Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In October - 15

1937  On this day in history james Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail) dies at 70   

1942  Death of Dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed on this day in history.   

1944  Death of Philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau on this day in history.   

1945  Death of Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62 on this day in history.   

1946  On this day in history death of hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison   

1948  Death of Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863) on October - 15.   

1955  On this day in history fumio Hayasaka, composer, dies at 41   

1958  On October - 15 jack Mason, cricketer (England all-rounder v Australia 1897-98), dies   

1959  On this day in history death of lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1880)   

1960  Clara Kimball Young, actress (Return of Chandu), dies of stroke at 70 on October - 15.   

1963  Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French writer (Ecoute Israel), dies on October - 15.   

1964  On October - 15 cole Porter, composer (Still of the Night), dies at 73   

1965  On October - 15 carl Hoff, orch leader (Music Hall), dies at 60   

1968  On October - 15 bea Benaderet, NYC, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction), dies at 62   

1969  Rod[erique] La Rocque, US western actor (Mystery Woman), dies on this day in history.   

1976  On October - 15 carlo Gambino, US gangster, dies at 74   

1977  Ralph Truman, actor (Henry V, Treasure Island), dies at 77 on October - 15.   

1980  Death of Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900) on this day in history.   

1981  On this day in history frank DeKova, actor (Chief Wild Eagle-F Troop), dies   

1982  Elsie Randolph, actress (That'll Make You Whistle), dies on this day in history.   

1983  On October - 15 pat O'Brien, actor (Some like it hot), dies of heart attack at 83   

1985  Meret Oppenheim, writer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1987  Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies on this day in history.   

1990  On this day in history delphine Seyrig, dies of lung disease at 58   

1991  Hotze de Roos, carpenter/kid book writer (Chameleon series), dies on this day in history.   

1992  On this day in history dorothy Helen Baker, mother of Diane Baker, dies at 78   

1993  Ken E Jones, musician (New Amsterdam Symph Orch), dies of AIDS at 34 on this day in history.   

1994  On October - 15 hannes Wustinger, Austrian race car driver, dies at 29   

1995  Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant, dies at 82 on October - 15.   

1996  Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer, dies at 69 on October - 15.   

2000  Death of Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912) on October - 15.   

2001  Death of Zhang Xueliang, Chinese ruler of Manchuria (b. 1901) on this day in history.   

2003  On this day in history death of ben Metcalfe, Canadian environmental activist (b. 1919)   

2005  Death of Jason Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977) on October - 15.   

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1471  Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526) was born on this day in history.   

1542  Djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, emperor of India (1556-1605) was born on this day in history.   

1550  On this day in history birth of henry, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg/brother of William of Orange   

1608  On this day in history birth of evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647)   

1674  Robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together) was born on this day in history.   

1686  On this day in history birth of allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (d. 1758)   

1701  On this day in history birth of marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (d. 1771)   

1711  On this day in history birth of elisabeth Teresa of Lorraine, queen of Sardinia (d. 1741)