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Deaths on May 15

1174 : Nur ad-Din Mahmud, King of Syria, dies
1470 : Charles VIII, Knutsson Bonde, king of Sweden (14??-70), dies
1482 : Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician & mapmaker, dies
1591 : Dimitri Ivanovitch, Russian son of czar Ivan IV, murdered at 9
1621 : Henrick de Keyser, Amsterdam's master builder, dies at 56
1622 : Peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69
1685 : Henri Otto, Spanish marquis of Caretto/Savona/Grana, dies
1746 : Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer, dies at 67
1761 : Jacob Mossel, governor-general (Dutch East Indies), dies at 56
1785 : Karel Blazej Kopriva, composer, dies at 29
1801 : Louis C count Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian diplomat, dies at 73
1821 : John Wall Calcott, composer, dies at 54
1822 : Christian Ludwig Dieter, composer, dies at 64
1823 : Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer, dies at 69
1824 : Alexander Campbell, composer, dies at 60
1832 : Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer, dies at 73
1833 : Edmund Kean, English actor (Shylock), dies at 46
1842 : Emanuel A D M J count de las Cases, French historian (Napoleon), dies at 76
1845 : Samuel I Wiselius, Dutch lawyer/businessman/writer, dies at 76
1855 : Jan Mazereeuw, Frisian farmer/sect leader, dies at 75
1872 : Thomas Hastings, composer, dies at 87
1873 : Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Romania, dies at 53
1886 : Emily Dickinson, US poet, dies at 55
1889 : Alfred Potocki, premier Austrian/governor/viceroy of Galicia, dies
1892 : Arthur Hodister, British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered
1895 : Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker' Almanack), dies at 75
1899 : Francisque Sarcey, French writer (Le Temps), dies at 70
1924 : Paul d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist, dies at 71
1926 : Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), dies
1932 : Ki Inukai, premier Japan (1931-32), murdered
1933 : Ernest Torrence, actor (I Cover the Waterfront), dies at 54
1940 : Joseph Limburg, liberal 2nd-Member of parliament (1905-19), dies at 75
1940 : Willem A Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race & Crime), suicide at 63
1945 : Major Courtney, US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf
1952 : Albert Basserman, actor (Madame Curie, Rhapsody in Blue), dies at 84
1952 : Italo Montemezzi, composer, dies at 76
1958 : Michael G the Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam), dies at 91
1959 : Berend van den Amstel, [Bernard CED Hattink], Dutch actor, dies at 56
1964 : Cornelis H Edelman, Dutch geologist, dies at 61
1965 : Adrian Schoevers, Dutch director (Schoevers Institution), dies
1967 : Edward Hopper, US painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84
1967 : Jaromir Fiala, composer, dies at 74
1972 : Nigel Green, actor (Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File), dies at 47
1973 : Willem H Rassers, Dutch cult anthropologist (Pandji-Novel), dies at 95
1976 : Samuel Eliot Morison, US historian (Admiral of Ocean Sea), dies at 88
1984 : Lionel Charles Robbins, British economist, dies at 85
1985 : Jackie Curtis, actor (Underground USA), dies of a drug overdose at 38
1986 : Theodore H White, US journalist (Making of Pres, Pulitzer), dies at 71
1987 : John Baur, museum director, dies at 78
1987 : Wynne Gibson, actor (Night After Night, Aggie Appleby), dies
1988 : Andrew Duggan, actor (Jigsaw, Firehouse), dies of cancer at 64
1988 : Greta Nissen, actress (Ambassador Bill), dies
1989 : John Waldo Green, composer, dies at 80
1991 : Bud Freeman, jazz tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 84
1991 : Freddie Paris, dies
1991 : Reno Brown, dies
1991 : Ronald Lacey, actor (Raiders of Lost Ark, Next Victim), dies at 55
1992 : Bruce Hopkins, performer/director, dies at 44
1992 : Robert Morris Page, US physicist (radar), dies at 88
1994 : Frederik baron van Pallandt, Danish singer (Nina & F), murdered at 61
1994 : Gilbert Roland, Mexican/US actor (Armand in Camille), dies at 88
1994 : Ronnie Potsdammer, singer/song/text writer/programmer, dies at 71
1994 : Royal Dano, actor (Ghoulies 2), dies of a heart attack at 71
1994 : [Henry] John Baker, resistance fighter/journalist (Slogan), dies at 79
1995 : Edouard Dermit, actor (Testament of Orpheus), dies at 69
1995 : Eric Richard Porter, actor (Crucible, Hennessy), dies at 67
1995 : Johnny Van Derrick, jazz violinist, dies at 68
1995 : Perry Lederman, folk singer, dies at 52
1996 : George M Tindley, songwriter/vocalist, dies at 57

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