Notable Deaths on February 15

Q: Who died on February 15?

Notable people who died on February 15 include: Oswiu, Leontios, Tiberios III, Ibn Tabataba, Su Yugui.

Q: What is Tiberios III known for?

Tiberios III, Byzantine emperor

88 people 670 – 2026

February 15 has seen 88 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 670 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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706 — Tiberios III

Byzantine emperor

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In 705, former emperor Justinian II, who had been deposed by Leontius, led an army of Slavs and Bulgars from the First Bulgarian Empire to Constantinople, and after entering the city secretly, deposed Tiberius

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Tiberius III, born Apsimar, was Eastern Roman emperor from 698 to 705

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In 696, Tiberius was part of an army sent by Byzantine Emperor Leontius to retake the North African city of Carthage, which had been captured by the Arab Umayyads

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Tiberius fled to Bithynia, but was captured a few months later and beheaded by Justinian between August 705 and February 706

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Little is known about his early life, other than that he was a droungarios, a mid-level commander, who served in the Cibyrrhaeot Theme

Oswiu

king of Northumbria (born c. 612)

Oswiu, also known as Oswy or Oswig, was King of Bernicia from 642 and of Northumbria from 654 until his death. He is notable for his role at the Synod of Whitby in 664, which ultimately brought the church in Northumbria…

670

Leontios

Byzantine emperor

Leontius was Byzantine emperor under the regnal name Leo from 695 to 698. Little is known of his early life, other than that he was born in Isauria in Asia Minor. He was given the title of patrikios, and made strategos…

706

Ibn Tabataba

Zaydi anti-caliph

Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṭabāṭabā ibn Ismāʿīl al-Dībādj ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ghamr ibn al-Ḥasan al-Muthannā, better known as Ibn Ṭabāṭabā, was a Hasanid who was the figurehead of an unsuccessful Zaydi uprising…

815

Su Yugui

Chinese chancellor (born 895)

Su Yugui, courtesy name Yuanxi (元錫), noble title Duke of Ju (莒國公), was an official of the Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Zhou dynasties of China. He served as a chancellor in the Later Han and Later Zhou.

956

Gisela of Swabia

Holy Roman Empress (born 990)

Gisela of Swabia, was queen of Germany from 1024 to 1039 and empress of the Holy Roman Empire from 1027 to 1039 by her third marriage with Emperor Conrad II. She was the mother of Emperor Henry III. She was regent of…

1043

Lucius II

pope of the Catholic Church

Pope Lucius II, born Gherardo Caccianemici dal Orso, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1144 to his death in 1145. His pontificate was notable for the unrest in Rome associated…

1145

Conrad III

king of Germany (born 1093)

Conrad III of the Hohenstaufen dynasty was from 1116 to 1120 Duke of Franconia, from 1127 to 1135 anti-king of his predecessor Lothair III, and from 1138 until his death in 1152 King of the Romans in the Holy Roman…

1152

William de Ufford

2nd Earl of Suffolk (born c. 1339)

William Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk was an English nobleman in the reigns of Edward III and Richard II. He was the son of Robert Ufford, who was created Earl of Suffolk by Edward III in 1337. William had three older…

1382

Richard de Vere

11th Earl of Oxford, English commander (born 1385)

Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford KG was the son and heir of Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl of Oxford. He took part in the trial of Richard, Earl of Cambridge, and Lord Scrope for their part in the Southampton Plot, and…

1417

Giovanni II Bentivoglio

tyrant of Bologna (born 1443)

Giovanni II Bentivoglio was an Italian nobleman who ruled as lord of Bologna from 1463 until 1506. He had no formal position, but held power as the city's "first citizen." The Bentivoglio family ruled over Bologna from…

1508

José de Acosta

Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist (born 1540)

José de Acosta, SJ was a sixteenth-century Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist in Latin America. His deductions regarding the ill effects of crossing over the Andes in 1570 related to the atmosphere being too thin…

1600

Michael Praetorius

German organist and composer (born 1571)

Michael Praetorius was a German composer, organist, and music theorist. He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns.

1621

Ferdinand II

Holy Roman Emperor (born 1578)

Ferdinand II was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1619 until his death in 1637. He was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria and Maria of Bavaria, who were devout Catholics. In…

1637

Matthias Braun

Czech sculptor (born 1684)

Matthias Bernard Braun was a sculptor and carver active in the Kingdom of Bohemia, one of the most prominent late baroque style sculptors in the area.

1738

Mitromaras

Greek rebel and pirate

Mitromaras was a Greek rebel and pirate who took part in the Orlov Revolt (1770).

1772

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German philosopher, author, and critic (born 1729)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic. He was a representative of the Enlightenment. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German…

1781

Frederick Louis

Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (born 1746)

Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen was a Prussian general.

1818

Henry Hunt

English farmer and politician (born 1773)

Henry "Orator" Hunt was an English radical speaker and agitator remembered as a pioneer of working-class radicalism and an important influence on the later Chartist movement. He advocated parliamentary reform and the…

1835

François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier

Canadian rebel (born 1803)

François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, also known under shorter names such as François-Marie-Thomas de Lorimier, Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier or Chevalier de Lorimier, was a notary who fought as a Patriote…

1839

Archibald Menzies

Scottish surgeon and botanist (born 1754)

Archibald Menzies was a Scottish surgeon, botanist and naturalist. He spent many years at sea, serving with the Royal Navy, private merchants, and the Vancouver Expedition.

1842

Henry Addington

1st Viscount Sidmouth, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1757)

Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth was a British Tory statesman who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804 and as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1789 to 1801.

1844

Germinal Pierre Dandelin

Belgian mathematician and engineer (born 1794)

Germinal Pierre Dandelin was a French mathematician, soldier, and professor of engineering.

1847

Hermann von Boyen

Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War (born 1771)

Leopold Hermann Ludwig von Boyen was a Prussian army officer who helped to reform the Prussian Army in the early 19th century. He also served as minister of war of Prussia in the period 1810–1813 and again from 1 March…

1848

Pierre François Verhulst

Belgian mathematician and theorist (born 1804)

Pierre François Verhulst was a Belgian mathematician and a doctor in number theory from the University of Ghent in 1825. He is best known for the logistic growth model.

1849

Mikhail Glinka

Russian composer (born 1804)

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music. His compositions were an important influence…

1857

Ghalib

Indian poet and educator (born 1796)

Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan, commonly known as Mirza Ghalib, was an Indian poet and letter writer of the Mughal Empire. Writing in Persian and Urdu during the final years of the Mughal Empire and the rise of British…

1869

Rayko Zhinzifov

Bulgarian poet and translator (born 1839)

Rayko Ivanov (Yoanov) Zhinzifov or Rajko Ivanov (Jovanov) Žinzifov,, born Ksenofont Dzindzifi, was a Bulgarian National Revival poet and translator from Veles in today's North Macedonia, who spent most of his life in…

1877

Gregor von Helmersen

Estonian-Russian geologist and engineer (born 1803)

Gregor von Helmersen or Grigory Petrovich Helmersen was a Baltic German geologist.

1885

Leopold Damrosch

German-American composer and conductor (born 1832)

Leopold Damrosch was a German American orchestral conductor, composer, violinist, and teacher. He was the patriarch of the Damrosch family, which includes Frank Damrosch and Walter Damrosch.

1885

Dimitrie Ghica

Romanian lawyer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Romania (born 1816)

Dimitrie Ghica or Ghika was a Romanian politician. A prominent member of the Conservative Party, he served as Prime Minister between 1868 and 1870.

1897

Edward Stafford

Scottish-New Zealand educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1819)

Sir Edward William Stafford served as the third premier of New Zealand on three occasions in the mid 19th century. His total time in office is the longest of any leader without a political party. He is described as…

1901

Lew Wallace

American author, general, and politician, 11th Governor of New Mexico Territory (born 1827)

Lewis Wallace was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, artist, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best…

1905

Theodor Escherich

German-Austrian pediatrician and academic (born 1859)

Theodor Escherich was a German-Austrian pediatrician and a professor at universities in Graz and Vienna. He discovered and described the bacterium Escherichia coli.

1911

Lionel Monckton

English composer (born 1861)

Lionel John Alexander Monckton was an English composer of musical theatre. He became Britain's most popular composer of Edwardian musical comedy in the early years of the 20th century.

1924

H. H. Asquith

English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1852)

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith was a British statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. He was the last prime minister from the Liberal Party to command a majority…

1928

Minnie Maddern Fiske

American actress and playwright (born 1865)

Minnie Maddern Fiske, but often billed simply as Mrs. Fiske, was one of the leading American actresses of the late 19th and early 20th century. She also spearheaded the fight against the Theatrical Syndicate for the…

1932

Pat Sullivan

Australian animator and producer, co-created Felix the Cat (born 1887)

Patrick Peter Sullivan was an Australian cartoonist, pioneer animator and film producer, best known for producing the first Felix the Cat silent cartoons.

1933

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin

Russian painter and author (born 1878)

Kuzma Sergeyevich Petrov-Vodkin was a Russian and Soviet painter. His early iconographic work used special creative effects based on the curve of the globe, but its images were considered blasphemous by the Russian…

1939

Vincent de Moro-Giafferi

French lawyer and politician (born 1878)

Vincent de Moro-Giafferi was a French criminal attorney.

1956

Owen Willans Richardson

English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1879)

Sir Owen Willans Richardson was a British physicist who received the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission and for the discovery of Richardson's law.

1959

Laurence Owen

American figure skater (born 1944)

Laurence Rochon "Laurie" Owen was an American figure skater. She was the 1961 U.S. National Champion and represented the United States at the 1960 Winter Olympics, where she placed sixth. She was the daughter of Maribel…

1961

Nat King Cole

American singer and pianist (born 1919)

Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he…

1965

Gerard Antoni Ciołek

Polish architect and historian (born 1909)

Gerard Ciołek was a Polish architect, as well as a leading historian of parks and gardens.

1966

Camilo Torres Restrepo

Colombian priest and theologian (born 1929)

Camilo Torres Restrepo, also known by his nom de guerre Argemiro, was a Colombian Catholic political leader, revolutionary, guerilla, priest, author and a leader of the National Liberation Army (ELN). During his life,…

1966

Antonio Moreno

Spanish-American actor and director (born 1887)

Antonio Garrido Monteagudo, better known as Antonio Moreno or Tony Moreno, was a Spanish-born American actor and film director of the silent film era and through the 1950s.

1967

Hugh Dowding

1st Baron Dowding, Scottish air marshal (born 1882)

Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He was Air Officer Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and is generally credited…

1970

Wally Cox

American actor (born 1924)

Wallace Maynard Cox was an American actor. He began his career as a stand-up comedian and played the title character of the early American television series Mister Peepers from 1952 to 1955. He also appeared as a…

1973

Kurt Atterberg

Swedish composer and engineer (born 1887)

Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Swedish composer and civil engineer. Along with Ture Rangström, he was one the foremost Swedish composers of the generation succeeding Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm Stenhammar and Hugo…

1974

Mike Bloomfield

American guitarist and songwriter (born 1943)

Michael Bernard Bloomfield was an American blues guitarist and composer. Born in Chicago, he became one of the first popular music stars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess,…

1981

Karl Richter

German organist and conductor (born 1926)

Karl Richter was a German conductor, choirmaster, organist, and harpsichordist.

1981

Ethel Merman

American actress and singer (born 1908)

Ethel Merman was an American singer and actress. Known for her distinctive, powerful voice, and her leading roles in musical theater, she has been called "the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage." Variety…

1984

Richard Feynman

American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with…

1988

María Elena Moyano

Peruvian activist (born 1960)

María Elena Moyano Delgado was an Afro-Peruvian community organizer and feminist who was assassinated by the Shining Path. She grew up in poverty in the Villa El Salvador pueblo joven, then became involved in local…

1992

William Schuman

American composer and academic (born 1910)

William Howard Schuman was an American composer and arts administrator.

1992

McLean Stevenson

American actor (born 1927)

Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr. was an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake in the television series M*A*S*H, which earned him a Golden Globe Award in 1974. Stevenson…

1996

Martha Gellhorn

American journalist and author (born 1908)

Martha Ellis Gellhorn was an American novelist, travel writer and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took…

1998

Henry Way Kendall

American physicist and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)

Henry Way Kendall was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic…

1999

Angus MacLean

Canadian commander and politician, 25th Premier of Prince Edward Island (born 1914)

John Angus MacLean was a politician and farmer in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

2000

Howard K. Smith

American journalist and actor (born 1914)

Howard Kingsbury Smith was an American journalist, radio reporter, television anchorman, political commentator, and film actor. He was one of the original members of the team of war correspondents known as the Murrow…

2002

Kevin Smith

New Zealand actor (born 1963)

Kevin Tod Smith was a New Zealand actor and musician, best known for starring as the Greek God of war, Ares, in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and in its two spin-offs – Xena: Warrior Princess and Young…

2002

Jens Evensen

Norwegian lawyer, judge, and politician, Norwegian Minister of Trade (born 1917)

Jens Ingebret Evensen was a Norwegian lawyer, judge, politician, trade minister, international offshore rights expert, member of the International Law Commission and judge at the International Court of Justice in The…

2004

Pierre Bachelet

French singer-songwriter (born 1944)

Pierre Bachelet was a French singer-songwriter and film score composer.

2005

Sam Francis

American historian and journalist (born 1947)

Samuel Todd Francis was an American writer and academic. He was a columnist and editor for the conservative Washington Times until he was dismissed in 1995 after making racist remarks at the American Renaissance…

2005

Walker Edmiston

American actor (born 1925)

Walker Robert Edmiston was an American actor and puppeteer.

2007

Ray Evans

American songwriter (born 1915)

Raymond Bernard Evans was an American songwriter best known for being a half of a composing-songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, specializing himself in writing lyrics for film songs. On music Livingston composed, Evans…

2007

Johnny Weaver

American wrestler and sportscaster (born 1935)

Kenneth Eugene Weaver was an American professional wrestler and wrestling commentator in the National Wrestling Alliance, better known by his ring name, Johnny Weaver.

2008

Jeanne M. Holm

American general (born 1921)

Major General Jeanne Marjorie Holm was the first female one-star general of the United States Air Force and the first female two-star general in any service branch of the United States. Holm was a driving force behind…

2010

Cyril Domb

English-Israeli physicist and academic (born 1920)

Cyril Domb FRS was a British-Israeli theoretical physicist, best known for his lecturing and writing on the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena of fluids. He was also known in the Orthodox Jewish world…

2012

Sanan Kachornprasart

Thai general and politician (born 1935)

Sanan Kachornprasart was a Thai politician and military officer. He was deputy prime minister in the cabinet of Abhisit Vejjajiva, and was chief advisor of Chartthaipattana Party.

2013

Ahmed Rajib Haider

Bangladeshi atheist blogger

Ahmed Rajib Haider was a Bangladeshi atheist blogger. He used to blog in the blogging communities namely somewhereinblog.net, amarblog.com and nagorikblog.com and used the pseudonym Thaba Baba.

2013

Thelma Estrin

American computer scientist and engineer (born 1924)

Thelma Estrin was an American computer scientist and engineer who did pioneering work in the fields of expert systems and biomedical engineering. Estrin was one of the first to apply computer technology to healthcare…

2014

Christopher Malcolm

Scottish-Canadian actor, director, and producer (born 1946)

Christopher Malcolm was a Scottish-Canadian actor, director, and producer. He first achieved notoriety for his role as Brad Majors in the original stage production of The Rocky Horror Show.

2014

Haron Amin

Afghan diplomat, Afghan Ambassador to Japan (born 1969)

Mohammad Haron Amin was the Afghan ambassador to Japan from 2004–2009. He is also known for his role as spokesman for the Northern Alliance during the U.S.-led invasion of his country after the events of September 11,…

2015

Arnaud de Borchgrave

American journalist and author (born 1926)

Arnaud Charles Paul Marie Philippe de Borchgrave was a Belgian–American journalist who specialized in international politics. Following a long career with the news magazine Newsweek, covering 17 wars in 30 years as a…

2015

Steve Montador

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1979)

Steven Richard "The Matador" Montador was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 571 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Calgary Flames, Florida Panthers, Anaheim Ducks, Boston Bruins,…

2015

George Gaynes

Finnish-American actor (born 1917)

George Gaynes was a Dutch-American singer, actor, and voice artist. Born to a Dutch father and a Russian mother in the Grand Duchy of Finland of the Russian Empire, he served in the Royal Netherlands Navy during World…

2016

Vanity

Canadian-American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (born 1959)

Denise Katherine Matthews, known professionally as Vanity, was a Canadian singer, songwriter, dancer, model, and actress. Known for her image as a sex symbol in the 1980s, in the 1990s she renounced her career as Vanity…

2016

Stuart McLean

Canadian radio broadcaster (born 1948)

Andrew Stuart McLean, was a Canadian radio broadcaster, humorist, monologist, and author, best known as the host of the CBC Radio program The Vinyl Cafe. Often described as a "story-telling comic" although his stories…

2017

Lee Radziwill

American socialite (born 1933)

Princess Caroline Lee Radziwill, previously known as Lee Canfield and Lee Ross, was an American socialite, public relations executive, and interior designer. She was the younger sister of former First Lady Jacqueline…

2019

Caroline Flack

English actress and TV presenter (born 1979)

Caroline Louise Flack was an English television presenter. Flack grew up in Norfolk and took an interest in dancing and theatre while at school. She began her professional career as an actress, starring in the comedy…

2020

Bappi Lahiri

Indian singer, composer and record producer (born 1952)

Bappi Aparesh Lahiri, also known as Bappi Da, was an Indian singer, composer and record producer. He popularised the use of synthesised disco music in Indian music industry and sang some of his own compositions. He was…

2022

P.J. O'Rourke

American author, humorist, and journalist (born 1947)

Patrick Jake O'Rourke was an American author, journalist, and political satirist who wrote twenty-two books on subjects as diverse as politics, cars, etiquette, and economics. His books Parliament of Whores and Give War…

2022

Raquel Welch

American actress and singer (born 1940)

Jo Raquel Welch was an American actress. Welch first gained attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she signed a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British…

2023

George Armitage

American film director (born 1942)

George Brendan Armitage was an American filmmaker and writer best known for directing the films Miami Blues (1990) and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), as well as for frequent collaborations with Roger Corman.

2025

Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa

Portuguese businessman (born 1937)

Jorge Nuno de Lima Pinto da Costa was a Portuguese sports executive, who was president of Portuguese sports club Porto from 1982 until 2024. He was the president with most titles won (69) in the history of football and…

2025

Muhsin Hendricks

South African imam, Islamic scholar and LGBT activist (born 1967)

Muhsin Hendricks was a South African imam, Islamic scholar and LGBTQ activist. He was involved in various LGBTQ Muslim advocacy groups and was an advocate for greater acceptance of LGBTQ people within Islam. He has been…

2025

Robert Duvall

American actor and filmmaker (born 1931)

Robert Selden Duvall was an American actor, filmmaker, and producer, best known for his roles in films of the later 20th century. Duvall began acting professionally on stage in 1952, performing in summer plays at the…

2026

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Tiberios III — Byzantine emperor from 698 to 705

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Death year706

Known forLittle is known about his early life, other than that he was a droungarios, a mid-level commander, who served in the Cibyrrhaeot Theme

Deaths on this date88 (670 – 2026)

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