Famous Deaths for 15th October 2025

892 – al-Mu’tamid, Abbasid caliph (870-92), dies at about 50
1595 – Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch East iIndies poet, dies at 48
1789 – John Morgan, American physician-in-chief of Continental Army and co-founder of the Medical College at the University of Pennsylvania, the first medical school in Colonial America, dies at 54
1900 – Zden?k Fibich, Czech classical composer (Šárka; Hippodamia; Moods, Impressions, and Reminiscences), dies at 49
1930 – Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (Dow Chemical), dies from cirrhosis of the liver at 64
1965 – Buster Moten [Ira Smith], American jazz accordionist (Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra – “South”, “Moten Swing”), dies at 61
1994 – Hannes Wustinger, Austrian race car driver, dies in a crash during a race at 29
2012 – Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia (1941-55 and 1993-2004), Chief of State (1960-70), independence campaigner and film producer, dies from a heart attack at 89
2018 – Cicely Berry, British theatre director (Royal Shakespeare Company) and voice coach, dies at 92
2019 – Hossein Dehlavi, Persian composer, conductor and teacher (Sarbaz; Plectrum Orchestra), dies of Alzheimer complications at 92

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