Famous Deaths In December - 15
Monday, 20 March 2023
1934 On this day in history maggis Lena Walker, 1st US (black) woman to head a bank, dies at 69
1939 On this day in history tom McKibbin, cricketer (5 Tests for Aust 1895-1898, 17 wkts), dies
1943 On this day in history thomas W "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 39 in KC Missouri
1944 On December - 15 glenn Miller, US band leader/jazz composer, dies at 40
1946 On December - 15 conrad Haebler, historian (Hundert Kalenderinkunabeln), dies at 89
1947 Death of Arthur Machen, Welsh author (b. 1863) on this day in history.
1950 Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer, dies at 66 on December - 15.
1951 Eric Drummond, 1st sec-gen League of Nations (1919-33), dies at 75 on December - 15.
1953 On December - 15 kishio Hirao, composer, dies at 46
1958 Death of Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900) on this day in history.
1961 On this day in history william "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99
1962 Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63 on December - 15.
1966 Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation on this day in history.
1968 On December - 15 jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86
1971 Death of Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician (b. 1886) on this day in history.
1972 On this day in history edward Earle, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight), dies at 90
1973 Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer, dies at 61 on December - 15.
1974 On this day in history erich Walter Sternberg, composer, dies at 83
1975 On this day in history mukhtar Ashrafi, composer, dies at 63
1977 On December - 15 death of wilfred Kitching, the 7th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893)
1978 On this day in history chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), dies at 75
1979 Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66 on this day in history.
1984 On this day in history avon Long, actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies at 74
1989 Arnold Moss, actor (Gambit), dies at 79 on December - 15.
1990 On this day in history betty Warren actress (Passport to Pimlico), dies
1991 Horatio Luro, US horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90 on December - 15.
1993 On December - 15 kakuei Tanaka, PM of Japan (1972-74), dies
1994 On December - 15 hans de Jong, musician/conductor (Amsterdams Vrouwenkoor), dies at 86
1995 James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88 on this day in history.
1996 Gerald Moverley, priest, dies at 74 on December - 15.
1997 On this day in history lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at 98
2001 Death of Russ Haas, American professional wrestler (b. 1974) on December - 15.
2003 On December - 15 death of george Fisher, American political cartoonist (b. 1923)
2004 On this day in history death of pauline Gore, mother of Al Gore (b. 1912)
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