Deaths on 15 October
2000s
Jim Bolger
2025
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1990 to 1997
Mike Jackson (British Army officer)
2024
British Army general (1944–2024)
David Amess
2021
British politician (1952–2021)
Paul Allen
2018
American businessman (1953–2018)
Chinggoy Alonzo
2017
Filipino actor (born 1950)
Giovanni Reale
2014
Italian historian of philosophy (1931–2014)
Donald Bailey (musician)
2013
American drummer
Claude Cheysson
2012
French politician (1920–2012)
Erol Günaydın
2012
Turkish actor (1933-2012)
Maria Petrou
2012
Greek-born British AI researcher
Norodom Sihanouk
2012
King of Cambodia (1941–1955; 1993–2004)
Betty Driver
2011
British actress and singer (1920–2011)
Richard C. Miller
2010
Mildred Fay Jefferson
2010
American physician (1927–2010)
Johnny Sheffield
2010
American child actor (1931–2010)
Heinz Versteeg
2009
German-born Dutch footballer
Edie Adams
2008
American actress (1927–2008)
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca
2008
Turkish poet (1914-2008)
Jack Narz
2008
American radio personality, television host, and singer (1922–2008)
Piet Boukema
2007
Dutch politician and jurist
Jason Collier
2005
American basketball player (1977–2005)
Matti Wuori
2005
Finnish lawyer, writer and politician
Per Højholt
2004
Danish poet
Ben Metcalfe
2003
Canadian journalist & Greenpeace chairman (1919–2003)
Zhang Xueliang
2001
Chinese general and warlord (1901–2001)
Konrad Emil Bloch
2000
German biochemist (1912–2000)
Vincent Canby
2000
American film and theatre critic (1924–2000)
1900s
Josef Locke
1999
Irish singer (1917–1999)
Bengt Åkerblom
1995
Swedish ice hockey player
Marco Campos
1995
Brazilian racing driver (1976–1995)
Sarah Kofman
1994
French philosopher (1934–1994)
Aydın Sayılı
1993
Turkish historian of science (1913-1993)
Delphine Seyrig
1990
French actress and director (1932–1990)
Danilo Kiš
1989
Serbian and Yugoslav novelist (1935–1989)
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
1988
English composer and pianist (1892–1988)
Thomas Sankara
1987
President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987
Donald Wandrei
1987
American writer, poet and editor
Pat O'Brien (actor)
1983
American actor (1899–1983)
Mikhail Lavrentyev
1980
Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist
Apostolos Nikolaidis (athlete)
1980
Greek athlete, football manager and businessman
W. Eugene Smith
1978
American photojournalist (1918–1978)
Rolf Stenersen
1978
Norwegian sprinter, businessman and art collector
Carlo Gambino
1976
American mobster (1902–1976)
Virginia Lee Burton
1968
American illustrator and children's book author
Fred Montague, 1st Baron Amwell
1966
British politician
Abraham Fraenkel
1965
German-Israeli mathematician and Zionist (1891–1965)
Cole Porter
1964
American composer and songwriter (1891–1964)
Horton Smith
1963
American professional golfer (1908–1963)
Suryakant Tripathi
1961
Indian poet, novelist, essayist and story-writer
Clara Kimball Young
1960
American actress (1890–1960)
Stepan Bandera
1959
Ukrainian nationalist leader (1909–1959)
Lipót Fejér
1959
Hungarian mathematician (1880–1959)
Asaf Halet Çelebi
1958
Turkish poet
Elizabeth Alexander (scientist)
1958
British-born radio astronomer
Fumio Hayasaka
1955
Japanese composer (1914–1955)
Edythe Chapman
1948
American actress (1863–1948)
Hermann Göring
1946
German Nazi politician and military leader (1893–1946)
Pierre Laval
1945
French politician (1883–1945)
Lluís Companys
1940
Spanish lawyer and politician (1882–1940)
Raymond Poincaré
1934
President of France from 1913 to 1920
Herbert Henry Dow
1930
American chemical industrialist (1866–1930)
Dolores Jiménez y Muro
1925
Mexican teacher and revolutionary (1848–1925)
Sai Baba of Shirdi
1918
Hindu and Muslim saint (c. 1838–1918)
Mata Hari
1917
Dutch exotic dancer (1876–1917)
Stanley Ketchel
1910
American boxer (1886–1910)
Zdeněk Fibich
1900
Czech composer (1850–1900)
1800s
Gilbert Arthur à Beckett
1891
English writer
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
1838
British poet and novelist (1802–1838)
Ivan Dmitriev
1837
Russian statesman and poet
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
1820
Austrian nobleman and field marshal
Sergey Vyazmitinov
1819
Russian general and statesman (1744–1819)
Tadeusz Kościuszko
1817
Polish military leader (1746–1817)
Nathaniel Dance-Holland
1811
British painter and politician (1735–1811)
Alfred Moore
1810
US Supreme Court justice from 1800 to 1804
Before 1800
Samuel Greig
1788
British-born Russian naval officer (1735–1788)
Humphry Ditton
1715
English mathematician (1675–1715)
Juan de Valdés Leal
1690
Spanish painter
Géraud de Cordemoy
1684
French philosopher
Robert Herrick (poet)
1674
English poet and cleric (1591–1674)
Andreas Vesalius
1564
Anatomist, physician and author (1514–1564)
Gilbert, Count of Montpensier
1496
French aristocrat (1443–1496)
Marie of France, Duchess of Bar
1404
French noblewoman (1344 – 1404)
Pope Urban VI
1389
Head of the Catholic Church from 1378 to 1389
Dionysius, Metropolitan of Kiev
1385
Walter Stapledon
1326
English bishop and Treasurer of England (died 1326)
Hedwig of Silesia
1243
High Duchess consort of Poland
Razia Sultan
1240
Sultan of Delhi from 1236 to 1240
Petronilla of Aragon
1173
Queen of Aragon from 1137 to 1164
Rudolf of Rheinfelden
1080
Duke of Swabia from 1057 to 1079
Henry I, Duke of Burgundy
1002
Duke of Burgundy from 965 to 1002
Abd al-Rahman III
961
Final Emir of Córdoba (r. 912–929); founder and 1st Caliph of Córdoba (r. 929–961)
Abu Bakr al-Razi
925
10th-century Iranian physician and polymath
Abdullah of Córdoba
912
Emir of Córdoba from 888 to 912
Lambert of Italy
898
Emperor in Italy from 891 to 898
Al-Mu'tamid
892
15th Abbasid caliph (r. 870–892)
Theophilus I of Alexandria
412
Head of the Coptic Church from 384 to 412
Lucretius
-55
1st-century BC Roman poet and philosopher