Famous Deaths on 15 Jun

Famous Deaths on 15 Jun

1073 - Emperor Go-Sanjō of Japan (b. 1034)
1246 - Duke Frederick II of Austria (b. 1219)
1341 - Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1297)
1381 - John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England
1381 - Wat Tyler, English rebel
1383 - John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor
1389 - Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1326)
1389 - Prince Lazar, Serbian Orthodox saint (b. 1329)
1467 - Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396)
1521 - Tamás Bakócz. Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)
1614 - Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)
1679 - Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)
1724 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674)
1750 - Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer (b. 1684)
1768 - James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)
1772 - Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (b. 1694)
1849 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)
1858 - Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter (b. 1795)
1888 - Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (b. 1831)
1889 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (b. 1850)
1917 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)
1934 - Alfred Bruneau, French composer (b. 1857)
1941 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873)
1941 - Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875)
1961 - Giulio Cabianca, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
1962 - Alfred Cortot, Franco-Swiss pianist (b. 1877)
1965 - Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917)
1965 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902
1968 - Sam Crawford, baseball player (b. 1880)
1968 - Wes Montgomery, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
1971 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1976 - Jimmy Dykes, baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
1983 - Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Telugu poet (b. 1910)
1984 - Meredith Willson, American composer (b. 1902)
1985 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (b. 1927)
1985 - Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (b. 1961)
1989 - Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
1989 - Victor French, American actor (b. 1934)
1991 - Happy Chandler, American politician and Commissioner of Baseball (b. 1898)
1991 - Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
1993 - John Connally, American politician (b. 1917)
1993 - James Hunt, English race car driver and 1976 F1 world champion (b. 1947)
1994 - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925)
1995 - John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (b. 1903)
1996 - Dick Murdoch, professional wrestler (b. 1946)
1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
2000 - Jules Roy, French writer (b. 1907)
2001 - Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (b. 1909)
2002 - Choi Hong Hi, founder of Taekwon-Do (b. 1918)
2003 - Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (b. 1911)
2005 - Suzanne Flon, French actress (b. 1918)
2006 - Raymond Devos, French humourist (b. 1922)
2006 - Herb Pearson, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1910)
2007 - Claudia Cohen, American gossip columnist and socialite (b. 1950)
2007 - Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler and valet (b. 1958)
2008 - Stan Winston, American special effects and makeup artist, and film director (b. 1946)
923 - Robert I of France (b. 866)
991 - Empress Theophanu