Famous Deaths for 15th October 2023

1512 – Antoon Keldermans, Brabant builder (Middelburg town hall), dies at 72
1889 – Edward Aylesworth Perry, American soldier and politician (General under Lee for Confederate Army, 14th Governor of Florida 1885-89), dies of a stroke at 58
1891 – Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English writer (Punch), dies at 54
1891 – William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 54
1910 – Larkin Goldsmith Mead, American sculptor who worked in Florence, dies at 75
1955 – Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese film score composer (Rashomon; Seven Samurai), dies of tuberculosis at 41
1969 – Abdirashid Shermake, President of Somali Republic, shot by one of his bodyguards at 50
1978 – W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (Saipan, Walk to Paradise Garden), dies of a stroke at 59
2006 – Derek Bond, British actor (Nicholas Nickelby, Armchair Theatre), dies at 86
2013 – Gloria Lynne [Wilson], American jazz vocalist (Dell Tones), dies of a heart attack at 83

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