15 October Deaths

October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

Deaths

412 – Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria
892 – Al-Mu'tamid, Muslim caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate
898 – Lambert of Italy (b. 880)
912 – Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Spanish emir (b. 844)
925 – Rhazes, Persian polymath (b. 864)
961 – Abd-al-Rahman III, caliph of Córdoba
1002 – Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
1080 – Rudolf of Rheinfelden (b. 1025)
1243 – Hedwig of Silesia, Polish saint (b. 1174)[1]
1173 – Petronilla of Aragon (b. 1135)
1326 – Walter de Stapledon, English bishop and politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1261)
1385 – Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow
1389 – Pope Urban VI (b. 1318)
1404 – Marie Valois, French princess (b. 1344)[2]
1496 – Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (b. 1443)
1564 – Andreas Vesalius, Belgian-Greek anatomist, physician, and author (b. 1514)
1622 – Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (d. 1686)
1674 – Robert Herrick, English poet (b. 1591)
1684 – Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (b. 1626)
1690 – Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter and illustrator (b. 1622)
1715 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1675)
1788 – Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735)
1810 – Alfred Moore, American captain and judge (b. 1755)
1811 – Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (b. 1735)
1817 – Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (b. 1746)
1819 – Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1744)
1820 – Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (b. 1771)
1837 – Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (b. 1760)
1891 – Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English author and songwriter (b. 1837)
1900 – Zdeněk Fibich, Czech pianist and composer (b. 1850)
1910 – Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (b. 1886)
1917 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)
1918 – Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian guru and saint (b. 1838)
1925 – Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1848?)[3]
1930 – Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (b. 1866)
1934 – Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (b. 1860)
1940 – Lluís Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia (b. 1882)
1945 – Pierre Laval, French lawyer and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (b. 1883)
1946 – Hermann Göring, German general and politician (b. 1893)
1948 – Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
1955 – Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
1958 – Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1907)
1958 – Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (b. 1908)
1959 – Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (b. 1909)
1959 – Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1880)
1960 – Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (b. 1890)
1961 – Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (b. 1896)
1963 – Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (b. 1908)
1964 – Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (b. 1891)
1965 – Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
1966 – Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1876)
1968 – Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
1976 – Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1902)
1978 – W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (b. 1918)
1980 – Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
1980 – Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896)
1981 – Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver (b. 1907)
1983 – Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
1987 – Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949)
1987 – Donald Wandrei, American author and poet (b. 1908)
1988 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English pianist, composer, and critic (b. 1892)
1989 – Danilo Kiš, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. (b. 1935.)
1990 – Delphine Seyrig, French actress and director (b. 1932)
1993 – Aydın Sayılı, Turkish historian and academic (b. 1913)
1994 – Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic (b. 1934)
1995 – Bengt Åkerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1967)
1995 – Marco Campos, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1976)
1999 – Josef Locke, British-Irish soldier, policeman, tenor and actor (b. 1917)
2000 – Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
2000 – Vincent Canby, American journalist and critic (b. 1924)
2003 – Ben Metcalfe, Canadian journalist and activist (b. 1919)
2005 – Jason Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977)
2005 – Matti Wuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (b. 1945)
2007 – Piet Boukema, Dutch jurist and politician (b. 1933)
2008 – Edie Adams, American actress and singer (b. 1927)
2008 – Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (b. 1914)
2008 – Jack Narz, American game show host and announcer (b. 1922)
2009 – Heinz Versteeg, Dutch-German footballer (b. 1939)
2010 – Richard C. Miller, American photographer (b. 1912)
2010 – Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and activist (b. 1926)
2010 – Johnny Sheffield, American actor (b. 1931)
2011 – Betty Driver, English actress, singer, and author (b. 1920)
2012 – Claude Cheysson, French lieutenant and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1920)
2012 – Erol Günaydın, Turkish actor and screenwriter (b. 1933)
2012 – Maria Petrou, Greek-English computer scientist and academic (b. 1953)
2012 – Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1922)
2012 – Pat Ward, American lawyer and politician (b. 1957)
2013 – Donald Bailey, American drummer (b. 1933)
2013 – Nevill Drury, English-Australian journalist and publisher (b. 1947)
2013 – Cancio Garcia, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1937)
2013 – Gloria Lynne, American singer (b. 1931)
2013 – Rudy Minarcin, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)
2013 – Hans Riegel, German businessman (b. 1923)
2014 – Giovanni Reale, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1931)
2014 – Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic designer (b. 1929)
2014 – Robert Tiernan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
2014 – Nobby Wirkowski, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1926)
2015 – Sergei Filippenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1971)
2015 – Nate Huffman, American basketball player (b. 1975)
2015 – Neill Sheridan, American baseball player (b. 1921)
2015 – Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian businessman and diplomat (b. 1934)
2015 – Tyrone Young, American football player (b. 1960)
2017 – Chinggoy Alonzo, Filipino theater, movie & television actor (b. 1950)

Source: wikipedia