September 15
From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- 1500 - John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1701 - Edmé Boursault, French writer (b. 1638)
- 1707 - George Stepney, English poet and diplomat (b. 1663)
- 1712 - Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician
- 1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)
- 1830 - William Huskisson, first rail fatality
- 1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, engineer
- 1864 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer of Africa
- 1885 - Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train)
- 1891 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author
- 1893 - Thomas Hawksley, civil engineer
- 1926 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer (b. 1846)
- 1945 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer
- 1965 - Steve Brown, jazz musician (b. 1890)
- 1972 - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
- 1973 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden
- 1989 - Robert Penn Warren, American poet and novelist
- 2003 - Jack Brymer, British clarinetist
- 2003 - Josef Hirsal, novelist
- 2003 - Yetunde Price, sister of American tennis-players Venus and Serena Williams
- 2004 - Johnny Ramone, guitarist with The Ramones (prostate cancer) (b. October 8, 1948)