On This Day — January 15
4633 noted people were born and 2249 died on January 15 in our archive, including Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Florian Znaniecki and François Gigot de la Peyronie.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 15
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
1895 – 1973
Florian Znaniecki
1882 – 1958
François Gigot de la Peyronie
1678 – 1747
Rizwana Hasan
b. 1968
Alberto Ullastres
1914 – 2001
Aleksandr Kokotov
b. 1961
Aleksey Pakhomov
b. 1945
Arlie Russell Hochschild
b. 1940
Arthur Paget
1771 – 1840
Bruce Schneier
b. 1963
C. D. Howe
1886 – 1960
Clive Finlayson
b. 1955
David George Kendall
1918 – 2007
Diana Barnato Walker
1918 – 2008
Dyzma Gałaj
1915 – 2000
Dídac Lee
b. 1974
Ernst Benda
1925 – 2009
Frederic G. Kenyon
1863 – 1952
Frederick DuCane Godman
1834 – 1919
Friedrich Schmidt
1832 – 1908
Giovanni Salvemini
1708 – 1791
Hermann Burmeister
1807 – 1892
Hugh Trevor-Roper
1914 – 2003
Jacek Protas
b. 1964
Jet Bussemaker
b. 1961
John D. Strong
1905 – 1992
John Podesta
b. 1949
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero
1894 – 1989
Jörgen Lehmann
1898 – 1989
Júlio Augusto Henriques
1838 – 1928
Katharine Bement Davis
1860 – 1935
Kostas Soukoulis
1951 – 2024
Laurens de Haan
b. 1937
Lee O-young
1934 – 2022
Lewis Terman
1877 – 1956
Louis-Amable Jetté
1836 – 1920
Ludwig Schläfli
1814 – 1895
Martin Chalfie
b. 1947
Martin Raff
b. 1938
Matsushige Ono
1936 – 2026
Michel Debré
1912 – 1996
Nathan Söderblom
1866 – 1931
Nathaniel Lord Britton
1859 – 1934
Parker Cleaveland
1780 – 1858
Pavel Bazhov
1879 – 1950
Rex Ingram
1892 – 1950
Shunji Yanai
b. 1937
Stuart E. Eizenstat
b. 1943
Tatyana Kusayko
b. 1960
Theodor Michael
1925 – 2019
Theoklitos Farmakidis
1784 – 1860
Thierry Breton
b. 1955
Tōru Takahashi
1941 – 2022
Victor Fung
b. 1945
Vyacheslav Gladkov
b. 1969
Yoshito Sengoku
1946 – 2018
Agnieszka Romaszewska-Guzy
b. 1962
Ahmad Amzad Hashim
b. 1970
Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid
1872 – 1963
Akbar S. Ahmed
b. 1943
Alejandro Poiré Romero
b. 1971
Aleksandr Skrinsky
b. 1936
Alexander Dogiel
1852 – 1922
Altay Kölginov
b. 1978
Anatoli Ivanishin
b. 1969
Andreas Gursky
b. 1955
Andrew Tyrie
b. 1957
André Ventura
b. 1983
Arjun Sethi
b. 1983
Arkhip Kuindzhi
1841 – 1910
Arthur Kinsella
1918 – 2004
Avishay Braverman
b. 1948
Ayman al-Ṣafadī
b. 1962
Barbara Tarbuck
1942 – 2016
Ben Shapiro
b. 1984
Boris Tadić
b. 1958
Brian Anderson
b. 1941
C.F. Jeff Wu
b. 1949
Catherine Trautmann
b. 1951
Charles S. Bryan
b. 1942
Choe Ryong-hae
b. 1950
Christian Krohg
1777 – 1828
Claudio Scajola
b. 1948
Cyril Garnham
1901 – 1994
Dan Scavino
b. 1976
Daniel C. Peterson
b. 1953
David Zaslav
b. 1960
Doris Sommer
b. 1947
Ebenezer Hazard
1744 – 1817
Edmund Hansen Grut
1831 – 1907
Eduard Prutnik
b. 1973
Edward Teller
1908 – 2003
Elie Siegmeister
1909 – 1991
Eric Willis
1922 – 1999
Ernest J. Gaines
1933 – 2019
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby
1841 – 1908
Frédéric Lordon
b. 1962
Gamal Abdel Nasser
1918 – 1970
Gavriil Ksenofontov
1888 – 1938
George R. Allin
1880 – 1956
Glen Browder
b. 1943
Glenn Andrews
1909 – 2008
Henry Cleary
1849 – 1929
Henry Croft
1856 – 1917
Hervé Berville
b. 1990
Iain Bonomy, Lord Bonomy
b. 1946
Ignacio Solares
1945 – 2023
Ignác Darányi
1849 – 1927
Ion Țurcanu
b. 1946
Irving J. Selikoff
1915 – 1992
Jacques Pierre Brissot
1754 – 1793
James G. March
1928 – 2018
James Harrison Oliver
1857 – 1928
Jamil Hasanli
b. 1952
Jean Alaux
1786 – 1864
Jean Baptiste Abbeloos
1836 – 1906
Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
1924 – 2013
Jim Stasheff
b. 1936
John Abercromby, 5th Baron Abercromby
1841 – 1924
John Alexander Low Waddell
1854 – 1938
John Dale
b. 1953
John H. Gibbons
1929 – 2015
John Halliday Croom
1847 – 1923
John Joseph O'Connor
1920 – 2000
Jonathan Dordick
b. 1959
Jose Dalisay, Jr.
b. 1954
Joseph Kost
b. 1947
Joseph-Mathias Tellier
1861 – 1952
João Figueiredo
1918 – 1999
Jules Hetzel
1814 – 1886
Kakichi Mitsukuri
1857 – 1909
Kazuyasu Shiina
b. 1952
Keiran Lee
b. 1984
Ken Macintosh
b. 1962
Kenneth Hugdahl
b. 1948
Ko Chun-hsiung
1945 – 2015
Koos Verdam
1915 – 1998
Kristina Kvien
b. 1965
Lee Teng-hui
1923 – 2020
Louis-Antoine Beaunier
1779 – 1835
Luis Racionero
1940 – 2020
Maity Interiano
b. 1985
Marcel Ranjeva
b. 1944
Marcos Berríos
b. 1984
Margaret Beckett
b. 1943
Markus Ferber
b. 1965
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929 – 1968
María San Gil
b. 1965
Matthew Stewart
1717 – 1785
Maurice Herzog
1919 – 2012
Max Adler
1873 – 1937
Michael Schanze
b. 1947
Michael Storper
b. 1954
Michelle Thorne
b. 1985
Mohammed Ikramullah
1903 – 1963
Murad Kajlayev
1931 – 2023
Mustafa Barghouti
b. 1954
Nikolay Bobrikov
1839 – 1904
Nouréini Tidjani-Serpos
b. 1946
Oleg Govorun
b. 1969
Pavel Milyukov
1859 – 1943
Peter Maitlis
1933 – 2022
Pierre Sokolsky
b. 1946
Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
1776 – 1834
Pritish Nandy
1951 – 2025
Raffaella Petrini
b. 1969
Raphael von Koeber
1848 – 1923
Reinhart J. Ceulemans
b. 1954
René Vautier
1928 – 2015
Richard Harbert Smith
1894 – 1957
Robert Lee Gilbertson
1925 – 2011
Rolf Stranger
1891 – 1990
Ron Guthrey
1916 – 2008
Ruth Slenczynska
1925 – 2026
Saul Landau
1936 – 2013
Scott Snyder
b. 1976
Sofia Kovalevskaya
1850 – 1891
Stanislao Loffreda
1932 – 2025
Steven Choi
b. 1944
Susi Pudjiastuti
b. 1965
Svetlana Sorokina
b. 1957
Tadeusz Krwawicz
1910 – 1988
Tadeusz Woźniak
b. 1960
Tetsumi Takara
b. 1954
Thomas Hoving
1931 – 2009
Thomas J. Barrett
b. 1947
Tim Brighouse
1940 – 2023
Torsten Burmester
b. 1963
Toshio Kimura
1909 – 1983
Ursula Hamenstädt
b. 1961
Vasily Kuznetsov
1894 – 1964
Vladimir Korenchevsky
1880 – 1959
Vladimir Semichastny
1924 – 2001
Volodymyr Borodians'ky
b. 1974
Wataru Kubo
1929 – 2003
Willem van der Woude
1876 – 1974
William Henry Draper III
b. 1928
William Nast
1807 – 1899
William Prout
1785 – 1850
Willibrord van Beek
b. 1949
… and 4,433 more
Died on January 15
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres
1853 – 1948
Ivan Petrovsky
1901 – 1973
Ahmadu Bello
1910 – 1966
Anatoly Vishnevsky
1935 – 2021
Charles Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield
1859 – 1941
Donald MacAlister
1854 – 1934
Edward Everett
1794 – 1865
Ernesto Foldats
1925 – 2003
Gáspár Miklós Tamás
1948 – 2023
H.O. Lange
1863 – 1943
Hector Hetherington
1888 – 1965
Heinrich von Rustige
1810 – 1900
James Hillier
1915 – 2007
Jean Cassou
1897 – 1986
Jöns Svanberg
1771 – 1851
K. R. Rao
1961 – 2021
Karl Friedrich Luts
1883 – 1942
Karl Georg von Wächter
1797 – 1880
Leona Baumgartner
1902 – 1991
Leopold Infeld
1898 – 1968
Manuel Broseta
1932 – 1992
Manuel Fraga
1922 – 2012
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
1927 – 2010
Mathilde Krim
1926 – 2018
Michael Mussa
1944 – 2012
Nikolay Pavlovich Petrov
1836 – 1920
R. Beverly Cole
1829 – 1901
Ray Bolger
1904 – 1987
Richard F. W. Bader
1931 – 2012
Seán MacBride
1904 – 1988
Thomas Bugge
1740 – 1815
Vakhtang Kikabidze
1938 – 2023
Wilhelm Hauchecorne
1828 – 1900
Wilhelm Wirtinger
1865 – 1945
Yang Zhongjian
1897 – 1979
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
1912 – 1966
Adrian Benjamin Bentzon
1777 – 1827
Aleksandr Yezhevsky
1915 – 2017
Alexa McDonough
1944 – 2022
Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann
1802 – 1841
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston
1851 – 1926
Armin Öpik
1898 – 1983
Aurel Wintner
1903 – 1958
Banastre Tarleton
1754 – 1833
Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock
1849 – 1912
Christian Ludwig Gerling
1788 – 1864
Cyril Fox
1882 – 1967
David E. Lilienthal
1899 – 1981
Edward Hopkinson
1859 – 1922
Erik Leonard Ekman
1883 – 1931
Ernest Dunlop Swinton
1868 – 1951
Ernest Reyer
1823 – 1909
Ernst von Wildenbruch
1845 – 1909
Francisco X. Alarcón
1954 – 2016
Friedrich Leo
1851 – 1914
Friedrich Parrot
1791 – 1841
Gengo Hyakutake
1882 – 1976
Georg Michael Anton Kerschensteiner
1854 – 1932
George Landenberger
1879 – 1936
Georges Hilaire Bousquet
1846 – 1937
Georges-Henri Lévesque
1903 – 2000
Giuseppe Gorla
1895 – 1970
Gulzarilal Nanda
1898 – 1998
Hein Roethof
1921 – 1996
Helmuth Brückner
1896 – 1951
Henning Hamilton
1814 – 1886
Henry Ellis
1777 – 1869
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster
1866 – 1936
Herbert Olivecrona
1891 – 1980
Hermann Höpker-Aschoff
1883 – 1954
Iosif Gurko
1828 – 1901
Jean Lindenmann
1924 – 2015
Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
1924 – 2013
Jean-Noël Rey
1949 – 2016
Jerzy Słupecki
1904 – 1987
John Matthews
1755 – 1826
Joseph Maria von Radowitz
1839 – 1912
Kenneth V. Thimann
1904 – 1997
Kotaro Suzumura
1944 – 2020
Leah Goldberg
1911 – 1970
Lou Tseng-Tsiang
1871 – 1949
Louis Etienne François Héricart de Thury
1776 – 1854
Maria Chekhova
1863 – 1957
Martin Dzúr
1919 – 1985
Massimo d'Azeglio
1798 – 1866
Maud Merrill James
1888 – 1978
Maurice Francis Egan
1852 – 1924
Max C. Starkloff
1858 – 1942
Michel Poniatowski
1922 – 2002
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
1938 – 1996
Mykhaylo Khmelko
1919 – 1996
Nadezhda Kozhushanaya
1952 – 1997
Oleksandr Shevchenko
1937 – 2016
Pangeran Muhammad Noor
1901 – 1979
Perry T. Rathbone
1911 – 2000
Pierre Louis-Dreyfus
1908 – 2011
Reginald Talbot
1841 – 1929
Robert Boyd
1578 – 1627
Samuel Jaskilka
1919 – 2012
Samuel Åkerhielm
1887 – 1976
Sergey Fedorov
1869 – 1936
Shenton Thomas
1879 – 1962
Silvio Benigno Crespi
1868 – 1944
Sir David Richmond
1843 – 1908
Sir George Wheler
1651 – 1724
Thomas E. McKay
1875 – 1958
Thomas Egleston
1832 – 1900
Walter Kingsmill
1864 – 1935
Walter M. Urbain
1910 – 2002
William Boyd Dawkins
1837 – 1929
William T. Piper
1881 – 1970
Zachary Taylor Wood
1860 – 1915
Zakiah Daradjat
1926 – 2013
Agnar Mykle
1915 – 1994
Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough
1805 – 1860
Albert Lee Stephens, Sr.
1874 – 1965
Alfred Kohn
1867 – 1959
Alpheus Hyatt
1838 – 1902
Anton Bernolák
1762 – 1813
Armand Praviel
1875 – 1944
Armand-Pierre Caussin de Perceval
1795 – 1871
Arne Palmqvist
1921 – 2003
Bahman Jalali
1944 – 2010
Ben H. Guill
1909 – 1994
Bennet Sherard
1621 – 1700
Bill Riordan
1908 – 1973
Bo Yibo
1908 – 2007
Brian Howard
1905 – 1958
Buddhadev Das Gupta
1933 – 2018
Camilo de Polavieja
1838 – 1914
Campbell Carmichael
1871 – 1953
Carl Erik Mannerheim
1759 – 1837
Carlo Fruttero
1926 – 2012
Carol Channing
1921 – 2019
Caspar Coolhaes
1536 – 1615
Charles Brickett Haddock
1796 – 1861
Charles Henry Rose
1873 – 1948
Charles Jonas
1840 – 1896
Ciel Bergman
1938 – 2017
Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain
1707 – 1778
Constantine Jacob Erdman
1846 – 1911
Dan Haggerty
1942 – 2016
David Howell
1831 – 1903
David R. Francis
1850 – 1927
De Witt C. Flanagan
1870 – 1946
Derrick Crothers
1942 – 2021
Dick King
1934 – 2018
Donold Lourie
1899 – 1990
Duncan McNaughton
1910 – 1998
Ebrahim Nabavi
1958 – 2025
Ed Derwinski
1926 – 2012
Eduard Lassen
1830 – 1904
Edward Makula
1930 – 1996
Edward N. Hall
1914 – 2006
Edward Wienholt
1833 – 1904
Eisuke Hinode
1941 – 2012
Elechukwu Njaka
1921 – 1975
Elwood Bruner
1854 – 1915
Emanuel Celler
1888 – 1981
Endre György
1848 – 1927
Enis Akaygen
1880 – 1956
Ephraim F. Morgan
1869 – 1950
Ernest Koliqi
1903 – 1975
Ether Shepley
1789 – 1877
Eugene E. Covert
1926 – 2015
Eugène Bonnier
1856 – 1894
Eugén Strömberg
1895 – 1971
Fannie Farmer
1857 – 1915
Fazıl Küçük
1906 – 1984
Fidel Cano Gutiérrez
1854 – 1919
Francesco Carrara
1805 – 1888
Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick
1853 – 1924
François Antoine Marie Constantin de Méan et de Beaurieux
1756 – 1831
Gagik Yeganyan
1956 – 2026
Gaston Gradis
1889 – 1968
George C. Rickards
1860 – 1933
George Nares
1831 – 1915
Gerhard Munthe
1849 – 1929
Gertrud Schwend-Uexküll
1867 – 1901
Giuseppe Caronia
1884 – 1977
Gordon Waite Underwood
1910 – 1978
Gus Williams
1953 – 2025
Gustav Bickell
1838 – 1906
György Cziffra
1921 – 1994
Halsey J. Boardman
1834 – 1900
Hamilton Fish II
1849 – 1936
Harold Dunbar Cooley
1897 – 1974
Harry Nilsson
1941 – 1994
Hein ter Poorten
1887 – 1968
Henri Gougerot
1881 – 1955
Henry H. Arnold
1886 – 1950
Henry Labouchère
1831 – 1912
Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, 1st Baron Rookwood
1826 – 1902
Henry Wellesley, 3rd Earl Cowley
1866 – 1919
Herbert Ihering
1888 – 1977
Hermann Eschke
1823 – 1900
Hermann Friedrich Stannius
1808 – 1883
Hermann, Freiherr von Soden
1852 – 1914
Hilmar Finsen
1824 – 1886
Homai Vyarawalla
1913 – 2012
… and 2,049 more