January 15 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on January 15, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♑︎ Capricorn
Dec 22 – Jan 19
Birth stone
Garnet
Birth flower
Carnation
How common
#340 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous January 15 birthdays
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon · French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist1809
Sofya Kovalevskaya · 19th-century Russian mathematician1850
Mihai Eminescu · Romanian poet, novelist and journalist1850
Thomas Burke · American sprinter1875
Ibn Saud · King of Saudi Arabia from 1932 to 19531876
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen · Finnish chemist and professor1895
Saud of Saudi Arabia · King of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 19641902
Edward Teller · Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist1908
Lloyd Bridges · American actor1913
Gamal Abdel Nasser · President of Egypt from 1956 to 19701918
Martin Luther King Jr. · American Baptist minister and civil rights leader1929
Captain Beefheart · American musician and painter1941
Martin Chalfie · American biochemist, cell biologist, and university teacher1947
Boris Tadić · 3rd President of the Republic of Serbia1958
Regina King · American actress and director1971
Giorgia Meloni · Prime Minister of Italy since 20221977
Pitbull · American rapper1981
Ben Shapiro · American conservative political commentator1984
Skrillex · American DJ and producer1988
Dove Cameron · American actress and singer1996
On this day in history
1910Construction was completed on the Buffalo Bill Dam, then the tallest dam in the world, on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming.
1943The highest-capacity office building in the world, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense known as the Pentagon, was dedicated.
1967The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I.
2009US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its climb out from New York City and made an emergency landing in the Hudson River (featured).
1815War of 1812: The American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, was captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
1865American Civil War: The Union Army captured Fort Fisher, the last seaport of the Confederacy.
1991The Victoria Cross for Australia was instituted, making Australia the first Commonwealth realm with a separate Victoria Cross award in its honours system.
2001The first edit to the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia was made.
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