Historical Deaths for Yesterday

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - Mar 15

0493 Odiaker, German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), dies

0752 Zachary, Greek/Italian Pope (741-52), dies [or Mar 22]

0963 Romanus II, Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies at 25

1034 Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies

1673 Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter (Baroque)/poet/music/actor, dies at 57

1723 Johann C GЃnther, writer, dies at 27

1731 Adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician, dies at 75

1842 Maria Luigi C Z S Cherubini, Italian composer (Dies Irae), dies at 81

1880 Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 51

1881 Emory Upton, US Union gen-maj (Selma), commits suicide at 42

1883 Karol Studzinski, composer, dies at 55

1905 Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at 60

1905 B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norwegian author (Paa St Jнrgen), dies at 58

1906 Alfred Gilpin Jones, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06), dies at 81

1918 Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer, dies at 82

1918 Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24

1918 Lili Boulanger, composer, dies at 24

1929 Pine-Top Smith, jazz pianist (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies at 24

1930 Antonio Beltramelli, writer, dies at 51

1938 Edmund Tylecote, cricketer (England keeper in 6 Tests 1882-86), dies

1940 Alfred Marr, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 0 & 5), dies

1942 Alexander van Zemlinsky, Aust/US composer (African Dance), dies at 70

1944 Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I), dies at 86

1945 Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies at 41

1954 Arthur Fickenscher, composer, dies at 82

1962 Sam Wren, actor (Wren's Nest), dies at 64

1964 Paul Cavanagh, actor (Black Arrow, Woman in Green), dies at 75

1966 Abe Saperstein, founder (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 63

1966 Heinrich Lemacher, composer, dies at 74

1969 Miles Malleson, actor/writer (Postman's Knock), dies at 80

1970 Josef Martin Bauer, writer, dies at 68

1970 Tarjei Vesaas, Nowegian author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72

1971 Jean-Pierre Monser‚, Flemish cyclist, dies at 22

1973 Carl Benton Reid, actor (Burke's Law), dies at 82

1975 Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler/sportscaster, dies at 49

1975 Aristotle S Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, dies at 69

1977 Kamal Joemblat, Lebanese politician, murdered

1983 Jos‚ Luis Sert, Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at 80

1984 Tommy Cooper, comedian, collapses & dies on stage

1987 Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY), dies at 82

1988 Dmitri F Polyakov, Russian secret-general/top spy for US, executed

1990 Tom Harmon, NFL tail back (Heisman Trophy), dies at 70

1991 Budd [Lawrence] Freeman, US jazz saxophonist (Eel), dies at 84

1991 Eileen Sedgwick, silent film actress (Hot Heels), dies at 93

1992 Helen Deutsch, screenwriter, dies of natural causes

1992 Jack Washburn, actor (Black Orchid), dies after long illness at 64

1992 Vanessa Lee, actress (Split), dies at 71

1993 Anthony Bowles, music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar), dies at 61

1993 Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies of pneumonia at 40

1993 Ricardo M Arias Espinosa, president of Panama (1955-56), dies

1994 Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68

1995 Carlos Menem Jr, son of Argentine pres, dies at 26

1996 Helen Chadwick, artist, dies at 42

1996 Olga Rudge, violinist, dies at 100

1996 Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, lawyer/diplomat, dies at 89

1997 Gail Davis, ( Annie Oakley), dies at 72

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