August 15 - Deaths

Deaths

423 – Honorius, Roman Emperor (b. 384)
465 – Libius Severus, Roman Emperor (b. 420)
778 – Roland, Frankish commander
1038 – Stephen I of Hungary (b. 975)
1057 – Macbeth, King of Scotland
1118 – Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1048)
1196 – Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)
1274 – Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and educator (b. 1201)
1369 – Philippa of Hainault (b. 1314)
1528 – Odet of Foix, Viscount of Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485)
1552 – Hermann of Wied, German archbishop (b. 1477)
1621 – John Barclay, Scottish poet (b. 1582)
1666 – Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary (b. 1591)
1714 – Constantin Brâncoveanu, Romanian prince (b. 1654)
1728 – Marin Marais, French composer and viol player (b. 1656)
1758 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (b. 1698)
1799 – Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (b. 1729)
1852 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (b. 1760)
1859 – Nathaniel Claiborne, American politician (b. 1777)
1880 – Adelaide Neilson, English actress (b. 1848)
1907 – Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)
1909 – Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (b. 1866)
1917 – Thomas J. Higgins, American soldier (b. 1831)
1925 – Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter (b. 1878)
1928 – Anatole von Hügel, Italian ethnologist, co-founder of St Edmund's College, Cambridge (b. 1854)
1931 – Nigar Shikhlinskaya, Azerbaijani nurse (b. 1878)
1934 – Leo O'Connell, American soccer player (b. 1883)
1935 – Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898)
1935 – Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (b. 1879)
1935 – Paul Signac, French painter (b. 1863)
1936 – Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
1942 – Mahadev Desai, Indian activist and writer (b. 1892)
1945 – Korechika Anami, Japanese general and War Minister (b. 1887)
1951 – Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (b. 1882)
1953 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
1962 – Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (b. 1940)
1967 – René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
1971 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (b. 1887)
1975 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali politician, 1st President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)
1975 – Clay Shaw, American businessman and lawyer (b. 1913)
1982 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1989 – Minoru Genda, Japanese aviator and politician (b. 1904)
1989 – Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek army officer (b. 1897)
1990 – Viktor Tsoi, Russian singer-songwriter (Kino) (b. 1962)
1994 – Wout Wagtmans, Dutch cyclist (b. 1929)
1995 – John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (b. 1906)
1997 – Ida Gerhardt, Dutch poet (b. 1905)
1999 – Hugh Casson, English architect and designer (b. 1910)
2001 – Richard Chelimo, Kenyan runner (b. 1972)
2003 – Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish singer-songwriter (Leevi and the Leavings) (b. 1957)
2004 – Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
2004 – Semiha Berksoy, Turkish opera singer (b. 1910)
2004 – Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (b. 1941)
2005 – Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (b. 1927)
2006 – Dame Te Atairangikaahu, Māori queen (b. 1931)
2006 – Rick Bourke, Australian rugby player (b. 1955)
2006 – Coenraad Bron, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1937)
2006 – Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer (b. 1923)
2007 – Richard Bradshaw, English conductor (b. 1944)
2007 – John Gofman, American scientist and advocate (b. 1918)
2007 – Geoffrey Orbell, New Zealand doctor (b. 1908)
2007 – Sam Pollock, Canadian sports executive (b. 1925)
2008 – James Orthwein, American businessman (b. 1924)
2008 – Heinz-Ludwig Schmidt, German football manager and coach (b. 1920)
2008 – Leroy Sievers, American journalist (b. 1955)
2008 – Vic Toweel, South African boxer (b. 1929)
2008 – Jerry Wexler, American music producer and journalist (b. 1917)
2009 – Virginia Davis, American actor (b. 1918)
2010 – Denis E. Dillon, American politician (b. 1933)
2011 – Michael Legat, English writer (b. 1923)
2011 – Rick Rypien, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1984)
2012 – Elson Iazegi Beyruth, Brazilian footballer (b. 1941)
2012 – Bob Birch, American bass player and saxophonist (b. 1956)
2012 – Altamiro Carrilho, Brazilian musician and composer (b. 1924)
2012 – Biff Elliot, American actor (b. 1923)
2012 – Punch Gunalan, Malaysian badminton player (b. 1944)
2012 – Harry Harrison, American author (b. 1925)
2012 – Müşfik Kenter, Turkish actor (b. 1932)
2012 – Carina Moberg, Swedish politician (b. 1966)
2012 – Mitchell Todd, Scottish rugby player (b. 1991)
2012 – Ray Whitney, English politician (b. 1930)
2012 – Arben Xhaferi, Macedonian politician and activist (b. 1948)

Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)