What happened on October 15 ?

412 - Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria

1002 - Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)

1326 - Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (b. 1261)

1389 - Pope Urban VI

1564 - Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (b. 1514)

1715 - Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (b. 1675)

1730 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658)

1788 - Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (b. 1735)

1810 - Alfred Moore, American judge (b. 1755)

1811 - Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (b. 1735)

1819 - Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)

1820 - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (b. 1771)

1837 - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet (b. 1760)

1880 - Victorio, Apache leader

1891 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (b. 1837)

1900 - Zden?k Fibich, Czech composer (b. 1850)

1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)

1918 - Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian guru and fakir (b. circa 1838)

1934 - Raymond Poincaré, French statesman (b. 1860)

1945 - Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of Vichy France (executed) (b. 1883)

1946 - Hermann Göring, German air force commander (b. 1893)

1960 - Clara Kimball Young, American actress (b. 1890)

1964 - Cole Porter, American composer (b. 1891)

1976 - Carlo Gambino, American Gangster (b. 1902)

1988 - Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (b. 1892)

2000 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)

2001 - Zhang Xueliang, Chinese warlord (b. 1901)

2003 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)

2003 - Ben Metcalfe, Canadian environmental activist (b. 1919)

2005 - Jason Collier, American basketball player (b. 1977)

2005 - Matti Wuori, Finnish politician (b. 1945)