August 15th Deaths |
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| August 15th, 2007 (August 15 2007) | Death | John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (born in 1918) | |
| August 15th, 2007 (August 15 2007) | Death | Geoffrey Orbell, New Zealand bush walker (born in 1908) | |
| August 15th, 2006 (August 15 2006) | Death | Te Atairangi Kaahu, Maori queen (born in 1931) | |
| August 15th, 2004 (August 15 2004) | Death | Semiha Berksoy, first Turkish opera singer (born in 1910) | |
| August 15th, 2004 (August 15 2004) | Death | Sune Bergstrom, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1916) | |
| August 15th, 2004 (August 15 2004) | Death | Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (born in 1941) | |
| August 15th, 2003 (August 15 2003) | Death | Gosta Sundqvist, Finnish songwriter and singer (heart attack) (born in 1957) | |
| August 15th, 2001 (August 15 2001) | Death | Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (born in 1972) | |
| August 15th, 1999 (August 15 1999) | Death | Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and artist (born in 1910) | |
| August 15th, 1995 (August 15 1995) | Death | John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (born in 1906) | |
| August 15th, 1990 (August 15 1990) | Death | Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician (born in 1962) | |
| August 15th, 1982 (August 15 1982) | Death | Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1903) | |
| August 15th, 1975 (August 15 1975) | Death | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (born in 1920) | |
| August 15th, 1975 (August 15 1975) | Death | Clay Shaw, alleged John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracist & businessman (born in 1913) | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| August 15th, 1971 (August 15 1971) | Death | Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (born in 1887) | |
| August 15th, 1967 (August 15 1967) | Death | Rene Magritte, Belgian painter (born in 1898) | |
| August 15th, 1962 (August 15 1962) | Death | Lei Feng, Chinese revolutionary (born in 1940) | |
| August 15th, 1959 (August 15 1959) | Death | Blind Willie McTell, American singer (born in 1901) | |
| August 15th, 1953 (August 15 1953) | Death | Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (born in 1875) | |
| August 15th, 1951 (August 15 1951) | Death | Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (born in 1882) | Artur Schnabel Quotes |
| August 15th, 1945 (August 15 1945) | Death | Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (born in 1887) | |
| August 15th, 1936 (August 15 1936) | Death | Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1871) | |
| August 15th, 1935 (August 15 1935) | Death | Wiley Post, American pilot (airplane crash) (born in 1898) | |
| August 15th, 1935 (August 15 1935) | Death | Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (airplane crash) (born in 1879) | Will Rogers Quotes |
| August 15th, 1925 (August 15 1925) | Death | Konrad Magi, Estonian artist (born in 1878) | |
| August 15th, 1917 (August 15 1917) | Death | Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (born in 1831) | |
| August 15th, 1909 (August 15 1909) | Death | Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (born in 1866) | |
| August 15th, 1907 (August 15 1907) | Death | Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (born in 1831) | |
| August 15th, 1880 (August 15 1880) | Death | Adelaide Neilson, English Actress (born in 1848) | |
| August 15th, 1852 (August 15 1852) | Death | Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (born in 1760) | |
| August 15th, 1799 (August 15 1799) | Death | Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (born in 1729) | |
| August 15th, 1758 (August 15 1758) | Death | Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (born in 1698) | |
| August 15th, 1728 (August 15 1728) | Death | Marin Marais, French composer and viol player (born in 1656) | |
| August 15th, 1714 (August 15 1714) | Death | Constantin Brancoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (born in 1654) | |
| August 15th, 1666 (August 15 1666) | Death | Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary (born in 1591) | |
| August 15th, 1621 (August 15 1621) | Death | John Barclay, Scottish writer (born in 1582) | John Scott Quotes |
| August 15th, 1552 (August 15 1552) | Death | Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (born in 1477) | |
| August 15th, 1528 (August 15 1528) | Death | Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (born in 1485) | |
| August 15th, 1369 (August 15 1369) | Death | Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of Edward III of England | |
| August 15th, 1274 (August 15 1274) | Death | Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (born in 1201) | |
| August 15th, 1196 (August 15 1196) | Death | Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (born in 1173) | |
| August 15th, 1118 (August 15 1118) | Death | Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (born in 1048) | |
| August 15th, 1057 (August 15 1057) | Death | King Macbeth of Scotland | |
| August 15th, 1040 (August 15 1040) | Death | King Duncan I of Scotland | |
| August 15th, 1038 (August 15 1038) | Death | King Stephen I of Hungary | Stephen King Quotes |
| August 15th, 0778 (August 15 0778) | Death | Roland, Frankish commander | |
| August 15th, 0423 (August 15 0423) | Death | Flavius Honorius, Western Roman Emperor (born in 384) | |
