Famous Deaths In March - 15

0044  Death of Julius Caesar (murdered) (b. 100 BC) on March - 15.  

0493  Odiaker, German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), dies on this day in history.  

0752  Zachary, Greek/Italian Pope (741-52), dies [or Mar 22] on March - 15.  

0963  On this day in history romanus II, Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies at 25  

1034  Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34), dies on this day in history.  

1145  On March - 15 death of pope Lucius II  

1311  On March - 15 death of walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens  

1575  On March - 15 death of annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527)  

1670  Death of John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597) on March - 15.  

1673  Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter (Baroque)/poet/music/actor, dies at 57 on this day in history.  

1701  Death of Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624) on March - 15.  

1711  Death of Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645) on March - 15.  

1723  Johann C Gunther, writer, dies at 27 on this day in history.  

1731  Adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1820  On March - 15 death of clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (b. 1751  

1842  Maria Luigi C Z S Cherubini, Italian composer (Dies Irae), dies at 81 on this day in history.  

1849  Death of Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774) on this day in history.  

1880  On March - 15 jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 51  

1881  On March - 15 death of emory Upton, US Union gen-maj (Selma), commits suicide at 42  

1883  On this day in history karol Studzinski, composer, dies at 55  

1891  On March - 15 death of théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)  

1898  Death of Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813) on this day in history.  

1905  Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at 60 on this day in history.  

1906  On this day in history alfred Gilpin Jones, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06), dies at 81  

1918  Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer, dies at 82 on this day in history.  

1929  Pine-Top Smith, jazz pianist (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies at 24 on March - 15.  

1930  On March - 15 antonio Beltramelli, writer, dies at 51  

1937  On this day in history death of h. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)  

1938  Edmund Tylecote, cricketer (England keeper in 6 Tests 1882-86), dies on this day in history.  

1940  On March - 15 alfred Marr, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 0 & 5), dies  

1941  Death of Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864) on this day in history.  

1942  Alexander van Zemlinsky, Aust/US composer (African Dance), dies at 70 on this day in history.  

1944  Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I), dies at 86 on this day in history.  

1945  Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch MP (SDAP), dies at 41 on this day in history.  

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0938  On this day in history birth of romanos II, Byzantine emperor (d. 963)  

1275  Margaret Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1318) was born on this day in history.  

1455  On this day in history birth of pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1532)  

1493  On this day in history birth of anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France  

1591  On March - 15 birth of alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1660)  

1638  On March - 15 birth of shunzhi Emperor of China  

1666  Georg Baehr, German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden) was born on this day in history.  

1666  On March - 15 birth of george Bähr, German architect (d. 1738)