Famous Deaths on 15 Mar

Famous Deaths on 15 Mar

1145 - Pope Lucius II
1311 - Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens
1416 - John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)
1536 - Pargalı İbrahim Pasha, Grand Vizer under Suleiman the Magnificent
1575 - Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527)
1644 - Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (born 1576)
1670 - John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597)
1673 - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (b. 1615)
1701 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
1711 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645)
1820 - Clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (b. 1751
1842 - Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (b. 1760)
1849 - Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
1891 - Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
1891 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
1898 - Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813)
1914 - Jalaleddin Ali Mir Abolfazl Angha, Sufi master (b. 1849)
1937 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
1941 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
1951 - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1889)
1957 - Ernst Nobs, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1886)
1959 - Lester Young, American musician (b. 1909)
1962 - Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1966 - Abe Saperstein, American basketball executive (b. 1902)
1970 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (b. 1897)
1971 - Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)
1972 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910)
1975 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1900)
1977 - Antonino Rocca, Argentine professional wrestler
1977 - Hubert Aquin, Quebec novelist, political activist and editor (b. 1929)
1981 - René Clair, French film director (b. 1898)
1983 - Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892)
1985 - Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (b. 1921)
1988 - Dmitri Polyakov, Soviet double-agent (b. 1926)
1989 - Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915)
1990 - Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (b. 1958)
1990 - Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)
1991 - Bud Freeman, American jazz musician (b. 1906)
1997 - Victor Vasarely, Hungarian painter (b. 1906)
1997 - Gail Davis, American actress (b. 1925)
1998 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
2001 - Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
2003 - Dame Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911)
2003 - Paul Stojanovich, Reality TV pioneer (b. 1956)
2004 - John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
2004 - Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910)
2005 - Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (b. 1927)
2005 - Bob Bellear, Australian judge (b. 1944)
2006 - George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
2006 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
2007 - Stuart Rosenberg, American film and television director (b. 1927)
2007 - Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball (b. 1926)
2007 - Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (b. 1938)
2008 - Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer, TV shows announcer (b. 1951)
2008 - Mikey Dread,Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
220 - Cao Cao, King of Wei (b. 155)
44 BC - Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC)
493 - Odoacer, King of Italy (murdered) (b. 435)