deaths
August 15, 1981
Carol Ryrie Brink, American author (born 1895)

Carol Ryrie Brink
Carol Ryrie Brink was an American writer of over thirty juvenile and adult books. Her novel Caddie Woodlawn won the 1936 Newbery Medal and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.
August 15
August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 138 days remain until the end of the year.