15 September Births

Published : 15 Sep 2018, 16:05

Jagoroniya Desk

September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

Births

767 – Saichō, Japanese monk (d. 822)
786 – Al-Ma'mun, Iraqi caliph (d. 833)
1461 – Jacopo Salviati, Italian politician (d. 1553)
1505 – Mary of Hungary, Dutch ruler (d. 1558)
1533 – Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1572)
1580 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer and author (d. 1659)
1592 – Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, archbishop of Fermo (d. 1653)
1613 – François de La Rochefoucauld, French soldier and author (d. 1680)
1649 – Titus Oates, English minister, fabricated the Popish Plot (d. 1705)
1666 – Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726)
1690 – Ignazio Prota, Italian composer and educator (d. 1748)
1715 – Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French general and engineer (d. 1789)
1736 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (d. 1793)
1759 – Cornelio Saavedra, Argentinean general and politician (d. 1829)
1760 – Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general (d. 1824)
1765 – Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Portuguese poet and author (d. 1805)
1789 – James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian (d. 1851)
1815 – Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian journalist and composer (d. 1868)
1819 – Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian (d. 1902)
1828 – Alexander Butlerov, Russian chemist and academic (d. 1886)
1830 – Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (d. 1915)
1846 – George Franklin Grant, African-American educator, dentist, and inventor (d. 1910)
1852 – Edward Bouchet, American physicist and educator (d. 1918)
1852 – Jan Ernst Matzeliger, Surinamese-American inventor (d. 1889)
1857 – William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)
1857 – Anna Winlock, American astronomer and academic (d. 1904)
1858 – Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (d. 1916)
1858 – Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist, composer, and educator (d. 1937)
1861 – M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer, scholar, and Bharat Ratna Laureate, Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom (d. 1962)
1863 – Horatio Parker, American organist, composer, and educator (d. 1919)
1864 – Prince Sigismund of Prussia (d. 1866)
1867 – Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian general (d. 1920)
1876 – Bruno Walter, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1962)
1876 – Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bengali novelist (d. 1938)
1877 – Jakob Ehrlich, Czech-Austrian politician (d. 1938)
1877 – Yente Serdatzky, Lithuanian-American author and playwright (d. 1962)
1879 – Joseph Lyons, Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
1881 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French businessman, founded Bugatti (d. 1947)
1883 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)
1886 – Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1971)
1887 – Carlos Dávila, Chilean journalist and politician, President of Chile (d. 1955)
1888 – Antonio Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1925)
1889 – Robert Benchley, American humorist, newspaper columnist, and actor (d. 1945)
1889 – Claude McKay, Jamaican-American poet and author (d. 1948)
1890 – Ernest Bullock, English organist and composer (d. 1979)
1890 – Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1976)
1890 – Frank Martin, Swiss-Dutch pianist and composer (d. 1974)
1892 – Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor and educator (d. 1962)
1894 – Chic Harley, American football player (d. 1974)
1894 – Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1977)
1894 – Jean Renoir, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1979)
1895 – Magda Lupescu, mistress and later wife of King Carol II of Romania (d.1977)
1897 – Merle Curti, American historian and author (d. 1997)
1898 – J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and author (d. 1936)
1901 – Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed Bailey bridge (d. 1985)
1903 – Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 1992)
1904 – Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)
1904 – Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American actress, journalist, and author (d. 1988)
1906 – Jacques Becker, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1960)
1906 – Walter E. Rollins, American songwriter (d. 1973)
1907 – Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and author (d. 1968)
1907 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (d. 2004)
1908 – Kid Sheik, American trumpet player (d. 1996)
1908 – Penny Singleton, American actress and singer (d. 2003)
1909 – C. N. Annadurai, Indian educator and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (d. 1969)
1909 – Phil Arnold, American actor (d. 1968)
1910 – Betty Neels, English nurse and author (d. 2001)
1911 – Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American businessman, founded PING (d. 2000)
1911 – Luther Terry, American physician and academic, 9th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 1985)
1913 – Henry Brant, Canadian-American composer and conductor (d. 2008)
1913 – Bruno Hoffmann, German glass harp player (d. 1991)
1913 – John N. Mitchell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 67th United States Attorney General (d. 1988)
1913 – Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (d. 1994)
1914 – Creighton Abrams, American general (d. 1974)
1914 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian journalist and author (d. 1999)
1914 – Orhan Kemal, Turkish author (d. 1970)
1914 – Robert McCloskey, American author and illustrator (d. 2003)
1915 – Fawn M. Brodie, American historian and author (d. 1981)
1915 – Al Casey, American guitarist and composer (d. 2005)
1915 – Albert Whitlock, English-American special effects designer (d. 1999)
1916 – Margaret Lockwood, Pakistani-English actress (d. 1990)
1916 – Frederick C. Weyand, American general (d. 2010)
1917 – Hilde Gueden, Austrian soprano (d. 1988)
1918 – Alfred D. Chandler Jr., American historian and academic (d. 2007)
1918 – Phil Lamason, New Zealand soldier and pilot (d. 2012)
1918 – Margot Loyola, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
1918 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (d. 2005)
1919 – Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist and soldier (d. 1960)
1919 – Nelson Gidding, American author and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1919 – Heda Margolius Kovály, Czech author and translator (d. 2010)
1920 – Kym Bonython, Australian race car driver, drummer, and radio host (d. 2011)
1921 – Richard Gordon, English surgeon and author (d. 2017)
1921 – Gene Roland, American pianist and composer (d. 1982)
1922 – Bob Anderson, English fencer and choreographer (d. 2012)
1922 – Jackie Cooper, American actor (d. 2011)
1922 – Gaetano Cozzi, Italian historian and academic (d. 2001)
1922 – Mary Soames, English author (d. 2014)
1923 – Anton Heiller, Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1979)
1924 – Lucebert, Dutch poet and painter (d. 1994)
1924 – György Lázár, Hungarian politician, 50th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2014)
1924 – Bobby Short, American singer and pianist (d. 2005)
1924 – Mordechai Tzipori, Israeli politician and soldier (d. 2017)
1925 – Stanley Chapman, English architect and author (d. 2009)
1925 – Erika Köth, German soprano (d. 1981)
1925 – Carlo Rambaldi, Italian special effects artist (d. 2012)
1925 – Helle Virkner, Danish actress and singer (d. 2009)
1926 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1926 – Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician and academic
1927 – Rudolf Anderson, pilot and commissioned officer in the United States Air Force (d. 1962)
1927 – Norm Crosby, American comedian and actor
1927 – David Stove, Australian philosopher and academic (d. 1994)
1928 – Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1975)
1929 – Eva Burrows, Australian 13th General of The Salvation Army (d. 2015)
1929 – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1929 – Stan Kelly-Bootle, English singer-songwriter, computer scientist, and author (d. 2014)
1929 – Dick Latessa, American actor (d. 2016)
1929 – John Julius Norwich, English historian and author (d. 2018)
1929 – Wilbur Snyder, American football player and wrestler (d. 1991)
1929 – Mümtaz Soysal, Turkish academic and politician, 30th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs
1930 – Endel Lippmaa, Estonian physicist and academic (d. 2015)
1931 – Brian Henderson, New Zealand-Australian journalist, actor, and producer
1932 – Neil Bartlett, English-American chemist and academic (d. 2008)
1933 – Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor and composer (d. 2014)
1934 – Tomie dePaola, American author and illustrator
1934 – Fred Nile, Australian soldier, minister, and politician
1935 – Dinkha IV, Iraqi patriarch (d. 2015)
1936 – Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player
1936 – Sara Henderson, Australian farmer and author (d. 2005)
1937 – Joey Carew, Trinidadian cricketer (d. 2011)
1937 – Fernando de la Rúa, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina
1937 – King Curtis Iaukea, American wrestler (d. 2010)
1937 – Robert Lucas Jr., American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 – Pino Puglisi, Italian priest and martyr (d. 1993)
1938 – Gaylord Perry, American baseball player and coach
1939 – Subramanian Swamy, Indian economist, academic, and politician, Indian Minister of Law and Justice
1939 – George Walden, English journalist and politician
1940 – Merlin Olsen, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2010)
1941 – Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2011)
1941 – Signe Toly Anderson, American rock singer (d. 2016)
1941 – Mirosław Hermaszewski, Polish general, pilot, and astronaut
1941 – Yuriy Norshteyn, Russian animator, director, and screenwriter
1941 – Viktor Zubkov, Russian businessman and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Russia
1942 – Lee Dorman, American bass player (d. 2012)
1942 – Philip Harris, Baron Harris of Peckham, English businessman and politician
1942 – Ksenia Milicevic, French painter and architect
1944 – Mauro Piacenza, Italian cardinal
1944 – Graham Taylor, English footballer and manager (d. 2017)
1945 – Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
1945 – Jessye Norman, American soprano
1945 – Hans-Gert Pöttering, German lawyer and politician, 23rd President of the European Parliament
1945 – Ron Shelton, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1946 – Tommy Lee Jones, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1946 – Mike Procter, South African cricketer, coach, and referee
1946 – Oliver Stone, American director, screenwriter, and producer
1946 – Howard Waldrop, American author and critic
1947 – Viggo Jensen, Danish footballer and manager
1947 – Diane E. Levin, American educator and author
1947 – Theodore Long, American wrestling referee and manager
1949 – Joe Barton, American lawyer and politician
1950 – Rajiv Malhotra, Indian author
1950 – Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Pakistani-English caliph and scholar
1951 – Pete Carroll, American football player and coach
1951 – Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer and manager
1951 – Fred Seibert, owner of Nickelodeon and Frederator Studios
1952 – Richard Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1952 – Paula Duncan, Australian actress
1952 – Ratnajeevan Hoole, Sri Lankan engineer and academic
1952 – Kelly Keagy, American singer and drummer
1953 – Keiko Takeshita, Japanese actress
1954 – Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (d. 1988)
1954 – Hrant Dink, Turkish journalist (d. 2007)
1955 – Željka Antunović, Croatian politician, 9th Croatian Minister of Defence
1955 – Abdul Qadir, Pakistani cricketer
1955 – Bruce Reitherman, American voice actor, singer, cinematographer, and producer
1955 – Renzo Rosso, Italian fashion designer and businessman, co-founded Diesel Clothing
1956 – Ross J. Anderson, British academic and educator
1956 – Maggie Reilly, Scottish singer-songwriter
1956 – Ned Rothenberg, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer
1958 – Joel Quenneville, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1958 – Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (d. 2005)
1959 – Mark Kirk, American commander, lawyer, and politician
1960 – Ed Solomon, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1961 – Terry Lamb, Australian rugby league player and coach
1961 – Helen Margetts, British political scientist
1961 – Dan Marino, American football player and sportscaster
1961 – Patrick Patterson, Jamaican cricketer
1962 – Amanda Wakeley, English fashion designer
1963 – Pete Myers, American basketball player and coach
1963 – Stephen C. Spiteri, Maltese military historian
1964 – Robert Fico, Slovak academic and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Slovakia
1964 – Steve Watkin, Welsh cricketer
1964 – Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, American guitarist and songwriter
1966 – Wenn V. Deramas, Filipino director and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1966 – Sherman Douglas, American basketball player
1967 – Paul Abbott, American baseball player and coach
1967 – Rodney Eyles, Australian squash player
1969 – Revaz Arveladze, Georgian footballer
1969 – Corby Davidson, American radio personality
1969 – Allen Shellenberger, American drummer (d. 2009)
1971 – Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricketer and coach
1971 – Josh Charles, American actor and director
1971 – Wayne Ferreira, South African tennis player
1971 – Ben Wallers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 – Jimmy Carr, English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1972 – Queen Letizia of Spain
1972 – Lady Victoria, American wrestler
1973 – Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland, Swedish prince
1974 – Arata Iura, Japanese actor, model, and fashion designer
1975 – Tom Dolan, American swimmer
1975 – Martina Krupičková, Czech painter
1976 – Brett Kimmorley, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1976 – Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer
1976 – Matt Thornton, American baseball player
1977 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian novelist, essayist, and short story writer
1977 – Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
1977 – Sophie Dahl, English model and author
1977 – Tom Hardy, English actor
1977 – Leander Jordan, American football player
1977 – Jason Terry, American basketball player
1978 – Zach Filkins, American guitarist
1978 – Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
1978 – Genki Horiguchi, Japanese wrestler
1979 – Dave Annable, American actor
1979 – Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan footballer
1979 – Reece Young, New Zealand cricketer
1980 – David Diehl, American football player and sportscaster
1980 – Mike Dunleavy Jr., American basketball player
1983 – Yuka Hirata, Japanese actress and model
1983 – Luke Hochevar, American baseball player
1984 – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
1984 – Loek van Mil, Dutch baseball player
1984 – Cyhi the Prynce, American rapper and producer
1985 – François-Olivier Roberge, Canadian speed skater
1986 – Jenna Marbles, American YouTuber and comedian
1986 – George Watsky, American hip-hop artist, poet and author
1987 – Aly Cissokho, French footballer
1987 – Rhett Titus, American wrestler
1988 – Michael Cooper, English rugby league player
1988 – Clare Maguire, English singer-songwriter
1988 – Tim Moltzen, Australian rugby league player
1990 – Oliver Gill, English footballer
1990 – Aaron Mooy, Australian footballer
1991 – Lee Jung-shin, South Korean rapper and bass player
1991 – Phil Ofosu-Ayeh, German-Ghanaian footballer
1992 – Jae Park, South Korean-American singer (Day6)
1993 – Dennis Schröder, German basketball player
1995 – Joe Ofahengaue, New Zealand-Tongan rugby league player
1996 – Nao Furuhata, Japanese idol and singer
1999 – Nana Owada, Japanese idol, singer, and actress

Source: wikipedia

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