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Deaths on December 15

1025 : Basilius II, the Bulgarendoder, Byzantine emperor (976-1025), dies
1230 : Ottokar I, king of Bohemia (1197-1230), dies
1515 : Alfonso de Albuquerque, viceroy of Portuguese Indies, dies
1576 : Joachim Hopperus, [Hoppers], Frisian lawyer/politician, dies at 53
1598 : Philip van Marnix, Flemish ruler of St Aldegonde/poet, dies at 58
1621 : Charles d'albert duke of Luynes/PM of France, dies at 43
1626 : Adriaen de Vries, Dutch sculptor/painter, dies at about 70
1675 : John Vermeer, Dutch painter (Love Letter), dies at 43
1688 : Gaspar Fagel, lawyer/Neth grand pensionary (1672-88), dies at 54
1699 : Henrik A van Reede tot Drakenstein, Dutch botanist, dies at about 63
1712 : Sidney 1st earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance, dies at 67
1715 : George Hickes, English linguist (Old German Philology), dies at 73
1779 : Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer, dies at 62
1792 : Joseph Martin Kraus, composer, dies at 36
1816 : Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 44
1817 : Maria Walewska [Leszczinska], lover of emperor Napoleon I, dies
1822 : Ferenc Verseghy, composer, dies at 65
1826 : William Browser, revolting slave, executed in NYC
1831 : Paul R Cantzlaar, gov of Saba/Cura‡ao/Dutch-West Indies, dies at 60
1839 : Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish court-painter, dies at 66
1861 : Gualtiero Sanelli, composer, dies at 45
1880 : Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Ital minister of Justice, dies at 76
1889 : Ferdinand II A F A, king of Portugal, dies at 73
1890 : Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), killed by US
1892 : Charles Balmer, composer, dies at 75
1896 : John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67
1901 : Elias Alvares Lobo, composer, dies at 67
1909 : Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer, dies at 57
1934 : Maggis Lena Walker, 1st US (black) woman to head a bank, dies at 69
1939 : Tom McKibbin, cricketer (5 Tests for Aust 1895-1898, 17 wkts), dies
1943 : Thomas W "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist, dies at 39 in KC Missouri
1944 : Glenn Miller, US band leader/jazz composer, dies at 40
1946 : Conrad Haebler, historian (Hundert Kalenderinkunabeln), dies at 89
1946 : Gordon Frederic Norton, composer, dies at 77
1950 : Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer, dies at 66
1951 : Eric Drummond, 1st sec-gen League of Nations (1919-33), dies at 75
1953 : Kishio Hirao, composer, dies at 46
1961 : William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99
1962 : Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63
1966 : Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation
1968 : Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86
1972 : Edward Earle, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight), dies at 90
1972 : Herbert Eimert, German composer (Glockenspiel), dies at 75
1973 : Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer, dies at 61
1974 : Erich Walter Sternberg, composer, dies at 83
1974 : Harry Hershfield, cartoonist (Can You Top This?), dies at 89
1975 : Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer, dies at 63
1978 : Chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), dies at 75
1979 : Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66
1984 : Avon Long, actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies at 74
1984 : Jan Peerce, [Perelmuth], operatic tenor, dies at 80 following a stroke
1989 : Arnold Moss, actor (Gambit), dies at 79
1990 : Betty Warren actress (Passport to Pimlico), dies
1990 : Jean Paige, actress (Capt Blood, Black Beauty), dies
1991 : Horatio Luro, US horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90
1991 : Ray Smith, British actor (And Then You Die), dies at 55
1992 : Fr‚ [Frederik] Meis, Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 71
1993 : Kakuei Tanaka, PM of Japan (1972-74), dies
1994 : Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (Amsterdams Vrouwenkoor), dies at 86
1994 : Harry Tobias, songwriter, dies at 99
1994 : Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist, dies at 88
1994 : Mollie Doreen Phillips, Brit figure skater (Eur-bronze-33), dies at 87
1995 : James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88
1995 : Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, PM of Defense of Spain (1977-81), dies at 83
1996 : Gerald Moverley, priest, dies at 74
1996 : Guiseppe Dossetti, politician/priest, dies at 83
1996 : Laurens jan van der Post, explorer/conservationist, dies at 90
1997 : Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at 98
1997 : Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar, dies at 69

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