April 15th Deaths |
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| April 15th, 2008 (April 15 2008) | Death | Krister Stendahl, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop (born in 1921) | |
| April 15th, 2008 (April 15 2008) | Death | Benoit Lamy, Belgian Movie Director (born in 1945) | |
| April 15th, 2007 (April 15 2007) | Death | Brant Parker, American cartoonist (born in 1920) | |
| April 15th, 2005 (April 15 2005) | Death | John Fred, American singer (born in 1941) | |
| April 15th, 2004 (April 15 2004) | Death | Ray Condo, Canadian musician (born in 1950) | |
| April 15th, 2003 (April 15 2003) | Death | Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (born in 1941) | |
| April 15th, 2003 (April 15 2003) | Death | Reg Bundy, British performer (born in 1941) | |
| April 15th, 2002 (April 15 2002) | Death | Damon Knight, American author (born in 1922) | |
| April 15th, 2002 (April 15 2002) | Death | Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (born in 1917) | Byron White Quotes |
| April 15th, 2001 (April 15 2001) | Death | Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (born in 1951) | |
| April 15th, 2000 (April 15 2000) | Death | Edward Gorey, American illustrator (born in 1925) | |
| April 15th, 1999 (April 15 1999) | Death | Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer (born in 1944) | |
| April 15th, 1998 (April 15 1998) | Death | Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (born in 1925) | |
| April 15th, 1995 (April 15 1995) | Death | Harry Shoulberg, American painter, serigrapher (born in 1903) | |
| April 15th, 1994 (April 15 1994) | Death | John Curry, English figure skater (born in 1949) | |
| April 15th, 1993 (April 15 1993) | Death | John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (born in 1908) | |
| April 15th, 1993 (April 15 1993) | Death | Leslie Charteris, Singapore-born author (born in 1907) | |
| April 15th, 1990 (April 15 1990) | Death | Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (born in 1905) | |
| April 15th, 1989 (April 15 1989) | Death | Nesuhi Ertegun, American record executive (born in 1917) | |
| April 15th, 1989 (April 15 1989) | Death | Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (born in 1915) | |
| April 15th, 1988 (April 15 1988) | Death | Kenneth Williams, English actor and comedian (born in 1926) | |
| April 15th, 1988 (April 15 1988) | Death | Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (born in 1954) | |
| April 15th, 1986 (April 15 1986) | Death | Jean Genet, French author (born in 1910) | Jean Genet Quotes |
| April 15th, 1984 (April 15 1984) | Death | Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (born in 1921) | |
| April 15th, 1984 (April 15 1984) | Death | Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (born in 1925) | |
| April 15th, 1983 (April 15 1983) | Death | Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (born in 1892) | |
| April 15th, 1982 (April 15 1982) | Death | Arthur Lowe, British actor (born in 1915) | |
| April 15th, 1980 (April 15 1980) | Death | Raymond Bailey, American actor (born in 1904) | |
| April 15th, 1980 (April 15 1980) | Death | Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (born in 1905) | Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes |
| April 15th, 1975 (April 15 1975) | Death | Richard Conte, American actor (born in 1910) | |
| April 15th, 1974 (April 15 1974) | Death | Giovanni D Anzi, Italian songwriter (born in 1906) | |
| April 15th, 1971 (April 15 1971) | Death | Dan Reeves, American football team owner (born in 1912) | |
| April 15th, 1970 (April 15 1970) | Death | Ripper Collins, American baseball player (born in 1904) | |
| April 15th, 1969 (April 15 1969) | Death | Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain (born in 1887) | |
| April 15th, 1963 (April 15 1963) | Death | Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (born in 1903) | |
| April 15th, 1962 (April 15 1962) | Death | Clara Blandick, American actress (born in 1881) | |
| April 15th, 1962 (April 15 1962) | Death | Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (born in 1911) | |
| April 15th, 1957 (April 15 1957) | Death | Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (born in 1917) | |
| April 15th, 1949 (April 15 1949) | Death | Wallace Beery, American actor (born in 1885) | |
| April 15th, 1948 (April 15 1948) | Death | Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (died in 1892) | |
| April 15th, 1945 (April 15 1945) | Death | Hermann Florstedt, Nazi leader (born in 1895) | |
| April 15th, 1943 (April 15 1943) | Death | Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (died in 1882) | |
| April 15th, 1942 (April 15 1942) | Death | Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (born in 1880) | |
| April 15th, 1938 (April 15 1938) | Death | Cesar Vallejo, Peruvian poet (born in 1892) | |
| April 15th, 1927 (April 15 1927) | Death | Gaston Leroux, French writer (born in 1868) | |
| April 15th, 1912 (April 15 1912) | Death | Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (born in 1850) | |
| April 15th, 1912 (April 15 1912) | Death | John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (born in 1864) | |
| April 15th, 1912 (April 15 1912) | Death | William T. Stead American author and journalist. (born in 1849) | |
| April 15th, 1898 (April 15 1898) | Death | Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader | |
| April 15th, 1889 (April 15 1889) | Death | Father Damien, Belgian missionary (born in 1840) | |
| April 15th, 1888 (April 15 1888) | Death | Matthew Arnold, English poet (born in 1822) | Matthew Arnold Quotes |
| April 15th, 1865 (April 15 1865) | Death | Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (born in 1809) | Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| April 15th, 1854 (April 15 1854) | Death | Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (born in 1773) | |
| April 15th, 1804 (April 15 1804) | Death | Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (born in 1761) | |
| April 15th, 1793 (April 15 1793) | Death | Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (born in 1718) | |
| April 15th, 1788 (April 15 1788) | Death | Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (born in 1711) | |
| April 15th, 1765 (April 15 1765) | Death | Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist and writer (born in 1711) | |
| April 15th, 1764 (April 15 1764) | Death | Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (born in 1721) | |
| April 15th, 1764 (April 15 1764) | Death | Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (born in 1679) | |
| April 15th, 1761 (April 15 1761) | Death | Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (born in 1682) | |
| April 15th, 1761 (April 15 1761) | Death | William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (born in 1696) | |
| April 15th, 1754 (April 15 1754) | Death | Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (born in 1676) | |
| April 15th, 1719 (April 15 1719) | Death | Francoise d Aubigne, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (born in 1635) | Louis XIV of France Quotes |
| April 15th, 1704 (April 15 1704) | Death | Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (born in 1628) | |
| April 15th, 1659 (April 15 1659) | Death | Simon Dach, German poet (born in 1605) | |
| April 15th, 1652 (April 15 1652) | Death | Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church | |
| April 15th, 1641 (April 15 1641) | Death | Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (born in 1581) | |
| April 15th, 1632 (April 15 1632) | Death | George Calvert, Proprietor of the Avalon (Maryland) Colony (born in 1580) | |
| April 15th, 1621 (April 15 1621) | Death | John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony | |
| April 15th, 1610 (April 15 1610) | Death | Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (born in 1546) | |
| April 15th, 1446 (April 15 1446) | Death | Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (born in 1377) | |
| April 15th, 1415 (April 15 1415) | Death | Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian | |
| April 15th, 1220 (April 15 1220) | Death | Adolf of Altena, Archbishop of Cologne | |
| April 15th, 1053 (April 15 1053) | Death | Godwin, Earl of Wessex | Earl of Wessex Godwin Quotes |
