November 15 - Deaths

Deaths

• 655 – Penda of Mercia
• 1136 – Leopold III, Margrave of Austria (b. 1073)
• 1280 – Albertus Magnus, German bishop, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1193)
• 1463 – Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Italian son of Mary of Enghien (b. 1386)
• 1579 – Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian preacher, founded the Unitarian Church of Transylvania (b. 1510)
• 1628 – Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr (b. 1576)
• 1630 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)
• 1670 – John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop, educator, and philosopher (b. 1592)
• 1691 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
• 1706 – 6th Dalai Lama (b. 1683)
• 1712 – James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish politician (b. 1658)
• 1712 – Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)
• 1787 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714)
• 1794 – John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1723)
• 1795 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
• 1819 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
• 1832 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist (b. 1767)
• 1853 – Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819)
• 1908 – Empress Dowager Cixi of China (b. 1835)
• 1910 – Wilhelm Raabe, German author (b. 1831)
• 1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
• 1917 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (b. 1858)
• 1919 – Mohammad Farid, Egyptian politician (b. 1868)
• 1919 – Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1922 – Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1866)
• 1922 – Georgios Hatzianestis, Greek general (b. 1863)
• 1922 – Petros Protopapadakis, Greek politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1854)
• 1922 – Nikolaos Stratos, Greek politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1872)
• 1945 – Frank Chapman, American ornithologist (b. 1864)
• 1949 – Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (b. 1911)
• 1949 – Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (b. 1910)
• 1954 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor (b. 1878)
• 1958 – Tyrone Power, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1959 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1960 – Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)
• 1961 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1963 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888)
• 1965 – Dawn Powell, American poet (b. 1896)
• 1966 – Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter (b. 1877)
• 1967 – Michael J. Adams, American pilot (b. 1930)
• 1971 – Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher, Soviet intelligence officer (b. 1903)
• 1976 – Jean Gabin, French actor (b. 1904)
• 1978 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (b. 1901)
• 1981 – Steve Macko, American baseball player (b. 1954)
• 1981 – Enid Markey, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1981 – Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar (b. 1938)
• 1982 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian actvist (b. 1895)
• 1982 – Martín de Álzaga, Argentine race car driver (b. 1901)
• 1983 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1983 – John Le Mesurier, English actor (b. 1912)
• 1988 – Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and composer (b. 1915)
• 1988 – Archbishop Ieronymos I of Athens (b. 1905)
• 1994 – Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Alger Hiss, American lawyer, diplomat, and author (b. 1904)
• 1997 – Saul Chaplin, American composer and director (b. 1912)
• 1998 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (b. 1941)
• 1998 – Ludvik Danek, Czech discus thrower (b. 1937)
• 2002 – Myra Hindley, English murderer (b. 1942)
• 2003 – Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (b. 1910)
• 2003 – Dorothy Loudon, American actress (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Elmer L. Andersen, American politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909)
• 2004 – John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Adrian Rogers, American pastor and author (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1959)
• 2006 – Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model (b. 1985)
• 2006 – David K. Wyatt, American historian and author (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Patriarch Pavle of Serbia (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b. 1944)
• 2010 – William Edwin Self, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Luis Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
• 2012 – Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (b. 1983)
• 2012 – K. C. Pant, Indian politician (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Keith Ripley, English footballer (b. 1935)
• 2012 – José Song Sui-Wan, Chinese-Brazilian bishop (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Frode Thingnæs, Norwegian trombone player, composer, and conductor (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Khin Maung Toe, Burmese singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)