Famous Deaths on 15 Jan

Famous Deaths on 15 Jan

1345 - Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler
1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
1623 - Fra Paolo Sarpi, Italian patriot, scholar, scientist and church reformer (b. 1552)
1672 - John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
1775 - Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Italian composer (b. 1700 or 1701)
1781 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718)
1790 - John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719)
1804 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)
1815 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Lord Nelson (b. 1761
1864 - Isaac Nathan, UK-Australian composer (b. 1792)
1876 - Eliza Johnson, U.S. First Lady (b. 1810)
1885 - Leopold Damrosch, German-American orchestral conductor (b. 1832)
1893 - Fanny Kemble, British actress and author (b. 1809)
1896 - Mathew Brady, U.S. photographer (b. 1822)
1909 - Arnold Janssen missionary (b. 1837)
1916 - Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850)
1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (b. 1870)
1919 - Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
1926 - Enrico Toselli, Italian composer (b. 1883)
1936 - Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866)
1945 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (b. 1865)
1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (b. 1924)
1950 - Gen Henry "Hap" Arnold, U.S. General of the Air Force (b. 1886)
1952 - Ned Hanlon, Premier of Queensland (b. 1887)
1955 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)
1964 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (b. 1905)
1967 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882)
1968 - Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
1970 - William T. Piper, American aircraft designer (b. 1881)
1972 - Daisy Ashford, English child writer (The Young Visiters) (b. 1881)
1973 - Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)
1973 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1983 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster (b. 1902)
1983 - Shepperd Strudwick, American actor (b. 1907)
1987 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)
1988 - Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
1990 - Dame Peggy van Praagh, British ballet dancer, choreographer, director (b. 1910)
1992 - Dee Murray, English bassist (b. 1946)
1993 - Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
1994 - Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)
1994 - Georges Cziffra, Hungarian-French pianist (b. 1921
1995 - Vera Maxwell, American fashion designer (b. 1901)
1996 - Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)
1996 - Les Baxter, American musician and composer (b. 1922)
1996 - Minnesota Fats, American billiards player (b. 1913)
1998 - Junior Wells, American musician (b. 1934)
1999 - Betty Box, British film producer (b. 1915)
2000 - Georges-Henri Lévesque, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)
2000 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 - Željko Ražnatović, aka Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
2001 - Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916)
2002 - Steve Gromek, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2003 - Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
2005 - Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)
2005 - Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969)
2005 - Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor (b. 1947)
2005 - Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
2005 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (b. 1915)
2005 - Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)
2006 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
2007 - Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
2007 - James Hillier, Canadian inventor of electron microscope (b. 1915)
2007 - Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945) (executed)
2007 - Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (b. 1905)
2007 - David Vanole, American soccer player (b. 1963)
2007 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein (b. 1951) (executed)
2008 - Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, Game Designer (b. 1964)
2008 - Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
570 - Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)
69 - Galba, Roman Emperor (b. 3 BC)
936 - King Rudolph of France