June 15 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on June 15, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Pearl
Birth flower
Rose
How common
#199 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous June 15 birthdays
Edvard Grieg · Norwegian composer and pianist1843
Erik Erikson · American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist1902
Yuri Andropov · General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union1914
Thomas Huckle Weller · American virologist1915
Herbert A. Simon · American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist1916
John B. Fenn · American analytical chemist1917
Alberto Sordi · Italian actor1920
Waylon Jennings · American country musician1937
Johnny Hallyday · French musician, singer and actor1943
Jim Varney · American actor and comedian1949
Xi Jinping · General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 20121953
Jim Belushi · American actor1954
Jim Hanks · American actor1961
Helen Hunt · American actress1963
Courteney Cox · American actress and producer1964
Michael Laudrup · Danish association football player and coach1964
Ice Cube · American rapper and actor1969
Oliver Kahn · German association football player1969
Neil Patrick Harris · American actor1973
Mohamed Salah · Egyptian association football player1992
On this day in history
1921Bessie Coleman became the first Black person to earn an international pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
1944World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate.
1978King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby, who became known as Queen Noor of Jordan.
1991An eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines deposited large amounts of particulate matter into the atmosphere, enough to briefly lower global temperatures by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F).
1846The Oregon Treaty extends the border between the United States and British North America, established by the Treaty of 1818, westward to the Pacific Ocean.
1859Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between American and British/Canadian settlers.
1864American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
1878Eadweard Muybridge took a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it gallops (animation pictured), which became the basis of motion pictures
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