Famous Birthdays for May 15th

Pre-1600[edit]

• 1397 – Sejong the Great, Korean king of Joseon (d. 1450)^[10]
• 1531 – Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (d. 1581)^{[citation needed]}
• 1565 – Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch sculptor and architect (d. 1621)^[11]
• 1567 – Claudio Monteverdi, Italian priest and composer (d. 1643)^[12]

1601–1900[edit]

• 1608 – René Goupil, French-American missionary and saint (d. 1642)
• 1633 – Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, French noble (d. 1707)
• 1645 – George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, British judge (d. 1689)
• 1689 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (d. 1762)^[13]
• 1720 – Maximilian Hell, Hungarian priest and astronomer (d. 1792)
• 1749 – Levi Lincoln Sr., American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Attorney General (d. 1820)
• 1759 – Maria Theresia von Paradis, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1824)
• 1770 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1843)
• 1773 – Klemens von Metternich, German-Austrian politician, 1st State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire (d. 1859)
• 1786 – Dimitris Plapoutas, Greek general and politician (d. 1864)
• 1803 – Juan Almonte, son of José María Morelos, was a Mexican soldier and diplomat who served as a regent in the Second Mexican Empire (1863-1864) (d. 1869)^[14]
• 1805 – Samuel Carter, English railway solicitor and Member of Parliament (MP) (d. 1878)
• 1808 – Michael William Balfe, Irish composer and conductor (d. 1870)
• 1817 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher and author (d. 1905)
• 1841 – Clarence Dutton, American commander and geologist (d. 1912)
• 1845 – Élie Metchnikoff, Russian zoologist (d. 1916)
• 1848 – Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1926)
• 1854 – Ioannis Psycharis, Ukrainian-French philologist and author (d. 1929)
• 1856 – L. Frank Baum, American novelist (d. 1919)
• 1856 – Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1917)
• 1857 – Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (d. 1911)^[15]
• 1859 – Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
• 1862 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (d. 1931)
• 1863 – Frank Hornby, English businessman and politician, invented Meccano (d. 1936)
• 1869 – Paul Probst, Swiss target shooter (d. 1945)
• 1869 – John Storey, Australian politician, 20th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1921)
• 1873 – Oskari Tokoi, Finnish socialist and the Chairman of the Senate of Finland (d. 1963)^[16]
• 1882 – Walter White, Scottish international footballer (d. 1950)^[17]
• 1890 – Katherine Anne Porter, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist (d. 1980)
• 1891 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright (d. 1940)
• 1891 – Hjalmar Dahl, Finnish journalist, translator and writer (d. 1960)^[18]
• 1891 – Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and academic (d. 1971)
• 1892 – Charles E. Rosendahl, American admiral (d. 1977)
• 1892 – Jimmy Wilde, Welsh boxer (d. 1969)
• 1893 – José Nepomuceno, Filipino filmmaker, founder of Philippine cinema (d. 1959)
• 1894 – Feg Murray, American hurdler and cartoonist (d. 1973)
• 1895 – Prescott Bush, American captain, banker, and politician (d. 1972)
• 1895 – William D. Byron, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1941)
• 1898 – Arletty, French model, actress, and singer (d. 1992)
• 1899 – Jean Étienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)
• 1900 – Ida Rhodes, American mathematician, pioneer in computer programming (d. 1986) ^[19]

1901–present[edit]

• 1901 – Xavier Herbert, Australian author (d. 1984)
• 1901 – Luis Monti, Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager (d. 1983)
• 1902 – Richard J. Daley, American lawyer and politician, 48th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976)
• 1902 – Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (d. 1937)
• 1903 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (d. 1998)
• 1904 – Clifton Fadiman, American game show host and author (d. 1999)
• 1905 – Joseph Cotten, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1905 – Albert Dubout, French cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor (d. 1976)
• 1905 – Abraham Zapruder, American businessman and amateur photographer, filmed the Zapruder film (d. 1970)
• 1907 – Sukhdev Thapar, Indian activist (d. 1931)
• 1909 – James Mason, English actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1984)
• 1909 – Clara Solovera, Chilean singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
• 1910 – Constance Cummings, British-based American actress (d. 2005)
• 1911 – Max Frisch, Swiss playwright and novelist (d. 1991)
• 1911 – Herta Oberheuser, German physician (d. 1978)
• 1912 – Arthur Berger, American composer and educator (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1972)
• 1914 – Angus MacLean, Canadian farmer and politician, 25th Premier of Prince Edward Island (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Norrie Paramor, English composer, producer, and conductor (d. 1979)
• 1915 – Hilda Bernstein, English-South African author and activist (d. 2006)
• 1915 – Paul Samuelson, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• 1915 – Henrik Sandberg, Danish production manager and producer (d. 1993)
• 1916 – Vera Gebuhr, Danish actress (d. 2014)
• 1918 – Eddy Arnold, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2008)
• 1918 – Arthur Jackson, American lieutenant and target shooter (d. 2015)
• 1918 – Joseph Wiseman, Canadian-American actor (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Michel Audiard, French director and screenwriter (d. 1985)
• 1921 – Federico Krutwig, Basque writer, member of ETA and translator (d. 1998)^[20]
• 1922 – Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese nun and author (d. 2021)^[21]
• 1923 – Richard Avedon, American sailor and photographer (d. 2004)
• 1923 – John Lanchbery, English-Australian composer and conductor (d. 2003)
• 1924 – Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist and zoologist (d. 1971)
• 1925 – Andrei Eshpai, Russian pianist and composer (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Mary F. Lyon, English geneticist and biologist (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Carl Sanders, American soldier, pilot, and politician, 74th Governor of Georgia (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and stuntman (d. 2008)
• 1926 – Clermont Pépin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Anthony Shaffer, English author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 2016)
• 1930 – Jasper Johns, American painter and sculptor
• 1931 – Ken Venturi, American golfer and sportscaster (d. 2013)
• 1931 – James Fitz-Allen Mitchell, Vincentian politician and agronomist, 2nd Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (d. 2021)^[22]
• 1935 – Don Bragg, American pole vaulter (d. 2019)
• 1935 – Ted Dexter, Italian-English cricketer (d. 2021)
• 1935 – Utah Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)
• 1935 – Akihiro Miwa, Japanese singer, actor, director, composer, author and drag queen
• 1936 – Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-American actress and singer
• 1936 – Mart Laga, Estonian basketball player (d. 1977)
• 1936 – Ralph Steadman, English painter and illustrator
• 1936 – Paul Zindel, American playwright and novelist (d. 2003)
• 1937 – Madeleine Albright, Czech-American politician and diplomat, 64th United States Secretary of State (d. 2022)^[23]
• 1937 – Karin Krog, Norwegian singer
• 1937 – Trini Lopez, American singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 2020)
• 1938 – Mireille Darc, French actress, director, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
• 1938 – Nancy Garden, American author (d. 2014)^[24]
• 1939 – Dorothy Shirley, English high jumper and educator
• 1940 – Roger Ailes, American businessman (d. 2017)
• 1940 – Lainie Kazan, American actress and singer
• 1940 – Don Nelson, American basketball player and coach
• 1941 – Jaxon, American illustrator and publisher, co-founded the Rip Off Press (d. 2006)
• 1942 – Lois Johnson, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1942 – Jusuf Kalla, Indonesian businessman and politician, 10th Vice President of Indonesia
• 1942 – Doug Lowe, Australian politician, 35th Premier of Tasmania
• 1942 – K. T. Oslin, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2020)
• 1943 – Paul Bégin, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1943 – Freddie Perren, American songwriter, producer, and conductor (d. 2004)
• 1944 – Bill Alter, American police officer and politician
• 1944 – Ulrich Beck, German sociologist and academic (d. 2015)
• 1945 – Michael Dexter, English hematologist and academic
• 1945 – Jerry Quarry, American boxer (d. 1999)
• 1946 – Thadeus Nguyễn Văn Lý, Vietnamese priest and activist
• 1947 – Graeham Goble, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
• 1948 – Kate Bornstein, American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist
• 1948 – Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese baseball player
• 1948 – Brian Eno, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
• 1948 – Kathleen Sebelius, American politician, 44th Governor of Kansas
• 1949 – Frank L. Culbertson Jr., American captain, pilot, and astronaut
• 1949 – Robert S.J. Sparks, English geologist and academic
• 1950 – Jim Bacon, Australian politician, 41st Premier of Tasmania (d. 2004)
• 1950 – Jim Simons, American golfer (d. 2005)
• 1951 – Dennis Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1951 – Chris Ham, English political scientist and academic
• 1951 – Frank Wilczek, American mathematician and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1952 – Chazz Palminteri, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1953 – George Brett, American baseball player and coach
• 1953 – Athene Donald, English physicist and academic
• 1953 – Mike Oldfield, English-Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1954 – Diana Liverman, English-American geographer and academic
• 1954 – Caroline Thomson, English journalist and broadcaster
• 1955 – Mohamed Brahmi, Tunisian politician (d. 2013)
• 1955 – Lia Vissi, Cypriot singer-songwriter and politician
• 1956 – Andreas Loverdos, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Labour
• 1956 – Dan Patrick, American television anchor and sportscaster
• 1956 – Kevin Greenaugh, American nuclear engineer
• 1957 – Meg Gardiner, American-English author and academic
• 1957 – Juan José Ibarretxe, Spanish politician
• 1957 – Kevin Von Erich, American football player and wrestler
• 1958 – Jason Graae, American musical theater actor
• 1958 – Ruth Marcus, American journalist
• 1958 – Ron Simmons, American football player and wrestler
• 1959 – Khaosai Galaxy, Thai boxer and politician
• 1959 – Luis Pérez-Sala, Spanish race car driver
• 1959 – Beverly Jo Scott, American-Belgian singer-songwriter
• 1960 – Rhonda Burchmore, Australian actress, singer, and dancer
• 1960 – Rob Bowman, American director and producer
• 1960 – R. Kuhaneswaran, Sri Lankan politician
• 1960 – Rimas Kurtinaitis, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• 1961 – Giselle Fernández, Mexican-American television journalist.
• 1962 – Lisa Curry, Australian swimmer
• 1963 – Gavin Nebbeling, South African footballer^[25]
• 1964 – Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Danish lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Denmark
• 1965 – André Abujamra, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1965 – Scott Tronc, Australian rugby league player
• 1966 – Jiří Němec, Czech footballer
• 1967 – Simen Agdestein, Norwegian chess grandmaster and football player
• 1967 – Laura Hillenbrand, American journalist and author
• 1967 – John Smoltz, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1967 – Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
• 1968 – Cecilia Malmström, Swedish academic and politician, 15th European Commissioner for Trade
• 1968 – Sophie Raworth, English journalist and broadcaster
• 1969 – Hideki Irabu, Japanese-American baseball player (d. 2011)
• 1969 – Emmitt Smith, American football player and sportscaster
• 1970 – Frank de Boer, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1970 – Ronald de Boer, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1970 – Desmond Howard, American football player and sportscaster
• 1970 – Alison Jackson, English photographer, director, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Rod Smith, American football player
• 1970 – Ben Wallace, English captain and politician
• 1971 – Karin Lušnic, Slovenian tennis player
• 1972 – Danny Alexander, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1972 – David Charvet, French actor and singer
• 1974 – Vasilis Kikilias, Greek basketball player and politician
• 1974 – Matthew Sadler, English chess player and author
• 1974 – Marko Tredup, German footballer and manager
• 1974 – Ahmet Zappa, American musician and writer
• 1975 – Ray Lewis, American football player and sportscaster
• 1975 – Ales Michalevic, Belarusian lawyer and politician
• 1975 – Janne Seurujärvi, Finnish Sami politician, and the first Sami ever to be elected to the Finnish Parliament.^[26]
• 1976 – Torraye Braggs, American basketball player
• 1976 – Mark Kennedy, Irish footballer
• 1976 – Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer
• 1976 – Ryan Leaf, American football player and coach
• 1976 – Anže Logar, Slovenian politician
• 1976 – Tyler Walker, American baseball player
• 1978 – Amy Chow, American gymnast and pediatrician
• 1978 – Dwayne De Rosario, Canadian soccer player
• 1978 – Edu, Brazilian footballer
• 1978 – David Krumholtz, American actor
• 1979 – Adolfo Bautista, Mexican footballer
• 1979 – Daniel Caines, English sprinter
• 1979 – Chris Masoe, New Zealand rugby player
• 1979 – Ryan Max Riley, American skier
• 1979 – Robert Royal, American football player
• 1979 – Dominic Scott, Irish guitarist
• 1980 – Josh Beckett, American baseball player
• 1981 – Patrice Evra, French footballer
• 1981 – Paul Konchesky, English international footballer^[27]
• 1981 – Justin Morneau, Canadian baseball player
• 1981 – Zara Phillips, English equestrian
• 1981 – Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress and singer
• 1982 – Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican sprinter
• 1982 – Segundo Castillo, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1982 – Rafael Pérez, Dominican baseball player
• 1982 – Layal Abboud, Lebanese singer
• 1984 – Jeff Deslauriers, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Sérgio Jimenez, Brazilian race car driver
• 1984 – Samantha Noble, Australian actress
• 1984 – Beau Scott, Australian rugby league player
• 1984 – Mr Probz, Dutch singer, songwriter, rapper, actor and record producer ^[28]
• 1985 – Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 – Tania Cagnotto, Italian diver
• 1985 – Laura Harvey, English football coach
• 1985 – Tathagata Mukherjee, Indian actor
• 1985 – Denis Onyango, Ugandan football goalkeeper
• 1985 – Justine Robbeson, South African javelin thrower
• 1986 – Thomas Brown, American football player
• 1986 – Matías Fernández, Chilean footballer
• 1986 – Adam Moffat, Scottish footballer
• 1987 – David Adams, American baseball player
• 1987 – Michael Brantley, American baseball player
• 1987 – Brian Dozier, American baseball player
• 1987 – Mark Fayne, American ice hockey player
• 1987 – Ersan İlyasova, Turkish basketball player
• 1987 – Leonardo Mayer, Argentinian tennis player
• 1987 – Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player^[29]
• 1988 – Indrek Kajupank, Estonian basketball player
• 1988 – Scott Laird, English footballer
• 1989 – Susan Soonkyu Lee, Korean-American singer and entertainer^[30]
• 1989 – Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, French footballer
• 1990 – Jordan Eberle, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Lee Jong-hyun, Korean guitarist
• 1990 – Stella Maxwell, New Zealand model
• 1993 – Jeremy Hawkins, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1993 – Tomáš Kalas, Czech international footballer^[31]
• 1996 – Birdy, English singer-songwriter
• 1997 – Ousmane Dembélé, French footballer
• 1997 – Scott Drinkwater, Australian rugby league player^[32]
• 1998 – Lucrezia Stefanini, Italian tennis player^[33]
• 1999 – Anastasia Gasanova, Russian tennis player^[34]
• 2000 – Dayana Yastremska, Ukrainian tennis player^[35]
• 2002 – Chase Hudson, American internet celebrity, singer, actor^[36]