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Events on Tuesday 15 October 1946 1
1893 – 1946Hermann Goering (1893-1946)Died 15 October 1946, aged 53Goering was Adolf Hitler's designated successor and commander of the Luftwaffe, convicted at Nuremberg of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He took a smuggled cyanide capsule in his cell hours before his scheduled execution.