deaths
August 16, 1959
William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (born 1882)
William Halsey Jr.
William Frederick "Bull" Halsey Jr. was an American Navy admiral during World War II. He is one of four officers to have attained the rank of five-star fleet admiral of the United States Navy, the others being William Leahy, Ernest J. King, and Chester W. Nimitz.