Deaths on 15 May
2000s
Robert Walls
2025
Australian rules footballer and coach (1950β2025)
Kamla Beniwal
2024
Indian politician (1927β2024)
Frank Curry
2022
Australian rugby league footballer and coach (1950β2022)
Kay Mellor
2022
English actress and director (1951β2022)
Oliver Gillie
2021
British journalist and scientist (1937β2021)
Fred Willard
2020
American actor and comedian (1933β2020)
Herbert R. Axelrod
2017
American tropical fish expert, a publisher of pet books, and an entrepreneur
Elisabeth Bing
2015
20th and 21st-century American physical therapist
Jackie Brookner
2015
Flora MacNeil
2015
Scottish Gaelic Traditional singer (1928β2015)
Garo Yepremian
2015
Armenian-Cypriot American football player (1944β2015)
Jean-Luc Dehaene
2014
Prime Minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999
Norifumi Suzuki
2014
Japanese film director
Henrique Rosa
2013
President of Guinea-Bissau (1946β2013)
Carlos Fuentes
2012
Mexican writer (1928β2012)
Arno Lustiger
2012
German historian and author of Jewish origin (1924β2012)
Zakaria Mohieddin
2012
Prime Minister of Egypt from 1965 to 1966
Besian Idrizaj
2010
Austrian footballer (1987β2010)
Loris Kessel
2010
Swiss racing driver (1950β2010)
Bud Tingwell
2009
Australian actor (1923β2009)
Wayman Tisdale
2009
American basketball player (1964β2009)
Tommy Burns (footballer)
2008
Scottish footballer and manager
Alexander Courage
2008
American composer (1919β2008)
Will Elder
2008
American illustrator (1921β2008)
Jerry Falwell
2007
American Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist (1933β2007)
Nazar Abdul Zahra
2006
Iraqi footballer (1961β2006)
June Carter Cash
2003
American singer (1929β2003)
1900s
Earl Manigault
1998
American street basketball player (1944β1998)
Naim Talu
1998
15th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey from 1973 to 1974
Charles B. Fulton
1996
American judge
Eric Porter
1995
British actor (1928β1995)
Gilbert Roland
1994
American actor (1905β1994)
Salah Ahmed Ibrahim
1993
Sudanese literary writer, poet and diplomat
Andreas Floer
1991
German mathematician
Amadou HampΓ’tΓ© BΓ’
1991
Malian writer, historian and ethnologist
Fritz Riess
1991
German racing driver (1922β1991)
Johnny Green
1989
American songwriter (1908β1989)
Luc Lacourcière
1989
Canadian ethnographer and writer (1910β1989)
Elio de Angelis
1986
Italian racing driver (1958β1986)
Theodore H. White
1986
American historian and author (1915β1986)
Jackie Curtis
1985
American actor, singer, and playwright
Francis Schaeffer
1984
American theologian (1912-1984)
Gordon Smiley
1982
American racing driver (1946β1982)
Gordon Prange
1980
American historian
Robert Menzies
1978
Prime Minister of Australia (1939β1941; 1949β1966)
Tyrone Guthrie
1971
English actor and director (1900β1971)
Joe Malone
1969
Canadian ice hockey player
Edward Hopper
1967
American painter and printmaker (1882β1967)
Italo Mus
1967
Italian painter
Pio Pion
1965
Italian engineer (1887β1965)
Vladko MaΔek
1964
Croatian politician (1879β1964)
John Aglionby (bishop)
1963
Keith Andrews (racing driver)
1957
American racing driver (1920β1957)
Dick Irvin
1957
Canadian ice hockey player, coach (1892β1957)
Austin Osman Spare
1956
English artist (1886β1956)
Harry J. Capehart
1955
American lawyer, politician, and businessperson (1881β1955)
William March
1954
United States Marine, novelist, short story writer
Edward J. Flanagan
1948
Irish-born American priest (1886β1948)
Kenneth J. Alford
1945
English composer (1881β1945)
Charles Williams (British writer)
1945
British writer, theologian, and literary critic (1886-1945)
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
1937
British politician (1864β1937)
Kazimir Malevich
1935
Russian artist and painter (1879β1935)
Umegatani TΕtarΕ I
1928
Japanese sumo wrestler
Joseph James Fletcher
1926
Australian biologist
Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant
1924
French politician (1852 - 1924)
Hasan Tahsin
1919
Turkish-Jewish war hero
Ida Freund
1914
Austrian-British chemist
1800s
Emily Dickinson
1886
American poet (1830β1886)
Gottfried Semper
1879
German architect and theorist (1803β1879)
Braulio Carrillo Colina
1845
Head of State of Costa Rica
Before 1800
Alban Butler
1773
English Catholic priest (1710β1773)
Ephraim Chambers
1740
English writer and encyclopaedist (c. 1680β1740)
John Hale (minister)
1700
American Puritan minister
Sir Edward Petre, 3rd Baronet
1699
Marie ChampmeslΓ©
1698
French actress
Hendrick Avercamp
1634
Dutch painter (c. 1585β1634)
Henry Bromley (died 1615)
1615
English landowner and politician
Giovanni Croce
1609
Italian composer
Niwa Nagahide
1585
Japanese samurai (1535β1585)
Karl Knutsson
1470
King of Sweden and Norway (1408/1409β1470)
Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset
1464
15th-century English noble
Domenico Veneziano
1461
Italian Renaissance painter (c. 1410β1461)
Peter II, Count of Savoy
1268
European noble
Mleh, Prince of Armenia
1175
Lord of Cilicia
Nur al-Din Zengi
1174
Emir of Aleppo (1146β1174) and Damascus (1154β1174)
Yuri Dolgorukiy
1157
Prince of Rostov and Suzdal (died 1157)
Emperor Go-IchijΕ
1036
Emperor of Japan from 1016 to 1036
Byrhthelm (bishop of Wells)
973
Archbishop of Canterbury in 959
Li Cunxu
926
Emperor of Later Tang from 923 to 926
Hatto I
913
Pope Marinus I
884
Head of the Catholic Church from 882 to 884
Hilary of Galeata
558
Christian saint (476β558)
Valentinian II
392
Roman emperor from 375 to 392