Famous Deaths In December - 15
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
1934 On this day in history maggis Lena Walker, 1st US (black) woman to head a bank, dies at 69
1939 Tom McKibbin, cricketer (5 Tests for Aust 1895-1898, 17 wkts), dies on this day in history.
1943 On December - 15 thomas W "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 39 in KC Missouri
1944 Glenn Miller, US band leader/jazz composer, dies at 40 on this day in history.
1946 Conrad Haebler, historian (Hundert Kalenderinkunabeln), dies at 89 on December - 15.
1947 On this day in history death of arthur Machen, Welsh author (b. 1863)
1950 On December - 15 robert Muller-Hartmann, composer, dies at 66
1951 Eric Drummond, 1st sec-gen League of Nations (1919-33), dies at 75 on December - 15.
1953 On this day in history 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 William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99 on this day in history.
1962 On this day in history charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63
1966 Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation on this day in history.
1968 On this day in history jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86
1971 Death of Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician (b. 1886) on December - 15.
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 Erich Walter Sternberg, composer, dies at 83 on December - 15.
1975 Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.
1977 Death of Wilfred Kitching, the 7th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893) on this day in history.
1978 Chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), dies at 75 on this day in history.
1979 Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66 on December - 15.
1984 Avon Long, actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies at 74 on this day in history.
1989 On this day in history arnold Moss, actor (Gambit), dies at 79
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 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 December - 15 james Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88
1996 Gerald Moverley, priest, dies at 74 on December - 15.
1997 Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at 98 on December - 15.
2001 On this day in history death of russ Haas, American professional wrestler (b. 1974)
2003 Death of George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b. 1923) on this day in history.
2004 On December - 15 death of pauline Gore, mother of Al Gore (b. 1912)
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