What happened on June 15 ?

923 - Robert I of France (b. c. 865)

1073 - Emperor Go-Sanj? of Japan (b. 1034)

1246 - Duke Frederick II of Austria (b. 1219)

1341 - Andronicus III Palaeologus, Eastern Roman Emperor (b. 1297).

1381 - John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England

1381 - Wat Tyler, English rebel

1383 - John VI Cantacuzenus, Byzantine Emperor

1389 - Prince Lazar, Serbian Orthodox saint (b. 1329)

1467 - Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1396)

1521 - Tamás Bakócz. Hungarian Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1442)

1614 - Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)

1679 - Guillaume Courtois, French painter (b. 1628)

1724 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674)

1750 - Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer (b. 1684)

1768 - James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (b. 1710)

1772 - Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (b. 1694)

1849 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (b. 1795)

1858 - Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter (b. 1795)

1888 - Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (b. 1831)

1889 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (b. 1850)

1917 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867)

1934 - Alfred Bruneau, French composer (d. 1857)

1941 - Evelyn Underhill, British writer (b. 1875)

1941 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (b. 1873)

1962 - Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (b. 1877)

1965 - E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902)

1968 - Sam Crawford, baseball player (b. 1880)

1968 - Wes Montgomery, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)

1971 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

1976 - Jimmy Dykes, baseball player and manager (b. 1896)

1984 - Meredith Willson, American composer (b. 1902)

1985 - Andy Stanfield, American athlete (b. 1927)

1989 - Victor French, American actor (b. 1934)

1991 - Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)

1993 - John Connally, American politician (b. 1917)

1993 - James Hunt, English race car driver (b. 1947)

1995 - John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (b. 1903)

1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)

1996 - Dick Murdoch, Professinal Wrestler (b. 1946)

2003 - Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (b. 1911)

2006 - Raymond Devos, French humorist (b. 1922)