History Deaths on April 15

Totò, Italian comedian (b. 1898)

#Totò

Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian painter and set designer (b. 1882)

#Aristarkh_Lentulov

Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Court of Session (b. 1682)

#Archibald_Campbell,_3rd_Duke_of_Argyll

Surya Bahadur Thapa, Nepalese politician, 24th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1928)

#Surya_Bahadur_Thapa

Richard LeParmentier, American-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1946)

#Richard_LeParmentier

John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908)

#John_Tuzo_Wilson

Eliseo Verón, Argentinian sociologist and academic (b. 1935)

#Eliseo_Verón

László Tisza, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1907)

#László_Tisza

Robert Persons, English Jesuit priest, insurrectionist, and author (b. 1546)

#Robert_Persons

R. Lee Ermey, American actor (b. 1944)

#R._Lee_Ermey

Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui, New Zealand commander and politician

#Te_Keepa_Te_Rangihiwinui

Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player (b. 1968)

#Dwayne_Schintzius

César Vallejo, Peruvian journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1892)

#César_Vallejo

Wallace Beery, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)

#Wallace_Beery

Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic (b. 1822)

#Matthew_Arnold

John Houbolt, American engineer and academic (b. 1919)

#John_Houbolt

David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1912)

#David_Brand

Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (b. 1868)

#Gaston_Leroux

George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, English politician, English Secretary of State (b. 1580)

#George_Calvert,_1st_Baron_Baltimore

Robert Musil, Austrian-Swiss author and playwright (b. 1880)

#Robert_Musil

Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer and mathematician (b. 1679)

#Peder_Horrebow

Benjamin Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (b. 1930)

#Benjamin_Fain

Byron White, American football player, lawyer, and jurist, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General (b. 1917)

#Byron_White

Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1676)

#Jacopo_Riccati

Sylvester Jordan, Austrian-German lawyer and politician (b. 1792)

#Sylvester_Jordan

Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek philosopher and translator (b. 1355)

#Manuel_Chrysoloras

Friedebert Tuglas, Estonian author and critic (b. 1886)

#Friedebert_Tuglas

Jack Herer, American author and activist (b. 1939)

#Jack_Herer

Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian priest, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1718)

#Ignacije_Szentmartony

Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1377)

#Filippo_Brunelleschi

Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (b. 1711)

#Giuseppe_Bonno

Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)

#Abraham_Lincoln

Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury, Bengali politician, writer, journalist, first health minister of East Pakistan

#Habibullah_Bahar_Chowdhury

Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (b. 1905)

#Greta_Garbo

Jean-François Paillard, French conductor (b. 1928)

#Jean-François_Paillard

Richard Poore, English ecclesiastic

#Richard_Poore

Pol Pot, Cambodian general and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1925)

#Pol_Pot

Father Damien, Belgian priest and saint (b. 1840)

#Father_Damien

Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian chemist and physicist (b. 1711)

#Mikhail_Lomonosov

Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter (b. 1951)

#Joey_Ramone

Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1880)

#Clara_Blandick

Edward Gorey, American poet and illustrator (b. 1925)

#Edward_Gorey

Suiko, emperor of Japan (b. 554)

#Empress_Suiko

Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, French wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)

#Françoise_d'Aubigné,_Marquise_de_Maintenon

Radola Gajda, Montenegrin-Czech general and politician (b. 1892)

#Radola_Gajda

Hu Yaobang, Chinese soldier and politician, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1915)

#Hu_Yaobang

John IV of Chalon-Arlay, Prince of Orange (b. 1443)

#John_IV_of_Chalon-Arlay

Patriarch Joseph of Moscow, Russian patriarch

#Patriarch_Joseph_of_Moscow

Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1773)

#Arthur_Aikin

William Oldys, English historian and author (b. 1696)

#William_Oldys

Jean Genet, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)

#Jean_Genet

Simon Dach, German poet and hymnwriter (b. 1605)

#Simon_Dach

Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese illustrator (b. 1934)

#Mitsuteru_Yokoyama

Raymond Bailey, American actor and soldier (b. 1904)

#Raymond_Bailey

Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian, last person verified born in the 1800s (b. 1899)

#Emma_Morano

Damon Knight, American author and critic (b. 1922)

#Damon_Knight

Michael Pataki, American actor and director (b. 1938)

#Michael_Pataki

Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

#Jean-Paul_Sartre

Vittorio Taviani, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1929)

Clifton James, American actor (b. 1920)

Jonathan Crombie, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1966)

Paul Bogart, American director and producer (b. 1919)

Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1975)

Salih Neftçi, Turkish economist and author (b. 1947)

Clement Freud, German-English journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1924)

Krister Stendahl, Swedish bishop, theologian, and scholar (b. 1921)

Brant Parker, American illustrator (b. 1920)

Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer (b. 1944)

William Congdon, American-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1912)

Leslie Charteris, English author and screenwriter (b. 1907)

Kenneth Williams, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)

Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)

Arthur Lowe, English actor (b. 1915)

Gurgen Boryan, Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915)

Edward Greeves, Jr., Australian footballer (b. 1903)

Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (b. 1912)

Hermann Florstedt, German SS officer (b. 1895)

Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Russian general (b. 1901)

János Murkovics, Slovene author, poet, and educator (b. 1839)

Victims of the Titanic disaster: Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder (b. 1873) John Jacob Astor IV, American colonel, businessman, and author (b. 1864) Archibald Butt, American general and journalist (b. 1865) Jacques Futrelle, American journalist and author (b. 1875) Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (b. 1865) Henry B. Harris, American producer and manager (b. 1866) Wallace Hartley, English violinist and bandleader (b. 1878) James Paul Moody, English Sixth Officer (b. 1887) William McMaster Murdoch, Scottish First Officer (b. 1873) Jack Phillips, English telegraphist (b. 1887) Edward Smith, English Captain (b. 1850) William Thomas Stead, English journalist (b. 1849) Ida Straus, German-American businesswoman (b. 1849) Isidor Straus, German-American businessman and politician (b. 1845) John Thayer, American cricketer (b. 1862) Henry Tingle Wilde, English chief officer (b. 1872)

Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (b. c. 1500)

Adolf of Altena, German archbishop (b. 1157)

Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare (b. 1094)

Godwin, Earl of Wessex (b. 1001)

Lin Yanyu, Chinese court official and eunuch

Liu Bin, emperor of Southern Han (b. 920)