April 15

2024 Calendar

April 15 is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 260 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

571 - Emperor Kimmei of Japan
628 - Empress Suiko of Japan (b. 554)
1053 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex
1220 - Adolf of Altena, German archbishop (b. 1157)
1415 - Manuel Chrysolaris, Greek humanist and grammarian (b. 1355)
1446 – Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (b. 1377)
1558 - Roxelana, Polish wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (b. 1500)
1621 - John Carver, English merchant and Governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1576)
1641 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581)
1659 – Simon Dach, German poet (b. 1605)
1697 – King Charles XI of Sweden (b. 1665)
1719 - Françoise d'Aubigne, marquise de Maintenon, Queen of France (b. 1635)
1754 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)
1764 – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721)
1765 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist and writer (b. 1711)
1854 - Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist and writer (b. 1773)
1865 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
1889 – Father Damien, Belgian Roman Catholic priest and missionary (b. 1840)
1894 - James M. Harvey, American politician, 5th Governor of Kansas (b. 1833)
1898 - Kepa Te Rangihiwini, Maori military leader

1901 – 2000

1912 - People who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic, including:
- Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850)
- Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder (b. 1873)
- Jack Phillips, British wireless telegraphist (b. 1887)
- John Jacob Astor IV, American businessman and billionaire (b. 1864)
- Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (b. 1865)
1913 – Gabdulla Tukay, Tatar poet (b. 1886)
1925 – Fritz Haarmann, German serial killer (b. 1879)
1925 – John Singer Sargent, American painter (b. 1856)
1927 - Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868)
1935 - Anna Ancher, Danish painter (b. 1859)
1938 - César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (b. 1892)
1942 – Robert Musil, Austrian writer (b. 1880)
1944 - Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Soviet military commander (b. 1901)
1949 - Wallace Beery, American actor (b. 1885)
1957 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
1962 - Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1880)
1962 - Arsenio Lacson, Mayor of Manila (b. 1912)
1967 - Totò, Italian comedian, actor, writer and singer-songwriter (b. 1898)
1969 – Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (b. 1887)
1971 – Gurgen Boryan, Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915)
1972 – Frank Knight, American economist (b. 1885)
1974 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
1980 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher (b. 1905)
1983 – Corrie ten Boom, Dutch writer, activist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892)
1984 – Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (b. 1921)
1986 – Jean Genet, French writer (b. 1910)
1988 – Kenneth Williams, British actor and comedian (b. 1926)
1989 - Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (b. 1915)
1989 - Charles Vanel, French actor and director (b. 1892)
1990 – Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (b. 1905)
1994 – John Curry, British figure skater (b. 1949)
1998 – Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925)

From 2001

2001 – Joey Ramone, American punk rocker (b. 1951)
2002 - Byron White, American football player, lawyer and jurist (b. 1917)
2004 – Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese manga artist (b. 1934)
2008 – Sean Costello, American blues musician (b. 1979)
2009 – Clement Freud, British writer, broadcaster and Member of Parliament (b. 1924)
2009 - Laszlo Tisza, Hungarian-American physicist (b. 1907)
2011 – Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian activist (b. 1975)
2012 – Murray Rose, British-born Australian swimmer (b. 1939)
2013 - Richard Collins, Canadian actor (b. 1947)
2013 - Richard LeParmentier, British-American actor (b. 1946)
2013 - Sal Castro, American activist and teacher (b. 1933)
2014 - Owen Woodhouse, New Zealand judge (b. 1916)
2014 - Shane Gibson, American guitarist (b. 1979)
2014 - John Houbolt, American aerospace engineer (b. 1919)
2014 - Hugo Villar, Uruguayan physician and politician (b. 1925)
2015 - Surya Bahadur Thapa, Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1928)
2015 - Alexander Nadson, Belarussian religious leader (b. 1926)
2015 - Jonathan Crombie, Canadian actor (b. 1966)
2015 - Tadahiko Ueda, Japanese footballer (b. 1947)
2016 - Anne Grommerch, French politician (b. 1970)
2017 - David Brumbaugh, American politician (b. 1956)
2017 - Clifton James, American actor (b. 1920)
2017 - Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian, last-surviving person born in the 1800s (b. 1899)
2017 - Sylvia Moy, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1938)
2018 - R. Lee Ermey, American actor (b. 1944)
2018 - Michael Halliday, English-Australian linguist (b. 1925)
2018 - Judy Kennedy, American politician (b. 1944)
2018 - Waqar Ahmad Shah, Indian politician (b. 1943)
2018 - Frank Skartados, Greek-American politician (b. 1956)
2018 - Vittorio Taviani, Italian movie director (b. 1929)
2018 - Bob Braden, American computer scientist (b. 1934)
2018 - Frank Drowota, American judge (b. 1938)
2019 - Owen Garriott, American astronaut (b. 1930)
2019 - Aleksandar Kostov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1938)
2019 - Les Reed, English songwriter (b. 1935)
2019 - Winston L. Shelton, American inventor and entrepreneur (b. 1922)
2019 - Joaquim Alberto Silva, Angolan footballer (b. 1974)

Births

1901 – 1950

1901 - René Pleven, Prime Minister of France (d. 1993)
1901 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (d. 1978)
1901 - Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 1986)
1904 - Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter (d. 1948)
1907 – Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist (d. 1988)
1908 - Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995)
1910 - Miguel Najdorf, Polish-Argentine chess player (d. 1997)
1912 – Kim Il-Sung, President of North Korea (d. 1994)
1915 - Elizabeth Catlett, American-Mexican artist and sculptor (d. 2012)
1915 – Walter Washington, American politician, Mayor of Washington, DC (d. 2003)
1917 - Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982)
1920 – Richard von Weizsaecker, former President of Germany (d. 2015)
1920 - Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist (d. 2012)
1921 – Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (d. 1995)
1922 – Harold Washington, American politician, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1987)
1922 - Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor (d. 2013)
1924 - Neville Marriner, English conductor and violinist (d. 2016)
1924 - Rikki Fulton, Scottish actor and comedian (d. 2004)
1927 - Ernie Copland, Scottish footballer
1927 - Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
1929 - Adrian Cadbury, English rower and businessman (d. 2015)
1930 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, 4th President of Iceland
1931 - Giovanni Reale, Italian historian and philosopher (d. 2014)
1931 – Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet (d. 2015)
1932 - Eva Figes, German-born English author (d. 2012)
1933 - Roy Clark, American singer, musician and television host
1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)
1936 - Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist
1938 - Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born Italian actress
1938 - Hso Khan Pha, Burmese-Canadian geologist and politician
1938 - Jay Garner, American lieutenant general
1939 – Marty Wilder, British rock singer
1940 – Jeffrey Archer, British politician and writer
1940 - Yossef Romano, Israeli weightlifter (d. 1972)
1940 - Penelope Coelen, South African actress, model and beauty queen
1941 - Howard Berman, American politician
1942 – Walt Hazzard, American basketball coach (d. 2011)
1943 - Robert Lefkowitz, American physician and Nobel Prize winner
1943 - Mighty Sam McClain, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1944 - Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen general and politician (d. 1996)
1944 - Dave Edmunds, Welsh singer and guitarist
1944 - Kunishige Kamamoto, Japanese footballer
1946 – Pete Rouse, American politician
1946 - Michael Tucci, American actor
1947 - Mike Chapman, Australian songwriter
1949 - Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer and composer
1949 - David Rendel, English politician (d. 2016)
1949 - Craig Zadan, American director, producer and screenwriter
1950 - Josiane Balasko, French actress, director and screenwriter
1950 - Paul Lüönd, Swiss musician (d. 2014)

1951 – 1975

1951 - John L. Phillips, American astronaut
1951 - Stuart Prebble, English broadcaster
1951 - Choei Sato, Japanese footballer
1955 - Jeff Golub, American musician (d. 2015)
1955 – Dodi al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)
1956 - Michael Cooper, American basketball player and coach
1957 - Evelyn Ashford, American athlete
1957 - Hwang Kyo-ahn, South Korean politician, former Prime minister of South Korea
1958 – Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer
1958 – Abu Hamza al-Masri, Egyptian Islamic fundamentalist preacher
1959 – Emma Thompson, British actress
1960 – King Philippe of Belgium
1960 - Pedro Delgado, Spanish cyclist
1960 - Susanne Bier, Danish movie director
1961 – Carol W. Greider, American molecular biologist and Nobel Prize winner
1961 - Luca Barbarossa, Italian singer
1962 - Tom Kane, American voice actor
1963 - Beata Szydlo, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland
1966 – Samantha Fox, British singer, actress and model
1967 – Dara Torres, American swimmer
1967 - Frankie Poullain, British musician
1968 – Ed O'Brien, British musician (Radiohead)
1968 - Vano Merabishvili, Georgian politician
1969 - Jimmy Waite, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 - Trine Dyrholm, Danish actress and singer
1972 – Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer (d. 2009)
1972 - Lou Romano, American voice actor
1973 - Teddy Lucic, Swedish footballer
1974 - Danny Way, American skateboarder
1975 - Adolfo Cambiaso, Argentine polo player

From 1976

1976 - John Lamont, Scottish politician
1976 - Seigo Narazaki, Japanese footballer
1977 - Sudarshan Pattnaik, Indian sand artist
1977 - Lilia Vaygina-Efremova, Ukrainian biathlete
1978 – Soumaila Coulibaly, Malian footballer
1978 – Milton Bradley, American baseball player
1979 - Luke Evans, Welsh actor
1982 – Albert Riera, Spanish footballer
1982 – Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer
1983 - Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
1983 – Matt Cardle, English singer
1983 - Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer
1983 – Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
1986 - Tom Heaton, English footballer
1986 - Quincy Owusu-Abeyje, Ghanaian footballer
1988 - Steven Defour, Belgian footballer
1988 – Eliza Doolittle, English singer
1988 - Leonie Elliott, English actress
1989 - Shawn Nicklaw, American footballer
1989 - Brandur Enni, Faroese singer
1990 – Emma Watson, English actress
1991 - Daiki Arioka, Japanese actor and singer
1991 – Anastasia Vinnikova, Belarussian singer
1992 – Amy Deasismont, Swedish singer
1992 - Richard Sandrak, American bodybuilder, martial artist and actor
1992 - John Guidetti, Swedish footballer
1993 - Madeleine Martin, American actress
1997 - Maisie Williams, British actress
1999 - Denis Shapovalov, Israeli-born Canadian tennis player

Deaths

Observances

Tax Day (United States)
Kim Il-Sung's birthday (North Korea)
Father Damien Day (Hawaii)
Jackie Robinson Day in Major League Baseball
Bengali New Year
World Art Day