History Births on April 15
Willie Mason, New Zealand-Australian rugby league player
#Willie_Mason
Samantha Fox, English singer-songwriter and actress
#Samantha_Fox
Joice Mujuru, Zimbabwean politician
#Joice_Mujuru
Willie Davis, American baseball player and actor (d. 2010)
#Willie_Davis_(baseball)
Brian Pothier, American ice hockey player
#Brian_Pothier
Billy Yates, American football player
#Billy_Yates_(American_football)
Walt Hazzard, American basketball player and coach (d. 2011)
#Walt_Hazzard
Matt Cardle, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
#Matt_Cardle
Howard Berman, American lawyer and politician
#Howard_Berman
Raül López, Spanish basketball player
#Raül_López
Christopher Brown, English historian, curator, and academic
#Christopher_Brown_(museum_director)
Stanley Bruce, Australian captain and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
#Stanley_Bruce
Sarah Teichmann, German-American biophysicist and immunologist
#Sarah_Teichmann
Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995)
#Lita_Grey
Antonio Cromartie, American football player
#Antonio_Cromartie
Denis Shapovalov, Canadian tennis player
#Denis_Shapovalov
Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
#Ilya_Kovalchuk
Elizabeth Catlett, African-American sculptor and illustrator (d. 2012)
#Elizabeth_Catlett
Phil Mogg, English singer-songwriter and musician (UFO)
#Phil_Mogg
Tom Kane, American voice actor
#Tom_Kane
Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet and critic (d. 1921)
#Nikolay_Gumilyov
John L. Phillips, American captain and astronaut
#John_L._Phillips
Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982)
#Hans_Conried
Anthony Green, American singer-songwriter
#Anthony_Green_(musician)
Seth Rogen, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
#Seth_Rogen
Kim Min-kyo, South Korean actor and director
#Kim_Min-kyo
Richard von Weizsäcker, German soldier and politician, 6th President of Germany (d. 2015)
#Richard_von_Weizsäcker
Chris Tillman, American baseball pitcher
#Chris_Tillman
Theo Osterkamp, German general and pilot (d. 1975)
#Theo_Osterkamp
Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
#Catherine_I_of_Russia
Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician and geographer (d. 1722)
#Robert_Sibbald
Lee Kernaghan, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
#Lee_Kernaghan
Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
#Nikolay_Semyonov
Nikita Khrushchev, Russian general and politician, 7th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971)
#Nikita_Khrushchev
Wilhelm Busch, German poet, painter, and illustrator (d. 1908)
#Wilhelm_Busch
John Lloyd, Scottish journalist and author
#John_Lloyd_(journalist)
Patrick Carney, American drummer, musician, and producer (The Black Keys)
#Patrick_Carney
Bessie Smith, African-American singer and actress (d. 1937)
#Bessie_Smith
Pedro Delgado, Spanish cyclist and sportscaster
#Pedro_Delgado
Claudia Cardinale, Italian actress
#Claudia_Cardinale
Heloise, American journalist and author
#Heloise_(columnist)
Bliss Carman, Canadian-British poet and playwright (d. 1929)
#Bliss_Carman
Robert Lacroix, Canadian economist and academic
#Robert_Lacroix
Jimmy Waite, Canadian-German ice hockey player and coach
#Jimmy_Waite
Guru Nanak, the first Sikh guru (d. 1539)
#Guru_Nanak
Dara Torres, American swimmer and journalist
#Dara_Torres
Arturo Gatti, Italian-Canadian boxer (d. 2009)
#Arturo_Gatti
Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (d. 1917)
#Émile_Durkheim
William Champ, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Tasmania (d. 1892)
#William_Champ
Josiane Balasko, French actress, director, and screenwriter
#Josiane_Balasko
Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer
#Dudu_Cearense
Dzhokhar Dudayev, Russian-Chechen general and politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (d. 1996)
#Dzhokhar_Dudayev
Mott Green, American businessman (d. 2013)
#Mott_Green
Hermann Grassmann, German linguist and mathematician (d. 1877)
#Hermann_Grassmann
Ed O'Brien, English guitarist
#Ed_O'Brien
Marty Wilde, English singer-songwriter and actor
#Marty_Wilde
William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1790)
#William_Cullen
Sudarsan Pattnaik, Indian sculptor
#Sudarsan_Pattnaik
Danny Pino, American actor and screenwriter
#Danny_Pino
Pete Rouse, American politician, White House Chief of Staff
#Pete_Rouse
Angelo DiGeorge, American physician and endocrinologist (d. 2009)
#Angelo_DiGeorge
Robert Lefkowitz, American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
#Robert_Lefkowitz
Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet, translator, and psychologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
#Tomas_Tranströmer
Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1783)
#Leonhard_Euler
James Kee, American lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
#James_Kee
Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. 1626)
#Pietro_Cataldi
Susanne Bier, Danish director and screenwriter
#Susanne_Bier
Emma Watson, English actress
#Emma_Watson
Fruit Chan, Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter
#Fruit_Chan
James J. Jeffries, American boxer and promoter (d. 1953)
#James_J._Jeffries
Maisie Williams, English actress
#Maisie_Williams
René Pleven, French businessman and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1993)
#René_Pleven
Francis X. DiLorenzo, American bishop (d. 2017)
#Francis_X._DiLorenzo
Harry Edward, Guyanese-English sprinter (d. 1973)
#Harry_Edward
Claudius Salmasius, French author and scholar (d. 1653)
#Claudius_Salmasius
Roy Clark, American musician and television personality (d. 2018)
#Roy_Clark
Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker player (d. 1980)
#Clark_McConachy
Ryan Hamilton, Canadian ice hockey player
#Ryan_Hamilton
James Foster, English cricketer
#James_Foster_(cricketer,_born_1980)
James Clark Ross, English captain and explorer (d. 1862)
#James_Clark_Ross
Luis Fonsi, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and dancer
#Luis_Fonsi
Hso Khan Pha, Burmese-Canadian geologist and politician (d. 2016)
#Hso_Khan_Pha
Karel Kroupa, Czech football player
#Karel_Kroupa
Leander Dendoncker, Belgian footballer
#Leander_Dendoncker
Robert Walser, Swiss author and playwright (d. 1956)
#Robert_Walser_(writer)
Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1329)
#Frederick_IV,_Duke_of_Lorraine
Milton Bradley, American baseball player
#Milton_Bradley_(baseball)
Kevin Lowe, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
#Kevin_Lowe
Martin Pedersen, Danish cyclist
#Martin_Pedersen_(cyclist)
Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982)
#Alfred_S._Bloomingdale
John Williams, English-American actor (d. 1983)
#John_Williams_(actor)
Sylvain Marveaux, French footballer
#Sylvain_Marveaux
Blake Ayshford, Australian rugby league player
#Blake_Ayshford
Joe Davis, English snooker player (d. 1978)
#Joe_Davis
Miguel Najdorf, Polish-Argentinian chess player and theoretician (d. 1997)
#Miguel_Najdorf
Frankie Poullain, Scottish bass player and songwriter
#Frankie_Poullain
Steve Williams, English rower
#Steve_Williams_(rower)
Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (d. 1914)
#Ida_Freund
Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
#Alice_Braga
Henry IV of England (d. 1413)
#Henry_IV_of_England
Linda Perry, American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer (4 Non Blondes)
#Linda_Perry
Benjamin Zephaniah, English actor, author, poet, and playwright
#Benjamin_Zephaniah
Nawal El Moutawakel, Moroccan athlete and politician
#Nawal_El_Moutawakel
Maximilian Kronberger, German poet and author (d. 1904)
#Maximilian_Kronberger
Jeromy Burnitz, American baseball player
#Jeromy_Burnitz
Mike Quinn, American football player
#Mike_Quinn
Carol W. Greider, American molecular biologist
#Carol_W._Greider
Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (d. 2012)
#Thomas_Szasz
Brian Muir, English sculptor and set designer
#Brian_Muir_(sculptor)
Charles Willson Peale, American painter and soldier (d. 1827)
#Charles_Willson_Peale
Steven Defour, Belgian footballer
#Steven_Defour
Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish nurse and politician, Swedish Minister for Social Security
#Cristina_Husmark_Pehrsson
K?stutis Šeštokas, Lithuanian basketball player
#K?stutis_Šeštokas
A. Philip Randolph, American activist (d. 1979)
#A._Philip_Randolph
Georgy Beregovoy, Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1995)
#Georgy_Beregovoy
Gaius Maecenas, Roman politician (d. 8 BC)
#Gaius_Maecenas
Daniel Paille, Canadian ice hockey player
#Daniel_Paille
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Icelandic educator and politician, 4th President of Iceland
#Vigdís_Finnbogadóttir
David Hamilton, English-French photographer and director (d. 2016)
#David_Hamilton_(photographer)
Alberto Breccia, Uruguayan-Argentinian author and illustrator (d. 1993)
#Alberto_Breccia
Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer-songwriter and actress
#Alla_Pugacheva
Kim Il-sung, North Korean general and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of North Korea (d. 1994)
#Kim_Il-sung
Sulo Bärlund, Finnish shot putter (d. 1986)
#Sulo_Bärlund
Marsha Ivins, American engineer and astronaut
#Marsha_Ivins
Avital Ronell, Czech-American philosopher and academic
#Avital_Ronell
Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress and producer (d. 1995)
#Elizabeth_Montgomery
Francesco Maria Brancaccio, Catholic cardinal (d. 1675)
#Francesco_Maria_Brancaccio
Dawn Wright, American geographer and oceanographer
#Dawn_Wright
Georg Kolbe, German sculptor (d. 1947)
#Georg_Kolbe
Jeffrey Archer, English author, playwright, and politician
#Jeffrey_Archer
Woolly Wolstenholme, English singer and keyboard player (d. 2010)
#Woolly_Wolstenholme
Neville Marriner, English violinist and conductor (d. 2016)
#Neville_Marriner
Keith Acton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
#Keith_Acton
Johann Friedrich Fasch, German violinist and composer (d. 1758)
#Johann_Friedrich_Fasch
Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)
#Christian_V_of_Denmark
Emma Thompson, English actress, comedian, author, activist and screenwriter
#Emma_Thompson
Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
#Johannes_Stark
Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (d. 1999)
#Robert_Mills_(physicist)
Tom Heaton, English footballer
#Tom_Heaton
Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1948)
#Arshile_Gorky
Jean Moréas, Greek poet and critic (d. 1910)
#Jean_Moréas
Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
#Nikolaas_Tinbergen
Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist
#Raymond_Poulidor
Penelope Coelen, South African actress, model, beauty queen and 1958 Miss World
#Penelope_Coelen
Karl Turner, English lawyer and politician
#Karl_Turner_(British_politician)
Michael Aubrey, American baseball player
#Michael_Aubrey
Harold Washington, American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (d. 1987)
#Harold_Washington
Andrés D'Alessandro, Argentinian footballer
#Andrés_D'Alessandro
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French biologist and zoologist (d. 1844)
#Étienne_Geoffroy_Saint-Hilaire
Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and educator (d. 1975)
#Thomas_Hart_Benton_(painter)
Tim Corcoran, American baseball player
#Tim_Corcoran_(pitcher)
Tim Thomas, American ice hockey player
#Tim_Thomas_(ice_hockey)
David Omand, English civil servant and academic
#David_Omand
William Forgan Smith, Scottish-Australian politician, 24th Premier of Queensland (d. 1953)
#William_Forgan_Smith
Chris Stapleton, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
#Chris_Stapleton
Henry James, American novelist, short story writer, and critic (d. 1916)
#Henry_James
Aida Mollenkamp, American chef and author
#Aida_Mollenkamp
Dave Edmunds, Welsh singer, guitarist, and producer
#Dave_Edmunds
Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player
#Cam_Janssen
Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (d. 1519)
#Leonardo_da_Vinci
Kenneth Bloomfield, Northern Irish civil servant
#Kenneth_Bloomfield
Manoj Prabhakar, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
#Manoj_Prabhakar
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer and academic (d. 1864)
#Friedrich_Georg_Wilhelm_von_Struve
Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)
#Tadeusz_Kutrzeba
William Crowther, Dutch-Australian politician, 14th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1885)
#William_Crowther_(Australian_politician)
Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006)
#Kenneth_Lay
Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor (d. 2013)
#Michael_Ansara
Michael Cooper, American basketball player and coach
#Michael_Cooper
Jean Danjou, French captain (d. 1863)
#Jean_Danjou
Nicolas Chopin, French-Polish educator (d. 1844)
#Nicolas_Chopin