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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 15th of October 1582 | EVENT | Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15. |
| 15th of October 1764 | EVENT | Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. |
| 15th of October 1783 | EVENT | The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier, (tethered balloon). |
| 15th of October 1793 | EVENT | Queen Marie-Antoinette of France is tried and convicted in a swift, pre-determined trial in the Palais de Justice, Paris, and condemned to death the following day. |
| 15th of October 1815 | EVENT | Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 15th of October 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks during a test, killing its inventor, Horace L. Hunley. |
| 15th of October 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Battle of Glasgow is fought, resulting in the surrender of Glasgow, Missouri, and its Union garrison, to the Confederacy. |
| 15th of October 1878 | EVENT | The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation. |
| 15th of October 1880 | EVENT | Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists. |
| 15th of October 1888 | EVENT | The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators. |
| 15th of October 1894 | EVENT | The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying. |
| 15th of October 1904 | EVENT | The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War. |
| 15th of October 1910 | EVENT | Airship America launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft. |
| 15th of October 1917 | EVENT | World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire. |
| 15th of October 1928 | EVENT | The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States. |
| 15th of October 1932 | EVENT | Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight. |
| 15th of October 1934 | EVENT | The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircles Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March. |
| 15th of October 1939 | EVENT | The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated. |
| 15th of October 1944 | EVENT | The Arrow Cross Party (very similar to Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi party)) takes power in Hungary. |
| 15th of October 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason. |
| 15th of October 1951 | EVENT | Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first two oral contraceptives. |
| 15th of October 1953 | EVENT | British nuclear test Totem 1 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia. |
| 15th of October 1956 | EVENT | Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time. |
| 15th of October 1965 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war rally in Manhattan including a public burning of a draft card; the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act. |
| 15th of October 1966 | EVENT | Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. |
| 15th of October 1969 | EVENT | Vietnam War; The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam is held in Washington DC and across the US. Over 2 million demonstrate nationally; about 250,000 in the nation's capitol. |
| 15th of October 1970 | EVENT | Thirty-five construction workers are killed when a section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses. |
| 15th of October 1970 | EVENT | The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey. |
| 15th of October 1971 | EVENT | The start of the 2500-year celebration of Iran, celebrating the birth of Persia. |
| 15th of October 1979 | EVENT | Black Monday in Malta. The Building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of the Malta Labour Party. |
| 15th of October 1987 | EVENT | The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England. |
| 15th of October 1989 | EVENT | Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL. |
| 15th of October 1990 | EVENT | Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation. |
| 15th of October 1997 | EVENT | The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), exactly 50 years and 1 day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere. |
| 15th of October 1997 | EVENT | The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn. |
| 15th of October 2001 | EVENT | NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io. |
| 15th of October 2003 | EVENT | China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission. |
| 15th of October 2003 | EVENT | The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi runs into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43. |
| 15th of October 2005 | EVENT | A riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested. |
| 15th of October 2007 | EVENT | Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post 9/11 anti-terrorism raids. |
| 15th of October 1471 | BIRTHDAY | Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526) |
| 15th of October 1542 | BIRTHDAY | Akbar the Great, 3rd Mughal Emperor (d. 1605) |
| 15th of October 1608 | BIRTHDAY | Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist (d. 1647) |
| 15th of October 1686 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (d. 1758) |
| 15th of October 1701 | BIRTHDAY | Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, first native Canadian canonized (d. 1771) |
| 15th of October 1711 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Teresa of Lorraine, queen of Sardinia (d. 1741) |
| 15th of October 1784 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (d. 1849) |
| 15th of October 1785 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and founding father (d. 1821) |
| 15th of October 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author (d. 1841) |
| 15th of October 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Dreyschock, Czech pianist and composer (d. 1869) |
| 15th of October 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Marie of Prussia, (d. 1889) |
| 15th of October 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Asaph Hall, American astronomer (d. 1907) |
| 15th of October 1836 | BIRTHDAY | James Tissot, French artist (d. 1902) |
| 15th of October 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Honore Mercier, politician and premier of Quebec (d. 1894) |
| 15th of October 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900) |
| 15th of October 1858 | BIRTHDAY | John L. Sullivan, American boxer (d. 1918) |
| 15th of October 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian president (d. 1956) |
| 15th of October 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, (d. 1899) |
| 15th of October 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Reynaud, French politician (d. 1966) |
| 15th of October 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Darwell, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1967) |
| 15th of October 1881 | BIRTHDAY | P. G. Wodehouse, British novelist (d. 1975) |
| 15th of October 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (d. 1941) |
| 15th of October 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Arch Hoxsey, pioneer aviator (d. 1910) |
| 15th of October 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Alvaro de Campos, a heteronym of Fernando Pessoa (d. 1935). |
| 15th of October 1893 | BIRTHDAY | King Carol II of Romania, (d. 1953) |
| 15th of October 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Moshe Sharett, second Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1965) |
| 15th of October 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (d. 1951) |
| 15th of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Mervyn LeRoy, American film director (d. 1987) |
| 15th of October 1905 | BIRTHDAY | C. P. Snow, British writer (d. 1980) |
| 15th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Hiram Leong Fong, American politician (d. 2004) |
| 15th of October 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Varian Fry, American journalist (d. 1967) |
| 15th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-born US economist (d. 2006) |
| 15th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Trout, American reporter (d. 2000) |
| 15th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Leonard Greenstein, American astronomer (d. 2002) |
| 15th of October 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician |
| 15th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Miner, American actress (d. 2004) |
| 15th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Schlesinger Jr., American historian and political commentator (d. 2007) |
| 15th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Ross, American balloonist and atmospheric physicist (d. 1985) |
| 15th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Puzo, American novelist (d. 1999) |
| 15th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Verneuil, French film director (d. 2002) |
| 15th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Agustina Bessa-Luis, Portuguese writer |
| 15th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Italo Calvino. Italian writer (d. 1985) |
| 15th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Iacocca, American automotive executive |
| 15th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Lenard, American actor (d. 1996) |
| 15th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Miller, American director |
| 15th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Marguerite Andersen, German writer |
| 15th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Mickey Baker, American guitarist (Mickey & Sylvia) |
| 15th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Peters, American actress (d. 2000) |
| 15th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Richter, German conductor (d. 1981) |
| 15th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Hunter, American author (d. 2005) |
| 15th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984) |
| 15th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | James E. Akins, American diplomat and adviser to Richard Nixon (d. 2010) |
| 15th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Fereydun M. Esfandiary, Iranian philosopher (d. 2000) |
| 15th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Eleventh President of India |
| 15th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | N. Ramani, Indian flutist |
| 15th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Joe Morrow, American sprinter |
| 15th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Barry McGuire, American singer |
| 15th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Willie O'Ree, Canadian Hockey Player |
| 15th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Lavin, American actress |
| 15th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Marv Johnson, American singer (d. 1993) |
| 15th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and political activist (d. 1997) |
| 15th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Doherty, Australian immunologist, Nobel laureate |
| 15th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player |
| 15th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Penny Marshall, American actress and film director |
| 15th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Sali Berisha, former President of Albania; current Prime Minister |
| 15th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | David Trimble, Irish politician, Nobel laureate |
| 15th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Haim Saban, Egyptian-born American media proprietor |
| 15th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Palmer, American baseball player |
| 15th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jere Burns, American actor |
| 15th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Carpenter, American musician (The Carpenters) |
| 15th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Stewart Stevenson, Scottish politician |
| 15th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | John Getz, American actor |
| 15th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Chris de Burgh, Irish singer and songwriter |
| 15th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Prannoy Roy, Indian journalist and psephologist, CEO : NDTV |
| 15th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Laurie McBain, U.S.American novelist. |
| 15th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Richardson, English actor, comedian, and writer |
| 15th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Vaganian, Armenian chess grandmaster |
| 15th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Miller, American actor and comedian |
| 15th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Tito Jackson, American musician |
| 15th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Betsy Clifford, Canadian alpine skier |
| 15th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Friederike of Hanover, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick-Luneburg |
| 15th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Bakowski, Australian poet |
| 15th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Kulbir Bhaura, British field hockey player |
| 15th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Tanya Roberts, American actress |
| 15th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mira Nair, Indian director |
| 15th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Stacy Peralta, American director |
| 15th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Clarke, British author |
| 15th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Renee Jones, American actress |
| 15th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York |
| 15th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Emeril Lagasse, American chef |
| 15th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Solondz, American film director |
| 15th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Mazur, American mountaineer |
| 15th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Vittori, Italian astronaut |
| 15th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer |
| 15th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jyrki 69, Finnish musician The 69 Eyes |
| 15th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Didier Deschamps, French footballer |
| 15th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Paige Davis, American television personality and actress |
| 15th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Marcil, American actress |
| 15th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Dominic West, British actor |
| 15th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Vitor Baia, Portuguese footballer |
| 15th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Benet, American singer |
| 15th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Cole, British footballer |
| 15th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Arhndt, American wrestler |
| 15th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Hoiberg, American basketball player |
| 15th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Keeslar, American actor |
| 15th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Kim, Belgian singer |
| 15th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Dax Riggs, American musician |
| 15th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Bianca Rinaldi, Brazilian actress |
| 15th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Doga, Italian footballer |
| 15th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ginuwine, American singer |
| 15th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Glen Little, English footballer |
| 15th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Dallan, Italian rugby player |
| 15th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress and singer |
| 15th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Erin McKeown, American musician |
| 15th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | David Trezeguet, French football player |
| 15th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Masato Kawabata, Japanese racing driver |
| 15th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 15th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Takeshi Morishima, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 15th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Devon Gummersall, American actor |
| 15th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Robinson, English footballer |
| 15th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Maris Verpakovskis, Latvian footballer |
| 15th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Blue Adams, American Football Player |
| 15th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist |
| 15th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Siiri Nordin, Finnish singer (Killer) |
| 15th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Keyshia Cole, American R&B singer |
| 15th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Abram Elam, American football player |
| 15th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Guo Jingjing, Chinese diver |
| 15th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player |
| 15th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Radoslav Zidek, Slovak snowboarder |
| 15th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Paulini Curuenavuli, Fijian/Australian singer |
| 15th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Charline Labonte, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 15th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Sachiko Yamada, Japanese swimmer |
| 15th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Holly Montag, American reality TV personality |
| 15th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Senna, Brazilian racing driver |
| 15th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer and actress |
| 15th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Alberto Lopez, Uruguayan footballer |
| 15th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Marcos Martinez, Spanish racing driver |
| 15th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Donghae, South Korean singer (Super Junior) |
| 15th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Janka, Swiss alpine ski racer |
| 15th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Levine, Canadian/American tennis player |
| 15th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Chantal Strand, Canadian actress, singer and voice actress |
| 15th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Mesut Ozil, German footballer |
| 15th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Leandro Antonio Martinez, Argentinian/Italian footballer |
| 15th of October 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Martella, American actor |
| 15th of October 1999 | BIRTHDAY | Bailee Madison, American actress |
| 15th of October 2005 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Christian of Denmark, Danish royal |
| 15th of October 0412 | DEATH | Pope Theophilus of Alexandria |
| 15th of October 0898 | DEATH | Lambert, Holy Roman Emperor |
| 15th of October 0912 | DEATH | Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Spanish-born Moor religious figure (Born 844) |
| 15th of October 1002 | DEATH | Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (Born 946) |
| 15th of October 1080 | DEATH | Rudolf of Rheinfelden, German noble (Bornc. 1025) |
| 15th of October 1326 | DEATH | Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (Born 1261) |
| 15th of October 1389 | DEATH | Pope Urban VI |
| 15th of October 1564 | DEATH | Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (Born 1514) |
| 15th of October 1715 | DEATH | Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (Born 1675) |
| 15th of October 1730 | DEATH | Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (Born 1658) |
| 15th of October 1788 | DEATH | Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (Born 1735) |
| 15th of October 1810 | DEATH | Alfred Moore, American judrist (Born 1755) |
| 15th of October 1811 | DEATH | Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (Born 1735) |
| 15th of October 1817 | DEATH | Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Lithuanian-born Polish military officer (Born 1746) |
| 15th of October 1819 | DEATH | Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (Born 1744) |
| 15th of October 1820 | DEATH | Karl Philipp Furst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (Born 1771) |
| 15th of October 1837 | DEATH | Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet (Born 1760) |
| 15th of October 1880 | DEATH | Victorio, Apache leader |
| 15th of October 1891 | DEATH | Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer (Born 1837) |
| 15th of October 1900 | DEATH | Zdenek Fibich, Czech composer (Born 1850) |
| 15th of October 1910 | DEATH | Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (Born 1886) |
| 15th of October 1917 | DEATH | Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (Born 1876) |
| 15th of October 1918 | DEATH | Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian religious figure (Born c. 1838) |
| 15th of October 1930 | DEATH | Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (Born 1866) |
| 15th of October 1934 | DEATH | Raymond Poincare, French statesman (Born 1860) |
| 15th of October 1945 | DEATH | Pierre Laval, French politician (Born 1883) |
| 15th of October 1946 | DEATH | Hermann Goring, German Nazi official (Born 1893) |
| 15th of October 1948 | DEATH | Edythe Chapman, American actress (Born 1863) |
| 15th of October 1959 | DEATH | Lipot Fejer, Hungarian mathematician (Born 1880) |
| 15th of October 1960 | DEATH | Clara Kimball Young, American actress (Born 1890) |
| 15th of October 1963 | DEATH | Horton Smith. American golfer (Born 1908) |
| 15th of October 1964 | DEATH | Cole Porter, American composer (Born 1891) |
| 15th of October 1965 | DEATH | Abraham Fraenkel, Israeli mathematician (Born 1891) |
| 15th of October 1966 | DEATH | Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, British politician (Born 1876) |
| 15th of October 1976 | DEATH | Carlo Gambino, American organized crime figure (Born 1902) |
| 15th of October 1980 | DEATH | Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (Born 1900) |
| 15th of October 1980 | DEATH | Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (Born 1896) |
| 15th of October 1981 | DEATH | Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (Born 1907) |
| 15th of October 1987 | DEATH | Thomas Sankara, Burkinan military officer and politician (Born 1949) |
| 15th of October 1988 | DEATH | Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (Born 1892) |
| 15th of October 1994 | DEATH | Sarah Kofman, French philosopher (Born 1934) |
| 15th of October 1995 | DEATH | Bengt Akerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (Born 1967) |
| 15th of October 1995 | DEATH | Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver (Born 1976) |
| 15th of October 1999 | DEATH | Josef Locke, Irish-born tenor (Born 1917) |
| 15th of October 2000 | DEATH | Konrad Emil Bloch, Prussian-born American biochemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1912) |
| 15th of October 2001 | DEATH | Zhang Xueliang, Chinese head of state (Born 1901) |
| 15th of October 2003 | DEATH | Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1918) |
| 15th of October 2003 | DEATH | Ben Metcalfe, Canadian environmental activist (Born 1919) |
| 15th of October 2005 | DEATH | Jason Collier, American basketball player (Born 1977) |
| 15th of October 2005 | DEATH | Matti Wuori, Finnish politician (Born 1945) |
| 15th of October 2008 | DEATH | Faz?l Husnu Daglarca, Turkish poet (Born 1914) |
| 15th of October 2008 | DEATH | Edie Adams, American singer and actress (Born 1927) |
| 15th of October 2008 | DEATH | Jack Narz, American game show host (Born 1922) |
| 15th of October 2010 | DEATH | Richard C. Miller, American photographer (Born 1912) |
| 15th of October 2010 | DEATH | Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and pro-life activist (Born 1926) |
| 15th of October 2010 | DEATH | Johnny Sheffield, American actor (Born 1931) |