Notable Deaths on October 15th
October 15th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
412 |
Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria |
892 |
Al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies |
898 |
Lambert, Holy Roman Emperor |
912 |
Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Córdoba |
1002 |
Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946) |
1080 |
Rudolf of Rheinfeld, Duke of Swabia and German anti-King |
1268 |
Dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies |
1271 |
Hostiensis, [Henricus the Segusia], cardinal/bishop of Ostia, dies |
1326 |
Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (b. 1261) |
1389 |
Urban VI, [Bartolomeo Prignano], Italian pope (1378-89), dies |
1512 |
Antoon Keldermans, Flem builder (Middelburg town hall), dies at 72 |
1524 |
Joachim Patinir, Flemish landscape painter, dies at about 45 |
1539 |
Reynier Brunt, procureur-general of Court of Holland, dies |
1595 |
Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch E indies poet, dies at 48 |
1605 |
Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, Mogol keizer of India (1556-1605), dies at 63 |
1682 |
John Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 56 |
1715 |
Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (b. 1675) |
1730 |
Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658) |
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 AB Kosciusko, Polish lt-general/freedom fighter, dies |
1819 |
F Louise W, daughter of viceroy Willem V, dies at 48 |
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) |
1883 |
Francesco Schira, composer, dies at 74 |
1891 |
Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (b. 1837) |
1900 |
Zdenek Fibich, composer, dies at 49 |
1900 |
Zdenek Fibich, Kolya |
1910 |
Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, heavy weight boxing champ, shot & killed |
1914 |
Aleksander Rozycki, composer, dies at 69 |
1915 |
Milutin Uskokovic, Dosljaci |
1915 |
Paul Scheerbart, Power |
1917 |
Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris |
1917 |
Mata Hari, |
1918 |
Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian saint (b. circa 1838) |
1928 |
Leedham Bantock, Old Scrooge |
1928 |
Earl Mohan, Riders of the Kitchen Range |
1930 |
Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (b. 1866) |
1932 |
Frank Lawlor, Shave It with Music |
1932 |
Frank Lalor, Red Hot Romance |
1934 |
Raymond Poincaré, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74 |
1934 |
Raymond Poincaré, England's King at Liverpool |
1937 |
James Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail) dies at 70 |
1937 |
James A. Marcus, Regeneration |
1937 |
Thompson Buchanan, Easy to Love |
1937 |
Yordan Yovkov, Shibil |
1940 |
Lluís Companys, El ejército del pueblo nace |
1941 |
Francisco Moreno, The Devil Is a Woman |
1942 |
Dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed |
1942 |
Marie Tempest, Yellow Sands |
1943 |
Patrick Sylvester McGeeney, Little Miss Bluebonnet |
1943 |
Sofiya Magarill, The New Babylon |
1944 |
Philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau |
1945 |
Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62 |
1945 |
Pierre Laval, Pogrzeb Marszalka Józefa Pilsudskiego 12-V-18-V 1935 |
1945 |
Karl Alwin, Letzte Liebe |
1945 |
Ludmila Babková, Svadlenka |
1946 |
Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison at 53 |
1946 |
Hermann Göring, Triumph of the Will |
1947 |
Clyde Benson, Sea Mates |
1948 |
Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863) |
1948 |
Edythe Chapman, Beyond the Rocks |
1949 |
F. Ray Comstock, The Lottery Man |
1949 |
Elmer Clifton, Assassin of Youth |
1949 |
Martin J. Doner, The Captive God |
1950 |
John Jakob Raskob, |
1950 |
Christy Cabanne, The Mummy's Hand |
1953 |
L.E. Oates, Mystery of the Wax Museum |
1953 |
Henry Herzbrun, Sky Parade |
1953 |
John Smith, Forward March |
1954 |
Maurice Bedel, Along Came Youth |
1954 |
Dixon Boardman, Trooper 44 |
1954 |
Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Strike |
1955 |
Fumio Hayasaka, composer, dies at 41 |
1955 |
Robert Valberg, Oberst Redl |
1955 |
Fumio Hayasaka, Seven Samurai |
1956 |
Tefft Johnson, A Christmas Story |
1957 |
Jean-Charles Reynaud, Love Songs |
1957 |
Telemaco Ruggeri, La corsa all'amore |
1958 |
Jack Mason, cricketer (England all-rounder v Australia 1897-98), dies |
1958 |
John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist, dies at 72 |
1958 |
John Hamilton, actor (Perry White-Superman), dies at 61 |
1958 |
Yoneko Sakai, Gendai no joo |
1958 |
John Hamilton, The Maltese Falcon |
1959 |
Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1880) |
1959 |
Elliott White Springs, Body and Soul |
1960 |
Clara Kimball Young, actress (Return of Chandu), dies of stroke at 70 |
1960 |
Henny Porten, silent screen actress (Mother Love), dies at 70 |
1960 |
Maude Eburne, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman), dies at 84 |
1960 |
A.R. Whatmore, Eliza Comes to Stay |
1960 |
Edmund L. Cashman, Texaco Star Theatre |
1960 |
Jerzy Horecki, Bialy niedzwiedz |
1960 |
Henny Porten, Anna Boleyn |
1960 |
Clara Kimball Young, Eyes of Youth |
1963 |
Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French writer (Ecoute Israel), dies |
1963 |
Horton Smith. American golfer (b. 1908) |
1964 |
Cole Porter, composer (Still of the Night), dies at 73 |
1964 |
Cole Porter, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom |
1964 |
Carl M. Leviness, Terror |
1965 |
Carl Hoff, orchestra leader (Music Hall), dies at 60 |
1968 |
Bea Benaderet, NYC, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction), dies at 62 |
1968 |
Franz Reizenstein, composer, dies at 57 |
1969 |
Rod[erique] La Rocque, US western actor (Mystery Woman), dies |
1969 |
Shermake, president of (Somalia), murdered |
1971 |
Sylvester Magee, last living American slave and oldest person who ever lived, dies at 130 |
1975 |
Jacques Charon, Tartuffe |
1976 |
Carlo Gambino, Italian-American gangster, dies of a heart attack at 74 |
1977 |
Ralph Truman, actor (Henry V, Treasure Island), dies at 77 |
1979 |
Bertil Eriksson, Sverige åt svenskarna |
1979 |
Noel Hood, The Curse of Frankenstein |
1979 |
Yelena Kuzmina, Girl No. 217 |
1979 |
Arthur Hilton, The Killers |
1980 |
Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900) |
1980 |
Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896) |
1980 |
Joan Fleming, Prescription for Murder |
1980 |
Ladislas Farago, Patton |
1980 |
Kurt Blachy, Was eine Frau im Frühling träumt |
1980 |
Bobby Lester, Episode #1.40 |
1980 |
Mary O'Hara, Flicka |
1980 |
Liesl Löwinger, Die späte Heirat |
1980 |
James R. Hoskins, |
1980 |
Irwin Berke, Frankenstein 1970 |
1981 |
Frank DeKova, actor (Chief Wild Eagle-F Troop), dies |
1981 |
Justin Jud Strunk Jr, comedian (Laugh In), dies at 48 |
1981 |
Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (b. 1907) |
1981 |
Håkan Westergren, Kadettkamrater |
1981 |
Frank DeKova, The Ten Commandments |
1981 |
Zoltán Huszárik, Sinbad |
1982 |
Elsie Randolph, actress (That'll Make You Whistle), dies |
1982 |
Belle Ellig, Runaway |
1982 |
Harald Böhmelt, Such a Boor |
1982 |
Elsie Randolph, Frenzy |
1983 |
Pat O'Brien, actor (Some like it hot), dies of heart attack at 83 |
1983 |
Pat O'Brien, Some Like It Hot |
1984 |
Cameron Coffey, Afraid of His Wife |
1984 |
Frantisek Vicena, The Key |
1984 |
Gary Vinson, High School Caesar |
1984 |
Hilde Solheim, The Stranger |
1985 |
Meret Oppenheim, writer, dies at 72 |
1985 |
Ted Steele, The Ted Steele Show |
1986 |
Al Stricklin, Wyoming Hurricane |
1986 |
Jacqueline Roque, Pablo Picasso Painter |
1986 |
Jerry Smith, Super Bowl VII |
1987 |
Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies |
1987 |
William Skipper, Up in Central Park |
1987 |
Lennie Aleshire, Ozark Jubilee |
1987 |
Nik Novecento, Festa di laurea |
1987 |
Enzo Gatta, Giallo |
1987 |
Alfonso Rosas Priego, El hijo de Pedro Navaja |
1987 |
Lois Zellner, The Foolish Virgin |
1987 |
Pete Carpenter, Vanishing Point |
1988 |
Carl Low, Another World |
1988 |
Harold Carpenter, The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait |
1989 |
Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins |
1989 |
Danilo Kis, The Hourglass |
1989 |
James Lee Barrett, Smokey and the Bandit |
1989 |
Morris Hoffman, Blazing Saddles |
1989 |
Vera Pollo, Pavlinka |
1990 |
Delphine Seyrig, dies of lung disease at 58 |
1990 |
Gwen Nelson, Doctor Zhivago |
1990 |
Ilinka Dusanovic, Izbiracica |
1990 |
Helen Bray, The Danger Girl |
1990 |
Delphine Seyrig, Last Year at Marienbad |
1990 |
Tibor Berczelly, Helsinki 1952: Games of the XV Olympiad |
1991 |
Hotze de Roos, carpenter/kid book writer (Chameleon series), dies |
1991 |
Robert Pastene, The Edge of Night |
1991 |
Bob Pastine, |
1991 |
Hotze de Roos, De schippers van de Kameleon |
1991 |
Walter Strohm, Mrs. Miniver |
1991 |
Alec Morton, Bid Time Return |
1991 |
Norman Ginsbury, The First Gentleman |
1992 |
Dorothy Helen Baker, mother of Diane Baker, dies at 78 |
1992 |
Gino Cavalieri, The Key |
1992 |
Hanno Thurau, Wir können auch anders... |
1992 |
Helmer Salmi, Pan tulee kaupunkiin |
1992 |
Charlie Williams, Walk the Line |
1992 |
James Peters, Rhapsody in Blue |
1993 |
Ken E Jones, musician (New Amsterdam Symph Orch), dies of AIDS at 34 |
1993 |
Curt Lundvik, Skärgårdsflirt |
1993 |
Clarence Lung, Operation Petticoat |
1993 |
Dan Turèll, Mord i mørket |
1993 |
Nina Olivette, The Pretty Pretender |
1994 |
Hannes Wustinger, Austrian race car driver, dies at 29 |
1994 |
Karl Edward Wagner, writer, dies at 48 |
1994 |
Sarah Kofman, philosopher, dies at 60 |
1994 |
Wilhelmus HL "Willem" Tollenaar, actor/director (Elkerlyc), dies at 82 |
1994 |
Jean Dasté, Zero for Conduct |
1994 |
Leigh Vance, The Frightened City |
1994 |
Åke Uppström, Rejoice While You're Young, Fellow Cadets |
1994 |
Claus Jespersen, Good and Evil |
1994 |
Boguslaw Stokowski, Sons and Comrades |
1994 |
Karl Edward Wagner, A River of Night's Dreaming |
1994 |
Michiel de Ruyter, Big Ben: Ben Webster in Europe |
1994 |
Billy Lechner, The Case of the Two Little Country Girls |
1994 |
Eck Bozeman, Jane Finds Elly a Man |
1995 |
Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant, dies at 82 |
1995 |
Phil Sidey, broadcaster, dies at 69 |
1995 |
Tita Cooley, Moebius Play |
1995 |
Michael Harvey, Duck, You Sucker |
1995 |
Michel Journiac, Action de corps exclu |
1996 |
Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer, dies at 69 |
1996 |
Kemp Niver, The Groom Wore Spurs |
1996 |
Tom Ferrick, Game 3 |
1996 |
Leonardo Simons, Pepper |
1997 |
John F. Dullam, Blonde Fever |
1997 |
Jack Dwyer, Crazylegs |
1997 |
Gordon Arnold, The Forces of Darkness |
1997 |
John Hudkins, Dick Tracy |
1998 |
Jack Boyd, Cinderella |
1998 |
Josef Patocka, The Shadow of the Ferns |
1998 |
Colette Darfeuil, Pour un soir..! |
1999 |
Iván Koós, Hajótörés |
1999 |
Glen Payne, When All God's Singers Get Home |
1999 |
Terry Gilkyson, The Jungle Book |
1999 |
Torsten Lilliecrona, Tjorven, Batsman, and Moses |
2000 |
Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912) |
2000 |
Rodolfo Sonego, Once Upon a Crime... |
2000 |
Ettore Paratore, Fellini Satyricon |
2000 |
Leo Marini, ¡Qué rico el mambo! |
2000 |
Leavitt Thurlow Jr., Rose Bowl |
2000 |
Tatyana Gavrilova, Men and Beasts |
2001 |
Zhang Xueliang, Chinese ruler of Manchuria (b. 1901) |
2001 |
Timothy Lasquade, Gia |
2001 |
Brian Weske, Fortune Lane |
2001 |
Janet Shaw, Shadow of a Doubt |
2001 |
Ralph Levy, Do Not Disturb |
2001 |
Jean Danet, Diary of a Country Priest |
2001 |
Ján Klimo, Priatelstvá padajúceho lístia |
2001 |
Robert R. Rutledge, Star Wars |
2002 |
Claude Volter, Plus jamais seuls |
2002 |
Jack Lee, A Town Like Alice |
2002 |
Derek Bell, Barry Lyndon |
2002 |
Walden Boyle, Road to the Big House |
2002 |
Grace Hamblin, Never Despair |
2003 |
Ben Metcalfe, Canadian environmental activist (b. 1919) |
2003 |
Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) |
2003 |
Lanny Grey, Moonlight and Cactus |
2004 |
Gordon Yoder, Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. |
2004 |
Per Højholt, Stockcar |
2004 |
Jarl Victor, Away All Boats |
2005 |
Jason Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977) |
2005 |
Matti Wuori, Finnish politician (b. 1945) |
2005 |
Heidi Epper, Evasive Action |
2005 |
Ashley Barnett, Breastfeeding |
2005 |
Mildred Shay, Little Shop of Horrors |
2005 |
Larry Harpel, Birth, Death, Love and Rice |
2005 |
Joe Ward, Junior |
2005 |
Matti Wuori, The Man Without a Past |
2005 |
Rik Van Nutter, Thunderball |
2006 |
Michelle Urry, Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time |
2006 |
Derek Bond, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
2006 |
Joseph A. August Jr., Westworld |
2006 |
Vladislav Kacanski, Good Morning Malignant Cell |
2006 |
Jay Larsen, Murder Rap |
2007 |
Michal Slivka, Revue za sest korun |
2007 |
Shinji Yamada, Natsume Sôseki no Sanshirô |
2007 |
Szu-Ying Chien, In the Mood for Love |
2007 |
Margrit Hadorn, Eiger |
2007 |
Gerardo Alfaro, Con todo |
2007 |
Vito Taccone, Taccone, fuga in salita |
2007 |
Ernest Withers, The Murder of Emmett Till |
2007 |
Robert J. Mauch, The Prince and the Pauper |
2007 |
Larry Ward, Star Wars |
2008 |
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish poet (b. 1914) |
2008 |
Edie Adams, American singer and Broadway actress (b. 1927) |
2008 |
Jack Narz, American game show host (b. 1922) |
2008 |
Chris Mims, Super Bowl XXIX |
2008 |
Nathan Davis, Risky Business |
2008 |
Salvatore Siciliano, War of the Planets |
2008 |
Joyce Windsor, Porn Yesterday |
2008 |
Georgi Georgiev, The Peach Thief |
2008 |
Tom Tresh, New York Yankees (The Movie) |
2008 |
Edie Adams, The Apartment |
2008 |
Suzzanna, The Queen of Black Magic |
2008 |
Jack Narz, College of Musical Knowledge |
2008 |
Anatol Potemkowski, Wszystkie pieniadze swiata |
2008 |
Mona Bruce, To Sir, with Love |
2009 |
Sacha Bulthuis, Stricken |
2009 |
Emil Rached, Os Trapalhões na Guerra dos Planetas |
2009 |
Torahiko Hamada, Vengeance is Mine |
2009 |
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Aliens from Spaceship Earth |
2010 |
Richard C. Miller, American photographer (b. 1912) |
2010 |
Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and pro-life activist (b. 1926) |
2010 |
Johnny Sheffield, American actor (b. 1931) |
2010 |
Joe Hamer, *batteries not included |
2010 |
Peter Jamison, Point Break |
2010 |
Harold King, Red Alert |
2010 |
Robert Glatzer, Inquisition |
2010 |
Paul Kenworthy, The Living Desert |
2010 |
Johnny Sheffield, Tarzan's New York Adventure |
2010 |
Joan Veron, R.I.O.T.: The Movie |
2010 |
Dorothy Ford, Jack and the Beanstalk |
2010 |
Susana Fontana, La gran ocasión |
2011 |
Betty Driver, British Actress (b. 1920) |
2011 |
James C. Houston, The Dungeon of Harrow |
2011 |
Jamie Hubley, Cyberintimidation: on a détruit ma vie! |
2011 |
Betty Driver, Episode #1.6526 |
2011 |
Michael Cornelison, The Woman in the Room |
2011 |
Sue Mengers, The Kid Stays in the Picture |
2012 |
Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, dies from a heart attack at 89 |
2012 |
Norodom Sihanouk, Twilight |
2012 |
Erol Günaydin, Pardon |
2012 |
Claude Cheysson, Lest We Forget |
2012 |
Alfonso Pícaro, Asleep in the Sun |
2013 |
Donald Bailey, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me |
2013 |
Glafkos Klerides, Attila 74: The Rape of Cyprus |
2013 |
Gloria Lynne, Se7en |
2013 |
Tommy Andersson, Jalla! Jalla! |
2013 |
Frank Stone, Digging the Great Escape |
2013 |
Roger La Joie, The Eight Year Itch Witch |
2013 |
Gianni Volpi, Un amore |
2014 |
Sergei Smeyan, Sobake sobachya smert |
2014 |
Giovanni Reale, Se hai una montagna di neve, tienila all'ombra |
2014 |
Marie Dubois, Shoot the Piano Player |
2014 |
Doris Hering, Mary Anthony: A Life in Modern Dance |
2014 |
James LaRossa, The Gambinos: The First Family of Crime |
2014 |
Mariella Gramaglia, Paté de bourgeois |
2014 |
Hélène Marteau, Des gens qui passent |
2015 |
Tyrone Young, Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New Orleans Saints |
2015 |
Michael Stevens, The Thin Red Line |
2015 |
Robert Neugeboren, Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness and Survival |
2015 |
Rudolf Debiel, Mord in Frankfurt |
2015 |
Steve Gebhardt, Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally |
2015 |
Ken Taylor, Our Man in Tehran/Iran's Charm Offensive |
2015 |
Macel Falwell, Year of Jubilee: Part 3 |
2016 |
Coronation Street star Jean Alexander, who played Hilda Ogden, dies aged 90 |
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