Deaths on 15 November
2000s
Celeste Caeiro
2024
Portuguese restaurant worker during the Carnation Revolution (1933–2024)
Béla Károlyi
2024
Romanian-American gymnastics coach (1942–2024)
Jon Kenny
2024
Irish comedian and actor (1957–2024)
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa
2024
Japanese princess (1923–2024)
Žarko Laušević
2023
Serbian actor (1960–2023)
Lil Peep
2017
American rapper (1996–2017)
Mose Allison
2016
American pianist, singer, and songwriter
Gisèle Prassinos
2015
French writer (1920–2015)
Herbert Scarf
2015
American economist
Saeed Jaffrey
2015
British-Indian actor (1929–2015)
Jack Bridger Chalker
2014
British artist and teacher
Lucien Clergue
2014
French photographer
Valéry Mézague
2014
Cameroonian footballer (1983–2014)
Reg Withers
2014
Australian politician (1924–2014)
Sheila Matthews Allen
2013
American actress (1929–2013)
Glafcos Clerides
2013
President of Cyprus from 1993 to 2003
Mike McCormack (American football)
2013
American football player and coach (1930–2013)
Théophile Abega
2012
Cameroonian footballer and politician (1954-2012)
Luís Carreira
2012
Portuguese motorcycle racer
Maleli Kunavore
2012
Fiji international rugby union player
K. C. Pant
2012
Indian politician (1931–2012)
Frode Thingnæs
2012
Musical artist
Oba Chandler
2011
American mass murderer and suspected serial rapist (1946–2011)
Larry Evans (chess player)
2010
American chess grandmaster (1932–2010)
Ed Kirkpatrick
2010
American baseball player (1944–2010)
William Edwin Self
2010
American actor and producer (1921–2010)
Pavle, Serbian Patriarch (died 2009)
2009
Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (1914-2009)
Grace Hartigan
2008
American painter (1922–2008)
Joe Nuxhall
2007
American baseball player and broadcaster (1928–2007)
David K. Wyatt
2006
American historian (1937–2006)
Adrian Rogers
2005
American pastor and author (1931–2005)
Arto Salminen
2005
Finnish writer (born 1959)
Elmer L. Andersen
2004
American politician (1909–2004)
John Morgan (comedian)
2004
Welsh-born Canadian comedian (1930–2004)
Ray Lewis (sprinter)
2003
Canadian sprinter
Dorothy Loudon
2003
American actress, singer, performer (1925–2003)
Laurence Tisch
2003
American billionaire businessman and investor (1923-2003)
Speedy West
2003
American pedal steel guitarist (1924–2003)
Edoardo Agnelli
2000
Son of Italian head of Fiat (1954–2000)
1900s
Stokely Carmichael
1998
Trinbagonian-American activist (1941–1998)
Ludvík Daněk
1998
Czechoslovak discus thrower
Saul Chaplin
1997
American composer and musical director (1912–1997)
Alger Hiss
1996
American diplomat and accused Soviet spy (1904–1996)
Elizabeth George Speare
1994
American novelist (1908–1994)
Billo Frómeta
1988
Dominican orchestra conductor, arranger and composer
Ieronymos I of Athens
1988
Méret Oppenheim
1985
German-Swiss surrealist artist (1913–1985)
Baby Fae
1984
American infant and xenotransplant patient
John Grimaldi
1983
Musical artist
Charlie Grimm
1983
American baseball player and manager (1898–1983)
John Le Mesurier
1983
English actor (1912–1983)
Vinoba Bhave
1982
Advocate of non-violence and human rights
Martín de Álzaga (racing driver)
1982
Argentine racing driver (1901–1982)
Steve Macko
1981
American baseball player (1954–1981)
Enid Markey
1981
American actress (1894–1981)
Khawar Rizvi
1981
Pakistani poet (1938–1981)
Bill Lee (singer)
1980
American playback singer (1916–1980)
Margaret Mead
1978
American cultural anthropologist (1901–1978)
Jean Gabin
1976
French actor and singer (1904–1976)
Rudolf Abel
1971
Soviet intelligence officer (1903–1971)
Konstantinos Tsaldaris
1970
Greek politician
Michael J. Adams
1967
American test pilot, engineer and astronaut (1930–1967)
Dimitrios Tofalos
1966
Greek weightlifter
William Zorach
1966
American sculptor
Fritz Reiner
1963
American conductor (1888–1963)
Elsie Ferguson
1961
American actress (1883–1961)
Johanna Westerdijk
1961
Dutch plant pathologist (1883–1961)
Robert Raymond Cook
1960
Canadian mass murderer (1937–1960)
C. T. R. Wilson
1959
British meteorologist and physicist (1869–1959)
Tyrone Power
1958
American actor (1914–1958)
Emma Richter
1956
German paleontologist (1888–1956)
Lionel Barrymore
1954
American actor, director, screenwriter (1878–1954)
Frank Weston Benson
1951
American painter (1862–1951)
Narayan Apte
1949
Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
Nathuram Godse
1949
Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (1910–1949)
Frank Chapman (ornithologist)
1945
American ornithologist
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
1942
Swiss writer, journalist and photographer (1908–1942)
Wal Handley
1941
British motorcycle racer
Dimitrios Gounaris
1922
Greek politician (1867–1922)
Petros Protopapadakis
1922
Greek politician
Nikolaos Stratos
1922
Greek politician (1872–1922)
Tadhg Barry
1921
Irish republican (1880–1921)
Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky
1919
Engineer (1862–1919)
Mohammad Farid
1919
Egyptian politician
Alfred Werner
1919
Swiss chemist (1866–1919)
Émile Durkheim
1917
French sociologist (1858–1917)
Henryk Sienkiewicz
1916
Polish epic writer (1846–1916)
Wilhelm Raabe
1910
German novelist (1831-1910)
Empress Dowager Cixi
1908
Regent of the Qing Dynasty (1835–1908)
1800s
Alfred Kennerley
1897
Australian politician
Thomas Neill Cream
1892
Scottish-Canadian serial murderer (1850–1892)
Maria II of Portugal
1853
Queen of Portugal from 1826 to 1828 and 1834 to 1853
William Knibb
1845
Baptist missionary and slavery abolitionist
Herman of Alaska
1836
Russian Orthodox monk and saint (c. 1736 – 1837)
Jean-Baptiste Say
1832
French economist and businessman (1767–1832)
Before 1800
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
1795
French painter (1719–1795)
John Witherspoon
1794
American Founding Father and minister (1723–1794)
Christoph Willibald Gluck
1787
Opera composer (1714–1787)
James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton
1712
Scottish aristocrat, soldier, and politician (1658–1712)
Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun of Okehampton
1712
English politician and duellist (c. 1675 – 1712)
6th Dalai Lama
1706
Spiritual leader of Tibet from 1697 to 1706
Aelbert Cuyp
1691
Dutch landscape painter (1620–1691)
John Amos Comenius
1670
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592–1670)
Johannes Kepler
1630
German astronomer and mathematician (1571–1630)
Roque González y de Santa Cruz
1628
Paraguayan missionary
Ferenc Dávid
1579
Hungarian preacher and Unitarian theologian (c. 1520–1579)
Catherine of York
1527
English princess (1479–1527)
Giovanni Antonio Orsini del Balzo
1463
Italian nobleman (1401–1463)
Otto V, Duke of Bavaria
1379
Elector of Brandenburg from 1356 to 1373
Joanna of Pfirt
1351
James I, Count of Urgell
1347
Count of Urgell (1321–1347)
Albertus Magnus
1280
German Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200 – 1280)
Frederick of Isenberg
1226
German noble
Margaret I, Countess of Flanders
1194
Countess of Flanders from 1191 to 1194
Leopold III, Margrave of Austria
1136
12th-century Austrian nobleman and Catholic saint
Odo II, Count of Blois
1037
French nobleman (c. 985 – 1037)
Æthelhere of East Anglia
655
King of East Anglia (r. 653–655)
Penda of Mercia
655
King of Mercia from c. 626 to 655
Malo (saint)
621
Founder of Saint-Malo, Brittany (d. 621)
Mattathias
-165
2nd century BCE Jewish priest of the Hasmonean Dynasty