Did you know
Harry Dean Stanton had rare lead roles in Paris, Texas (1984) and Lucky (2017).
Notable Deaths on September 15
2017 — Harry Dean Stanton
American actor (born 1926)
September 15 has 110 recorded notable deaths across history, from 921 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
110 source records
921 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on September 15
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1968 The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. Source
- 1789 The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties. Source
- 1894 First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats the Qing dynasty in the Battle of Pyongyang, causing the Qing army to withdraw to the Chinese border with Korea. Source
- 1940 World War II: The climax of the Battle of Britain, when the Luftwaffe launches its largest and most concentrated attack of the entire campaign. Source
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Until the band's disbandment in 1996, Johnny, along with the lead vocalist Joey Ramone, were the only two original members who stayed since its inception, and appeared on every one of the band’s albums.
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The first engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR), he was responsible for the design and construction of its London–Bristol main line.
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Gustaf VI Adolf was King of Sweden from 29 October 1950 until his death in 1973.
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Thomas Wolfe is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life.
More major people who died on September 15
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2004
Johnny Ramone
American guitarist and songwriter (born 1948)
John William Cummings, better known by his stage name Johnny Ramone, was an American musician who was the guitarist and a founding member of the Ramones, a band that helped pioneer the punk movement.
1859
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
English architect and engineer, designed the Great Western Railway (born 1806)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was an English civil and marine engineer considered "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution", "perhaps the most eminent Victorian engineer", and one whose work "altered the…
1973
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (born 1882)
Gustaf VI Adolf was King of Sweden from 29 October 1950 until his death in 1973. He was the eldest son of Gustaf V and his wife, Victoria of Baden.
1938
Thomas Wolfe
American novelist (born 1900)
Thomas Clayton Wolfe was an American novelist and short story writer. He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life.
2023
Fernando Botero
Colombian painter and sculptor (born 1932)
Fernando Botero Angulo was a Colombian painter and sculptor. His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor,…
1989
Robert Penn Warren
American novelist, poet, and literary critic (born 1905)
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor at Yale University. He was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
2006
Oriana Fallaci
Italian journalist and author (born 1929)
Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist and author. As a teenager she joined the Italian resistance movement during World War II, and later had a long and successful journalistic career.
1945
Anton Webern
Austrian composer and conductor (born 1883)
Anton Webern was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist whose modernist music was among the most radical of its milieu in its lyrical, poetic concision and use of then novel atonal and twelve-tone techniques.
1940
William B. Bankhead
American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1874)
William Brockman Bankhead was an American politician who served as the 42nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1936 to 1940, representing Alabama's 10th and later 7th congressional districts as a…
1972
Ulvi Cemal Erkin
Turkish composer and educator (born 1906)
Ulvi Cemal Erkin was a member of the pioneer group of symphonic composers in Turkey, born in the period 1904–1910, who later came to be called The Turkish Five.
1842
Pierre Baillot
French violinist and composer (born 1771)
Pierre Marie François de Sales Baillot was a French violinist and composer born in Passy.
2015
Bernard Van de Kerckhove
Belgian cyclist (born 1941)
Bernard Van de Kerckhove was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer from 1962 to 1971.
1993
Pino Puglisi
Italian priest and martyr (born 1937)
Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who openly challenged the Sicilian Mafia controlling his Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio. The Mafia killed him on his 56th birthday.
1510
Saint Catherine of Genoa (born 1447)
Catherine of Genoa was an Italian saint and mystic, known for her work among the sick and the poor and remembered because of various writings describing both these actions and her mystical experiences.
921
Ludmila of Bohemia
Czech martyr and saint (born 860)
Ludmila of Bohemia is a Czech saint and martyr venerated by Catholic and Orthodox Christians. She was born in Mělník as the daughter of the Sorbian prince Slavibor.
1842
Francisco Morazán
Guatemalan general, lawyer, and politician, President of Central American Federation (born 1792)
José Francisco Morazán Quezada was a Central American statesman, military officer, and caudillo who served as the president of the Federal Republic of Central America on three occasions between 1829 and 1839.
1926
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1846)
Rudolf Christoph Eucken was a German philosopher. He received the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and the…
1995
Gunnar Nordahl
Swedish footballer and manager (born 1921)
Nils Gunnar Nordahl was a Swedish professional footballer. A highly prolific, powerful, and physically strong striker, with an eye for goal, he is best known for his spell at AC Milan from 1949 to 1956, in which he won…
2006
Raymond Baxter
English television host and author (born 1922)
Raymond Frederic Baxter OBE was an English television presenter, commentator and writer.