Famous Deaths on 15 Dec

Famous Deaths on 15 Dec

1025 - Basil II, Byzantine Emperor (b. 958)
1072 - Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan in Persia (b. 1029)
1230 - King Otakar I of Bohemia
1263 - King Haakon IV of Norway (b. 1204)
1598 - Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch writer and statesman (b. 1538)
1621 - Charles de Luynes, Constable of France (b. 1578)
1673 - Margaret Cavendish, English writer (b. 1623)
1675 - Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (b. 1632)
1683 - Izaak Walton, English writer (b. 1593)
1688 - Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (b. 1634)
1715 - George Hickes, English minister and scholar (b. 1642)
1753 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (b. 1694)
1792 - Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (b. 1756)
1855 - Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803)
1890 - Sitting Bull, Sioux nation leader (b. circa 1831)
1943 - Fats Waller, American musician (b. 1904)
1944 - Glenn Miller, American musician (later declared dead on this date, exact date of death unknown) (b. 1904)
1947 - Arthur Machen, Welsh author (b. 1863)
1950 - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader, Iron Man of India (b. 1875)
1958 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1962 - Charles Laughton, English actor (b. 1899)
1966 - Walt Disney, American animator (b. 1901)
1968 - Jess Willard, American boxer (b. 1881)
1968 - Antonio Barrette, Canadian politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1899)
1971 - Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician (b. 1886)
1974 - Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born screenwriter and film producer (b. 1902)
1977 - Wilfred Kitching, the 7th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893)
1978 - Chill Wills, American actor (b. 1903)
1984 - Jan Peerce, American tenor (b. 1904)
1984 - Lennard Pearce, English actor (b. 1915)
1989 - Arnold Moss, American actor (b. 1910)
1989 - Edward Underdown, English actor (b. 1908)
1991 - Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev, Soviet sniper (b. 1915)
2001 - Rufus Thomas, American musician (b. 1917)
2001 - Russ Haas, American professional wrestler (b. 1974)
2003 - George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b. 1923)
2003 - Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1947)
2004 - Pauline Gore, mother of Al Gore (b. 1912)
2005 - Darrell Russell, American football player (b. 1976)
2005 - William Proxmire, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1915)
2005 - Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (b. 1915)
2005 - Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician (b. 1914)
2006 - Clay Regazzoni, Swiss Formula One driver (b. 1939)
2007 - John Berg (actor), American actor (b. 1949)
2007 - Julia Carson, U.S. Congresswoman from Indiana (b. 1938)