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