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A member of the First Triumvirate, he led the Roman armies through the Gallic Wars and defeated his political rival Pompey in Caesar's civil war.
Notable Deaths on March 15
-44 — Julius Caesar
Roman general and statesman (born 100 BC)
March 15 has 86 recorded notable deaths across history, from 44 BC to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
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44 BC – 2025
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Major events on March 15
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- 1564 Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes the jizya tax on non-Muslim subjects. Source
- 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first and only President of the Soviet Union. Source
- 1991 Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany. Source
- 1919 Ukrainian War of Independence: The Kontrrazvedka is established as the counterintelligence division of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine. Source
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Cao Cao, courtesy name Mengde, was a Chinese statesman, warlord, and poet who rose to power during the end of the Han dynasty, ultimately taking effective control of the Han central government.
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In 1930 she made her Broadway stage debut and soon worked her way up to starring roles.
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Talaat Pasha was chairman of the Union and Progress Party, which operated a one-party dictatorship in the Empire; during World War I he became Grand Vizier.
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Benjamin Spock's book Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-selling books of the 20th century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998.
More major people who died on March 15
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
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Cao Cao
Chinese general, warlord and statesman
Cao Cao, courtesy name Mengde, was a Chinese statesman, warlord, and poet who rose to power during the end of the Han dynasty, ultimately taking effective control of the Han central government.
2001
Ann Sothern
American actress and singer (born 1909)
Ann Sothern was an American actress who worked on stage, radio, film, and television in a career that spanned nearly six decades. Sothern began her career in the late 1920s in bit parts in films.
1921
Talaat Pasha
Ottoman politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1874)
Mehmed Talât Pasha, commonly known as Talaat Pasha or Talat Pasha, was a Turkish activist, revolutionary, politician, and convicted war criminal who served as the de facto leader of the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1918.
1998
Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician and author (born 1903)
Benjamin McLane Spock, widely known as Dr. Spock, was an American pediatrician, Olympic medallist, and left-wing political activist.
1981
René Clair
French director and screenwriter (born 1898)
René Clair, born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker and writer. He first established his reputation in the 1920s as a director of silent films which often featured fantasy comedy themes.
1673
Salvator Rosa
Italian painter and poet (born 1615)
Salvator Rosa is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose romanticised landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th century into the…
1969
Miles Malleson
English actor and screenwriter (born 1888)
William Miles Malleson was an English actor and dramatist, best remembered for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s.
2025
Nita Lowey
American politician (born 1937)
Nita Sue Lowey was an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from New York from 1989 until 2021. She was a member of the Democratic Party.
2011
Smiley Culture
English singer and DJ (born 1963)
David Victor Emmanuel, better known as Smiley Culture, was a British reggae singer and DJ known for his "fast chat" style.
2010
Kazim al-Samawi
Iraqi poet (born 1925)
Kazim Jasir Faraj, better known as Kazim al-Samawi, was an Iraqi poet and journalist known for his humanist worldview.
2008
G. David Low
American astronaut and engineer (born 1956)
George David Low was an American aerospace executive and a NASA astronaut.
1820
Clement Mary Hofbauer
Austrian priest and saint (born 1751)
Clement Mary Hofbauer was a Moravian hermit and later a priest of the Redemptorist congregation. He established his congregation, founded in Italy, north of the Alps.
2013
Booth Gardner
American businessman and politician, Governor of Washington (born 1936)
William Booth Gardner was an American politician who served as the 19th governor of Washington, from 1985 to 1993. He also served as the ambassador of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT.
1981
Philip Testa
Italian-American mobster (born 1924)
Philip Charles Testa, also known as "The Chicken Man", was an Italian-American mobster known for his brief leadership of the Philadelphia crime family of the Italian-American Mafia.
1977
Hubert Aquin
Canadian author and activist (born 1929)
Hubert Aquin was a Quebec writer, filmmaker and intellectual. He is particularly known for his novel Next Episode.
1962
Arthur Compton
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
Arthur Holly Compton was an American physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with C. T. R.
2025
Rajnikumar Pandya
Indian writer (born 1938)
Rajnikumar Pandya was an Indian Gujarati language writer and journalist from Gujarat. He was known for his short stories, novels, biographical essays, and columns.
1897
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician and academic (born 1814)
James Joseph Sylvester was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
2014
Clarissa Dickson Wright
English chef, author, and television personality (born 1947)
Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Johnston Dickson Wright was an English celebrity cook, television personality, writer, businesswoman, and barrister.