Births on 15 January
2000s
Grace VanderWaal
2004
American singer-songwriter (born 2004)
Tim Stützle
2002
German ice hockey player (born 2002)
Triston Casas
2000
American baseball player (born 2000)
1900s
Alexandra Eade
1998
Australian artistic gymnast
Ben Godfrey
1998
English footballer (born 1998)
Chloe Kelly
1998
English footballer (born 1998)
Dove Cameron
1996
American actress and singer (born 1996)
Deebo Samuel
1996
American football player (born 1996)
Eric Dier
1994
English footballer (born 1994)
Kadeem Allen
1993
American basketball player (born 1993)
Joël Veltman
1992
Dutch footballer (born 1992)
Joshua King (footballer, born 1992)
1992
Norwegian football player (born 1992)
Marc Bartra
1991
Spanish footballer (born 1991)
Matt Duffy
1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Mitch Garver
1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Nicolai Jørgensen
1991
Danish footballer (born 1991)
Darya Klishina
1991
Russian long jumper
James Mitchell (basketball)
1991
Australian basketball player
Sidney Franklin (actor, born 1990)
1990
American actor
Robert Trznadel
1990
Polish footballer (born 1990)
Slava Voynov
1990
Russian ice hockey player (born 1990)
Chris Warren (actor)
1990
American actor
Alexei Cherepanov
1989
Russian ice hockey player (1989–2008)
Nicole Ross
1989
American fencer
Martin Dúbravka
1989
Slovak footballer (born 1989)
Daniel Caligiuri
1988
German footballer (born 1988)
Skrillex
1988
American DJ and producer (born 1988)
Donald Sloan (basketball)
1988
American basketball player (born 1988)
Jun. K
1988
South Korean singer
Greg Inglis
1987
Australian international rugby league footballer
Tsegaye Kebede
1987
Ethiopian long-distance runner (born 1987)
Kelly Kelly
1987
American professional wrestler (born 1987)
David Knight (English footballer)
1987
English association football player
Kelleigh Ryan
1987
Canadian fencer (born 1987)
Jessy Schram
1986
American actress and model
René Adler
1985
German footballer
Kenneth Emil Petersen
1985
Danish footballer (born 1985)
Pavel Podkolzin
1985
Russian basketball player (born 1985)
Ben Shapiro
1984
American political commentator (born 1984)
Victor Rasuk
1984
American actor (born 1985)
Hugo Viana
1983
Portuguese footballer (born 1983)
Jermaine Pennant
1983
English footballer (born 1983)
Armando Galarraga
1982
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1982)
Francis Zé
1982
Cameroonian footballer
Dylan Armstrong
1981
Canadian shot putter (born 1981)
Vanessa Henke
1981
German tennis player
Pitbull (rapper)
1981
American rapper (born 1981)
El Hadji Diouf
1981
Senegalese footballer (born 1981)
Matt Holliday
1980
American baseball player (born 1980)
Drew Brees
1979
American football player and television analyst (born 1979)
Michalis Morfis
1979
Cypriot footballer (born 1979)
Martin Petrov
1979
Bulgarian footballer (born 1979)
Eddie Cahill
1978
American actor (born 1978)
Franco Pellizotti
1978
Italian cyclist
Ryan Sidebottom
1978
English cricketer (born 1978)
Doug Gottlieb
1976
American college basketball coach and analyst
Alexander Korolyuk
1976
Russian ice hockey player
Iryna Lishchynska
1976
Ukrainian middle-distance runner
Dorian Missick
1976
American actor (born 1976)
Scott Murray (rugby union)
1976
Former Scottish rugby union player/current coach
Florentin Petre
1976
Romanian footballer
Mary Pierce
1975
French tennis player (born 1975)
Martin Štrbák
1975
Ice hockey player
Séverine Deneulin
1974
Essam El Hadary
1973
Egyptian footballer (born 1973)
Shelia Burrell
1972
American heptathlete
Christos Kostis
1972
Greek footballer
Claudia Winkleman
1972
English television presenter (born 1972)
Regina King
1971
American actress and director (born 1971)
Michele Granger
1970
American softball player (born 1970)
Shane McMahon
1970
American professional retired wrestler and businessman (born 1970)
Delino DeShields
1969
American baseball player & coach (born 1969)
Chad Lowe
1968
American actor
Ted Tryba
1967
American golfer
Maurizio Fondriest
1965
Italian cyclist (born 1965)
Bernard Hopkins
1965
American boxer (born 1965)
Adam Jones (musician)
1965
American musician and artist
James Nesbitt
1965
Northern Irish actor (born 1965)
Osmo Tapio Räihälä
1964
Finnish composer of contemporary music (born 1964)
Craig Fairbrass
1963
English actor (born 1964)
Serhiy Morozov (footballer, born 1961)
1961
Ukrainian footballer
Yves Pelletier
1961
Canadian film director, actor, and comedian (born 1961)
Greg Dowling
1959
Australia international rugby league footballer
Pavle Kozjek
1959
Slovenian photographer and pioneer (1959–2008)
Ken Judge
1958
Australian rules footballer, born 1958
Boris Tadić
1958
President of Serbia from 2004 to 2012
David Ige
1957
American politician and engineer (born 1957)
Marty Lyons
1957
American football player (born 1957)
Andrew Tyrie
1957
British Conservative politician (born 1957)
Mario Van Peebles
1957
American actor and director (born 1957)
Vitaly Kaloyev
1956
Russian architect (born 1956)
Mayawati
1956
18th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Marc Trestman
1956
American gridiron football player and coach (born 1956)
Nigel Benson
1955
British author and illustrator
Andreas Gursky
1955
German photographer (born 1955)
Khalid Al-Islambuli
1955
Egyptian Islamist
Jose Dalisay Jr.
1954
Filipino writer (born 1954)
Randy White (American football)
1953
American football player (born 1953)
Boris Blank (musician)
1952
Swiss artist and musician
Andrzej Fischer
1952
Polish footballer (1952–2018)
Muhammad Wakkas
1952
Bangladeshi politician (1952–2021)
Ernie DiGregorio
1951
American basketball player (born 1951)
Marius Trésor
1950
French footballer (born 1950)
Luis Alvarado
1949
Puerto Rican baseball player (1949–2001)
Alasdair Liddell
1949
Ian Stewart (runner)
1949
Scottish long-distance runner (born 1949)
Howard Twitty
1949
American professional golfer (born 1949)
Ronnie Van Zant
1948
American singer (1948–1977)
Mary Hogg
1947
British judge
Andrea Martin
1947
American and Canadian actress (born 1947)
Charles Brown (actor)
1946
American actor (1946–2004)
Ko Chun-hsiung
1945
Taiwanese actor, director and politician
Vince Foster
1945
American lawyer (1945–1993)
William R. Higgins
1945
United States Marine Corps officer (1945–1989)
Princess Michael of Kent
1945
Member of the British royal family (born 1945)
David Pleat
1945
English footballer & manager
Jenny Nimmo
1944
British children's book author, born 1944
George Ambrum
1943
Australian rugby league footballer
Margaret Beckett
1943
British politician (born 1943)
Stuart E. Eizenstat
1943
American diplomat and attorney (born 1943)
Mike Marshall (pitcher)
1943
American baseball player (1943–2021)
Frank Joseph Polozola
1942
American judge (1942–2013)
Captain Beefheart
1941
American musician (1941–2010)
Per Ahlmark
1939
Swedish politician and writer
Tony Bullimore
1939
British yachtsman (1939–2018)
Ashraf Aman
1938
Pakistani mountain climber
Estrella Blanca
1938
Mexican professional wrestler (1938–2021)
Chuni Goswami
1938
Indian footballer and cricketer (1938–2020)
Margaret O'Brien
1937
American film, television and stage actress
Richard Franklin (actor)
1936
English actor (1936–2023)
Robert Silverberg
1935
American science fiction writer and editor (born 1935)
V. S. Ramadevi
1934
Indian politician
Frank Bough
1933
English television presenter (1933–2020)
Ernest J. Gaines
1933
African-American author (1933–2019)
Peter Maitlis
1933
British chemist (1933–2022)
Lou Jones (athlete)
1932
American sprinter
Lee Bontecou
1931
American sculptor and printmaker (1931–2022)
Derek Meddings
1931
British special effects designer and technician (1931–1995)
Eddie Graham
1930
American professional wrestler (1930–1985)
Earl Hooker
1929
American blues guitarist (1930–1970)
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929
American minister and civil rights activist (1929–1968)
Joanne Linville
1928
American actress and acting teacher (1928–2021)
W. R. Mitchell
1928
British writer and editor
Phyllis Coates
1927
American actress (1927–2023)
Maria Schell
1926
Austrian-Swiss actress (1926–2005)
Ruth Slenczynska
1925
American pianist (b.1925)
Ignacio López Tarso
1925
Mexican actor (1925–2023)
George Lowe (mountaineer)
1924
New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and film director (1924–2013)
Ivor Cutler
1923
Musical artist (1923–2006)
Lee Teng-hui
1923
President of the Republic of China from 1988 to 2000
Sylvia Lawler
1922
British geneticist
Eric Willis
1922
Australian politician (1922–1999)
Cliff Barker
1921
American basketball player (1921–1998)
Babasaheb Bhosale
1921
Indian politician (1921–2007)
Frank Thornton
1921
English actor (1921–2013)
Bob Davies
1920
American basketball player-coach
Steve Gromek
1920
American baseball player (1920–2002)
John O'Connor (cardinal)
1920
American Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal
Maurice Herzog
1919
French mountaineer and politician
George Cadle Price
1919
Leader of Belize (1961–1984, 1989–1993)
João Figueiredo
1918
President of Brazil from 1979 to 1985
Édouard Gagnon
1918
Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal
Gamal Abdel Nasser
1918
President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970
K. A. Thangavelu
1917
Indian actor and comedian (1917–1994)
Stefan Bałuk
1914
Polish general and photographer (1914–2014)
Hugh Trevor-Roper
1914
English historian (1914–2003)
Eugène Brands
1913
Dutch painter
Lloyd Bridges
1913
American actor (1913–1998)
Miriam Hyde
1913
Australian composer, musician and writer (1913–2005)
Alexander Marinesko
1913
Soviet naval officer
Michel Debré
1912
Prime Minister of France from 1959 to 1962
Jean Bugatti
1909
Automotive designer and test engineer (1909–1939)
Gene Krupa
1909
American jazz drummer and bandleader (1909–1973)
Edward Teller
1908
Hungarian-American physicist and father of the H-bomb (1908–2003)
Janusz Kusociński
1907
Polish long-distance runner
Torin Thatcher
1905
British actor (1905–1981)
Paul A. Dever
1903
American politician (1903–1958)
Nâzım Hikmet
1902
Turkish communist poet, playwright and novelist (1902–1963)
Saud of Saudi Arabia
1902
King of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964
1800s
Marjorie Bennett
1896
Actress (1896–1982)
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
1895
Finnish chemist and professor
Rex Ingram (director)
1893
Irish film director
Ivor Novello
1893
Welsh composer and actor (1893–1951)
Ray Chapman
1891
American baseball player (1891–1920)
Michiaki Kamada
1890
Japanese officer, war criminal 1890-1947
Lorenz Böhler
1885
Austrian physician and surgeon
Grover Lowdermilk
1885
American baseball player (1885–1968)
Henry Burr
1882
Musical artist (1882–1941)
Princess Margaret of Connaught
1882
Crown Princess of Sweden (1882–1920)
Mazo de la Roche
1879
Canadian writer (1879–1961)
Ernest Thesiger
1879
English actor (1879–1961)
Johanna Müller-Hermann
1878
Austrian composer and pedagogue (1868 - 1941)
Lewis Terman
1877
American educational psychologist, academic, and eugenicist (1877–1956)
Thomas Burke (sprinter)
1875
American sprinter (1875–1929)
Arsen Kotsoyev
1872
Ossetian writer (1872–1944)
Pierre S. du Pont
1870
American businessman (1870–1954)
Ruby Laffoon
1869
Governor of Kentucky from 1931 to 1935
Stanisław Wyspiański
1869
Polish playwright, painter and poet (1869–1907)
Nathan Söderblom
1866
Swedish bishop
Wilhelm Marx
1863
Chancellor of Germany (1923–1925, 1926–1928)
Archibald Peake
1859
Australian politician
Giovanni Segantini
1858
Italian painter
Jacques Damala
1855
Greek military officer, playboy and actor (1855–1889)
Leonard Darwin
1850
Son of Charles Darwin (1850–1943)
Mihai Eminescu
1850
Romanian poet, novelist and journalist (1850–1889)
Sofya Kovalevskaya
1850
Russian mathematician (1850–1891)
Josef Breuer
1842
Austrian physician (1842–1925)
Mary MacKillop
1842
Australian religious sister and saint (1842–1909)
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
1841
British politician and Governor General of Canada (1841–1908)
Jo Abbott
1840
American politician (1840–1908)
Samuel A. Davenport
1834
American politician
William Bickerton
1815
Leader of Latter Day Saint movement
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
1809
French philosopher and economist (1809–1865)
Marjorie Fleming
1803
Scottish child writer (1803–1811)
Before 1800
Alexander Griboyedov
1795
Russian diplomat, playwright, poet and composer (1795-1829)
Franz Grillparzer
1791
Austrian writer (1791–1872)
Richard Martin (Irish politician)
1754
Irish politician and activist
John Aikin
1747
English doctor and surgeon (1747–1822)
Philip Livingston
1716
American Founding Father, merchant, and politician (1716–1778)
Abraham de la Pryme
1671
English antiquary
Algernon Sidney
1623
English politician (1623–1683)
Molière
1622
French playwright and actor (1622–1673)
Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth
1595
English politician (1596–1661)
Maeda Toshiie
1538
General of Oda Nobunaga following the Sengoku period
Ashikaga Yoshizumi
1481
Military ruler of Japan from 1494 to 1508
Edzard I, Count of East Frisia
1462
Count of East Frisia (1462–1528)
Afonso V of Portugal
1432
King of Portugal from 1438 to 1481