Famous People Born on April 15
Famous people born on April 15 include Leonardo da Vinci (1452), Leonhard Euler (1707) and Nikita Khrushchev (1894).
BORN ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Nikita Khrushchev
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
Kim Il Sung
Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994
Emma Watson
English actress (born 1990)
Émile Durkheim
French sociologist (1858–1917)
Alla Pugacheva
Russian singer (born 1949)
Guru Nanak
Founder and first guru of Sikhism (1469–1539)
Tomas Tranströmer
Swedish poet and psychologist (1931–2015)
Henry James
American British writer (1843–1916)
Claudia Cardinale
Italian-Tunisian actress (1938–2025)
Emma Thompson
English actress and screenwriter (born 1959)
Johannes Stark
German physicist (1874–1957)
Richard von Weizsäcker
President of Germany from 1984 to 1994
Carol W. Greider
American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate
Catherine I of Russia
Empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
President of Iceland from 1980 to 1996
DIED ON THIS DAY
Abraham Lincoln
16th US President, ended slavery
Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism, declined the Nobel Prize
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Pol Pot
Dictator of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979
Greta Garbo
Swedish and American actress (1905–1990)
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711–1765)
Robert Musil
Austrian philosophical writer (1880–1942)
Matthew Arnold
English poet and cultural critic (1822–1888)
Filippo Brunelleschi
Italian Renaissance architect (1377–1446)
Madame de Pompadour
Chief mistress of Louis XV (1721–1764)
César Vallejo
Peruvian writer & poet (1892–1938)
Jean Genet
French novelist, playwright, and poet (1910–1986)
R. Lee Ermey
US Marine sergeant and actor (1944–2018)
Sources
- April 15 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Leonardo da Vinci — Wikipedia
- Leonhard Euler — Wikipedia
- Abraham Lincoln — Wikipedia
- Jean-Paul Sartre — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths