September 15 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on September 15, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Sapphire
Birth flower
Aster
How common
#21 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous September 15 birthdays
Porfirio Díaz · President of Mexico1830
William Howard Taft · 27th President of the United States from 1909 to 19131857
Agatha Christie · English mystery and detective writer1890
Jean Renoir · French film director and screenwriter1894
Jackie Cooper · American actor, director1922
Murray Gell-Mann · American physicist1929
Robert Lucas Jr. · American economist1937
Wen Jiabao · 6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 20131942
Emmerson Mnangagwa · President of the Republic of Zimbabwe1942
Yoweri Museveni · President of Uganda since 19861944
Jessye Norman · American opera singer1945
Oliver Stone · American film director, screenwriter, and producer1946
Tommy Lee Jones · American actor and film director1946
Robert Fico · Prime Minister of Slovakia since 20231964
Queen Letizia of Spain · Queen consort of Spain since 20141972
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · Nigerian writer1977
Tom Hardy · British actor1977
Jolin Tsai · Taiwanese singer, songwriter, and actress1980
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex · Younger son of Charles III of the United Kingdom and Diana1984
Kayden Kross · American pornographic actress and director1985
On this day in history
1862American Civil War: Confederate forces captured the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, taking more than 12,000 prisoners.
1944World War II: American and Australian forces landed on the Japanese-occupied island of Morotai.
2008Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The global financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy while holding over $600 billion in assets, the largest such filing in U.S. history.
2020The Abraham Accords were signed in Washington, D.C. (signatories pictured), normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
1776American Revolutionary War: British forces made an unopposed amphibious landing at Kips Bay on Manhattan, the American defenders having fled due to artillery fire.
1954The scene in The Seven Year Itch of Marilyn Monroe standing in a white dress over a subway grate was filmed by Billy Wilder.
1959Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1981The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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