Births on 15 August
2000s
Juanlu Sánchez
2003
Spanish footballer (born 2003)
1900s
Paola Reis
1999
Brazilian BMX rider (born 1999)
Chief Keef
1995
American rapper (born 1995)
Setyana Mapasa
1995
Indonesian-Australian badminton player (born 1995)
Lasse Vigen Christensen
1994
Danish footballer (born 1994)
Kosuke Hagino
1994
Japanese swimmer (born 1994)
Clinton N'Jie
1993
Cameroonian footballer (born 1993)
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
1993
English footballer (born 1993)
Adhiban Baskaran
1992
Indian chess grandmaster (born 1992)
Matthew Judon
1992
American football player (born 1992)
Petja Piiroinen
1991
Finnish snowboarder (born 1991)
Jennifer Lawrence
1990
American actress and producer (born 1990)
Joe Jonas
1989
American singer and actor (born 1989)
Ryan McGowan
1989
Australian association football player
Carlos PenaVega
1989
American actor & singer (born 1989)
Jordan Rapana
1989
New Zealand, Maori, and Cook Islands international rugby league footballer
Oussama Assaidi
1988
Moroccan footballer (born 1988)
Boban Marjanović
1988
Serbian basketball player (born 1988)
Ryan D'Imperio
1987
American football player (born 1987)
Michel Kreder
1987
Dutch road cyclist
Sean McAllister (footballer, born 1987)
1987
English footballer
Nipsey Hussle
1985
American rapper (1985–2019)
Jarrod Dyson
1984
American baseball player (born 1984)
Emily Kinney
1984
American actress, singer, and songwriter
Siobhan Chamberlain
1983
English footballer, sports pundit, and commentator
Rachel Haot
1983
American businesswoman and entrepreneur
Casey Burgener
1982
American weightlifter (born 1982)
David Harrison (basketball)
1982
American basketball player (born 1982)
Brendan Hansen
1981
American swimmer (born 1981)
Óliver Pérez
1981
Mexican baseball player (born 1981)
Fiann Paul
1980
Icelandic explorer, athlete and artist
Carl Edwards
1979
American racing driver (born 1979)
Waleed Aly
1978
Australian radio and television presenter
Lilia Podkopayeva
1978
Ukrainian gymnast (born 1978)
Stavros Tziortziopoulos
1978
Greek footballer and manager
Kerri Walsh Jennings
1978
American professional beach volleyball player
Martin Biron
1977
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1977)
Anthony Rocca
1977
Australian rules footballer, born 1977
Boudewijn Zenden
1976
Dutch footballer (born 1976)
Bertrand Berry
1975
American gridiron football player (born 1975)
Vijay Bharadwaj
1975
Indian cricketer and cricket coach
Brendan Morrison
1975
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1975)
Kara Wolters
1975
American basketball player (born 1975)
Natasha Henstridge
1974
Canadian actress (born 1974)
Tomasz Suwary
1974
Polish footballer
Ben Affleck
1972
American actor and filmmaker (born 1972)
Jennifer Alexander
1972
Canadian ballerina (1972–2007)
Michael Graham (singer)
1972
Irish singer, actor
Adnan Sami
1971
Indian musician (born 1971)
Anthony Anderson
1970
American actor and comedian (born 1970)
Ben Silverman
1970
American media executive (born 1970)
Bernard Fanning
1969
Australian singer-songwriter (born 1969)
Carlos Roa
1969
Argentine footballer
Debra Messing
1968
American actress (born 1968)
Tony Hand
1967
Scottish ice hockey player and coach (born 1967)
Peter Hermann (actor)
1967
American actor (born 1967)
Scott Brosius
1966
American baseball player (born 1966)
Dimitris Papadopoulos (basketball player)
1966
Greek former basketball player
Rob Thomas (writer)
1965
Young adult novel author, television program writer
Jane Ellison
1964
British Conservative Party politician
Melinda French Gates
1964
American philanthropist (born 1964)
Alejandro González Iñárritu
1963
Mexican filmmaker (born 1963)
Simon Hart
1963
British politician (born 1963)
Jack Russell (cricketer, born 1963)
1963
English cricketer
Tom Colicchio
1962
American celebrity chef (born 1962)
Rıdvan Dilmen
1962
Turkish football player and manager (born 1962)
Inês Pedrosa
1962
Portuguese journalist, novelist, short story (born 1962)
Vilja Toomast
1962
Estonian politician (born 1962)
Ed Gillespie
1961
American political strategist (born 1961)
Matt Johnson (singer)
1961
British singer-songwriter (born 1961)
Gary Kubiak
1961
American football player and coach (born 1961)
Suhasini Maniratnam
1961
Indian actress, director, producer, writer (born 1961)
Scott Altman
1959
American astronaut (born 1959)
Simon Baron-Cohen
1958
British psychologist and author (born 1958)
Craig MacTavish
1958
Canadian ice hockey player and executive
Simple Kapadia
1958
Indian actress and costume designer (1958–2009)
Viktor Shenderovich
1958
Russian satirist, writer, scriptwriter and radio host (born 1958)
Rondell Sheridan
1958
American actor and comedian
Željko Ivanek
1957
Slovenian-American actor (born 1957)
Lorraine Desmarais
1956
Jazz pianist and composer
Freedom Neruda
1956
Ivorian journalist
Robert Syms
1956
British Conservative politician
Stieg Larsson
1954
Swedish writer, journalist, and activist (1954–2004)
Carol Thatcher
1953
English journalist (born 1953)
Mark Thatcher
1953
British baronet, businessman and son of Margaret Thatcher (born 1953)
Wolfgang Hohlbein
1953
German writer (born 1953)
Chuck Burgi
1952
American drummer (born 1952)
Ann Biderman
1951
American film and television writer
Bobby Caldwell
1951
American singer and songwriter (1951–2023)
John Childs (cricketer)
1951
English cricketer
Tommy Aldridge
1950
American drummer
Tess Harper
1950
American actress
Tom Kelly (baseball)
1950
American baseball player and manager (born 1950)
Anne, Princess Royal
1950
British princess (born 1950)
Phyllis Smith
1949
American actress (born 1949)
Patsy Gallant
1948
Musical artist
Tom Johnston (musician)
1948
American musician (born 1948)
Rakhee Gulzar
1947
Indian film actress (born 1947)
Jimmy Webb
1946
American songwriter, composer, and singer (born 1946)
Khaleda Zia
1945
Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1991–1996; 2001–2006)
Dimitris Sioufas
1944
Greek lawyer and politician (1944–2019)
Eileen Bell
1943
Northern Irish politician
Pete York
1942
English rock drummer (born 1942)
Jim Brothers
1941
American sculptor (1941–2013)
Don Rich
1941
American country musician (1941–1974)
Gudrun Ensslin
1940
German far-left militant (1940–1977)
Stephen Breyer
1938
US Supreme Court justice from 1994 to 2022
Stix Hooper
1938
American drummer (born 1938)
Pran Kumar Sharma
1938
Indian cartoonist (1938-2014)
Maxine Waters
1938
American politician (born 1938)
Janusz Zajdel
1938
Polish author (1938–1985)
Pat Priest (actress)
1936
American actress (b. 1936)
Rita Shane
1936
American soprano
Jim Dale
1935
British actor, singer, songwriter (born 1935)
Régine Deforges
1935
French film director and writer
Bobby Byrd
1934
American singer, songwriter, and producer (1934–2007)
Purushottam Upadhyay
1934
Indian musician, singer and composer (1934–2024)
Reginald Scarlett
1934
Jamaican cricketer (1934–2019)
Darrell K. Sweet
1934
American illustrator (1934–2011)
Valentin Varlamov
1934
Russian pilot (1934–1980)
Bobby Helms
1933
American country singer (1933–1997)
Stanley Milgram
1933
American social psychologist
Mike Seeger
1933
American folk musician and folklorist (1933–2009)
Abby Dalton
1932
American actress (1932–2020)
Robert L. Forward
1932
American physicist and writer (1932–2002)
Jim Lange
1932
American game show host and DJ (1932–2014)
Johan Steyn, Baron Steyn
1932
South African-British judge and Law Lord (1932–2017)
Ernest C. Brace
1931
(1931–2014) American aviator
Richard F. Heck
1931
American chemist (1931–2015)
Carl Joachim Classen
1928
German classical scholar (1928–2013)
Malcolm Glazer
1928
American sports team owner (1928–2014)
Nicolas Roeg
1928
English film director and cinematographer (1928–2018)
Eddie Leadbeater
1927
English cricketer
Oliver Popplewell
1927
British judge and cricketer (1927–2024)
Julius Katchen
1926
American concert pianist (1926–1969)
Eddie Little Sky
1926
American film and television actor (1926–1997)
Sami Michael
1926
Iraqi-born Israeli author and human rights activist (1926–2024)
John Silber
1926
President of Boston University
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
1926
President of Greece from 1995 to 2005
Mike Connors
1925
American actor (1925–2017)
Rose Maddox
1925
American singer-songwriter
Oscar Peterson
1925
Canadian jazz pianist (1925–2007)
Bill Pinkney
1925
Musical artist
Erik Schmidt (painter)
1925
Estonian painter and writer
Robert Bolt
1924
English playwright (1924–1995)
Hedy Epstein
1924
American political activist(1924 - 2016)
Yoshirō Muraki
1924
Japanese production designer (1924–2009)
Phyllis Schlafly
1924
American activist (1924–2016)
Rose Marie
1923
American actress, singer, and comedian (1923–2017)
Leonard Baskin
1922
American artist (1922–2000)
Giorgos Mouzakis
1922
Greek virtuoso trumpeter and music composer
Sabino Barinaga
1922
Spanish footballer and manager
August Kowalczyk
1921
Judy Cassab
1920
Australian artist (1920–2015)
Huntz Hall
1919
American actor (1920–1999)
Benedict Kiely
1919
Irish writer and broadcaster (1919–2007)
Jack Lynch
1917
Taoiseach (1966–1973, 1977–1979)
Óscar Romero
1917
Archbishop of San Salvador from 1977 to 1980
Aleks Çaçi
1916
Albanian author (1916–1989)
Signe Hasso
1915
Swedish actress (1915–2002)
Paul Rand
1914
American graphic designer (1914–1996)
Julia Child
1912
American cooking personality (1912–2004)
Wendy Hiller
1912
English stage and film actress (1912–2003)
Hugo Winterhalter
1909
American musician, arranger and composer (1909–1973)
George Klein (inventor)
1904
Canadian inventor
Jan Campert
1902
Dutch journalist, theater critic and writer
Arnulfo Arias
1901
President of Panama from 1940 to 1941, 1949 to 1951 and in 1968
Pyotr Novikov
1901
Soviet mathematician (1901–1975)
Estelle Brody
1900
American actress (1900–1995)
Jack Tworkov
1900
American abstract expressionist painter
1800s
Jan Brzechwa
1898
Polish poet, author, and lawyer (1898–1966)
Gerty Cori
1896
Czech-American biochemist (1896–1957)
Catherine Doherty
1896
Religious order founder; Servant of God (1896–1985)
Paul Outerbridge
1896
American photographer (1896–1958)
Leslie Comrie
1893
New Zealand astronomer
Louis de Broglie
1892
French theoretical physicist (1892–1987)
Abraham Wachner
1892
New Zealand politician (1892–1950)
Jacques Ibert
1890
French composer (1890–1962)
Bill Whitty
1886
Australian cricketer
Edna Ferber
1885
American novelist and playwright (1885–1968)
Ivan Meštrović
1883
Croatian sculptor and architect (1883–1962)
Marion Bauer
1882
American composer (1882–1955)
Gisela Richter
1882
British-American art historian and archaeologist (1882–1972)
Alfred Wagenknecht
1881
American Marxist activist and politician (1881–1956)
Ethel Barrymore
1879
American actress (1879–1959)
Tachiyama Mineemon
1877
Japanese sumo wrestler
Stylianos Gonatas
1876
Greek military officer and politician (1876–1966)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
1875
English composer and conductor (1875–1912)
Ramaprasad Chanda
1873
Indian anthropologist, historian and archaeologist
Sri Aurobindo
1872
Indian yogi (1872–1950)
Italo Santelli
1866
Italian fencer
Mikao Usui
1865
Developer of Reiki (1865–1926)
Aleksey Krylov
1863
Russian naval engineer, mathematician, and memoirist (1863–1945)
Florence Harding
1860
First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923
Charles Comiskey
1859
American baseball player, manager, team owner (1859–1931)
E. Nesbit
1858
English author and poet (1858–1924)
Albert Ballin
1857
German businessman
Keir Hardie
1856
Scottish socialist and founder of the British Labour Party (1856–1915)
Walter Crane
1845
British artist and book illustrator (1845–1915)
Thomas-Alfred Bernier
1844
Canadian politician
Antonín Petrof
1839
John Chisum
1824
American businessman, rancher (1824–1884)
Louise Colet
1810
French poet and writer
Jules Grévy
1807
President of France from 1879 to 1887
Before 1800
Sangolli Rayanna
1798
Indian military leader (1798–1831)
Eliza Lee Cabot Follen
1787
American writer, editor, and abolitionist
Thomas De Quincey
1785
English essayist, translator and political economist (1785–1859)
Walter Scott
1771
Scottish novelist (1771–1832)
Napoleon
1769
French general and emperor (1769–1821)
Matthias Claudius
1740
German poet and journalist (1740–1815)
Johann Christoph Kellner
1736
German organist and composer
John Metcalf (civil engineer)
1717
English road builder (1717–1810)
Francesco Zuccarelli
1702
Italian painter (1702–1788)
John Grubb
1652
Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise
1615
Princess of Joinville
Gilles Ménage
1613
French scholar (1613–1692)
Henry Howard, 15th Earl of Arundel
1608
English nobleman
Herman IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg
1607
German noble (1607–1658)
Gabriel Báthory
1589
Prince of Transylvania
Bartol Kašić
1575
Croatian clergyman and grammarian (1575–1650)
George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
1507
Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
George, Duke of Bavaria
1455
Duke of Bavaria-Landshut from 1479 to 1503
Luigi Pulci
1432
Italian diplomat and poet
Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford
1385
English peer (1385–1417)
Anthony of Padua
1195
Portuguese Catholic priest (1195–1231)
Alfonso IX of León
1171
King of León and Galicia from 1188 to 1230
Princess Teishi
1013
Empress consort of Japan