July 15
July 15 is the 196th day of the year (197th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 169 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 756 - Yang Guifei, Chinese consort (b. 719)
- 1085 – Robert Guiscard, Norman adventurer (b. c. 1015)
- 1274 - Bonaventure, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1221)
- 1291 – Rudolph I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1218)
- 1406 - William, Duke of Austria (b. 1370)
- 1445 - Jean Beaufort, Queen of Scots (b. 1406)
- 1521 – Juan Ponce de León, Spanish explorer and Conquistador (b. c. 1474)
- 1571 – Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
- 1655 - Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
- 1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of England (b. 1649)
- 1750 - Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1686)
- 1767 – Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746)
- 1782 – Farinelli, Italian castrato (b. 1705)
- 1828 – Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
- 1839 – Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet (b. 1802)
- 1844 – Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
- 1851 - Juan Felipe Ibarra, Argentine soldier and politician (b. 1787)
- 1857 – Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
- 1890 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
1901 – 2000
- 1904 – Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
- 1907 - Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1875)
- 1916 – Elie Metchnikoff, Russian scientist (b. 1845)
- 1919 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- 1929 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (b. 1874)
- 1930 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1845)
- 1931 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868)
- 1933 – Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (b. 1865)
- 1933 – Freddie Keppard, American musician (b. 1890)
- 1940 – Robert Wadlow, American, tallest human on record (b. 1918)
- 1940 - Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and physician (b. 1857)
- 1946 – Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
- 1947 – Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
- 1948 – John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860)
- 1953 – John Reginald Christie, British murderer (b. 1899)
- 1957 – George Cleveland, Canadian actor (b. 1885)
- 1957 – James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870)
- 1958 - Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon (b. 1914)
- 1959 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
- 1960 – Lawrence Tibbett, American actor (b. 1896)
- 1961 – John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
- 1965 – Francis Cherry, American politician (b. 1908)
- 1979 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1911)
- 1989 - Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
- 1990 - Margaret Lockwood, English actress and singer (b. 1913)
- 1991 – Bert Convy, American actor (b. 1933)
- 1992 – Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
- 1992 - Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist and author (b. 1960)
- 1996 – Dana Hill, American actress (b. 1964)
- 1997 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
From 2001
- 2003 – Adi Preißler, German footballer (b. 1921)
- 2003 – Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)
- 2008 - Karl Unterkircher, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1970)
- 2009 – Natalya Estemirova, Russian activist (b. 1958)
- 2012 - Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
- 2014 - James MacGregor Burns, American historian and political scientist (b. 1918)
- 2014 - Robert A. Roe, American politician (b. 1924)
- 2015 - Wan Li, Chinese politician (b. 1916)
- 2015 - Fred Wendorf, American archaeologist (b. 1924)
- 2016 - Qandeel Baloch, Pakistani model and social media celebrity (b. 1990)
- 2016 - Janez Bernik, Slovenian painter (b. 1933)
- 2016 - Duncan M. Gray, Jr., American prelate (b. 1926)
- 2017 - Anne Buttimer, Irish geographer (b. 1938)
- 2017 - Martin Landau, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2017 - Babe Parilli, American football player (b. 1930)
- 2017 - Bob Wolff, American broadcaster (b. 1920)
- 2017 - Vjekoslav Vojo Radoicic, Croatian painter, sculptor and stage designer (b. 1930)
- 2018 - Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
- 2019 - Mortimer Caplin, American lawyer and educator (b. 1916)
- 2019 - Ousmane Tanor Dieng, Senegalese politician (b. 1947)
- 2019 - Craig Fallon, British judoka (b. 1982)
- 2019 - Werner Müller, German politician and businessman (b. 1946)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1902 – Jean Rey, Belgian politician and President of the European Commission (d. 1983)
- 1911 – Edward Shackleton, English explorer (d. 1994)
- 1913 – Hammond Innes, English writer (d. 1998)
- 1913 - Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1963)
- 1913 - Abraham Sutzkever, Russian poet (d. 2010)
- 1914 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 2010)
- 1917 - Robert Conquest, English-American historian (d. 2015)
- 1918 - Nuur Muhammad Taraki, President of Afghanistan (d. 1979)
- 1918 – Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
- 1918 - Brenda Milner, English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic
- 1919 – Iris Murdoch, English writer (d. 1999)
- 1921 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist (d. 2006)
- 1922 – Leon M. Lederman, American physicist (d. 2018)
- 1924 - Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (d. 2014)
- 1925 – Philip Carey, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1925 - Taylor Hardwick, American architect (d. 2014)
- 1925 - D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (d. 2019)
- 1926 - Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (d. 2015)
- 1926 – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
- 1926 – Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan writer (d. 2007)
- 1927 – Nan Clow Martin, actress
- 1927 - Carmen Zapata, American actress (d. 2014)
- 1928 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist (d. 2012)
- 1930 – Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
- 1930 – Stephen Smale, American mathematician
- 1931 – Clive Cussler, American writer
- 1932 – Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
- 1933 – Julian Bream, English guitarist and lutenist
- 1933 – Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)
- 1934 – Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
- 1934 – Risto Jarva, Finnish movie maker (d. 1977)
- 1935 – Diahann Carroll, American actress
- 1936 - George Voinovich, American politician, 65th Governor of Ohio (d. 2016)
- 1939 - Abdulhussain Abdulredha, Kuwaiti actor and writer (d. 2017)
- 1939 – Aníbal Cavaco Silva, former President of Portugal
- 1939 - Patrick Wayne, American actor
- 1940 – Robert Winston, British scientist, politician and television presenter
- 1942 – Mil Mascaras, Mexican professional wrestler
- 1943 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Northern Irish astrophysicist, astronomer and academic
- 1944 – Millie Jackson, American singer
- 1945 – Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003)
- 1946 – Linda Ronstadt, American singer
- 1946 – Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
- 1946 – Dieter Herzog, German footballer
- 1947 - Peter Banks, English guitarist (d. 2013)
- 1948 - Twinkle, English singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
- 1948 - Artimus Pyle, American drummer and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- 1949 – Carl Bildt, Swedish politician, former Prime Minister of Sweden
- 1949 – Trevor Horn, English musician
- 1950 - Colin Barnett, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Western Australia
- 1950 – Arianna Huffington, Greek-American journalist (Huffington Post)
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (d. 2010)
- 1951 – Jesse Ventura, American professional wrestler and former Governor of Minnesota
- 1952 - David A. Granger, 9th President of Guyana
- 1952 - Celia Imrie, English actress
- 1952 - Yuriko Koike, Japanese politician, Governor of Tokyo
- 1952 – Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, United States Congresswoman from Florida
- 1953 - Sultanah Haminah Hamidun, Queen of Malaysia
- 1953 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former President of Haiti
- 1953 – John Denham, British politician
- 1954 – Mario Kempes, Argentine footballer
- 1954 - Tarak Dhiab, Tunisian footballer
- 1954 - Jeff Jarvis, American journalist and blogger
- 1956 – Ian Curtis, British musician, singer and lyricist (Joy Division) (d. 1980)
- 1956 – Barry Melrose, Canadian hockey player, coach, and commentator
- 1956 – Marky Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
- 1958 – Mac Thornberry, American politician
- 1960 – Willie Aames, American actor
- 1961 – Forest Whitaker, American actor
- 1961 - Scott Ritter, American weapons inspector
- 1961 - Jean-Christophe Grangé, French journalist and screenwriter
- 1963 - Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-American model, actress and singer
- 1965 - Alistair Carmichael, Scottish politician
- 1965 – David Miliband, English politician
- 1966 - Jason Bonham, English drummer
- 1966 – Irène Jacob, French-born Swiss actress
- 1968 – Eddie Griffin, American actor
- 1968 – Stan Kirsch, American actor
- 1968 - Shirley Robertson, Scottish sailor
- 1970 - Angela Constance, Scottish politician
- 1970 - Gabriel Weston, English surgeon and author
- 1970 – Chi Cheng, American musician
- 1971 – John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down)
- 1971 - Jim Rash, American actor, producer and screenwriter
- 1972 - Yao Defen, Chinese world's tallest-living woman record holder (d. 2012)
- 1972 - Scott Foley, American actor
- 1972 - Beth Ostrosky Stern, American model and actress
- 1973 – Brian Austin Green, American actor
From 1976
- 1976 – Diane Kruger, German actress and model
- 1976 - Shuba Jay, Malaysian actress (d. 2014)
- 1976 – Marco Di Vaio, Italian footballer
- 1977 - Kitana Baker, American model and actress
- 1977 - Lana Parrilla, American actress
- 1979 – Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer
- 1981 – Alou Diarra, French footballer
- 1981 – Peter Odemwingie, Nigerian footballer
- 1981 - Taylor Kinney, American actor and model
- 1983 - Heath Slater, American wrestler
- 1986 - Tyler Kennedy, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989 - Alisa Kleybanova, Russian tennis player
- 1989 - Anthony Randolph, American basketball player
- 1989 - Tristan Wilds, American actor and singer
- 1990 - Olly Alexander, English singer-songwriter and actor (Years and Years)
- 1990 - Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player
- 1990 - Tyler Honeycutt, American basketball player (d. 2018)
- 1990 - Damian Lillard, American basketball player
- 1991 - Derrick Favors, American basketball player
- 1991 - Yuki Kashiwagi, Japanese singer and actress
- 1992 – Koharu Kusume, Japanese singer, former member of Morning Musume
- 1992 - Tobias Harris, American basketball player
- 1992 - Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter
- 1992 - Porter Robinson, American DJ and producer
- 1996 - Vivianne Miedema, Dutch footballer