November 15
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[edit] Births
- 1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe (died 1986)
- 1891 - Erwin Rommel (died 1944)
[edit] Deaths
- 655 - Penda, King of Mercia
- 1028 - Constantine VIII Byzantine Emperor (born 960)
- 1136 - Leopold III of Austria, patron saint of Austria (born 1073)
- 1280 - Albertus Magnus, German philosopher
- 1579 - Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian religious reformer (born 1510)
- 1628 - Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missonary (born 1576)
- 1630 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)
- 1670 - Comenius, Czech writer (b. 1592)
- 1691 - Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
- 1706 - Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (b. 1683)
- 1712 - James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish nationalist (b. 1658)
- 1712 - Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (born 1675)
- 1787 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (born 1714)
- 1908 - Empress Dowager Cixi, Chinese ruler (born 1835)
- 1910 - Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (born 1831)
- 1916 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1846)
- 1917 - Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (born 1858)
- 1919 - Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)
- 1954 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (born 1878)
- 1958 - Tyrone Power, American actor (born 1914)
- 1959 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)
- 1961 - Elsie Ferguson, American actress (born 1883)
- 1963 - Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (born 1988)
- 1965 - Dawn Powell, American poet (born 1896)
- 1969 - Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan (born 1899)
- 1971 - Edie Sedgwick, American actress and model (born 1943)
- 1978 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (born 1901)
- 1983 - John Le Mesurier, British actor (born 1912)
- 1996 - Alger Hiss, American government official and spy (born 1904)
- 1998 - Stokely Carmichael, American civil rights activist (bborn . 1941)
- 2002 - Eddie Bracken, American actor (born 1915)
- 2003 - Ray Lewis, Canadian athlete (born 1910)
- 2003 - T. Y. Lin, Chinese-American civil engineer (born 1912)
- 2003 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress (born 1933)
- 2004 - John Morgan, Canadian comedian (born 1930)
- 2004 - Elmer L. Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (born 1909)
