November 15 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on November 15, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♏︎ Scorpio
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Birth stone
Topaz
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
How common
#108 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous November 15 birthdays
Gerhart Hauptmann · German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 19121862
August Krogh · Danish physiologist1874
Georgia O'Keeffe · American modernist artist1887
Marianne Moore · American poet1887
Manuel II of Portugal · King of Portugal1889
Erwin Rommel · German field marshal1891
Claus von Stauffenberg · German aristocrat, army officer and resistance fighter1907
Ed Asner · American actor1929
J. G. Ballard · British novelist1930
Mwai Kibaki · 3rd President of Kenya1931
Mahmoud Abbas · President of the Palestinian Authority since 20051935
Sam Waterston · American actor, producer and director1940
Anni-Frid Lyngstad · Swedish singer1945
Randy Savage · American professional wrestler1952
Aleksander Kwaśniewski · President of Poland from 1995 to 20051954
Ingrida Šimonytė · Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania1974
Sania Mirza · Indian tennis player1986
B.o.B · American rapper, singer and record producer1988
Shailene Woodley · American actress1991
Paulo Dybala · Argentine association football player1993
On this day in history
1922Fountain of Time, in Chicago's Washington Park, was dedicated as a tribute to 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
1988The Soviet spacecraft Buran, a reusable vehicle built in response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, uncrewed, on its only flight.
2000Edoardo Agnelli, son of the industrialist patriarch Gianni Agnelli, was found dead under a bridge on the outskirts of Turin, Italy.
2012Xi Jinping replaced Hu Jintao as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, succeeding as the paramount leader of China.
1889Brazilian emperor Pedro II was overthrown in a coup led by Deodoro da Fonseca, while the country was proclaimed a republic.
1908As a result of numerous atrocities in the territory, the Congo Free State was annexed to Belgium to form the Belgian Congo.
1969Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
1979A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
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