Template:On this day/August 15

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

August 15:

• 1842 – John Patten Emmet, first professor of Natural History at the University of Virginia, appointed by Thomas Jefferson, died in New York at age 47, shortly after returning from Florida on a ship lost at sea for over a month.
• 1865 – Mosby Monroe Parsons, Charlottesville-born U.S. officer in the Mexican–American War and Confederate brigadier general, was killed by bandits in Nuevo León, Mexico (aged 43).
• 2015 – Julian Bond, civil rights leader and University of Virginia professor emeritus, died in Florida after a brief illness (aged 75).