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August 15, 2003 Roy Neal, TV journalist, NASA correspondent, dies at 82 August 15, 2002 Jesse Brown, American Politician August 15, 2000 Edward Craven Walker, gadfly, invented the lava lamp, dies at 82 August 15, 1999 Hugh Casson, British Architect August 15, 1996 Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker, dies at 86 August 15, 1996 Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver, dies at 93 August 15, 1996 Masao Maruyama, social scientist, dies at 82 August 15, 1995 Erbie Bowser, pianist, dies at 77 August 15, 1995 Humphrey Sims Moore, pacifist/journalist, dies at 86 August 15, 1995 Ismay Thomas, teacher, dies at 74 August 15, 1994 Shepherd Mead, London England, dies of stroke at 80 August 15, 1994 Simon R Naoli, Tanzanian marathoner, dies in an accident at 28 August 15, 1994 Wout Wagtmans, cyclist (Rome-Naples-Rome 1957), dies at 64 August 15, 1993 Robert W. Kempner, German officer of justice in Prussia, dies at 93 August 15, 1992 Evelyn Wesler Zemel, U.S. author (American Glass Animals), dies August 15, 1992 Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), dies August 15, 1992 Marie Paxton, entertainer, dies after brief illness August 15, 1992 Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies August 15, 1992 Osamu Inaba, Japanese min of justice, dies August 15, 1991 Marietta Tree, ambassador (U.N. Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74 August 15, 1990 Nina Bara, actress (Missile to the Moon), dies of cancer at 66 August 15, 1989 F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian/director (IISG), dies August 15, 1988 Barry Bingham Sr, U.S. daily newspaper publisher, dies at 82 August 15, 1988 Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash August 15, 1988 Ray Buchanan, U.S. blues gitarist, dies at about 48 August 15, 1985 Richard Yardumian, U.S. composer (Creator Spirit), dies at 68 August 15, 1983 Anthony Costello, actor (Blue), dies at 42 August 15, 1983 Benjamin V Cohen, U.S. author of New Deal-legislation, dies at 88 August 15, 1982 Patrick J G McGee, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon), dies at 60 August 15, 1978 Harrison Kerr, composer, dies at 80 August 15, 1976 Jean P J C Haesaert, Flemish lawyer/sociologist, dies at 84 August 15, 1975 Mujibur Rahiman, Pakistani sheik, killed in a military coup at 53 August 15, 1974 Edmund Cobb, actor (Motorcycle Gang), dies at 82 August 15, 1974 Mrs Park Chung Hi, wife of South Korean president, murdered August 15, 1972 Alf Thorbald Hurum, composer, dies at 89 August 15, 1971 Paul Lukas, actor (Kim, Berlin Express), dies of heart failure at 76 August 15, 1970 Karl August Andersen, composer, dies at 66 August 15, 1969 Stijn Streuvels, [F Lateur], Flemish writer (Vlaschard), dies at 97 August 15, 1968 Edward Kilenyi, composer, dies at 84 August 15, 1967 Rene Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter, dies at 68 August 15, 1966 Gerhard/Gerhart Pohl, German writer (Battle of Kolbenau), dies at 64 August 15, 1966 Jan Kiepura, actor (Give Us this Night), dies of heart attack at 64 August 15, 1966 Seena Owen, actress/writer (Queen Kelly), dies at 71 August 15, 1963 John Powell, composer, dies at 80 August 15, 1958 William L C "Big Bill" Broonzy, U.S. blues singer and guitarist, dies at 65 August 15, 1956 Constantine Freiherr von Neurath, German foreign minister, dies at 83 August 15, 1951 Artur Schnabel, Austria/US pianist (Reflections on Music), dies at 69 August 15, 1936 Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64 August 15, 1936 Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer, dies at 76 August 15, 1935 Gerard Brucken Fock, composer, dies at 75 August 15, 1935 Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36 August 15, 1935 Will Rogers, humoprist, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 55 August 15, 1935 Paul Signac, French Artist August 15, 1918 Peter Gast, composer, dies at 64 August 15, 1914 Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Baba yaga), dies at 59 August 15, 1907 Joseph Joachim, German violinist and composer, dies at 76 August 15, 1901 Karl Weinhold, Germany, sociologist, dies at 77 August 15, 1887 Meir Aron Goldschmidt, Danish writer (Ravnen, Hjemlos), dies at 67 August 15, 1864 Daniel Phineas Woodbury, U.S. engineer/Union general-major, dies August 15, 1853 Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer, dies at 72 August 15, 1853 Frederick William Robertson, English Clergyman August 15, 1852 Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92 August 15, 1848 Timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88 August 15, 1807 Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70 August 15, 1798 Felice Alessandri, composer, dies at 50 August 15, 1758 Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie), dies at 60 August 15, 1729 Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64 August 15, 1728 Marin Marias, composer, dies at 72 August 15, 1725 Gerard Noodt, lawyer, dies at 77 August 15, 1666 Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionary/astronomer, dies August 15, 1619 Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies August 15, 1615 Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet and writer (Comfort of Soles), dies August 15, 1600 Johann Baptista Serranus, composer, dies at 60 August 15, 1576 Baliny Valentin Bakfark, composer, dies August 15, 1464 Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian Pope (1458-64), dies at 58 August 15, 1118 Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies August 15, 1057 Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan August 15, 1038 Stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies August 15, 423 Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies August 15, 69 Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered |