Famous Deaths In April - 15

1053  On April - 15 death of godwin, Earl of Wessex   

1220  On this day in history adolf I, archbishop of Cologne, dies   

1415  On this day in history death of manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian   

1472  On April - 15 leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Philodoxis), dies at 68   

1502  On this day in history jan IV Chalon, prince of Orange, dies   

1605  Boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies on April - 15.   

1607  On this day in history cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78   

1610  On April - 15 johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond, dies at about 62   

1621  On April - 15 death of john Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony   

1632  Death of George Calvert, Proprietor of the Avalon (Maryland) Colony (b. 1580) on April - 15.   

1641  Death of Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581) on this day in history.   

1652  On this day in history death of patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church   

1659  On this day in history simon Dach, German poet, dies   

1719  On April - 15 johann Friedrich Treiber, composer, dies at 76   

1754  Death of Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676) on April - 15.   

1756  On April - 15 johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer, dies at 29   

1761  On this day in history death of archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)   

1764  Jeanne-Antoinette-Poison LeNormant d'Etoiles, Marquis de Pomador, dies on April - 15.   

1765  Michail v Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53 on April - 15.   

1788  On this day in history giuseppi Bonno, composer, dies at 77   

1793  Death of Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718) on April - 15.   

1804  Death of Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761) on this day in history.   

1811  On April - 15 ernest Louis Muller, composer, dies at 70   

1824  Theodorus F van Capellen, vice-admiral (Algiers), dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1853  On April - 15 johann Leopold Fuchs, composer, dies at 67   

1854  Death of Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773) on this day in history.   

1863  On this day in history jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer, dies at 90   

1866  On this day in history william Jackson, composer, dies at 51   

1888  Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65 on April - 15.   

1889  On April - 15 death of father Damien, Belgian missionary (b. 1840)   

1891  Stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

1898  On this day in history death of kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader   

1911  On April - 15 georg Knorr, German engineer, dies   

1912  On April - 15 death of edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850)   

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1452  On this day in history birth of leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary   

1469  On this day in history birth of nanak, 1st guru of Sikhs   

1489  On April - 15 birth of sinan, Ottoman architect (d. 1588)   

1552  On this day in history birth of pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)   

1588  On this day in history birth of claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguist   

1637  Valentin Molitor, composer was born on this day in history.   

1641  On April - 15 birth of robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722)   

1646  King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699) was born on April - 15.