May 15 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 15, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♉︎ Taurus
Apr 20 – May 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#156 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 15 birthdays
Viktor Vasnetsov · Russian artist1848
L. Frank Baum · American author of children's books1856
Pierre Curie · French physicist and chemist1859
Arthur Schnitzler · Austrian writer1862
Katherine Anne Porter · American journalist1890
Mikhail Bulgakov · Russian author1891
Joseph Cotten · American actor1905
Max Frisch · Swiss playwrighter and novelist1911
Paul Samuelson · American economist1915
Jasper Johns · American painter and sculptor1930
Madeleine Albright · United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 20011937
Brian Eno · British musician1948
Frank Wilczek · American theoretical physicist1951
Chazz Palminteri · American actor1952
Lars Løkke Rasmussen · 25th Prime Minister of Denmark1964
Madhuri Dixit · Indian actress1967
Patrice Evra · French footballer1981
Layal Abboud · Lebanese pop singer1982
Andy Murray · British tennis player1987
Ousmane Dembélé · French footballer1997
On this day in history
1864American Civil War: A small Confederate force, which included cadets from the Virginia Military Institute, forced the Union army out of the Shenandoah Valley.
1869Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, breaking away from the American Equal Rights Association which they had also previously founded.
1972The Ryukyu Islands were returned to Japan by the United States, and the U.S. occupation government was abolished.
1990Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet was sold at auction at Christie's in New York for US$82.5 million, making it the world's most expensive painting at the time.
2001A runaway train loaded with hazardous chemicals traveled driverless for 66 miles (106 km) through Ohio before being stopped near Kenton.
2004Arsenal became the first football team in England's top flight to finish a season undefeated since Preston North End did so in 1888–1889.
2008California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
2010Three days before her seventeenth birthday, Jessica Watson arrived in Sydney after sailing non-stop and unassisted around the world.
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