Today in History
15 July
245 births · 113 deaths · 55 events recorded
Notable Births
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Iain Armitage
b. 2008
American actor (born 2008)
JuJu Watkins
b. 2005
American basketball player (born 2005)
Mohamed Sobhy (footballer, born 1999)
b. 1999
Egyptian footballer
Noah Gragson
b. 1998
American racing driver (born 1998)
Jil Teichmann
b. 1997
Swiss tennis player (born 1997)
Brenda Milner
b. 1918
British-Canadian neuroscientist and neuropsychologist (born 1918)
Wharton Esherick
b. 1887
American sculptor, woodworker (1887–1970)
Inigo Jones
b. 1573
English architect (1573–1652)
Notable Deaths
All 113 ›
Peter R. de Vries
d. 2021
Dutch investigative journalist and reporter (1956–2021)
Martin Landau
d. 2017
American actor (1928–2017)
Wan Li
d. 2015
Chinese Communist Party leader (1916–2015)
Aubrey Morris
d. 2015
British actor (1926–2015)
Óscar Acosta
d. 2014
Honduran writer, poet, critic, politician and diplomat
Edward Perl
d. 2014
American neuroscientist
Robert A. Roe
d. 2014
American politician (1924–2014)
Rudolf I of Germany
d. 1291
King of Germany from 1273 to 1291
On This Day in History
All 55 ›
2018
France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4–2.
France national football team
2016
Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.
Turkish Armed Forces
2014
A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
2014 Moscow Metro derailment
2012
South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style.
Psy
2009
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168.
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908
2009
Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module.
Space Shuttle program
2006
Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
X (social network)
2003
AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
WarnerMedia