Famous Deaths on 15 Apr

Famous Deaths on 15 Apr

1053 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex
1220 - Adolf of Altena, Archbishop of Cologne
1415 - Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian
1446 - Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (b. 1377)
1610 - Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (b. 1546)
1621 - John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony
1632 - George Calvert, Proprietor of the Avalon (Maryland) Colony (b. 1580)
1641 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581)
1652 - Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church
1659 - Simon Dach, German poet (b. 1605)
1704 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (b. 1628)
1719 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
1754 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)
1761 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696)
1761 - Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)
1764 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721)
1764 - Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (b. 1679)
1765 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist and writer (b. 1711)
1788 - Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (b. 1711)
1793 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718)
1804 - Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)
1854 - Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773)
1865 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
1888 - Matthew Arnold, English poet (b. 1822)
1889 - Father Damien, Belgian missionary (b. 1840)
1898 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
1912 - William T. Stead American author and journalist. (b. 1849)
1912 - John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (b. 1864)
1912 - Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850)
1927 - Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868)
1938 - César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (b. 1892)
1942 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (b. 1880)
1943 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1882)
1945 - Hermann Florstedt, Nazi leader (b. 1895)
1948 - Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (d. 1892)
1949 - Wallace Beery, American actor (b. 1885)
1957 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
1962 - Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1881)
1962 - Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (b. 1911)
1963 - Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (b. 1903)
1969 - Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain (b. 1887)
1970 - Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1971 - Dan Reeves, American football team owner (b. 1912)
1974 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
1975 - Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910)
1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
1980 - Raymond Bailey, American actor (b. 1904)
1982 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915)
1983 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892)
1984 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (b. 1921)
1984 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
1986 - Jean Genet, French author (b. 1910)