian, Intruder in the Dust |
1994 |
Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, Dutch painter/illustrator, dies |
1994 |
George Willeford, Skull |
1994 |
Tibor Liska, Breakout |
1994 |
Harald Molander, Eva |
1994 |
Mona Rico, The Leather Necker |
1994 |
Vina Gale, Words and Music |
1995 |
Eddie J Bush, golf professional, dies at 83 |
1995 |
Willie George "Bill" Woodruff Sr, vocalist, dies at 66 |
1995 |
Delia Bogard, Mickey the Romeo |
1995 |
Ruth Jeffries, The Invisible Avenger |
1995 |
Dan Tyra, Kramer vs. Kramer |
1995 |
Ramalingeswararao Kondapaneni, Alluri Seetharama Raju |
1995 |
Jozef Rezucha, Go and Don't Say Goodbye |
1995 |
Hugh Hurd, Shadows |
1995 |
Ivano Staccioli, Women's Camp 119 |
1996 |
Dana Hill, actress (Vacation), dies at 32 |
1996 |
Sten Lonnert, Mannen från Mallorca |
1996 |
Ron Williams, |
1996 |
Dana Hill, European Vacation |
1996 |
Winni Riva, The Leopard |
1997 |
Alan Chaig, paleontologist (Carl Sagan of BBC), dies at 70 |
1997 |
Gianni Versace, fashion designer, shot to death by Andrew Cunanan at 50 |
1997 |
Eve Greene, Born to Kill |
1997 |
R. Krishnan, Uyarntha Manithan |
1997 |
José Guerra Campos, Misa en Compostela |
1997 |
Gianni Versace, Kika |
1998 |
Gerd Oelschlegel, Sonderurlaub |
1998 |
Ulf Törnroth, Gas in the Veins |
1998 |
Imre Csenki, Cigánytánc |
1998 |
Van Casey, Thunder in Carolina |
1999 |
Walter Lendrich, Die Rosenholzmöbel |
1999 |
Julien Verdier, Muriel, or The Time of Return |
1999 |
Gina Berriault, The Stone Boy |
1999 |
Allen Vincent, The California Reich |
2000 |
Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone (b. 1925) |
2000 |
Mati Klooren, Jäljed |
2000 |
Paul M. Young, Mike + The Mechanics: A Closer Look |
2000 |
Louis Quilico, Rigoletto |
2000 |
Paul Bühlmann, Ground Floor to the Left |
2000 |
Jocko Henderson, The In Crowd |
2000 |
Genrikh Vagner, Nechayannaya lyubov |
2000 |
G.B.J. Hiltermann, Episode #1.2 |
2000 |
Juan Filloy, Ecce homo |
2001 |
Rudi Knabl, Grenzstation 58 |
2001 |
Ted Berman, The Fox and the Hound |
2001 |
James Lantz, The Delinquents |
2001 |
Tony Ballen, Under the Rainbow |
2002 |
Monty M. Berman, The Guns of Navarone |
2002 |
Bil Godsey, To All a Goodnight |
2002 |
György Fehér, Szenvedély |
2002 |
Hugh Lampman, Problem Child |
2002 |
Roger Awsumb, Lunch with Casey |
2002 |
Philip Roth, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
2002 |
Barbara Randolph, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
2002 |
Gene Moss, Roger Ramjet |
2003 |
Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953) |
2003 |
Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (b. 1920) |
2003 |
Hedvig Pedersen, Afsporet |
2003 |
Lorraine Krueger, Dance, Girl, Dance |
2003 |
Elisabeth Welch, Dead of Night |
2003 |
Alexander Walker, Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' |
2003 |
Aleksandr Susnin, Iz zhizni Fyodora Kuzkina |
2003 |
Zoltán Ternyák, Cloud Above the River Ganges |
2003 |
Tex Schramm, Al Davis |
2004 |
Dean Dillman Jr., Monstrosity |
2004 |
Charles W. Sweeney, The Beginning or the End |
2004 |
Donald Breitman, Heaven Help Us |
2004 |
Sunao Yoshida, Flight Night |
2004 |
Ena Baga, The Prestige |
2004 |
Julie Kurnitz, Radio Days |
2004 |
Kenneth McClellan, A Far Cry |
2005 |
Michael Gibson, Grease |
2005 |
Lisa Lindgren, General Hospital |
2005 |
Jeff Upton, Saving Silverman |
2005 |
Ilona Kállay, Child Murders |
2005 |
Derek Hilton, Lost Empires |
2005 |
David Daiches, Personality |
2006 |
Robert H. Brooks, founder of Hooters of America (b. 1937) |
2006 |
Ed Blakely, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
2006 |
Mladen Vranesevic, Oktoberfest |
2006 |
Senne Rouffaer, The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short |
2006 |
Elisabet Svensson, Kopps |
2007 |
Kelly Johnson, English guitarist, dies at 49 |
2007 |
Schelto Patijn, Episode dated 25 April 2000 |
2007 |
Kieron Moore, Arabesque |
2008 |
Gyorgy Kolonics, Hungarian canoeist, Olympics medalist. (b. 1972) |
2008 |
Aili Montonen, Jälki-istunto |
2009 |
Anne Collins, The Gondoliers |
2009 |
Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Red Sonja |
2009 |
Frederike von Stechow, One Out of 8 |
2009 |
Julius Shulman, Visual Acoustics |
2009 |
Jos Kennis, Jacobus en Corneel |
2009 |
Fred Lerner, Die Hard |
2010 |
James E. Akins, American diplomat and advisor to Richard Nixon (b. 1926) |
2010 |
Peter Fernandez, What's Eating Gilbert Grape |
2010 |
Jacek Moczydlowski, Day of the Wacko |
2010 |
Bulbul Ahmed, Dipu Number 2 |
2010 |
James Akins, Power to the Producers |
2010 |
Billy Loes, Roogie's Bump |
2010 |
Kip King, A Night at the Roxbury |
2010 |
Petar Stojkovski, Prostodusna ljubov |
2010 |
Hank Cochran, Walk the Line |
2011 |
Googie Withers, British actress (b. 1917) |
2011 |
Witold Starecki, Canons and Flowers |
2011 |
Cornell MacNeil, La traviata |
2011 |
Darwin Linn, Haunting Villisca |
2011 |
Chet Gould, Reach for the Stars |
2011 |
Eric Delaney Band, Episode #1.29 |
2011 |
Donara Mkrtchyan, Kidnapping, Caucasian Style |
2011 |
Malvina Shvidler, Gadyuka |
2011 |
Googie Withers, The Lady Vanishes |
2011 |
Waldemar de Moraes, Os quatro Filhos |
2011 |
Helen Beverly, Black Magic |
2011 |
James Buxbaum, Dolphin in Pursuit: Part 2 |
2011 |
Valentin Vinogradov, Zemlyaki |
2011 |
Ed Flesh, Supermarket Sweep |
2012 |
Celeste Holm, American actress, dies at 95 |
2012 |
Ann Gelbar, Rosenholm |
2012 |
Yoichi Takabayashi, Irezumi |
2012 |
Celeste Holm, All About Eve |
2012 |
Grant Feasel, 1983 NFL Draft |
2012 |
Ted Goetz, The Baltimore Bullet |
2012 |
Warren Bateman, The Harrad Experiment |
2012 |
Tsilla Chelton, Tatie Danielle |
2012 |
Jacqueline Piatigorsky, An Afternoon with Gregor Piatigorsky |
2013 |
Earl Gros, American NFL player, dies at 72 |
2013 |
Noël Lee, Aux petits bonheurs |
2013 |
Sebastião Vasconcelos, Inocência |
2013 |
Ernesto Schoó, Cuatro caras para Victoria |
2013 |
Elsa Isefiær, King of Skating |
2013 |
Andrei Razumovsky, Mordashka |
2014 |
Vilma Ferrán, Asleep in the Sun |
2014 |
Danny Weselis, Scarface |
2014 |
James MacGregor Burns, The Congress |
2015 |
Gary Mack, The Killing of America |
2015 |
Alan Curtis, Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices |
2015 |
Angelica Schiebold, The Sleep of Reason |
2015 |
Harry Pitch, The Lair of the White Worm |
2015 |
Howard Rumsey, Let's Get Lost |
2015 |
Sheila Ramani, Naukari |
2015 |
Aubrey Morris, A Clockwork Orange |
2016 |
Film director Hector Babenco dies aged 70 in Brazil |
2016 |
Australian socialite Lady Susan Renouf dies from cancer aged 74 |
2018 |
Nancy Sinatra Sr., Frank Sinatra's First Wife, Dies at 101 |
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