Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
92641August 15Death1666 – Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German missionary and astronomer (b. 1591)
92642August 15Death1714 – Constantin Brâncoveanu, Romanian prince (b. 1654)
92643August 15Death1728 – Marin Marais, French viol player and composer (b. 1656)
92644August 15Death1758 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (b. 1698)
92645August 15Death1799 – Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet and author (b. 1729)
92646August 15Death1852 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (b. 1760)
92647August 15Death1859 – Nathaniel Claiborne, American farmer and politician (b. 1777)
92648August 15Death1880 – Adelaide Neilson, English actress (b. 1848)
92649August 15Death1907 – Joseph Joachim, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1831)
92650August 15Death1909 – Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian sociologist and journalist (b. 1866)
92651August 15Death1917 – Thomas J. Higgins, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1831)
92652August 15Death1925 – Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter and educator (b. 1878)
92653August 15Death1928 – Anatole von Hügel, Italian ethnologist and academic, co-founded St Edmund's College (b. 1854)
92654August 15Death1931 – Nigar Shikhlinskaya, Azerbaijani nurse (b. 1878)
92655August 15Death1935 – Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898)
92656August 15Death1935 – Will Rogers, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
92657August 15Death1935 – Paul Signac, French painter and author (b. 1863)
92658August 15Death1936 – Grazia Deledda, Italian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
92659August 15Death1942 – Mahadev Desai, Indian activist and author (b. 1892)
92660August 15Death1945 – Korechika Anami, Japanese general and politician, 54th Japanese Minister of the Army (b. 1887)
92661August 15Death1945 – Fred Hockley, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1923)
92662August 15Death1951 – Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1882)
92663August 15Death1953 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer (b. 1875)
92664August 15Death1962 – Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (b. 1940)
92665August 15Death1967 – René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
92666August 15Death1971 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian-American actor and singer (b. 1887)
92667August 15Death1975 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali politician, 1st President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)
92668August 15Death1975 – Clay Shaw, American businessman (b. 1913)
92669August 15Death1981 – Carol Ryrie Brink, American author (b. 1895)
92670August 15Death1981 – Jørgen Løvset, Norwegian gynaecologist and academic (b. 1896)

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