[align=center][b]149,227 people died worldwide.... wen i was brought in to dis world...[/b] [spoiler]Approximately 149,227 people died worldwide on July 15, 1993. If you want to share this number, copy and paste the HTML CODE* below to display it on your own website, blog, or profile. People who died on July 15 (the exact day you were born) David Brian, American actor Unusual Deaths in 1993 Brandon lee, son of bruce lee, was shot and killed by a prop .44 magnum gun while filming the movie the crow. a cartridge with only a primer and a bullet was fired in the pistol prior to the scene brandon was in; this caused a squib load, in which the primer provided enough force to push the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel of the revolver, where it became stuck. the malfunction went unnoticed by the crew, and the same gun was used again later to shoot the death scene, having been re-loaded with blanks. however, the squib load was still lodged in the barrel, and was propelled by the blank cartridge's explosion out of the barrel and into lee's body. although the bullet was traveling much slower than a normally fired bullet would be, the bullet's large size and the nearly point-blank firing distance made it powerful enough to severely wound lee. it was not instantly recognized by the crew or other actors; they believed he was still acting. interestingly, the incident was almost an exact replica of a scene in his father bruce lee's last film "game of death", during the filming of which bruce lee also died. even more bizarrely yet; the plot of game of death revolved around bruce lee's character, a kung-fu actor, faking his own death - by pretending to have been hit by an accidentally fired real bullet while filming a scene where hundreds of blanks were fired at him. Garry hoy, a toronto lawyer, fell to his death after he threw himself through the glass wall on the 24th floor of the toronto-dominion centre in order to prove the glass was "unbreakable." Natural disasters in 1993 Great Flood of 1993 Storm of the Century (1993) Virginia Tornado Outbreak People who died on July 15 (various years) 2006 - Robert H. Brooks, founder of Hooters of America 2003 - Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa and famous Afro-Cuban vocalist 2003 - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager 2003 - Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer 2000 - Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone 1997 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer 1996 - Dana Hill, American actress 1992 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru 1992 - Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijan's most noted journalist 1991 - Bert Convy, American actor 1990 - Margaret Lockwood, British actress 1989 - Laurie Cunningham, English footballer 1986 - Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer 1982 - Bill Justis, American musician and producer 1979 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of Mexico 1974 - Christine Chubbuck, television news reporter (b.1944) 1965 - Francis Cherry, American politician 1961 - John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician 1960 - Set Persson, Swedish communist politician 1960 - Lawrence Tibbett, American actor 1959 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer 1958 - Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon 1957 - Vasily Maklakov, Russian orator and liberal politician 1957 - James M. Cox, American politician 1948 - John J. Pershing, U.S. general 1947 - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter 1946 - Razor Smith, English cricketer 1944 - Marie-Victorin, French Canadian Christian Brother and botanist 1940 - Robert Wadlow, American--at 8 ft. 11.1 in, the tallest human ever known 1933 - Freddie Keppard, American musician 1933 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic 1932 - Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, Foremost promoters 1931 - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist 1930 - Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer 1929 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer 1919 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate 1904 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer 1898 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1825) 1890 - Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer 1857 - Carl Czerny, Austrian composer 1844 - Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian 1839 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet 1828 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor 1789 - Jacques Duphly, French composer 1767 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet 1765 - Charles-André van Loo, French painter 1750 - Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman 1685 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of England 1655 - Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect 1614 - Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer 1609 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter 1571 - Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord 1544 - René of Châlon, Prince of the House of Orange 1410 - Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (killed in battle) 1406 - Duke William of Austria 1381 - John Ball, English priest 1291 - Rudolph I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor 1274 - Bonaventure, Italian theologian and saint 1262 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier 1085 - Robert Guiscard, French adventurer 518 - Roman Emperor Anastasius I [/spoiler][/align]