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May 15th
176 Notable deaths
Cao Kun
Chinese general and warlord (1862–1938).
Born December 12th, 1862 in Tianjin.
Died May 15th, 1938 at 75 years old in Tianjin.
Vladko Maček
Croatian politician (1879-1964).
Born June 20th, 1879 in Jastrebarsko.
Died May 15th, 1964 at 84 years old in Washington, D.C. (myocardial infarction).
Jean-Luc Dehaene
Belgian prime minister (1940-2014).
Born August 7th, 1940 in Montpellier.
Died May 15th, 2014 at 73 years old in Quimper (pancreatic cancer).
Albert Bassermann
German actor (1867-1952).
Born September 7th, 1867 in Mannheim.
Died May 15th, 1952 at 84 years old in Zürich (myocardial infarction).
Aaron Aaronsohn
Jewish agronomist, botanist, and zionist activist (1876-1919).
Born May 21st, 1876 in Bacău. [ref]
Died May 15th, 1919 at 42 years old in Zikhron Ya'akov (aviation accident). [ref]
Javier Valdez Cárdenas
Mexican crime journalist and murder victim.
Born April 14th, 1967 in Culiacán.
Died May 15th, 2017 at 50 years old in Culiacán (ballistic trauma). [ref]
Charles Kittel
American physicist.
Born July 18th, 1916 in New York City.
Died May 15th, 2019 at 102 years old in Berkeley.
Đorđe Marjanović
Yugoslav singer.
Born October 30th, 1931 in Kučevo.
Died May 15th, 2021 at 89 years old in Belgrade.
Karl-Otto Apel
German philosopher (1922-2017).
Born March 15th, 1922 in Düsseldorf. [ref]
Died May 15th, 2017 at 95 years old in Frankfurt am Main. [ref]
William March
United states marine, novelist, short story writer (1893–1954).
Born September 18th, 1893 in Mobile.
Died May 15th, 1954 at 60 years old in New Orleans (myocardial infarction).
Deaths 71 to 80 of 176
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner