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October 15 Deaths in History - October 15 Birthdays - October 15 Events
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October 15, 2000 Vincent Canby, critic, dies at 76 October 15, 1996 Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer, dies at 69 October 15, 1995 Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant, dies at 82 October 15, 1995 Phil Sidey, broadcaster, dies at 69 October 15, 1994 Hannes Wustinger, Austrian race car driver, dies at 29 October 15, 1994 Jean Daste, French actor (Zero de Conduite, L'Atalante), dies at 90 October 15, 1994 Karl Edward Wagner, writer, dies at 48 October 15, 1994 Sarah Kofman, philosopher, dies at 60 October 15, 1994 Wilhelmus HL "Willem" Tollenaar, actor and director (Elkerlyc), dies at 82 October 15, 1993 Ken E Jones, musician (New Amsterdam Symph Orch), dies of AIDS at 34 October 15, 1992 Dorothy Helen Baker, mother of Diane Baker, dies at 78 October 15, 1991 Hotze de Roos, carpenter/kid book writer (Chameleon series), dies October 15, 1990 Delphine Seyrig, dies of lung disease at 58 October 15, 1990 Leonard Bernstein, composer (West Side Story), dies at 72 October 15, 1987 Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies October 15, 1985 Meret Oppenheim, writer, dies at 72 October 15, 1983 Pat O'Brien, actor (Some like it hot), dies of heart attack at 83 October 15, 1982 Elsie Randolph, actress (That'll Make You Whistle), dies October 15, 1981 Frank DeKova, actor (Chief Wild Eagle-F Troop), dies October 15, 1981 Justin Jud Strunk Jr, comedian (Laugh In), dies at 48 October 15, 1977 Ralph Truman, actor (Henry V, Treasure Island), dies at 77 October 15, 1976 Carlo Gambino, U.S. gangster, dies at 74 October 15, 1969 Rod[erique] La Rocque, U.S. western actor (Mystery Woman), dies October 15, 1969 Shermake, president of (Somalia), murdered October 15, 1968 Bea Benaderet, New York City, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction), dies at 62 October 15, 1968 Franz Reizenstein, composer, dies at 57 October 15, 1965 Carl Hoff, orch leader (Music Hall), dies at 60 October 15, 1964 Cole Porter, composer (Still of the Night), dies at 73 October 15, 1963 Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French writer (Ecoute Israel), dies October 15, 1960 Clara Kimball Young, actress (Return of Chandu), dies of stroke at 70 October 15, 1960 Henny Porten, silent screen actress (Mother Love), dies at 70 October 15, 1960 Maude Eburne, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman), dies at 84 October 15, 1958 John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist, dies at 72 October 15, 1958 John Hamilton, actor (Perry White-Superman), dies at 61 October 15, 1955 Fumio Hayasaka, composer, dies at 41 October 15, 1949 Laszlo Rajk, Hungarian Secretary of State/Foreign minister, hanged October 15, 1946 Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison October 15, 1945 Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62 October 15, 1944 Philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau October 15, 1942 Dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed October 15, 1937 James Marcus, actor (Clockwork Orange), dies at 60 October 15, 1934 Raymond Poincare, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74 October 15, 1917 Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris October 15, 1915 Paul Scheerbart, [Bruno Kufer], German writer (Tarub), dies at 52 October 15, 1914 Aleksander Rozycki, composer, dies at 69 October 15, 1910 Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ, shot and killed October 15, 1900 Zdenek Fibich, composer, dies at 49 October 15, 1883 Francesco Schira, composer, dies at 74 October 15, 1819 F Louise W, daughter of viceroy Willem V, dies at 48 October 15, 1817 Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish lt-general/freedom fighter, dies October 15, 1690 Juan de Valdes Leal, Spanish painter/sculptor, dies at 68 October 15, 1682 John Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 56 October 15, 1605 Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, Mogol keizer of India (1556-1605), dies at 63 October 15, 1595 Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch E indies poet, dies at 48 October 15, 1539 Reynier Brunt, procureur-general of Court of Holland, dies October 15, 1524 Joachim Patinir, Flemish landscape painter, dies at about 45 October 15, 1512 Antoon Keldermans, Flem builder (Middelburg town hall), dies at 72 October 15, 1389 Urbanus VI, [Bartolomeo Prignano], Italian pope (1378-89), dies October 15, 1271 Hostiensis, [Henricus the Segusia], cardinal/bishop of Ostia, dies October 15, 1268 Dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies October 15, 1080 Rudolf von Schwaben, German anti-King, dies October 15, 892 Al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies |