15 November Deaths

November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

Deaths

165 BCE – Mattathias, Jewish resistance leader
621 – Malo, Breton bishop and saint
655 – Æthelhere, king of East Anglia
655 – Penda of Mercia, king of Mercia
1037 – Odo II, French nobleman (b. 983)
1136 – Leopold III, margrave of Austria (b. 1073)
1194 – Margaret I, countess of Flanders
1226 – Frederick of Isenberg, German nobleman (b. 1193)
1280 – Albertus Magnus, German bishop, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1193)
1347 – James I of Urgell, Spanish nobleman (b. 1321)
1351 – Joanna of Pfirt, duchess of Austria
1379 – Otto V, duke of Bavaria
1463 – Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Italian nobleman
1527 – Catherine of York, English princess (b. 1479)
1579 – Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian preacher, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania (b. 1510)
1594 – Martin Frobisher, English seaman and explorer
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, philosopher, and educator (b. 1592)
1691 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
1706 – Tsangyang, Tibetan dalai lama (b. 1683)
1712 – James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (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 (b. 1723)
1795 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
1832 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman (b. 1767)
1853 – Maria II, Portuguese queen and regent (b. 1819)
1892 – Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish-Canadian serial killer (b. 1850)
1897 – Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1810)
1908 – Cixi, China empress dowager and regent (b. 1835)
1910 – Wilhelm Raabe, German author (b. 1831)
1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
1917 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1858)
1919 – Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor (b. 1862)
1919 – Mohammad Farid, Egyptian lawyer and politician (b. 1868)
1919 – Alfred Werner, French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1922 – Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1866)
1922 – Petros Protopapadakis, Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1854)
1922 – Nikolaos Stratos, Greek lawyer and politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1872)
1941 – Wal Handley, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1902)
1945 – Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer (b. 1864)
1949 – Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)
1949 – Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)
1951 – Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (b. 1862)
1954 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1878)
1958 – Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914)
1959 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
1960 – Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)
1961 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
1961 – Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch pathologist and academic (b. 1883)
1963 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (b. 1888)
1966 – Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter and wrestler (b. 1877)
1966 – William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter (b. 1887)
1967 – Michael J. Adams, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
1970 – Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Egyptian-Greek politician (b. 1884)
1971 – Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel (b. 1903)
1976 – Jean Gabin, French actor, singer, and producer (b. 1904)
1978 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (b. 1901)
1980 – Bill Lee, American actor and singer (b. 1916)
1981 – Steve Macko, American baseball player and coach (b. 1954)
1981 – Enid Markey, American actress (b. 1894)
1981 – Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar (b. 1938)
1982 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee (b. 1895)
1982 – Martín de Álzaga, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1901)
1983 – John Grimaldi, English keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1955)
1983 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
1983 – John Le Mesurier, English actor (b. 1912)
1985 – Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter, photographer, and poet (b. 1913)
1988 – Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and composer (b. 1915)
1988 – Ieronymos I of Athens, Greek archbishop and theologian (b. 1905)
1994 – Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908)
1996 – Alger Hiss, American lawyer and diplomat (b. 1904)
1997 – Saul Chaplin, American director and composer (b. 1912)
1998 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (b. 1941)
1998 – Ludvík Daněk, Czech discus thrower (b. 1937)
2000 – Edoardo Agnelli, son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli, converted to Shia Islam (b. 1954)
2003 – Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (b. 1910)
2003 – Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
2003 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (b. 1923)
2003 – Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (b. 1924)
2004 – Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909)
2004 – John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2005 – Adrian Rogers, American pastor and author (b. 1931)
2005 – Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1959)
2006 – David K. Wyatt, American historian and author (b. 1937)
2007 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1928)
2008 – Grace Hartigan, American painter (b. 1922)
2009 – Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (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)
2011 – Oba Chandler, American murderer (b. 1946)
2012 – Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician (b. 1954)
2012 – Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
2012 – Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (b. 1983)
2012 – K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (b. 1931)
2012 – Frode Thingnæs, Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor (b. 1940)
2013 – Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer (b. 1929)
2013 – Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus (b. 1919)
2013 – Mike McCormack, American football player and coach (b. 1930)
2014 – Jack Bridger Chalker, English painter and academic (b. 1918)
2014 – Lucien Clergue, French photographer and educator (b. 1934)
2014 – Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1983)
2014 – Reg Withers, Australian soldier and politician, Australian Minister for the Capital Territory (b. 1924)
2015 – Gisèle Prassinos, French author (b. 1920)
2015 – Herbert Scarf, American economist and academic (b. 1930)
2015 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (b. 1929)
2016 – Mose Allison, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1927)
2017 – Lil Peep, American singer and rapper (b. 1996)

Source: wikipedia