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April 15 birthdays

312 notable historical figures were born on April 15, and 206 died on this day. Everyone born on April 15 is a Aries.

18% of April 15 birthdays work in Literature, more than any other field. More come from United States (74) than any other country.

Born on April 15

• Emma Watson (born 1990. English actress (born 1990))
• Emma Thompson (born 1959. British actress and screenwriter (born 1959))
• Leonardo da Vinci (1452 to 1519. Italian polymath (1452–1519))
• Kim Il Sung (1912 to 1994. Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994)
• Claudia Cardinale (1938 to 2025. Italian Tunisian actress (1938–2025))
• Leonhard Euler (1707 to 1783. Swiss mathematician (1707–1783))
• Guru Nanak (1469 to 1539. Founder and first guru of Sikhism (1469–1539))
• Dodi Fayed (1955 to 1997. Egyptian film producer (1955–1997))
• Philippe of Belgium (born 1960. King of the Belgians since 2013)
• Henry James (1843 to 1916. American and British writer (1843–1916))
• Émile Durkheim (1858 to 1917. French sociologist (1858–1917))
• Benjamin Zephaniah (1958 to 2023. British poet and author (1958–2023))
• Michael Kamen (1948 to 2003. American musician (1948–2003))
• Suleiman II (1642 to 1691. Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1687 to 1691)
• Dolores Cannon (1931 to 2014. American hypnotherapist and author (1931–2014))
• Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (born 1930. President of Iceland from 1980 to 1996)
• Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721 to 1765. British prince (1721–1765))
• Richard von Weizsäcker (1920 to 2015. President of Germany from 1984 to 1994)
• Thomas Szasz (1920 to 2012. Hungarian-American psychiatrist and activist (1920–2012))
• Susanne Bier (born 1960. Danish film director)
• Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1946) (born 1946. American singer, novelist, actress and model)
• Jay Garner (born 1938. United States Army general and United States Marine)
• Elizabeth Catlett (1915 to 2012. American artist and sculptor (1915–2012))
• Beata Szydło (born 1963. Prime Minister of Poland from 2015 to 2017)
• Hwang Kyo-ahn (born 1957. South Korean politician and prosecutor (born 1957))
• Christian V of Denmark (1646 to 1699. King of Denmark and Norway from 1670 to 1699)
• Stanley Bruce (1883 to 1967. Prime Minister of Australia from 1923 to 1929)
• Jaime Paz Zamora (born 1939. President of Bolivia from 1989 to 1993)
• Marcella Hazan (1924 to 2013. Italian-born American cookbook author)
• Franz Böhme (1885 to 1947. Austrian general (1885–1947))
• Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907 to 1988. Dutch zoologist and ethologist (1907–1988))
• Carol W. Greider (born 1961. American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate)
• Hasrat Jaipuri (1922 to 1999. Indian poet and lyricist (1922–1999))
• Tomas Tranströmer (1931 to 2015. Swedish poet and psychologist (1931–2015))
• Charles Willson Peale (1741 to 1827. American painter, military officer, scientist, and naturalist (1741–1827))
• Johannes Stark (1874 to 1957. German physicist (1874–1957))
• Carlo Ginzburg (1939 to 2026. Italian historian (born 1939))
• Wilhelm Busch (1832 to 1908. German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter (1832–1908))
• Hermann Grassmann (1809 to 1877. German polymath, linguist and mathematician (1809–1877))
• Max Wertheimer (1880 to 1943. Austro-Hungarian psychologist (1880–1943))
• Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772 to 1844. French naturalist (1772–1844))
• Avital Ronell (born 1952. American philosopher (born 1952))
• Muhammad Metwalli al-Sha'rawi (1911 to 1998. Egyptian Islamic scholar (1911–1998))
• Robert Lefkowitz (born 1943. American physician and biochemist)
• Talat Xhaferi (born 1962. Macedonian politician (born 1962))
• Surjit Bindrakhia (1962 to 2003. Indian singer)
• Anne Michaels (born 1958. Canadian poet and novelist (born 1958))
• Maisie Williams (born 1997. British actress (born 1997))
• W. D. Ross (1877 to 1971. Scottish philosopher and translator (1877–1971))
• Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (1937 to 2004. British historian and politician)
• Joice Mujuru (born 1955. Zimbabwean politician (born 1955))
• Seth Rogen (born 1982. Canadian actor, comedian, and filmmaker (born 1982))
• Riken Yamamoto (born 1945. Japanese architect)
• Jonas Deichmann (born 1987. German adventurer, extreme athlete, and author)
• Sadriddin Ayni (1878 to 1954. Tajik writer and intellectual (1878–1954))
• Anna Austen Lefroy (1793 to 1872. British writer and niece of Jane Austen)
• Vano Merabishvili (born 1968. Prime Minister of Georgia, July–October 2012)
• Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt (1659 to 1719. Swedish general (1659–1719))
• René Pleven (1901 to 1993. French politician (1901–1993))
• Jim Creighton (1841 to 1862. American baseball player (1841–1862))

Died on April 15

• Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865. President of the United States from 1861 to 1865)
• Greta Garbo (1905 to 1990. Swedish and American actress (1905–1990))
• Pol Pot (1925 to 1998. Cambodian communist leader (1925–1998))
• Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 to 1980. French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980))
• Hu Yaobang (1915 to 1989. Chinese politician (1915–1989))
• Godwin of Wessex (Anglo-Norse nobleman (died 1053))
• Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887 to 1969. Queen of Spain from 1906 to 1931)
• Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635 to 1719. Morganatic wife of Louis XIV (1635–1719))
• Manuel Roxas (1892 to 1948. President of the Philippines from 1946 to 1948)
• Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 to 1446. Italian Renaissance architect (1377–1446))
• Giovanni Gentile (1875 to 1944. Italian pedagogue, philosopher, and politician (1875–1944))
• Clement Freud (1924 to 2009. English broadcaster, writer, politician, chef and alleged sex offender (1924–2009))
• Hürrem Sultan (1520 to 1558. Haseki Sultan of Ottoman Empire)
• Emperor Kinmei (509 to 571. Emperor of Japan from 539 to 571)
• Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707 to 1788. French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist (1701–1788))
• Empress Suiko (554 to 628. Empress of Japan from 592 to 628)
• Nikolai Vatutin (1901 to 1944. Soviet military commander (1901–1944))
• Pope Benedict VIII (980 to 1024. Head of the Catholic Church from 1012 to 1024)
• Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta (1904 to 1974. Duchess of Aosta (1904–1974))
• César Vallejo (1892 to 1938. Peruvian writer and poet)
• Leslie Charteris (1907 to 1993. British-Chinese author)
• David Elazar (1925 to 1976. Ninth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces)
• Natalia Alexeievna (Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt) (1755 to 1776. Tsarevna of Russia)
• Domenichino (1581 to 1641. Italian painter (1581–1641))
• Sophia Perovskaya (1853 to 1881. Russian revolutionary)
• Frank Knight (1885 to 1972. American economist (1885–1972))
• Hubert Robert (1733 to 1808. French painter (1733–1808))
• Damon Knight (1922 to 2002. American science fiction writer, editor and critic (1922–2002))
• Antoine Béchamp (1816 to 1908. French scientist)
• Jane Ellen Harrison (1850 to 1928. British classical scholar, linguist and feminist (1850–1928))

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