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Deaths on August 15

xxxx : Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies
xxxx : Wevius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered
1038 : Stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies
1057 : Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan
1118 : Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies
1464 : Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian Pope (1458-64), dies at 58
1576 : Baliny Valentin Bakfark, composer, dies
1600 : Johann Baptista Serranus, composer, dies at 60
1615 : Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet/writer (Comfort of Soles), dies
1619 : Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies
1666 : Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionary/astronomer, dies
1725 : Gerard Noodt, lawyer, dies at 77
1728 : Marin Marias, composer, dies at 72
1729 : Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64
1758 : Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie), dies at 60
1798 : Felice Alessandri, composer, dies at 50
1807 : Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70
1848 : Timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88
1852 : Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92
1853 : Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer, dies at 72
1864 : Daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies
1887 : Me‹r Aron Goldschmidt, Danish writer (Ravnen, Hjemlís), dies at 67
1901 : Karl Weinhold, Germany, sociologist, dies at 77
1907 : Joseph Joachim, German violinist/composer, dies at 76
1914 : Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Baba yaga), dies at 59 [NS=Aug 28]
1915 : Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, Jew convicted of murder, lynched
1918 : Peter Gast, composer, dies at 64
1935 : Gerard Brucken Fock, composer, dies at 75
1935 : Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36
1935 : Will Rogers, humoprist, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 55
1936 : Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64
1936 : Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer, dies at 76
1951 : Artur Schnabel, Austria/US pianist (Reflections on Music), dies at 69
1956 : Constantine Freiherr von Neurath, German foreign minister, dies at 83
1958 : William L C "Big Bill" Broonzy, US blues singer/guitarist, dies at 65
1963 : John Powell, composer, dies at 80
1966 : Gerhard/Gerhart Pohl, German writer (Battle of Kolbenau), dies at 64
1966 : Jan Kiepura, actor (Give Us this Night), dies of heart attack at 64
1966 : Seena Owen, actress/writer (Queen Kelly), dies at 71
1967 : Ren‚ Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter, dies at 68
1968 : Edward Kilenyi, composer, dies at 84
1969 : Stijn Streuvels, [F Lateur], Flemish writer (Vlaschard), dies at 97
1970 : Karl August Andersen, composer, dies at 66
1971 : Paul Lukas, actor (Kim, Berlin Express), dies of heart failure at 76
1972 : Alf Thorbald Hurum, composer, dies at 89
1974 : Edmund Cobb, actor (Motorcycle Gang), dies at 82
1974 : Mrs Park Chung Hi, wife of South Korean president, murdered
1975 : Mujibur Rahiman, Pakistani sheik, killed in a military coup at 53
1976 : Jean P J C Haesaert, Flemish lawyer/sociologist, dies at 84
1978 : Harrison Kerr, composer, dies at 80
1982 : Patrick J G McGee, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon), dies at 60
1983 : Anthony Costello, actor (Blue), dies at 42
1983 : Benjamin V Cohen, US author of New Deal-legislation, dies at 88
1985 : Richard Yardumian, US composer (Creator Spirit), dies at 68
1988 : Barry Bingham Sr, US daily newspaper publisher, dies at 82
1988 : Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash
1988 : Ray Buchanan, US blues gitarist, dies at about 48
1989 : F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian/director (IISG), dies
1990 : Nina Bara, actress (Missile to the Moon), dies of cancer at 66
1991 : Marietta Tree, ambassador (UN Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74
1992 : Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US author (American Glass Animals), dies
1992 : Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), dies
1992 : Marie Paxton, entertainer, dies after brief illness
1992 : Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies
1992 : Osamu Inaba, Japanese min of justice, dies
1993 : Robert W Kempner, German officer of justice in Prussia, dies at 93
1994 : Shepherd Mead, London England, dies of stroke at 80
1994 : Simon R Naoli, Tanzanian marathoner, dies in an accident at 28
1994 : Wout Wagtmans, cyclist (Rome-Naples-Rome 1957), dies at 64
1995 : Erbie Bowser, pianist, dies at 77
1995 : Humphrey Sims Moore, pacifist/journalist, dies at 86
1995 : Ismay Thomas, teacher, dies at 74
1996 : Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker, dies at 86
1996 : Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver, dies at 93
1996 : Masao Maruyama, social scientist, dies at 82
1038 : Saint Stephen I

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