Famous Deaths Happened In April - 15
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
1053 On this day in history death of godwin, Earl of Wessex
1220 On this day in history adolf I, archbishop of Cologne, dies
1415 Death of Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian on April - 15.
1472 On this day in history 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 Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78 on April - 15.
1610 On this day in history 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 On April - 15 death of domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581)
1652 On this day in history death of patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church
1659 Simon Dach, German poet, dies on this day in history.
1719 On this day in history johann Friedrich Treiber, composer, dies at 76
1754 On April - 15 death of jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)
1756 On this day in history 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 On this day in history jeanne-Antoinette-Poison LeNormant d'Etoiles, Marquis de Pomador, dies
1765 Michail v Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53 on this day in history.
1788 Giuseppi Bonno, composer, dies at 77 on April - 15.
1793 Death of Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718) on this day in history.
1804 On April - 15 death of charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)
1811 Ernest Louis Muller, composer, dies at 70 on April - 15.
1824 Theodorus F van Capellen, vice-admiral (Algiers), dies at 61 on April - 15.
1853 On April - 15 johann Leopold Fuchs, composer, dies at 67
1854 On April - 15 death of arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773)
1863 Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer, dies at 90 on April - 15.
1866 William Jackson, composer, dies at 51 on April - 15.
1888 Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65 on this day in history.
1889 Death of Father Damien, Belgian missionary (b. 1840) on this day in history.
1891 Stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49 on April - 15.
1898 Death of Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader on April - 15.
1911 On this day in history georg Knorr, German engineer, dies
1912 Death of Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850) on this day in history.
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