August 15th
150 Notable deaths
Te Atairangikaahu
Māori queen.
Born July 23rd, 1931 in Waahi Pā.
Died August 15th, 2006 at 75 years old (kidney failure). [ref]
Jim Dickinson
American musician.
Born November 15th, 1941 in Little Rock. [ref]
Died August 15th, 2009 at 67 years old in Memphis. [ref]
Giorgio Perlasca
Italian self-appointed spanish diplomat in hungary who saved 5218 jews from the holocaust (1910-1992).
Born January 31st, 1910 in Como. [ref]
Died August 15th, 1992 at 82 years old in Padua (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Otto Braun
German writer and communist, 1900-1974.
Born September 28th, 1900 in Ismaning.
Died August 15th, 1974 at 73 years old in Varna.
Vida Goldstein
Australian feminist politician.
Born April 13th, 1869 in Portland.
Died August 15th, 1949 at 80 years old in South Yarra (cancer).
Kenji Hatanaka
Japanese military officer and conspirator (1912-1945).
Born March 28th, 1912 in Kyoto Prefecture.
Died August 15th, 1945 at 33 years old in Tokyo (ballistic trauma).
Kanji Ishiwara
General in the imperial japanese army (1889-1949).
Born January 18th, 1889 in Tsuruoka, Shonai, Shōnai region.
Died August 15th, 1949 at 60 years old in Takase, Tokyo (pneumonia).
Hubert Lanz
German general (1896-1982).
Born May 22nd, 1896 in Entringen.
Died August 15th, 1982 at 86 years old in Munich.
Faas Wilkes
Dutch footballer (1923-2006).
Born October 13th, 1923 in Rotterdam.
Died August 15th, 2006 at 82 years old in Rotterdam (myocardial infarction).
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf
German politician (1896-1944).
Born October 14th, 1896 in Merseburg.
Died August 15th, 1944 at 47 years old in Plötzensee Prison (hanging).
Deaths 51 to 60 of 150
Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east. Rumi