| Year |
Month & Date |
Day |
Name |
|---|
| 1195 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Anthony of Padua |
Portuguese saint (d. 1231) |
| 1432 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Luigi Pulci |
Italian poet (d. 1484) |
| 1575 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Bartol Kasi? |
Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650) |
| 1613 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Gilles Menage |
French scholar (d. 1692) |
| 1717 |
August 15 |
Sunday |
Blind Jack |
English roadbuilder (d. 1810) |
| 1740 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Matthias Claudius |
German poet (d. 1815) |
| 1769 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
Emperor of France (d. 1821) |
| 1771 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Sir Walter Scott |
Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832) |
| 1785 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Thomas De Quincey |
English author (d. 1859) |
| 1813 |
August 15 |
Sunday |
Jules Grevy |
2nd President of the French Third Republic (d. 1891) |
| 1844 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Thomas-Alfred Bernier |
Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1908) |
| 1856 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Ivan Franko |
Ukrainian writer (d. 1916) |
| 1857 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Albert Ballin |
German shipping tycoon (d. 1918) |
| 1858 |
August 15 |
Sunday |
E. Nesbit |
English author (d. 1924) |
| 1859 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Charles Comiskey |
American baseball owner (d. 1931) |
| 1860 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Henrietta Vinton Davis |
American elocutionist (d. 1941) |
| 1860 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Florence Harding |
American First Lady (d. 1924) |
| 1863 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Alexei Krylov |
Russian engineer and mathematician (d. 1945) |
| 1865 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Usui Mikao |
Japanese founder of Reiki (d. 1926) |
| 1872 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Sri Aurobindo |
Indian writer and philosopher (d. 1950) |
| 1875 |
August 15 |
Sunday |
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor |
English composer (d. 1912) |
| 1876 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Stylianos Gonatas |
Greek military officer and Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1966) |
| 1877 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Tachiyama Mineemon |
Japanese sumo wrestler‚ the 22nd Yokozuna (d. 1941) |
| 1878 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel |
Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1928) |
| 1879 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Ethel Barrymore |
American actress (d. 1959) |
| 1881 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Alfred Wagenknecht |
German-born American activist (d. 1956) |
| 1883 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Ivan Mestrovi? |
Croatian sculptor (d. 1962) |
| 1885 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Edna Ferber |
American novelist (d. 1968) |
| 1886 |
August 15 |
Sunday |
Bill Whitty |
Australian cricketer (d. 1974) |
| 1890 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Elizabeth Bolden |
American Supercentenarian (d. 2006) |
| 1890 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Jacques Ibert |
French composer (d. 1962) |
| 1892 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Louis‚ 7th duc de Broglie |
French physicist‚ Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987) |
| 1893 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Leslie Comrie |
New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d. 1950) |
| 1896 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Gerty Cori |
Austrian-born biochemist‚ Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1957) |
| 1896 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Catherine Doherty |
Russian-born Canadian activist (d. 1985) |
| 1896 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Paul Outerbridge |
American photographer (d. 1958) |
| 1896 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Leon Theremin |
Russian inventor (d. 1993) |
| 1898 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Jan Brzechwa |
Polish poet (d. 1966) |
| 1901 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Pyotr Novikov |
Russian mathematician (d. 1975) |
| 1904 |
August 15 |
Monday |
George Klein |
Canadian inventor (d. 1992) |
| 1905 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Emile St. Godard |
Canadian dog sled racer (d. 1948) |
| 1909 |
August 15 |
Sunday |
Hugo Winterhalter |
American composer and bandleader (d. 1973) |
| 1910 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Signe Hasso |
Swedish actress (d. 2002) |
| 1912 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Julia Child |
American cook (d. 2004) |
| 1912 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Dame Wendy Hiller |
English actress (d. 2003) |
| 1914 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Paul Rand |
American graphic designer (d. 1996) |
| 1916 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Aleks caci |
Albanian writer (d. 1989) |
| 1917 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Jack Lynch |
Irish politician (d. 1999) |
| 1917 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Oscar Romero |
El Salvador Roman Catholic priest (d. 1980) |
| 1919 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Huntz Hall |
American actor (d. 1999) |
| 1919 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Benedict Kiely |
Irish author (d. 2007) |
| 1922 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Lukas Foss |
German-born composer (d. 2009) |
| 1922 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Giorgos Mouzakis |
Greek songwriter and musician (d. 2005) |
| 1923 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Rose Marie |
American actress |
| 1924 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Robert Bolt |
English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1995) |
| 1925 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Mike Connors |
American actor |
| 1925 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Oscar Peterson |
Canadian jazz pianist (d. 2007) |
| 1925 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Bill Pinkney |
American baritone singer (d. 2007) |
| 1926 |
August 15 |
Sunday |
Costis Stephanopoulos |
Greek politician |
| 1927 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Eddie Leadbeater |
England cricketer |
| 1928 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Nicolas Roeg |
English film director |
| 1930 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Ageeda Paavel |
Estonian freedom fighter |
| 1933 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Bobby Helms |
American pop singer (d. 1997) |
| 1933 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Jim Lange |
American game show host |
| 1934 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Bobby Byrd |
American soul/funk singer (d. 2007) |
| 1934 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Nino Ferrer |
French-Italian singer (d. 1998) |
| 1934 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Reginald Scarlett |
West Indian cricketer |
| 1935 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Jim Dale |
English actor |
| 1935 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Vernon Jordan Jr. |
American presidential advisor |
| 1935 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Lionel Taylor |
American football player |
| 1938 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Maxine Waters |
American politician |
| 1938 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Janusz A. Zajdel |
Polish writer |
| 1940 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Gudrun Ensslin |
German terrorist (d. 1977) |
| 1940 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Rita Shane |
American soprano |
| 1941 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Manolis Mavrommatis |
Greek politician |
| 1942 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Larry Hartsell |
American martial arts instructor (d. 2007) |
| 1943 |
August 15 |
Sunday |
Maria Rojo |
Mexican actress and politician |
| 1944 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Linda Ellerbee |
American journalist |
| 1944 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Tom Murphy |
American politician |
| 1944 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Dimitris Sioufas |
Greek lawyer and politician |
| 1944 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Sylvie Vartan |
Bulgarian pop singer |
| 1945 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Gene Upshaw |
American football player and union leader (d. 2008) |
| 1945 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Begum Khaleda Zia |
Bangladeshi politician |
| 1946 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Tony Robinson |
English actor and television presenter |
| 1946 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Jimmy Webb |
American musician and composer |
| 1947 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Raakhee Gulzar |
Indian actress |
| 1947 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Jenny Hanley |
British TV presenter |
| 1948 |
August 15 |
Sunday |
Uschi Digard |
American pornographic actress and model |
| 1948 |
August 15 |
Sunday |
Patsy Gallant |
Canadian pop singer |
| 1948 |
August 15 |
Sunday |
George Ryton |
British engineer |
| 1949 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Beverly Lynn Burns |
American pilot |
| 1949 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Richard Deacon |
Welsh sculptor |
| 1949 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Garry Disher |
Australian author |
| 1949 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Mark B. Rosenberg |
President of Florida International University |
| 1950 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Tommy Aldridge |
American musician |
| 1950 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
The Princess Anne |
Princess Royal of the United Kingdom |
| 1950 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Tom Kelly |
American baseball manager |
| 1951 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Ann Biderman |
American film and television writer |
| 1951 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Bobby Caldwell |
American singer and musician |
| 1951 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
John Childs |
England cricketer |
| 1951 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Daba Diawara |
Malian politician |
| 1951 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Ranjan Gunatilleke |
Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 1954 |
August 15 |
Sunday |
Stieg Larsson |
Swedish writer (d. 2004) |
| 1954 |
August 15 |
Sunday |
Mary Jo Salter |
American poet |
| 1956 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Lorraine Desmarais |
French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer |
| 1957 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
?eljko Ivanek |
Slovenian-American actor |
| 1958 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Craig MacTavish |
Canadian ice hockey player/coach |
| 1958 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Victor Shenderovich |
Russian satirist |
| 1958 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Rondell Sheridan |
American actor and comedian |
| 1961 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Ed Gillespie |
American White House counsel to George W. Bush |
| 1961 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Gary Kubiak |
American football coach |
| 1962 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Tom Colicchio |
American chef |
| 1963 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu |
Mexican film director |
| 1963 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Jack Russell |
England cricketer |
| 1963 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Valery Levaneuski |
entrepreneur‚ politician‚ former political prisoner |
| 1964 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Melinda French Gates |
American wife of Bill Gates |
| 1964 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Debi Mazar |
American actress |
| 1965 |
August 15 |
Sunday |
Rob Thomas |
American writer |
| 1966 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Scott Brosius |
American baseball player |
| 1966 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Shirley Kwan |
Hong Kong singer |
| 1966 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Dimitris Papadopoulos |
Greek basketball player |
| 1967 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Peter Hermann |
|
| 1968 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Debra Messing |
American actress |
| 1969 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Kevin Cheng |
Hong Kong actor and singer |
| 1969 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Cris Judd |
American actor/choreographer |
| 1969 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Bernard Fanning |
Australian singer/songwriter‚ lead singer of multi-award winning Australian rock bandPowderfinger |
| 1970 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Anthony Anderson |
American comedian and actor |
| 1970 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Maddie Corman |
American actress |
| 1970 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Ben Silverman |
American TV executive |
| 1972 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Ben Affleck |
American actor |
| 1972 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Chris Morrissey |
American film director/actor |
| 1972 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Matthew Wood |
American actor and sound editor |
| 1972 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Jennifer Alexander |
Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007) |
| 1973 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Adnan Sami |
music composer‚ singer |
| 1974 |
August 15 |
Thursday |
Natasha Henstridge |
Canadian actress |
| 1975 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Bertrand Berry |
American football player |
| 1975 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Vijay Bharadwaj |
Indian cricketer |
| 1975 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Brendan Morrison |
Canadian hockey player |
| 1975 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Kara Wolters |
American basketball player |
| 1976 |
August 15 |
Sunday |
Boudewijn Zenden |
Dutch football player |
| 1977 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Martin Biron |
Canadian ice hockey goaltender |
| 1977 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Igor Cassina |
Italian gymnast |
| 1977 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Nicole Paggi |
American actress |
| 1978 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Tim Foreman |
American bassist (Switchfoot) |
| 1978 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Lilia Podkopayeva |
Ukrainian gymnast |
| 1978 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Stavros Tziortziopoulos |
Greek footballer |
| 1978 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Kerri Walsh |
American beach volleyball player |
| 1979 |
August 15 |
Wednesday |
Carl Edwards |
American NASCAR driver |
| 1980 |
August 15 |
Friday |
Nathalie Press |
English actress |
| 1981 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Brendan Hansen |
American swimmer |
| 1981 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Song Ji-hyo |
South Korean actress |
| 1981 |
August 15 |
Saturday |
Oliver Perez |
American baseball player |
| 1982 |
August 15 |
Sunday |
Casey Burgener |
American weightlifter |
| 1988 |
August 15 |
Monday |
Tiffanie Anderson |
American performer (Girlicious) |
| 1989 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Belinda |
Mexican singer |
| 1989 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Carlos Pena Jr. |
American actor and singer |
| 1989 |
August 15 |
Tuesday |
Joe Jonas |
American actor and singer |
