October 15 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 15, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#138 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 15 birthdays
Asaph Hall · American astronomer1829
Friedrich Nietzsche · German philosopher1844
Jane Darwell · American actress1879
P. G. Wodehouse · English author1881
John Kenneth Galbraith · Canadian-American economist and diplomat1908
Mohammad Zahir Shah · King of Afghanistan1914
Mario Puzo · American author, screenwriter, and journalist1920
Lee Iacocca · American businessman1924
Michel Foucault · French philosopher1926
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam · Indian scientist, president and statesman1931
Bobby Morrow · American sprinter1935
Penny Marshall · American actress, director and producer1943
Sali Berisha · Albanian politician1944
David Trimble · First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 20021944
Mira Nair · Indian-American filmmaker1957
Didier Deschamps · French association football player and coach1968
Denys Shmyhal · Ukrainian politician, former Prime Minister of Ukraine1975
David Trezeguet · French footballer1977
Mesut Özil · Turkish-German association football player1988
Bailee Madison · American actress1999
On this day in history
1864American Civil War: Confederate forces captured Glasgow, Missouri, although it had little long-term benefit as Price's Missouri Expedition was defeated a week later.
1979President Carlos Humberto Romero of El Salvador was overthrown and exiled in a military coup d'état.
2001NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io.
2011Global demonstrations against economic inequality, corporate influence on government, and other issues, were held in more than 950 cities in 82 countries.
1932Air India (modern aircraft pictured), the flag carrier airline of India, began operations under the name Tata Airlines.
1939The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
1967The Motherland Calls, a colossal statue in Volgograd, Russia, which commemorates the casualties of the Battle of Stalingrad, was dedicated, becoming the then-tallest statue in the world.
1994The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.
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