April 15 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on April 15, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♈︎ Aries
Mar 21 – Apr 19
Birth stone
Diamond
Birth flower
Daisy
How common
#320 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous April 15 birthdays
Henry James · American and British writer1843
Émile Durkheim · French sociologist1858
Johannes Stark · German physicist1874
Nikita Khrushchev · leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 19641894
Bessie Smith · American blues singer1894
Arshile Gorky · Armenian-American painter1904
Kim Il Sung · Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 19941912
Richard von Weizsäcker · President of Germany from 1984 to 19941920
Michael Ansara · American stage, screen, and voice actor1922
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir · Icelandic politician, 4th President of Iceland1930
Tomas Tranströmer · Swedish poet, psychologist and translator1931
Claudia Cardinale · Italian actress1938
Robert Lefkowitz · American physician and biochemist1943
Michael Kamen · American composer1948
Alla Pugacheva · Soviet-Russian singer, composer, and actress1949
Emma Thompson · English actress and screenwriter1959
Philippe of Belgium · King of the Belgians since 20131960
Carol W. Greider · American molecular biologist1961
Beata Szydło · Polish politician1963
Emma Watson · English actress1990
On this day in history
1927Torrential rains caused the Mississippi River to break out of its levee system in at least 145 places, resulting in the worst flooding in the history of the United States.
1947Jackie Robinson, the first African American to break the baseball color line, played his first game in Major League Baseball.
1955American restaurateur Ray Kroc opened the ninth McDonald's franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois, an occasion considered to be the founding of the present corporation.
1958On Walter O'Malley's initiative, the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants played the first Major League Baseball game on the U.S. West Coast.
1922U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
1957The Indiaman departed Victoria Coach Station, London, as part of the first UK–India bus service.
1994At a GATT ministerial meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco, representatives of 123 countries and the European Communities signed an agreement to establish the World Trade Organization.
2019A fire severely damaged Notre-Dame de Paris, destroying the cathedral's timber spire and much of the roof.
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