What happened on August 15 ?

423 - Flavius Honorius, Western Roman Emperor (b. 384)

778 - Roland, Frankish commander

1038 - King Stephen I of Hungary

1040 - King Duncan I of Scotland (b. 1001)

1057 - King Macbeth I of Scotland

1118 - Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1048)

1196 - Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)

1274 - Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (b. 1201)

1369 - Philippa of Hainault, wife of Edward III of England

1528 - Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485)

1552 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)

1621 - John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582)

1666 - Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)

1714 - Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1654)

1728 - Marin Marais, French composer and viol player (b. 1656)

1799 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (b. 1729)

1852 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (b. 1760)

1907 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)

1909 - Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (b. 1866)

1935 - Wiley Post, American pilot (airplane crash) (b. 1898)

1935 - Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (airplane crash) (b. 1879)

1936 - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)

1951 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (b. 1882)

1953 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)

1959 - Blind Willie McTell, American singer (b. 1901

1962 - Lei Feng, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1940)

1967 - René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)

1971 - Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1887)

1975 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)

1975 - Clay Shaw, John F. Kennedy assassination investigator (b. 1913)

1982 - Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)

1990 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician (b. 1962)

1995 - John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (b. 1906)

1999 - Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and artist (b. 1910)

2001 - Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (b. 1972)

2003 - Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish songwriter and singer (heart attack) (b. 1957)

2004 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)

2004 - Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (b. 1941)

2005 - James Dougherty, first husband of Marilyn Monroe (b. 1921)