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[spoiler]Approximately 149,227 people died worldwide on July 15, 1993.
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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 Bolańo, 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
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