Births on 15 April
2000s
Izan Merino
2006
Spanish footballer (born 2006)
MatÃas Soulé
2003
Argentine footballer (born 2003)
Shanti Dope
2001
Filipino rapper
1900s
Denis Shapovalov
1999
Canadian tennis player (born 1999)
Sexyy Red
1998
American rapper (born 1998)
Ashleigh Gardner
1997
Australian cricketer
Sam Hughes (footballer)
1997
English footballer (born 1997)
Maisie Williams
1997
British actress (born 1997)
Leander Dendoncker
1995
Belgian footballer (born 1995)
Brodie Grundy
1994
Australian rules footballer
Shaunae Miller-Uibo
1994
Bahamian sprinter (born 1994)
Felipe Anderson
1993
Brazilian footballer (born 1993)
Remo Freuler
1992
Swiss footballer (born 1992)
John Guidetti
1992
Swedish footballer (born 1992)
Jeremy McGovern
1992
Former Australian rules footballer (born 1992)
Daiki Arioka
1991
Japanese singer, actor, tarento and model (born 1991)
Javier Fernández (figure skater)
1991
Spanish figure skater
Emma Watson
1990
English actress (born 1990)
Darren Nicholls
1989
Australian rugby league footballer
Blake Ayshford
1988
Australian rugby league footballer
Steven Defour
1988
Belgian footballer and manager (born 1988)
Chris Tillman
1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
Tom Heaton
1986
English footballer (born 1986)
Sylvain Marveaux
1986
French footballer (born 1986)
Ryan Hamilton (ice hockey)
1985
Canadian ice hockey player
Antonio Cromartie
1984
American football player (born 1984)
Cam Janssen
1984
American ice hockey player
Daniel Paille
1984
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1984)
Alice Braga
1983
Brazilian actress and producer (born 1983)
Matt Cardle
1983
English singer
Dudu Cearense
1983
Brazilian footballer (born 1983)
Andreas Fransson
1983
Swedish extreme skier
Ilya Kovalchuk
1983
Russian ice hockey player (born 1983)
Martin Pedersen (cyclist)
1983
Danish cyclist
Michael Aubrey
1982
American baseball player (born 1982)
Anthony Green (musician)
1982
American singer (born 1982)
Albert Riera
1982
Spanish football manager (born 1982)
Seth Rogen
1982
Canadian actor, comedian, and filmmaker (born 1982)
Andrés D'Alessandro
1981
Argentine footballer
Patrick Carney
1980
American drummer (born 1980)
James Foster (cricketer, born 1980)
1980
English cricketer and cricket coach
Raül López (basketball)
1980
Spanish basketball player (born 1980)
Willie Mason
1980
Former professional rugby league footballer
Billy Yates (American football)
1980
American football player and coach (born 1980)
Luke Evans
1979
Welsh actor and singer (born 1979)
Milton Bradley (baseball)
1978
American baseball player (born 1978)
Tim Corcoran (pitcher)
1978
American baseball player (born 1978)
Luis Fonsi
1978
Puerto Rican singer (born 1978)
Chris Stapleton
1978
American singer-songwriter (born 1978)
Sudarsan Pattnaik
1977
Indian Sand Artist
Brian Pothier
1977
American ice hockey player (born 1977)
Jason Bonsignore
1976
American ice hockey player (born 1976)
Darius Regelskis
1976
Lithuanian footballer
Kęstutis Šeštokas
1976
Lithuanian basketball player
Steve Williams (rower)
1976
English rower
Sarah Teichmann
1975
German bioinformatician
Kim Min-kyo
1974
South Korean actor and director
Danny Pino
1974
American actor (born 1974)
Mike Quinn
1974
American football player (born 1974)
Douglas Spain
1974
American actor
Tim Thomas (ice hockey, born 1974)
1974
American ice hockey player
Arturo Gatti
1972
Canadian boxer (1972–2009)
Lou Romano
1972
American animator and voice actor
Philippe Carbonneau
1971
France international rugby union player
Finidi George
1971
Nigerian footballer (born 1971)
Jason Sehorn
1971
American football player (born 1971)
Josia Thugwane
1971
South African long-distance runner
Karl Turner (British politician)
1971
British Labour politician
Chris Huffins
1970
American decathlete
Jeromy Burnitz
1969
American baseball player (born 1969)
Kaisa Roose
1969
Estonian conductor
Jimmy Waite
1969
Ice hockey player
Ben Clarke
1968
British Lions & England international rugby union player
Brahim Lahlafi
1968
Moroccan long-distance runner
Ed O'Brien
1968
English musician (born 1968)
Frankie Poullain
1967
Musical artist
Dara Torres
1967
American swimmer (born 1967)
Samantha Fox
1966
British singer (born 1966)
Mott Green
1966
American businessman and chocolatier
Soichi Noguchi
1965
Japanese astronaut and engineer (born 1965)
Linda Perry
1965
American singer and songwriter (born 1965)
Kevin Stevens
1965
American ice hockey player (born 1965)
André Joubert
1964
South African rugby union player
Lee Kernaghan
1964
Australian country music artist (born 1964)
Alex Crawford
1963
British journalist
Manzoor Elahi
1963
Pakistani cricketer (born 1963)
Manoj Prabhakar
1963
Indian cricketer and Coach
Nawal El Moutawakel
1962
Moroccan 1984 Olympic champion and Minister of Sports
Tom Kane
1962
Retired American voice actor (born 1962)
Neil Carmichael (English politician)
1961
British politician (born 1951)
Carol W. Greider
1961
American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate
Dawn Wright
1961
American geographer and oceanographer
Pierre Aubry
1960
Canadian ice hockey player
Susanne Bier
1960
Danish film director
Pedro Delgado
1960
Spanish cyclist (born 1960)
Tony Jones (snooker player)
1960
English snooker player
Fruit Chan
1959
Hong Kong filmmaker
Kevin Lowe
1959
Canadian ice hockey player and executive
Emma Thompson
1959
British actress and screenwriter (born 1959)
Keith Acton
1958
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1958)
John Bracewell
1958
New Zealand cricketer
Memos Ioannou
1958
Greek basketball player and coach
Benjamin Zephaniah
1958
British poet and author (1958–2023)
Evelyn Ashford
1957
American sprinter
Michael Cooper
1956
American basketball player and coach (born 1956)
Dodi Fayed
1955
Egyptian film producer (1955–1997)
Joice Mujuru
1955
Zimbabwean politician (born 1955)
Kim Gyngell
1952
Australian comedian and actor (born 1952)
Brian Muir (sculptor)
1952
British sculptor (born 1952)
Avital Ronell
1952
American philosopher (born 1952)
Glenn Shadix
1952
American actor and comedian (1952–2010)
Heloise (columnist)
1951
American writer
John L. Phillips
1951
American astronaut (born 1951)
Stuart Prebble
1951
British television executive (1951–2025)
Marsha Ivins
1951
American astronaut (born 1951)
Josiane Balasko
1950
French actress, writer, and director (born 1950)
Amy Wright
1950
American actress and former model
Karel Kroupa
1950
Czech footballer
Alla Pugacheva
1949
Russian singer (born 1949)
Craig Zadan
1949
American film producer
Christopher Brown (museum director)
1948
British art historian and academic
Michael Kamen
1948
American musician (1948–2003)
Phil Mogg
1948
British rock singer (born 1948)
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
1947
American writer and television producer (born 1947)
Martin Broughton
1947
British businessman (born 1947)
Lois Chiles
1947
American actress and model (born 1947)
David Omand
1947
British former senior civil servant (born 1947)
Cristina Husmark Pehrsson
1947
Swedish politician (born 1947)
John Lloyd (journalist)
1946
British journalist (1946)
Pete Rouse
1946
American political consultant
Dave Edmunds
1944
Welsh singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (born 1944)
Pınar Kür
1943
Turkish novelist, dramatist, and translator (1942–2025)
Robert Lefkowitz
1943
American physician and biochemist
Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater of Butterstone
1943
British life peer (1943–2022)
Hugh Thompson Jr.
1943
United States Army officer (1943–2006)
Francis X. DiLorenzo
1942
Catholic prelate
Walt Hazzard
1942
American professional basketball player and coach (1942–2011)
Kenneth Lay
1942
Founder of Enron Corporation (1942–2006)
Tim Lankester
1942
British economist
Howard Berman
1941
American politician (born 1941)
Jeffrey Archer
1940
English author and politician (born 1940)
Penelope Coelen
1940
South African actress, model and beauty queen, crowned Miss World 1958
Willie Davis (baseball)
1940
American baseball player (1940–2010)
Robert Lacroix
1940
Professor of economics
Robert Walker (actor, born 1940)
1940
American actor (1940–2019)
Marty Wilde
1939
English rock and roll singer (born 1939)
Desiré Ecaré
1939
Ivorian film director (1939–2009)
Claudia Cardinale
1938
Italian Tunisian actress (1938–2025)
Hso Khan Pha
1938
Head of the royal house of Yawnghwe
Bob Luman
1937
American country and rockabilly singer (1937–1978)
Robert W. Gore
1937
American scientist and businessman (1937–2020)
Raymond Poulidor
1936
French cyclist (1936–2019)
Stavros Paravas
1935
Greek actor
Roy Clark
1933
American singer, musician & TV host (1933–2018)
David Hamilton (photographer)
1933
British photographer and film director (1933–2016)
Elizabeth Montgomery
1933
American actress (1933–1995)
Kenneth Bloomfield
1931
Northern Irish civil servant (1931–2025)
Tomas Tranströmer
1931
Swedish poet and psychologist (1931–2015)
Georges Descrières
1930
French actor (1930–2013)
VigdÃs Finnbogadóttir
1930
President of Iceland from 1980 to 1996
Gérald Beaudoin
1929
Canadian politician
Adrian Cadbury
1929
British rower and businessman (1929–2015)
Robert Mills (physicist)
1927
American physicist (1927–1999)
Jurriaan Schrofer
1926
Dutch graphic designer
M. Canagaratnam
1924
Sri Lankan Tamil politician and Member of Parliament
Rikki Fulton
1924
Scottish actor (1924–2004)
Neville Marriner
1924
English conductor and violinist (1924–2016)
Artur Alliksaar
1923
Estonian poet
Robert DePugh
1923
American far-right activist (1923–2009)
Michael Ansara
1922
American actor (1922–2013)
Donn F. Draeger
1922
Martial artist
Hasrat Jaipuri
1922
Indian poet and lyricist (1922–1999)
Harold Washington
1922
Illinois politician and 51st mayor of Chicago
Graham Whitehead
1922
British racing driver (1922–1981)
Georgy Beregovoy
1921
Soviet cosmonaut (1921–1995)
Angelo DiGeorge
1921
Godfrey Stafford
1920
British physicist
Thomas Szasz
1920
Hungarian-American psychiatrist and activist (1920–2012)
Richard von Weizsäcker
1920
President of Germany from 1984 to 1994
Alberto Breccia
1919
Uruguayan-Argentine artist and cartoonist (1919–1993)
Hans Billian
1918
German film director (1918–2007)
Hans Conried
1917
American actor (1917–1982)
Elmer Gedeon
1917
American baseball player (1917–1944)
James Kee
1917
American politician (1917–1989)
Alfred S. Bloomingdale
1916
American businessman (1916–1982)
Helene Hanff
1916
American dramatist
Elizabeth Catlett
1915
American artist and sculptor (1915–2012)
William Congdon
1912
American artist
Kim Il Sung
1912
Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994
Sulo Bärlund
1910
Finnish shot putter (1910–1986)
Miguel Najdorf
1910
Polish-Argentine chess player (1910–1997)
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.
1909
American inventor and adventurer
Eden ahbez
1908
American songwriter and recording artist (1908–1995)
Lita Grey
1908
American actress (1908–1995)
Nikolaas Tinbergen
1907
Dutch zoologist and ethologist (1907–1988)
Arshile Gorky
1904
Armenian-American painter (1904–1948)
John Williams (actor)
1903
English actor (1903–1983)
Fernando Pessa
1902
Portuguese journalist and reporter
Joe Davis
1901
English snooker and billiards player (1901–1978)
Ajoy Mukherjee
1901
Indian politician (1901–1986)
René Pleven
1901
French politician (1901–1993)
Ramón Iribarren
1900
Spanish civil engineer
1800s
Harry Edward
1898
British Olympian
Nikolay Semyonov
1896
Soviet physicist and chemist (1896–1986)
Clark McConachy
1895
New Zealand snooker and billiard player (1895–1980)
Abigail Mejia
1895
Dominican feminist (1895–1941)
Nikita Khrushchev
1894
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
Bessie Smith
1894
American blues singer (1892–1937)
Theo Osterkamp
1892
German fighter pilot
Corrie ten Boom
1892
Dutch resistance hero and writer
Percy Shaw
1890
English inventor of the reflective road stud (1890–1976)
Thomas Hart Benton (painter)
1889
American painter (1889–1975)
A. Philip Randolph
1889
American civil rights activist (1889–1979)
Maximilian Kronberger
1888
German poet
Felix Pipes
1887
Austrian tennis player
William Forgan Smith
1887
Australian politician (1887–1953)
Nikolai Gumilev
1886
Russian poet and literary critic (1886–1921)
Tadeusz Kutrzeba
1885
Polish general (1885–1947)
Stanley Bruce
1883
Prime Minister of Australia from 1923 to 1929
Melville Henry Cane
1879
American poet
Robert Walser
1878
Swiss writer (1878–1956)
Georg Kolbe
1877
German sculptor
W. D. Ross
1877
Scottish philosopher and translator (1877–1971)
James J. Jeffries
1875
American boxer
George Harrison Shull
1874
American geneticist
Johannes Stark
1874
German physicist (1874–1957)
Ida Freund
1863
Austrian-British chemist
Bliss Carman
1861
Canadian poet
Émile Durkheim
1858
French sociologist (1858–1917)
Jean Moréas
1856
Greek poet, essayist, and art critic (1856–1910)
Henry James
1843
American and British writer (1843–1916)
Mary Grant Roberts
1841
Australian zoo owner
Joseph E. Seagram
1841
Canadian politician, businessman and philanthropist
Wilhelm Busch
1832
German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter (1832–1908)
Jean Danjou
1828
French Foreign Legion officer (1828–1863)
William Crowther (Australian politician)
1817
Tasmanian politician (1817–1885)
Hermann Grassmann
1809
German polymath, linguist and mathematician (1809–1877)
William Champ
1808
British Army officer and first Premier of Tasmania
James Clark Ross
1800
Royal Navy officer and explorer (1800–1862)
Before 1800
Maria Schicklgruber
1795
Adolf Hitler's paternal grandmother (1795–1847)
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
1793
Baltic German astronomer and geodesist (1793–1864)
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
1772
French naturalist (1772–1844)
Nicolas Chopin
1771
Polish educator; father of Frédéric Chopin
Charles Willson Peale
1741
American painter, military officer, scientist, and naturalist (1741–1827)
William B. Whiting
1731
New York politician (1731–1796)
William Cullen
1710
Scottish physician and scientist (1710–1790)
Leonhard Euler
1707
Swiss mathematician (1707–1783)
Johann Friedrich Fasch
1688
German violinist and composer (1688–1758)
Catherine I of Russia
1684
Empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727
Christian V of Denmark
1646
King of Denmark and Norway from 1670 to 1699
Suleiman II of the Ottoman Empire
1642
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1687 to 1691
Robert Sibbald
1641
Scottish physician and antiquary (1641–1722)
Francesco Maria Brancaccio
1592
Italian Catholic cardinal
Claudius Salmasius
1588
French classical scholar, writer and professor in Leiden (1588–1653)
Guru Arjan
1563
Fifth Sikh guru from 1581 to 1606
Pietro Cataldi
1552
Italian mathematician (1548–1626)
Guru Nanak
1469
Founder and first guru of Sikhism (1469–1539)
Leonardo da Vinci
1452
Italian polymath (1452–1519)
John Paston (died 1479)
1442
Member of the Parliament of England
Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine
1282
Duke of Lorraine from 1312 to 1328
Gaius Maecenas
-68
Roman political advisor (d. 8 BCE)