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Deaths on November 15

1194 : Margaretha van Elzas, wife of count Boudouin V of Henegouwen, dies
1280 : Albertus Magnus the Great, German leader/bishop Regensburg, dies at 87
1629 : Bethlen G bor, King of Hungary (1620-29), dies at 49
1630 : Johann Kepler, German astronomer, dies at 58
1634 : Johann Staden, composer, dies at 53
1658 : Jacobus Revius, [Reefsen], theologist/writer/poet, dies at about 72
1670 : Jan A Comenius, [Komensky], Czech/Neth educator/philosopher, dies
1691 : Albert Cuyp, landscape painter, buried at 71
1787 : Christoph W Ritter von Gluck, composer (Iphig‚nie Tauride), dies at 73
1788 : Peregrinus Pogl, composer, dies at 77
1812 : Eagle Fokke Simonsz, writer (Year 3000), dies at about 57
1815 : Johann Lukas Schubaur, composer, dies at 65
1831 : Vincenc Masek, composer, dies at 76
1832 : Jean Baptiste Say, French economist, dies at 63
1842 : Joseph Rastrelli, composer, dies at 43
1848 : P Rossi, Italian, murdered
1863 : Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (childless), dies
1897 : John Mercer Langston, US black jurist, dies at 67
1907 : Horatio Richmond Palmer, composer, dies at 73
1908 : Cixi [the old Buddha], empress-widow of China, dies
1908 : Tz'u-hsi (Cixi), empress of China, dies at 73
1910 : Wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author, dies at 79
1918 : Georges Antoine, composer, dies at 26
1919 : Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies
1931 : Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, publisher, dies
1933 : Affie Jarvis, cricketer (11 Tests for Australia, 9 catches), dies
1934 : Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Neth's manufacturer (Devout & D), dies
1938 : George Glover, cricketer (Test for S Africa 1895-96), dies
1944 : Maarten Reuchlin, resistance fighter, executed
1954 : Lionel Barrymore, [Blythe], actor (Dr Kildare, Key Largo), dies at 76
1955 : Lloyd Bacon, director (Fuller Brush Girl, 42nd Street), dies at 65
1958 : Tyrone Power, actor (Mark of Zorro), dies of a heart attack at 44
1959 : Alex Kennedy, cricketer (31 wkts in 5 Tests for England 1922-23), dies
1961 : Douglas Walton, actor (Bad Lands), dies of heart attack at 51
1961 : Elsie Ferguson, actress (Lie, Footlights, Scarlet Pages), dies at 76
1961 : Johanna Westerd˜k, 1st Dutch woman prof (Utrecht, 1917-52), dies at 78
1963 : Fritz Reiner, Hung/US conductor (Chicago Symphony Orch), dies at 74
1967 : Alice Lake, silent screen actress (Frisco Kid, Wicked), dies at 72
1967 : Michael James Adams, USAF pilot (X-15), dies in X-15 crash at 37
1969 : Roy D'Arcy, actor (Lovers, Actress), dies at 75
1974 : James Morrison, actor (Don't, Black Beauty), dies on his 86th birthday
1975 : Willem Scheps, Dutch journalist, dies at 77
1976 : Jean Gabin, French actor (Quai des Brumes), dies at 72
1978 : Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Thoughts & Female), dies in NY at 76
1980 : Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 75
1981 : Enid Markey, actress (Foolish Mothers, Civilization), dies at 85
1983 : John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army), dies at 71
1984 : Baby Fae, who received a baboon's heart, dies at 3 weeks
1985 : Spencer W Kimball, US head of mormon church, dies at 90
1986 : Alexandre Tansman, Polish composer (Dyptique), dies at 89
1988 : Mona Washbourne, actress (Blue Bird, Games), dies at 84
1990 : Bill E Herndon, actor (Rivals), dies at 54
1993 : Luciano Liggio, Italian mafia leader/painter, dies
1993 : Maurice Bessy, French film historian (Cin‚monde), dies at 82
1993 : Mouin Shabaita, Palestinian al-Fatah commandant, murdered
1993 : Theo Huizenaar, Dutch boxing trainer (Bep van Klaveren), dies at 93
1994 : Anthony Ward, writer, dies at 57
1994 : James Winston Watts, developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, dies at 90
1994 : Janet Ahlberg, illustrator, dies at 50
1994 : Volodymyr Ivashko, Pres of Ukraine (1990-91), dies
1995 : Eve Perrick, journalist, dies at 78
1995 : Herbert Delauney Bill Hughes, educationist, dies at 81
1995 : Kristian Lundin, record producer, dies at 22
1996 : Alger Hiss, former alleged spy/lawyer, dies at 92
1997 : Saul Chaplin, director (West Side Story), dies at 85
1997 : William Perrie, prison governor, dies at 79

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