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History Deaths on November 15


Wilhelm Raabe
Wilhelm Raabe, German author (b. 1831)

#Wilhelm_Raabe

Maleli Kunavore
Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (b. 1983)

#Maleli_Kunavore

Mohammad Farid
Mohammad Farid, Egyptian lawyer and politician (b. 1868)

#Mohammad_Farid

Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss, American lawyer and diplomat (b. 1904)

#Alger_Hiss

Edoardo Agnelli
Edoardo Agnelli, son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli, converted to Shia Islam (b. 1954)

#Edoardo_Agnelli

Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini
Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Italian nobleman

#Giovanni_Antonio_Del_Balzo_Orsini

Margaret I, Countess of Flanders
Margaret I, countess of Flanders

#Margaret_I,_Countess_of_Flanders

Nikolaos Stratos
Nikolaos Stratos, Greek lawyer and politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1872)

#Nikolaos_Stratos

Oba Chandler
Oba Chandler, American murderer (b. 1946)

#Oba_Chandler

Nathuram Godse
Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)

#Nathuram_Godse

6th Dalai Lama
Tsangyang, Tibetan dalai lama (b. 1683)

#6th_Dalai_Lama

Frank Weston Benson
Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (b. 1862)

#Frank_Weston_Benson

Jean-Baptiste Say
Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman (b. 1767)

#Jean-Baptiste_Say

David K. Wyatt
David K. Wyatt, American historian and author (b. 1937)

#David_K._Wyatt

Johanna Westerdijk
Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch pathologist and academic (b. 1883)

#Johanna_Westerdijk

Christoph Willibald Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714)

#Christoph_Willibald_Gluck

K. C. Pant
K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (b. 1931)

#K._C._Pant

John Morgan (comedian)
John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1930)

#John_Morgan_(comedian)

Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)

#Charles-Amédée-Philippe_van_Loo

John Witherspoon
John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic (b. 1723)

#John_Witherspoon

Fritz Reiner
Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (b. 1888)

#Fritz_Reiner

Maria II of Portugal
Maria II, Portuguese queen and regent (b. 1819)

#Maria_II_of_Portugal

Albertus Magnus
Albertus Magnus, German bishop, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1193)

#Albertus_Magnus

Aelbert Cuyp
Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (b. 1620)

#Aelbert_Cuyp

Glafcos Clerides
Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus (b. 1919)

#Glafcos_Clerides

Ed Kirkpatrick
Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b. 1944)

#Ed_Kirkpatrick

Charlie Grimm
Charlie Grimm, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)

#Charlie_Grimm

Petros Protopapadakis
Petros Protopapadakis, Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1854)

#Petros_Protopapadakis

Rudolf Abel
Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel (b. 1903)

#Rudolf_Abel

Tyrone Power
Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914)

#Tyrone_Power

Frank Chapman (ornithologist)
Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer (b. 1864)

#Frank_Chapman_(ornithologist)

John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator (b. 1592)

#John_Amos_Comenius

Émile Durkheim
Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1858)

#Émile_Durkheim

Martin Frobisher
Martin Frobisher, English seaman and explorer

#Martin_Frobisher

James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton
James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1658)

#James_Hamilton,_4th_Duke_of_Hamilton

Thomas Neill Cream
Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish-Canadian serial killer (b. 1850)

#Thomas_Neill_Cream

Lil Peep
Lil Peep, American singer and rapper (b. 1996)

#Lil_Peep

Dimitrios Tofalos
Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter and wrestler (b. 1877)

#Dimitrios_Tofalos

Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)

#Johannes_Kepler

Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (b. 1941)

#Stokely_Carmichael

Konstantinos Tsaldaris
Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Egyptian-Greek politician (b. 1884)

#Konstantinos_Tsaldaris

Elsie Ferguson
Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)

#Elsie_Ferguson

Reg Withers
Reg Withers, Australian soldier and politician, Australian Minister for the Capital Territory (b. 1924)

#Reg_Withers

Dorothy Loudon
Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (b. 1925)

#Dorothy_Loudon

Penda of Mercia
Penda of Mercia, king of Mercia

#Penda_of_Mercia

Elmer L. Andersen
Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909)

#Elmer_L._Andersen

Empress Dowager Cixi
Cixi, China empress dowager and regent (b. 1835)

#Empress_Dowager_Cixi

Enid Markey
Enid Markey, American actress (b. 1894)

#Enid_Markey

Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (b. 1901)

#Margaret_Mead

Joanna of Pfirt
Joanna of Pfirt, duchess of Austria

#Joanna_of_Pfirt

Herbert Scarf
Herbert Scarf, American economist and academic (b. 1930)

#Herbert_Scarf

Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)

#Henryk_Sienkiewicz

Adrian Rogers
Adrian Rogers, American pastor and author (b. 1931)

#Adrian_Rogers

Khawar Rizvi
Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar (b. 1938)

#Khawar_Rizvi

Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky
Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor (b. 1862)

#Mikhail_Dolivo-Dobrovolsky

Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1878)

#Lionel_Barrymore

Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin, French actor, singer, and producer (b. 1904)

#Jean_Gabin

Leopold III, Margrave of Austria
Leopold III, margrave of Austria (b. 1073)

#Leopold_III,_Margrave_of_Austria

Michael J. Adams
Michael J. Adams, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)

#Michael_J._Adams

Catherine of York
Catherine of York, English princess (b. 1479)

#Catherine_of_York

Vinoba Bhave
Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee (b. 1895)

#Vinoba_Bhave

Alfred Kennerley
Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1810)

#Alfred_Kennerley

Mattathias
Mattathias, Jewish resistance leader

#Mattathias

Mike McCormack (American football)
Mike McCormack, American football player and coach (b. 1930)

#Mike_McCormack_(American_football)

Joe Nuxhall
Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1928)

#Joe_Nuxhall

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)

#Charles_Thomson_Rees_Wilson

Dimitrios Gounaris
Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1866)

#Dimitrios_Gounaris

Lucien Clergue
Lucien Clergue, French photographer and educator (b. 1934)

#Lucien_Clergue

Alfred Werner
Alfred Werner, French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)

#Alfred_Werner

Ludvík Dan?k
Ludvík Dan?k, Czech discus thrower (b. 1937)

#Ludvík_Dan?k

William Zorach
William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter (b. 1887)

#William_Zorach

Malo (saint)
Malo, Breton bishop and saint

#Malo_(saint)

Ferenc Dávid
Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian preacher, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania (b. 1510)

#Ferenc_Dávid

Mose Allison
Mose Allison, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1927)

#Mose_Allison

Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (b. 1929)
Gisèle Prassinos, French author (b. 1920)
Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1983)
Jack Bridger Chalker, English painter and academic (b. 1918)
Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer (b. 1929)
Frode Thingnæs, Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor (b. 1940)
Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician (b. 1954)
William Edwin Self, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1921)
Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (b. 1932)
Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (b. 1914)
Grace Hartigan, American painter (b. 1922)
Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1959)
Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (b. 1924)
Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (b. 1923)
Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (b. 1910)
Saul Chaplin, American director and composer (b. 1912)
Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908)
Ieronymos I of Athens, Greek archbishop and theologian (b. 1905)
Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and composer (b. 1915)
Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter, photographer, and poet (b. 1913)
John Le Mesurier, English actor (b. 1912)
John Grimaldi, English keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1955)
Martín de Álzaga, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1901)
Steve Macko, American baseball player and coach (b. 1954)
Bill Lee, American actor and singer (b. 1916)
Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)
Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)
Wal Handley, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1902)
Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)
Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr (b. 1576)
Otto V, duke of Bavaria
James I of Urgell, Spanish nobleman (b. 1321)
Frederick of Isenberg, German nobleman (b. 1193)
Odo II, French nobleman (b. 983)
Æthelhere, king of East Anglia