Notable Deaths on March 15th
March 15th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
44 |
Julius Caesar, Roman military and political figure, is stabbed to death at 55 |
BC AD | |
44 |
Gaio Giulio Cesare, Caesar the Conqueror |
220 |
Cao Cao, King of Wei (b. 155) |
493 |
Odiaker (Odoacer), German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), murdered |
752 |
Zachary, Greek/Italian Pope (741-52), dies [or Mar 22] |
963 |
Romanus II, Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies at 25 |
1034 |
Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies |
1145 |
Pope Lucius II |
1311 |
Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens at the Battle of Halmyros |
1575 |
Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527) |
1670 |
John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597) |
1673 |
Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter (Baroque)/poet/music/actor, dies at 57 |
1701 |
Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624) |
1711 |
Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645) |
1723 |
Johann C Gunther, writer, dies at 27 |
1731 |
Adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician, dies at 75 |
1820 |
Clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (b. 1751 |
1842 |
Maria Luigi C Z S Cherubini, Italian composer (Dies Irae), dies at 81 |
1842 |
Luigi Cherubini, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me |
1849 |
Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774) |
1880 |
Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 51 |
1881 |
Emory Upton, US Union gen-maj (Selma), commits suicide at 42 |
1883 |
Karol Studzinski, composer, dies at 55 |
1889 |
Melville Reuben Bissell, American inventor of the carpet sweeper, dies of pneumonia at 45 |
1891 |
Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823) |
1891 |
Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819) |
1898 |
Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813) |
1905 |
Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at 60 |
1905 |
B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norwegian author (Paa St Jorgen), dies at 58 |
1905 |
Amalie Skram, Lucie |
1906 |
Alfred Gilpin Jones, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06), dies at 81 |
1913 |
John R. Cumpson, The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals |
1918 |
Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer, dies at 82 |
1918 |
Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24 |
1918 |
Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24 |
1918 |
George Alexander, Masks and Faces |
1918 |
José White, The Lost City |
1926 |
W.H. Burton, Cy Whittaker's Ward |
1926 |
Amerigo Guasti, Le nozze di Vittoria |
1927 |
Joseph Harker, Henry VIII |
1929 |
Pine-Top Smith, jazz pianist (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies at 24 |
1929 |
Levicy Chafin, |
1930 |
Antonio Beltramelli, writer, dies at 51 |
1934 |
Davidson Black, Paleoanthropologist, dies while working alone during the night, in Beijing, China at 49 |
1937 |
H. P. Lovecraft, American horror writer (At the Mountains of Madness, Weird Tales), dies at 46 |
1937 |
H.P. Lovecraft, Re-Animator |
1938 |
Edmund Tylecote, cricketer (England keeper in 6 Tests 1882-86), dies |
1940 |
Alfred Marr, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 0 & 5), dies |
1940 |
Robert Leffler, Im Schatten des Glücks |
1941 |
Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864) |
1942 |
Alexander van Zemlinsky, Austrian and US composer (African Dance), dies at 70 |
1942 |
Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too |
1943 |
Karl Schönherr, Crossing Boundaries |
1943 |
Betty Nansen, Anna Karenina |
1943 |
Silver Tip Baker, In the Days of Buffalo Bill |
1944 |
Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I), dies at 86 |
1944 |
Edward Collins, Baby Take a Bow |
1945 |
Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies at 41 |
1945 |
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Oslo, August 31st |
1945 |
Henry Victor, Freaks |
1946 |
Wilma Ryan, Rascals |
1947 |
Frank Forbes-Robertson, Danny Boy |
1948 |
Mary Tourtel, Rupert |
1948 |
Thomas Louden, The Corn Is Green |
1950 |
Luise Fleck, Die Ahnfrau |
1951 |
John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1889) |
1951 |
Gustavo Lombardo, Hands Off Me! |
1952 |
Pansy Perry, The Girl from Montana |
1952 |
May Hengler, The Sisters Hengler Specialty Dancers |
1953 |
Carl Stockdale, The Bank |
1954 |
Arthur Fickenscher, composer, dies at 82 |
1954 |
Wallace Coburn, Bull's Eye |
1954 |
Wallace G. Coburn, The Sunset Princess |
1954 |
Florence Crawford, The Buried Treasure |
1954 |
Dusty Fletcher, Killer Diller |
1955 |
William Snyder, Scarface |
1955 |
Dorothy Vaughan, The Bishop's Wife |
1956 |
Dolly Harmer, The Black Hand Gang |
1956 |
Rudolf Hrusínský, Muz z neznáma |
1956 |
Richard Schayer, Frankenstein |
1957 |
Ernst Nobs, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1886) |
1958 |
Richard Wayne, Wasted Lives |
1959 |
Lester Young, American musician (b. 1909) |
1959 |
Alden Willey, Little Mary Sunshine |
1959 |
Duncan Hines, Episode dated 10 September 1957 |
1959 |
Shalva Dadiani, Modzgvari |
1960 |
William Luff, Scrooge |
1960 |
Albert de Courville, Doomed Cargo |
1961 |
Mann Page, Lonesome |
1961 |
Paul Kreibich, Dennis Wolfberg |
1961 |
Jack Campbell, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
1962 |
Sam Wren, actor (Wren's Nest), dies at 64 |
1962 |
Sam Wren, Marked Woman |
1962 |
Arthur H. Compton, World Leaders on Peace and Democracy |
1963 |
Wyndham Martin, Pawns and Queens |
1964 |
Paul Cavanagh, actor (Black Arrow, Woman in Green), dies at 75 |
1966 |
Abe Saperstein, founder (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 63 |
1966 |
Heinrich Lemacher, composer, dies at 74 |
1966 |
Ray Jeffers, Creature from the Black Lagoon |
1969 |
Miles Malleson, actor/writer (Postman's Knock), dies at 80 |
1970 |
Josef Martin Bauer, writer, dies at 68 |
1970 |
Tarjei Vesaas, Nowegian author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72 |
1971 |
Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948) |
1972 |
Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910) |
1973 |
Carl Benton Reid, actor (Burke's Law), dies at 82 |
1975 |
Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler/sportscaster, dies at 49 |
1975 |
Aristotle S Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, dies at 69 |
1977 |
Kamal Joemblat, Lebanese politician, murdered |
1977 |
Antonino Rocca, Argentine professional wrestler |
1977 |
Hubert Aquin, Quebec novelist, political activist and editor (b. 1929) |
1977 |
Jos Gevers, Passeurs d'or |
1978 |
Valeska Gert, Juliet of the Spirits |
1979 |
Emilian Stanev, The Peach Thief |
1979 |
Sture Ericson, The Apple War |
1980 |
Sven-Erik Skawonius, Maskeradbalen |
1980 |
Gordon Sawyer, The Alamo |
1980 |
Janine Magnan, Une fille et des fusils |
1981 |
René Clair, French film director (b. 1898) |
1981 |
Derek Roy, Come Dance with Me |
1981 |
René Clair, Beauties of the Night |
1981 |
Frederick T. Nyquist, Three Strangers |
1981 |
Rita Gould, The Big Combo |
1982 |
Vladimír Smeral, Witchhammer |
1983 |
Jose Luis Sert, Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at 80 |
1983 |
Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892) |
1983 |
Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier |
1983 |
Oldrich Nový, Christian |
1983 |
Jane Loring, Three Cornered Moon |
1984 |
Luis Lucia, Zampo y yo |
1984 |
Kay Harding, The Scarlet Claw |
1984 |
Günther Hoffman, The Eurovision Song Contest |
1985 |
Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (b. 1921) |
1985 |
Alan A. Freeman, Episode #5.1 |
1985 |
Humberto Peruzzi, Pampa bárbara |
1985 |
Igor Karpinsky, Rosvo Roope |
1986 |
Irina Asmus, 12 stulyev |
1986 |
Eskil Kalling, The Silence |
1986 |
Alexandru Giugaru, D-ale carnavalului |
1986 |
Herman E. Townsley, House on Haunted Hill |
1986 |
Raymone, This Man Must Die |
1986 |
Stephen Pender, Blues in the Night |
1987 |
Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY), dies at 82 |
1987 |
Florence Britton, The Devil to Pay! |
1988 |
Dmitri F Polyakov, Russian secret-general/top spy for US, executed |
1988 |
Frank Perkins, Gypsy |
1988 |
Kathie Fischer, Limping Into Happiness |
1988 |
Dennis Helfend, Bloodeaters |
1988 |
Hendrik Vollaerts, For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky |
1988 |
Keye Chang, First Yank Into Tokyo |
1988 |
Peter Lühr, The Marquise of O |
1989 |
Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915) |
1989 |
Hilde Himmelweit, Prejudice and the Member of a Group |
1989 |
Semyon Khmara, Gypsies |
1990 |
Tom Harmon, NFL tail back (Heisman Trophy), dies at 70 |
1990 |
Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (b. 1958) |
1990 |
Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919) |
1990 |
Tom Harmon, Harmon of Michigan |
1990 |
Fred L. Van Amburg, The Candidate |
1990 |
Lída Vendlová, Escape from the Shadows |
1990 |
Edouard Caillau, Franz |
1991 |
Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel), dies at 84 |
1991 |
Eileen Sedgwick, silent film actress (Hot Heels), dies at 93 |
1991 |
Florence O'Denishawn, Monsieur Beaucaire |
1991 |
Eileen Sedgwick, Lightnin' Wins |
1991 |
George Sherman, Big Jake |
1991 |
Bud Freeman, Cinderella Man |
1991 |
Clifford Callis, Charity Castle |
1991 |
Stan Worth, Episode #3.29 |
1992 |
Helen Deutsch, screenwriter, dies of natural causes |
1992 |
Jack Washburn, actor (Black Orchid), dies after long illness at 64 |
1992 |
Vanessa Lee, actress (Split), dies at 71 |
1992 |
Helen Deutsch, National Velvet |
1992 |
Vanessa Lee, Vanessa Lee |
1992 |
Jack Washburn, The Black Orchid |
1993 |
Anthony Bowles, music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61 |
1993 |
Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies of pneumonia at 40 |
1993 |
Ricardo M Arias Espinosa, president of Panama (1955-56), dies |
1993 |
Barry McElligott, File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted |
1993 |
Lennart Hyland, Hylands hörna |
1993 |
Dennis Gregory, IWC: November Pain |
1993 |
Anthony Bowles, Isadora |
1993 |
Leif Beck, Hvor bjergene sejler |
1994 |
Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68 |
1994 |
Jack Hargreaves, How |
1994 |
Jay Ashworth, Incubus |
1994 |
László Dékány, 2x2 néha 5 |
1994 |
Felippe Birriel, Flight of the Lost Balloon |
1994 |
Polly Walters, Smart Money |
1994 |
Jürgen von Manger, Der Troubadour im Ruhrgebiet |
1994 |
Boris Rudnev, Nam nekogda zhdat |
1995 |
Florence Chadwick, American swimmer, dies at 86 |
1995 |
Carlos Menem Jr, son of Argentine pres, dies at 26 |
1995 |
Cosme Cortázar, Lovers: A True Story |
1995 |
Colette Mars, Aux yeux du souvenir |
1995 |
Lenita Lane, The Bat |
1995 |
Vivian Gordon, Sugarcoated Arsenic |
1995 |
Warren Adams, Bride of the Monster |
1995 |
Witold Gruszecki, Przeklete oko proroka |
1995 |
Florence Chadwick, Channel Swimmer |
1996 |
Helen Chadwick, artist, dies at 42 |
1996 |
Olga Rudge, violinist, dies at 100 |
1996 |
Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, lawyer/diplomat, dies at 89 |
1996 |
Homer Groening, Basic Brown Basic Blue |
1996 |
Wolfgang Köppen, Das Treibhaus |
1996 |
Harold Courlander, |
1996 |
Stina Sorbon, En fånge har rymt |
1996 |
Roswell Gilpatric, JFK Remembered |
1997 |
Gail Davis, (Annie Oakley), dies at 72 |
1997 |
Victor Vasarely, Hungarian painter (b. 1906) |
1997 |
Arnold Schwarzwald, Spartacus |
1997 |
Victor Vasarely, Le celluloïd et le marbre |
1997 |
Gail Davis, The Far Frontier |
1998 |
Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer, dies at 94 |
1998 |
Tim Maia, City of God |
1998 |
Jimmy Zahner, Mom and Dad |
1998 |
Birgitta Hörnblad, The Master Detective Lives Dangerously |
1998 |
Helmut Bergmann, Erscheinen Pflicht |
1998 |
Max Marx, Tough Kid |
1998 |
Benjamin Spock, Vietnam Protests |
1999 |
Sidney Green, The Trap |
1999 |
Agustín Barrios Gómez, El caso L |
1999 |
Henry Allin, Call to Danger |
1999 |
Ray Russell, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes |
2000 |
Fred Kelly, Deep in My Heart |
2000 |
Durward Kirby, Episode dated 2 August 1967 |
2000 |
Rolf Römer, Born in '45 |
2000 |
Wally Rose, The Blues Brothers |
2000 |
Kálmán ifj. Latabár, Irány Mexikó |
2001 |
Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909) |
2001 |
Mabel Richardson, The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
2001 |
Ann Sothern, A Letter to Three Wives |
2001 |
Nicholas Georgiadis, The Trojan Women |
2001 |
Henrik Schildt, The Sacrifice |
2002 |
Sergio Centi, The Girl of San Pietro Square |
2002 |
Ruth Capps, Claire |
2002 |
Sylvester L. Weaver Jr., Today |
2002 |
Merrill Strong, Beginner's Luck |
2003 |
Dame Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911) |
2003 |
Paul Stojanovich, Reality TV pioneer (b. 1956) |
2003 |
Kevin McQuarrie, The Way of the Gun |
2003 |
Thora Hird, Lost for Words |
2003 |
Jaroslav Bocek, Román mourovatého kocoura |
2003 |
Renata Tomaszewska, Powiedz to, Gabi |
2003 |
Paul Stojanovich, Cops |
2003 |
Al Gionfriddo, Game 6 |
2003 |
Lolly Stevenson, The Hunter |
2004 |
Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910) |
2004 |
John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925) |
2004 |
Jean Rimmer, 1914 All Out |
2004 |
Ralph Inbar, Martine Show |
2004 |
Chuck Niles, Nightmare Circus |
2004 |
Peter Basch, The James Dean Story |
2004 |
John Vallone, Predator |
2004 |
Takuzô Kamiyama, 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother |
2004 |
Eva Prchlíková, Lízino stestí |
2004 |
Yvonne Doughty, The Wild One |
2004 |
Philippe Lemaire, Arsène Lupin |
2004 |
Bob Kitsis, Dancing Co-Ed |
2005 |
Bob Bellear, Australian judge (b. 1944) |
2005 |
Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (b. 1927) |
2005 |
Eric Burgess, Moonraker |
2005 |
Hans Kwiet, Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany |
2005 |
Valentin Kulik, Father of a Soldier |
2005 |
Louis De Jong, De overval |
2005 |
Don Durant, A Piano in the House |
2005 |
Douglas Forsmith, Commando |
2006 |
George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918) |
2006 |
Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918) |
2006 |
Dave Blume, Wonderland |
2006 |
Jacques Legras, Hibernatus |
2006 |
Josué Montello, O Monstro de Santa Teresa |
2006 |
Serdar Kinaci, Patron kim |
2006 |
Irene Schay, Arthur Franz |
2006 |
Red Storey, Maurice Richard |
2007 |
Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (b. 1938) |
2007 |
Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball (b. 1926) |
2007 |
Stuart Rosenberg, American film and television director (b. 1927) |
2007 |
Blanquita Amaro, A La Habana me voy |
2007 |
Harold Lief, With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America |
2007 |
Bowie Kuhn, Howard Cosell: Telling It Like It Is |
2007 |
Olga Domushu, Muzykalnye igry |
2007 |
Charles Harrelson, The Cover-Up |
2007 |
Herman Stein, King Kong vs. Godzilla |
2007 |
Alice Backes, I Want to Live! |
2007 |
Anne Frith, The Galaxy Invader |
2007 |
Stuart Rosenberg, Cool Hand Luke |
2007 |
Natatcha Estébanez, The Blue Diner |
2008 |
Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer, TV shows announcer (b. 1951) |
2008 |
Mikey Dread, Jamaican singer (b. 1954) |
2008 |
Wolfgang Kühne, Meine beste Feindin |
2008 |
Albrecht Dennhardt, Bärendienst |
2008 |
Peri Hatman, Istanbul |
2008 |
David Low, Race to the Moon |
2008 |
Vytautas Kernagis, Anastasia |
2008 |
Hortense Allen, Rhythm in a Riff |
2008 |
Jacob D. DeShazer, Return of a Bombardier |
2008 |
Victoria Van Meter, Passing Stones |
2008 |
Mikey Dread, Deep Roots Music |
2008 |
Ken Reardon, Maurice Richard |
2009 |
Ron Silver, American actor (b. 1946) |
2009 |
Jack Dunham, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
2009 |
Yves Arcanel, Le Cercle Rouge |
2009 |
Verma Malik, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
2009 |
Ray Aragon, The Iron Giant |
2009 |
Edmund Hockridge, Episode #1.6 |
2009 |
Max Jacoby, The Merchant of Venice |
2009 |
Jack Lawrence, The Shawshank Redemption |
2009 |
Shinkichi Tajiri, Journeys from Berlin/1971 |
2009 |
Ron Silver, Ali |
2009 |
Cole Gittinger, No Country for Old Men |
2010 |
Bill Stanberry, Bus Stop |
2010 |
John Mosedale, Episode dated 31 July 1970 |
2010 |
Jacques Douy, Moonraker |
2010 |
Johana Bory, Bouton |
2011 |
Nate Dogg, American rapper, Nathaniel Dwayne Hale. (b. 1969) |
2011 |
Smiley Culture, British reggae singer, David Victor Emmanuel. (b. 1962) |
2011 |
Maj Lindström, Glädjekällan |
2011 |
James Pritchett, Guiding Light |
2011 |
Helen Tourtillott, Patch Adams |
2011 |
Yakov Kreizberg, Don Giovanni |
2011 |
Brendan Dillon, The Dead |
2011 |
Jimmy Joyce, The Swimmer |
2011 |
Michael Hansen, Kein Pardon |
2011 |
Nate Dogg, The Transporter |
2011 |
Douglas Simmonds, Tiger Takes Off |
2011 |
Leonid Agranovich, Srok davnosti |
2011 |
Smiley Culture, Absolute Beginners |
2011 |
Michel Fortin, Buffet Froid |
2011 |
Mary Ann Bricker, The Brute Man |
2011 |
Robert Tarantino, Vampire City 2: Rock 'N Roll Zombies from Outer Space |
2011 |
Marty Marion, Best MLB Teams |
2012 |
Dave Philley, American Major League Baseball switch-hitter, dies at 91 |
2012 |
Mark J. Huisman, The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love |
2012 |
Doug Purcell, Ocean's Thirteen |
2012 |
Dina Salvatore, Alien Agenda: Project Grey |
2012 |
Dave Philley, Game 4 |
2012 |
Pepe Rubio, Siempre es domingo |
2012 |
Mervyn Davies, Mervyn Davies |
2012 |
Roy Hayward, Meanwhile... Back at Base |
2013 |
Booth Gardner, American politician, dies from Parkinson's disease at 76 |
2013 |
Shannon Larratt, Clerks II |
2013 |
Leverne McDonnell, The Interview |
2013 |
Terry Lightfoot, Plenty |
2013 |
Booth Gardner, The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner |
2013 |
Neonila Gnepovskaya, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors |
2013 |
Peter Worsley, An Invention Called Childhood |
2013 |
Truman Macdonald Talley, Ian Fleming: 007's Creator |
2013 |
Regine Albrecht, Heißer Sommer |
2013 |
Charlotte Fairchild, Silent Night, Bloody Night |
2014 |
Clarissa Dickson Wright, Clarissa & the King's Cookbook |
2014 |
Scott Asheton, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels |
2014 |
Maria Anzai, Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy |
2014 |
Charlotte Brooks, Episode #8.30 |
2014 |
Joe Alfasa, What's Up, Doc? |
2014 |
Bi Skaarup, Fra Absalon til Christian - beretningen om Københavns befæstning |
2014 |
Rafael Castejón, Madame Rosaura |
2014 |
Sudhir Moghe, Vazir |
2014 |
Pedro Díez del Corral, High Heels |
2014 |
David Brenner, The Aristocrats |
2015 |
Mike Porcaro, American Heart |
2015 |
Sally Forrest, Vengeance Valley |
2015 |
Narayan Desai, Azhagu Kutti Chellam |
2015 |
Luciano Ercoli, Le foto proibite di una signora per bene |
2015 |
Curtis Gans, Holler Back: (Not) Voting in an American Town |
2015 |
Joel Moskowitz, Batman Tech |
2015 |
Jürgen Krumwiede, Abu Kasems Pantoffeln |
2015 |
Charles Shaffer, Watergate |
2015 |
Eusebiu Stefanescu, Maria si marea |
2016 |
Nobel laureate Lloyd S Shapley dies aged 92 |
2016 |
Extreme Weight Loss' Rod Durham dies aged 52 |
2016 |
British composer Peter Maxwell Davies dies aged 81 |
2016 |
Hotel Du Lac Author Anita Brookner Dies Aged 87 |
2016 |
Former Fiji center Seru Rabeni dies at age 37 |
2017 |
First-Ever Williams F1 Driver Patrick Neve Passes Away |
2017 |
The Blob producer Jack Harris dies aged 98 |
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