History Births on September 15

Martina Krupi?ková, Czech painter

#Martina_Krupi?ková

Heda Margolius Kovály, Czech author and translator (d. 2010)

#Heda_Margolius_Kovály

Jessye Norman, American soprano

#Jessye_Norman

Luke Hochevar, American baseball player

#Luke_Hochevar

Wayne Ferreira, South African tennis player

#Wayne_Ferreira

Željka Antunovi?, Croatian politician, 9th Croatian Minister of Defence

#Željka_Antunovi?

Creighton Abrams, American general (d. 1974)

#Creighton_Abrams

William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)

#William_Howard_Taft

Genki Horiguchi, Japanese wrestler

#Genki_Horiguchi

Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor and educator (d. 1962)

#Silpa_Bhirasri

Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Portuguese poet and author (d. 1805)

#Manuel_Maria_Barbosa_du_Bocage

Clare Maguire, English singer-songwriter

#Clare_Maguire

Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)

#Umberto_II_of_Italy

Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian journalist and author (d. 1999)

#Adolfo_Bioy_Casares

Oliver Stone, American director, screenwriter, and producer

#Oliver_Stone

Gaylord Perry, American baseball player and coach

#Gaylord_Perry

Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player

#Patrick_Marleau

Jan Ernst Matzeliger, Surinamese-American inventor (d. 1889)

#Jan_Ernst_Matzeliger

Josh Charles, American actor and director

#Josh_Charles

Nana Owada, Japanese idol, singer, and actress

#Nana_Owada

Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2011)

#Flórián_Albert

Magda Lupescu, mistress and later wife of King Carol II of Romania (d.1977)

#Magda_Lupescu

Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general (d. 1824)

#Bogislav_Friedrich_Emanuel_von_Tauentzien

Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1971)

#Paul_Lévy_(mathematician)

Bruce Reitherman, American voice actor, singer, cinematographer, and producer

#Bruce_Reitherman

J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and author (d. 1936)

#J._Slauerhoff

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

#Prince_Harry,_Duke_of_Sussex

Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (d. 2004)

#Fay_Wray

Luther Terry, American physician and academic, 9th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 1985)

#Luther_Terry

Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (d. 2005)

#Nipsey_Russell

C. N. Annadurai, Indian educator and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1969)

#C._N._Annadurai

Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (d. 1916)

#Charles_de_Foucauld

Signe Toly Anderson, American rock singer (d. 2016)

#Signe_Toly_Anderson

Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer

#Eiður_Guðjohnsen

Mark Kirk, American commander, lawyer, and politician

#Mark_Kirk

Jae Park, South Korean-American singer (Day6)

#Jae_Park

Mary Soames, English author (d. 2014)

#Mary_Soames

Mordechai Tzipori, Israeli politician and soldier (d. 2017)

#Mordechai_Tzipori

M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer, scholar, and Bharat Ratna Laureate, Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom (d. 1962)

#M._Visvesvaraya

Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 1992)

#Roy_Acuff

Carlos Dávila, Chilean journalist and politician, President of Chile (d. 1955)

#Carlos_Dávila

Queen Letizia of Spain

#Queen_Letizia_of_Spain

Rudolf Anderson, pilot and commissioned officer in the United States Air Force (d. 1962)

#Rudolf_Anderson

Gaetano Cozzi, Italian historian and academic (d. 2001)

#Gaetano_Cozzi

Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (d. 2005)

#Wendie_Jo_Sperber

Lee Jung-shin, South Korean rapper and bass player

#Lee_Jung-shin

Lucebert, Dutch poet and painter (d. 1994)

#Lucebert

François de La Rochefoucauld, French soldier and author (d. 1680)

#François_de_La_Rochefoucauld_(writer)

Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1975)

#Cannonball_Adderley

Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French general and engineer (d. 1789)

#Jean-Baptiste_Vaquette_de_Gribeauval

Dave Annable, American actor

#Dave_Annable

Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian journalist and composer (d. 1868)

#Halfdan_Kjerulf

Jakob Ehrlich, Czech-Austrian politician (d. 1938)

#Jakob_Ehrlich

George Franklin Grant, African-American educator, dentist, and inventor (d. 1910)

#George_Franklin_Grant

Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)

#Murray_Gell-Mann

Pete Carroll, American football player and coach

#Pete_Carroll

Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed Bailey bridge (d. 1985)

#Donald_Bailey_(civil_engineer)

Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player

#Ashley_Cooper_(tennis)

Tom Hardy, English actor

#Tom_Hardy

Pete Myers, American basketball player and coach

#Pete_Myers

Mauro Piacenza, Italian cardinal

#Mauro_Piacenza

Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (d. 2012)

#Carlo_Rambaldi

Howard Waldrop, American author and critic

#Howard_Waldrop

Ben Wallers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

#Ben_Wallers

Miros?aw Hermaszewski, Polish general, pilot, and astronaut

#Miros?aw_Hermaszewski

Rhett Titus, American wrestler

#Rhett_Titus

Antonio Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1925)

#Antonio_Ascari

Cyhi the Prynce, American rapper and producer

#Cyhi_the_Prynce

Jen? Hubay, Hungarian violinist, composer, and educator (d. 1937)

#Jen?_Hubay

Tommy Lee Jones, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

#Tommy_Lee_Jones

Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Pakistani-English caliph and scholar

#Mirza_Masroor_Ahmad

George Watsky, American hip-hop artist, poet and author

#George_Watsky

Bruno Hoffmann, German glass harp player (d. 1991)

#Bruno_Hoffmann

Ned Rothenberg, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer

#Ned_Rothenberg

Bruno Walter, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1962)

#Bruno_Walter

Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland, Swedish prince

#Prince_Daniel,_Duke_of_Västergötland

Frank Martin, Swiss-Dutch pianist and composer (d. 1974)

#Frank_Martin_(composer)

Brett Kimmorley, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

#Brett_Kimmorley

Tim Moltzen, Australian rugby league player

#Tim_Moltzen

Norm Crosby, American comedian and actor

#Norm_Crosby

Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, archbishop of Fermo (d. 1653)

#Giovanni_Battista_Rinuccini

Penny Singleton, American actress and singer (d. 2003)

#Penny_Singleton

Viktor Zubkov, Russian businessman and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Russia

#Viktor_Zubkov

Prince Sigismund of Prussia (d. 1866)

#Prince_Sigismund_of_Prussia_(1864-1866)

Bobby Short, American singer and pianist (d. 2005)

#Bobby_Short

Phil Arnold, American actor (d. 1968)

#Phil_Arnold

Joel Quenneville, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

#Joel_Quenneville

Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, American guitarist and songwriter

#Doyle_Wolfgang_von_Frankenstein

Lee Dorman, American bass player (d. 2012)

#Lee_Dorman

Fernando de la Rúa, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (d. 2019)

#Fernando_de_la_Rúa

Alexander Butlerov, Russian chemist and academic (d. 1886)

#Alexander_Butlerov

Abdul Qadir, Pakistani cricketer (d. 2019)

#Abdul_Qadir_(cricketer)

Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer and manager

#Johan_Neeskens

Claude McKay, Jamaican-American poet and author (d. 1948)

#Claude_McKay

Terry Lamb, Australian rugby league player and coach

#Terry_Lamb

Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1572)

#Catherine_of_Austria,_Queen_of_Poland

Theodore Long, American wrestling referee and manager

#Theodore_Long

Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1977)

#Oskar_Klein

Arata Iura, Japanese actor, model, and fashion designer

#Arata_Iura

Subramanian Swamy, Indian economist, academic, and politician, Indian Minister of Law and Justice

#Subramanian_Swamy

Eva Burrows, Australian 13th General of The Salvation Army (d. 2015)

#Eva_Burrows

Cornelio Saavedra, Argentinean general and politician (d. 1829)

#Cornelio_Saavedra

Saich?, Japanese monk (d. 822)

#Saich?

Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter

#Angela_Aki

Dinkha IV, Iraqi patriarch (d. 2015)

#Dinkha_IV

Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French businessman, founded Bugatti (d. 1947)

#Ettore_Bugatti

Tomie dePaola, American author and illustrator

#Tomie_dePaola

Joe Barton, American lawyer and politician

#Joe_Barton

Jenna Marbles, American YouTuber and comedian

#Jenna_Marbles

Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham, English businessman and politician

#Philip_Harris,_Baron_Harris_of_Peckham

Fred Seibert, owner of Nickelodeon and Frederator Studios

#Fred_Seibert

Jason Terry, American basketball player

#Jason_Terry

Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricketer and coach

#Nathan_Astle

Dan Marino, American football player and sportscaster

#Dan_Marino

Paul Abbott, American baseball player and coach

#Paul_Abbott_(baseball)

Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726)

#Sophia_Dorothea_of_Celle

Kelly Keagy, American singer and drummer

#Kelly_Keagy

Helle Virkner, Danish actress and singer (d. 2009)

#Helle_Virkner

Al Casey, American guitarist and composer (d. 2005)

#Al_Casey_(jazz_guitarist)

Carmen Maura, Spanish actress

#Carmen_Maura

Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (d. 1994)

#Johannes_Steinhoff

Yente Serdatzky, Lithuanian-American author and playwright (d. 1962)

#Yente_Serdatzky

Robert Fico, Slovak academic and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Slovakia

#Robert_Fico

Michael Cooper, English rugby league player

#Michael_Cooper_(rugby_league)

Joseph Lyons, Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)

#Joseph_Lyons

Chic Harley, American football player (d. 1974)

#Chic_Harley

Titus Oates, English minister, fabricated the Popish Plot (d. 1705)

#Titus_Oates

David Diehl, American football player and sportscaster

#David_Diehl

Joe Ofahengaue, New Zealand-Tongan rugby league player

#Joe_Ofahengaue

Edward Bouchet, American physicist and educator (d. 1918)

#Edward_Bouchet

Ksenia Milicevic, French painter and architect

#Ksenia_Milicevic

Mary of Hungary, Dutch ruler (d. 1558)

#Mary_of_Hungary_(governor_of_the_Netherlands)

Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian (d. 1902)

#Cyprien_Tanguay

Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (d. 1915)

#Porfirio_Díaz

Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer

#Paul_Thomson

Matt Thornton, American baseball player

#Matt_Thornton_(baseball)

John N. Mitchell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 67th United States Attorney General (d. 1988)

#John_N._Mitchell

Aly Cissokho, French footballer

#Aly_Cissokho

Hans-Gert Pöttering, German lawyer and politician, 23rd President of the European Parliament

#Hans-Gert_Pöttering

Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (d. 1793)

#Jean_Sylvain_Bailly

Horatio Parker, American organist, composer, and educator (d. 1919)

#Horatio_Parker

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian novelist, essayist, and short story writer

#Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie

Helen Margetts, British political scientist

#Helen_Margetts

Mike Dunleavy Jr., American basketball player

#Mike_Dunleavy_Jr.

Aaron Mooy, Australian footballer

#Aaron_Mooy

Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1976)

#Agatha_Christie

Sonja Branting-Westerståhl, Swedish lawyer (d. 1981)

#Sonja_Branting-Westerståhl

Ali, first Shia Imam (d. 661)

#Ali

Al-Ma'mun, Iraqi caliph (d. 833)

#Al-Ma'mun

Jacopo Salviati, Italian politician (d. 1553)

#Jacopo_Salviati

Zach Filkins, American guitarist

#Zach_Filkins

Kid Sheik, American trumpet player (d. 1996)

#Kid_Sheik

James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian (d. 1851)

#James_Fenimore_Cooper

Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist and soldier (d. 1960)

#Fausto_Coppi

Phil Lamason, New Zealand soldier and pilot (d. 2012)

#Phil_Lamason

Leander Jordan, American football player

#Leander_Jordan

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali novelist (d. 1938)

#Sarat_Chandra_Chattopadhyay

Phil Ofosu-Ayeh, German-Ghanaian footballer

#Phil_Ofosu-Ayeh

Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan footballer

#Carlos_Ruiz_(Guatemalan_footballer)

Ross J. Anderson, British academic and educator

#Ross_J._Anderson

Graham Taylor, English footballer and manager (d. 2017)

#Graham_Taylor

Allen Shellenberger, American drummer (d. 2009)

#Allen_Shellenberger

Robert Lucas Jr., American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

#Robert_Lucas_Jr.

Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian general (d. 1920)

#Vladimir_May-Mayevsky

Erika Köth, German soprano (d. 1981)

#Erika_Köth

Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician and academic

#Jean-Pierre_Serre

Jackie Cooper, American actor (d. 2011)

#Jackie_Cooper

Loek van Mil, Dutch baseball player (d. 2019)

#Loek_van_Mil

Frederick C. Weyand, American general (d. 2010)

#Frederick_C._Weyand

Robert Benchley, American humorist, newspaper columnist, and actor (d. 1945)

#Robert_Benchley

György Lázár, Hungarian politician, 50th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2014)

#György_Lázár

Margot Loyola, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)

#Margot_Loyola

Nao Furuhata, Japanese idol and singer

Oliver Gill, English footballer

François-Olivier Roberge, Canadian speed skater

Yuka Hirata, Japanese actress and model

Reece Young, New Zealand cricketer

Sophie Dahl, English model and author

Tom Dolan, American swimmer

Lady Victoria, American wrestler

Jimmy Carr, English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter

Corby Davidson, American radio personality

Revaz Arveladze, Georgian footballer

Rodney Eyles, Australian squash player

Sherman Douglas, American basketball player

Wenn V. Deramas, Filipino director and screenwriter (d. 2016)

Steve Watkin, Welsh cricketer

Stephen C. Spiteri, Maltese military historian

Amanda Wakeley, English fashion designer

Patrick Patterson, Jamaican cricketer

Ed Solomon, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Maggie Reilly, Scottish singer-songwriter

Renzo Rosso, Italian fashion designer and businessman, co-founded Diesel Clothing

Hrant Dink, Turkish journalist (d. 2007)

Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (d. 1988)

Keiko Takeshita, Japanese actress

Ratnajeevan Hoole, Sri Lankan engineer and academic

Paula Duncan, Australian actress

Richard Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

Rajiv Malhotra, Indian author

Diane E. Levin, American educator and author

Viggo Jensen, Danish footballer and manager

Mike Procter, South African cricketer, coach, and referee

Ron Shelton, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Yuriy Norshteyn, Russian animator, director, and screenwriter

Merlin Olsen, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2010)

George Walden, English journalist and politician

Pino Puglisi, Italian priest and martyr (d. 1993)

King Curtis Iaukea, American wrestler (d. 2010)

Joey Carew, Trinidadian cricketer (d. 2011)

Sara Henderson, Australian farmer and author (d. 2005)

Fred Nile, Australian soldier, minister, and politician

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor and composer (d. 2014)

Neil Bartlett, English-American chemist and academic (d. 2008)

Brian Henderson, New Zealand-Australian journalist, actor, and producer

Endel Lippmaa, Estonian physicist and academic (d. 2015)

Mümtaz Soysal, Turkish academic and politician, 30th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs

Wilbur Snyder, American football player and wrestler (d. 1991)

John Julius Norwich, English historian and author (d. 2018)

Dick Latessa, American actor (d. 2016)

Stan Kelly-Bootle, English singer-songwriter, computer scientist, and author (d. 2014)

David Stove, Australian philosopher and academic (d. 1994)

Shohei Imamura, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)

Stanley Chapman, English architect and author (d. 2009)

Anton Heiller, Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1979)

Bob Anderson, English fencer and choreographer (d. 2012)

Gene Roland, American pianist and composer (d. 1982)

Richard Gordon, English surgeon and author (d. 2017)

Kym Bonython, Australian race car driver, drummer, and radio host (d. 2011)

Nelson Gidding, American author and screenwriter (d. 2004)

Alfred D. Chandler Jr., American historian and academic (d. 2007)

Hilde Gueden, Austrian soprano (d. 1988)

Margaret Lockwood, Pakistani-English actress (d. 1990)

Albert Whitlock, English-American special effects designer (d. 1999)

Fawn M. Brodie, American historian and author (d. 1981)

Robert McCloskey, American author and illustrator (d. 2003)

Orhan Kemal, Turkish author (d. 1970)

Henry Brant, Canadian-American composer and conductor (d. 2008)

Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American businessman, founded PING (d. 2000)

Betty Neels, English nurse and author (d. 2001)

Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and author (d. 1968)

Walter E. Rollins, American songwriter (d. 1973)

Jacques Becker, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1960)

Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American actress, journalist, and author (d. 1988)

Merle Curti, American historian and author (d. 1997)

Jean Renoir, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1979)

Ernest Bullock, English organist and composer (d. 1979)

Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)

Anna Winlock, American astronomer and academic (d. 1904)

Ignazio Prota, Italian composer and educator (d. 1748)

Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer and author (d. 1659)