Deaths on 15 April
2000s
Wink Martindale
2025
American DJ and television personality (1933–2025)
Whitey Herzog
2024
American baseball player and manager (1931–2024)
Josip Manolić
2024
Croatian politician (1920–2024)
Bilquis Edhi
2022
Pakistani nurse and philanthropist (1947–2022)
Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb
2022
British politician and farmer (1925–2022)
Liz Sheridan
2022
American actress (1929–2022)
R. Lee Ermey
2018
US Marine sergeant and actor (1944–2018)
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
2018
Italian film directors and screenwriters
Clifton James
2017
American actor (1920–2017)
Emma Morano
2017
Italian supercentenarian (1899–2017)
Jonathan Crombie
2015
Canadian actor and voice actor
Surya Bahadur Thapa
2015
Five-time Prime Minister of Nepal
John Houbolt
2014
American aerospace engineer
Eliseo Verón
2014
Argentine scientist (1935–2014)
Benjamin Fain
2013
Israeli physicist (1930–2013)
Richard LeParmentier
2013
American actor (1946–2013)
Jean-François Paillard
2013
French conductor (1928–2013)
Paul Bogart
2012
American television director and producer
Dwayne Schintzius
2012
American basketball player (1968–2012)
Vittorio Arrigoni
2011
Italian journalist and peace activist (1975–2011)
Jack Herer
2010
American author and activist (1939–2010)
Michael Pataki
2010
American actor (1938–2010)
Clement Freud
2009
English broadcaster, writer, politician, chef and alleged sex offender (1924–2009)
László Tisza
2009
Hungarian physicist (1907–2009)
Salih Neftçi
2009
Turkish economist (1947–2009)
Krister Stendahl
2008
Swedish theologian and New Testament scholar (1921-2008)
Brant Parker
2007
American cartoonist
Mitsuteru Yokoyama
2004
Japanese manga artist (1934–2004)
Damon Knight
2002
American science fiction writer, editor and critic (1922–2002)
Byron White
2002
US Supreme Court justice and pro football player (1917–2002)
Joey Ramone
2001
American punk rock singer (1951–2001)
Edward Gorey
2000
American writer and illustrator (1925–2000)
1900s
Harvey Postlethwaite
1999
British engineer and car designer (1944–1999)
William Congdon
1998
American artist
Pol Pot
1998
Cambodian communist leader (1925–1998)
Leslie Charteris
1993
British-Chinese author
John Tuzo Wilson
1993
Canadian geologist and professor (1908–1993)
Greta Garbo
1990
Swedish and American actress (1905–1990)
Hu Yaobang
1989
Chinese politician (1915–1989)
Kenneth Williams
1988
British actor and comedian (1926–1988)
Jean Genet
1986
French novelist, playwright, and poet (1910–1986)
Tommy Cooper
1984
Welsh comedian, magician and actor (1921–1984)
Arthur Lowe
1982
English actor (1915–1982)
Raymond Bailey
1980
American actor (1904–1980)
Jean-Paul Sartre
1980
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
David Brand
1979
Australian politician (1912–1979)
Gurgen Boryan
1971
Friedebert Tuglas
1971
Estonian writer and critic
Totò
1967
Italian actor (1898–1967)
Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury
1966
Pakistani politician and journalist (1906–1966)
Carji Greeves
1963
Australian rules footballer, born 1903
Clara Blandick
1962
American actress (1876-1962)
Arsenio Lacson
1962
Filipino lawyer and politician (1912–1962)
Wallace Beery
1949
American actor (1885–1949)
Radola Gajda
1948
Czech military officer and politician
Hermann Florstedt
1945
German Nazi officer (1895–1945)
Nikolai Vatutin
1944
Soviet military commander (1901–1944)
Aristarkh Lentulov
1943
Russian painter
Robert Musil
1942
Austrian philosophical writer (1880–1942)
César Vallejo
1938
Peruvian writer and poet
Gaston Leroux
1927
French author and journalist (1868–1927)
Fritz Haarmann
1925
German serial killer (1879–1925)
János Murkovics
1917
Slovene teacher, musician and writer
Thomas Andrews
1912
British businessman and shipbuilder (1873–1912)
John Jacob Astor IV
1912
American businessman and Titanic passenger (1864–1912)
Archibald Butt
1912
American journalist and military officer (1865–1912)
Jacques Futrelle
1912
American mystery writer (1875–1912)
Benjamin Guggenheim
1912
American businessman and ''Titanic'' passenger (1865–1912)
Henry B. Harris
1912
American theatre producer (1866–1912)
Wallace Hartley
1912
English violinist, and ''Titanic'' bandleader (1878–1912)
Charles Melville Hays
1912
American businessman (1858–1912)
James Paul Moody
1912
Sixth officer of RMS Titanic (1887–1912)
William McMaster Murdoch
1912
First Officer of RMS Titanic (1873–1912)
Jack Phillips (wireless operator)
1912
RMS Titanic wireless operator (1887–1912)
Edward Smith (sea captain)
1912
British merchant navy officer (1850–1912)
W. T. Stead
1912
English newspaper editor (1849–1912)
Isidor and Ida Straus
1912
American ''Titanic'' passengers (1845 and 1849–1912)
Isidor and Ida Straus
1912
American ''Titanic'' passengers (1845 and 1849–1912)
John B. Thayer
1912
American businessman (1862–1912)
Henry Tingle Wilde
1912
Chief Officer of RMS Titanic (1872–1912)
1800s
Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui
1898
Māori military commander
Father Damien
1889
Belgian Roman Catholic priest and saint (1840–1889)
Matthew Arnold
1888
English poet and cultural critic (1822–1888)
Abraham Lincoln
1865
President of the United States from 1861 to 1865
Sylvester Jordan
1861
German politician and lawyer
Arthur Aikin
1854
English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer
Before 1800
Ignacije Szentmartony
1793
Croatian Jesuit priest
Giuseppe Bonno
1788
Italian-Austrian composer (1711-1788)
Mikhail Lomonosov
1765
Russian polymath (1711–1765)
Peder Horrebow
1764
Danish astronomer (1679–1764)
Madame de Pompadour
1764
Chief mistress of Louis XV (1721–1764)
Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll
1761
British army officer, judge, politician and merchant (1682–1761)
William Oldys
1761
English antiquarian and bibliographer (1696–1761)
Rosalba Carriera
1757
Italian artist (1673–1757)
Jacopo Riccati
1754
Italian mathematician (1676–1754)
Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon
1719
Morganatic wife of Louis XIV (1635–1719)
Simon Dach
1659
German lyrical poet and hymnwriter
Patriarch Joseph of Moscow
1652
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
1632
English politician (1580–1632)
Robert Persons
1610
English Jesuit priest
Wolrad II, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg
1578
German count (1509–1578)
Hürrem Sultan
1558
Wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
John IV of Chalon-Arlay
1502
Prince of Orange
Filippo Brunelleschi
1446
Italian Renaissance architect (1377–1446)
Manuel Chrysoloras
1415
Byzantine Greek scholar, diplomat, and professor (c. 1350–1415)
Richard Poore
1237
13th-century Bishop of Chichester, Bishop of Durham, and Bishop of Salisbury
Adolf of Altena
1220
Archbishop of Cologne from 1193 to 1205
Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare
1136
Norman nobleman
Godwin, Earl of Wessex
1053
Anglo-Norse nobleman (died 1053)
Lin Yanyu
956
Liu Bin (Southern Han)
943
Emperor of Southern Han from 942 to 943
Empress Suiko
628
Empress of Japan from 592 to 628