October 15th Deaths |
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| October 15th, 2005 (October 15 2005) | Death | Jason Collier, American basketball player (born in 1977) | |
| October 15th, 2005 (October 15 2005) | Death | Matti Wuori, Finnish politician (born in 1945) | |
| October 15th, 2003 (October 15 2003) | Death | Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1918) | |
| October 15th, 2003 (October 15 2003) | Death | Ben Metcalfe, Canadian environmental activist (born in 1919) | |
| October 15th, 2001 (October 15 2001) | Death | Zhang Xueliang, Chinese ruler of Manchuria (born in 1901) | |
| October 15th, 2000 (October 15 2000) | Death | Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1912) | |
| October 15th, 1995 (October 15 1995) | Death | Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver (born in 1976) | |
| October 15th, 1994 (October 15 1994) | Death | Sarah Kofman, French philosopher (born in 1934) | Philo Quotes |
| October 15th, 1988 (October 15 1988) | Death | Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (born in 1892) | |
| October 15th, 1987 (October 15 1987) | Death | Thomas Sankara, African revolutionary and leader of Burkina Faso (assassinated) (born in 1949) | |
| October 15th, 1981 (October 15 1981) | Death | Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (born in 1907) | |
| October 15th, 1980 (October 15 1980) | Death | Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (born in 1900) | |
| October 15th, 1980 (October 15 1980) | Death | Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (born in 1896) | |
| October 15th, 1976 (October 15 1976) | Death | Carlo Gambino, American gangster (born in 1902) | |
| October 15th, 1964 (October 15 1964) | Death | Cole Porter, American composer (born in 1891) | |
| October 15th, 1963 (October 15 1963) | Death | Horton Smith. American golfer (born in 1908) | |
| October 15th, 1960 (October 15 1960) | Death | Clara Kimball Young, American actress (born in 1890) | |
| October 15th, 1959 (October 15 1959) | Death | Lipot Fejer, Hungarian mathematician (born in 1880) | |
| October 15th, 1948 (October 15 1948) | Death | Edythe Chapman, American actress (born in 1863) | |
| October 15th, 1946 (October 15 1946) | Death | Hermann Goring, German air force commander (suicide) (born in 1893) | Hermann Goring Quotes |
| October 15th, 1945 (October 15 1945) | Death | Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of Vichy France (executed) (born in 1883) | |
| October 15th, 1934 (October 15 1934) | Death | Raymond Poincare, French statesman (born in 1860) | |
| October 15th, 1930 (October 15 1930) | Death | Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (born in 1866) | |
| October 15th, 1918 (October 15 1918) | Death | Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian saint (born in circa 1838) | |
| October 15th, 1917 (October 15 1917) | Death | Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (born in 1876) | |
| October 15th, 1910 (October 15 1910) | Death | Stanley Ketchel, boxer (murdered) (born in 1886) | |
| October 15th, 1900 (October 15 1900) | Death | Zdenek Fibich, Czech composer (born in 1850) | |
| October 15th, 1891 (October 15 1891) | Death | Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (born in 1837) | |
| October 15th, 1880 (October 15 1880) | Death | Victorio, Apache leader | |
| October 15th, 1837 (October 15 1837) | Death | Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet (born in 1760) | |
| October 15th, 1820 (October 15 1820) | Death | Karl Philipp Furst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (born in 1771) | |
| October 15th, 1819 (October 15 1819) | Death | Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (born in 1744) | |
| October 15th, 1817 (October 15 1817) | Death | Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish and Lithuanian national hero (born in 1746) | |
| October 15th, 1811 (October 15 1811) | Death | Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (born in 1735) | |
| October 15th, 1810 (October 15 1810) | Death | Alfred Moore, American judge (born in 1755) | |
| October 15th, 1788 (October 15 1788) | Death | Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (born in 1735) | |
| October 15th, 1730 (October 15 1730) | Death | Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (born in 1658) | |
| October 15th, 1715 (October 15 1715) | Death | Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (born in 1675) | |
| October 15th, 1564 (October 15 1564) | Death | Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (born in 1514) | |
| October 15th, 1389 (October 15 1389) | Death | Pope Urban VI | |
| October 15th, 1326 (October 15 1326) | Death | Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (born in 1261) | |
| October 15th, 1080 (October 15 1080) | Death | Rudolf of Rheinfeld, Duke of Swabia | |
| October 15th, 1002 (October 15 1002) | Death | Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (born in 946) | |
| October 15th, 0912 (October 15 0912) | Death | Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Cordoba | |
| October 15th, 0898 (October 15 0898) | Death | Lambert, Holy Roman Emperor | |
| October 15th, 0412 (October 15 0412) | Death | Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria | |
