What happened on January 15 ?

41 - Caligula, Roman Emperor (b. 12)

570 - Saint Ides, Irish nun

1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)

1672 - John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)

1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)

1781 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718)

1790 - John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719)

1804 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)

1915 - Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)

1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (b. 1870)

1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, (b. 1924)

1955 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)

1964 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (b. 1905)

1967 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882)

1983 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster (b. 1902)

1987 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)

1988 - Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)

1990 - Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (b. 1923)

1993 - Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)

1994 - Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)

1996 - Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)

1998 - Junior Wells, American musician (b. 1934)

2000 - Zeljko Raznatovic, Serbian leader (b. 1952)

2000 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)

2001 - Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916)

2003 - Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)

2005 - Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor (b. 1947)

2005 - Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)

2005 - Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)

2005 - Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)

2005 - Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969)

2005 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (b. 1915)

2006 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)