Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In December - 15
Sunday, 23 March 2025
1934 Maggis Lena Walker, 1st US (black) woman to head a bank, dies at 69 on this day in history.
1939 Tom McKibbin, cricketer (5 Tests for Aust 1895-1898, 17 wkts), dies on this day in history.
1943 Thomas W "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 39 in KC Missouri on December - 15.
1944 On December - 15 glenn Miller, US band leader/jazz composer, dies at 40
1946 Conrad Haebler, historian (Hundert Kalenderinkunabeln), dies at 89 on this day in history.
1947 On this day in history death of arthur Machen, Welsh author (b. 1863)
1950 On this day in history robert Muller-Hartmann, composer, dies at 66
1951 Eric Drummond, 1st sec-gen League of Nations (1919-33), dies at 75 on this day in history.
1953 Kishio Hirao, composer, dies at 46 on December - 15.
1958 Death of Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900) on this day in history.
1961 On December - 15 william "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99
1962 Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63 on this day in history.
1966 On this day in history walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation
1968 Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86 on this day in history.
1971 On this day in history death of paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician (b. 1886)
1972 Edward Earle, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight), dies at 90 on this day in history.
1973 On December - 15 orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer, dies at 61
1974 Erich Walter Sternberg, composer, dies at 83 on December - 15.
1975 Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.
1977 On this day in history death of wilfred Kitching, the 7th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893)
1978 On December - 15 chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), dies at 75
1979 On this day in history bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66
1984 Avon Long, actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies at 74 on December - 15.
1989 On December - 15 arnold Moss, actor (Gambit), dies at 79
1990 Betty Warren actress (Passport to Pimlico), dies on this day in history.
1991 Horatio Luro, US horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90 on this day in history.
1993 Kakuei Tanaka, PM of Japan (1972-74), dies on this day in history.
1994 Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (Amsterdams Vrouwenkoor), dies at 86 on December - 15.
1995 On this day in history james Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88
1996 On this day in history gerald Moverley, priest, dies at 74
1997 On December - 15 lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at 98
2001 On this day in history death of russ Haas, American professional wrestler (b. 1974)
2003 On December - 15 death of george Fisher, American political cartoonist (b. 1923)
2004 Death of Pauline Gore, mother of Al Gore (b. 1912) on December - 15.
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