On This Day — March 15
4715 noted people were born and 2076 died on March 15 in our archive, including Bert Bolin, Albert Stöckl and Aldo Andreotti.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on March 15
Bert Bolin
1925 – 2007
Albert Stöckl
1823 – 1895
Aldo Andreotti
1924 – 1980
André-Jean Festugière
1898 – 1982
Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter
1881 – 1975
C. V. Boys
1855 – 1944
Camille Jullian
1859 – 1933
Caroline Quach-Thanh
b. 1972
Danny Yatom
b. 1945
Edward B. Bunn
1896 – 1972
Emil von Behring
1854 – 1917
Ernesto Foldats
1925 – 2003
Frances Lander Spain
1903 – 1999
Franciscus Sylvius
1614 – 1672
George K. Miley
b. 1942
Gerhard Klimeck
b. 1966
Gilberto Freyre
1900 – 1987
Hara Takashi
1856 – 1921
Harold L. Ickes
1874 – 1952
Isaak Kikoin
1908 – 1984
Jacob Palis
1940 – 2025
Jaume Subirana i Ortín
b. 1963
Josef Joffe
b. 1944
José Luis Salcedo Bastardo
1926 – 2005
Judith Krug
1940 – 2009
Kurt Koch
b. 1950
Leonid Roketsky
b. 1942
Nabil Elaraby
1935 – 2024
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
1713 – 1762
Nikolay Demyanov
1861 – 1938
Richard Layard, Baron Layard
b. 1934
Roberto Maroni
1955 – 2022
Robin Hartshorne
b. 1938
Rostislav Goldstein
b. 1969
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1933 – 2020
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah
b. 1953
Sacha Prechal
b. 1959
Santi Vila i Vicente
b. 1973
Stanisław Wojciechowski
1869 – 1953
Steve Witkoff
b. 1957
Sérgio Vieira de Mello
1948 – 2003
Waldemar Haffkine
1856 – 1930
Walter Frank Raphael Weldon
1860 – 1906
Zhores Alferov
1930 – 2019
Abd ar-Razzaq al-Yahya
1929 – 2020
Aggelos Sikelianos
1884 – 1951
Alain Oudot de Dainville
b. 1947
Alan Bean
1932 – 2018
Alexander Leonidovich Yanshin
1911 – 1999
Alfred Hillebrandt
1853 – 1927
Alfredo Solf y Muro
1872 – 1969
Anatol Isachenka
b. 1966
Anatoliy Kaminski
b. 1950
Andrew Phillips, Baron Phillips of Sudbury
1939 – 2023
Aristóbulo del Valle
1845 – 1896
Arta Dade
b. 1953
Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington
1849 – 1934
August Ramsay
1859 – 1943
Bazyli (Doroszkiewicz)
1914 – 1998
Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
1905 – 1944
Bienvenido Nebres
b. 1940
Bijan Namdar Zangeneh
b. 1953
Brett Mason
b. 1962
Brooks Landgraf
b. 1981
Carl Bildt
1850 – 1931
Charles Bonnet
b. 1933
Charles Henry Fernald
1838 – 1921
Charles Howard McIlwain
1871 – 1968
Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland
1754 – 1787
Chi Cheng
b. 1944
Christian Michelsen
1857 – 1925
Christian Schweigaard Stang
1900 – 1977
Clare Marx
1954 – 2022
Colin McPhee
1900 – 1964
Daphne Oseña-Paez
b. 1970
David Alton, Baron Alton of Liverpool
b. 1951
David Cronenberg
b. 1943
David Eisenberg
b. 1939
David Hayes
1931 – 2013
David N. Livingstone
b. 1953
Douglas Koshland
b. 1953
E. Donnall Thomas
1920 – 2012
Edwyn Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield
1854 – 1933
Emmanuel Guigon
b. 1959
Erik-Jan Zürcher
b. 1953
Eugène Fiset
1874 – 1951
Faik Konitza
1875 – 1942
Ferdinand Hurter
1844 – 1898
Franciszek Misztal
1901 – 1980
Franz Ollendorff
1900 – 1981
Franz Schuh
b. 1947
Friedrich Christian Diez
1794 – 1876
Fritz Berendsen
1904 – 1974
George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig
1918 – 2009
Gerbert Yefremov
b. 1933
Grażyna Małgorzata Vetulani
b. 1956
Harry Wexler
1911 – 1962
Hendrik Allik
1901 – 1989
Henri de Genouillac
1881 – 1940
Henry Adefope
1926 – 2012
Hiroaki Abe
1889 – 1949
Hirotaka Sugawara
b. 1938
Ilya Moiseyev
1929 – 2020
Inma Arias
b. 1961
Jacqueline Novogratz
b. 1961
Jaime Domínguez Buj
b. 1952
James T. Blair, Jr.
1902 – 1962
Jan Hoeijmakers
b. 1951
Janusz Piechociński
b. 1960
Jaroslava Adamová
1925 – 2012
Jason Crow
b. 1979
Jason Rezaian
b. 1976
Jerzy Wilk
1955 – 2021
Jessica Wittner
b. 1983
Johann Josef Loschmidt
1821 – 1895
Johannes Fallati
1809 – 1855
John Hayes
b. 1948
John Thomson
1765 – 1846
Jonas Žemaitis
1909 – 1954
Joy Belmonte
b. 1970
Juan José Ibarretxe
b. 1957
Jurin Laksanavisith
b. 1956
Karl Engisch
1899 – 1990
Karl Josef von Hefele
1809 – 1893
Karl-Otto Apel
1922 – 2017
Katarzyna Hall
b. 1957
Kevin Wall
b. 1952
Kim Won-il
b. 1942
Kozo Igarashi
1926 – 2013
Krafft von Crailsheim
1841 – 1926
Kōichirō Asakai
1906 – 1995
Leonid Pasechnik
b. 1970
Leonid Yengibarov
1935 – 1972
Leopold Hasner von Artha
1818 – 1891
Lev Zilber
1894 – 1966
Levan Tediashvili
1948 – 2024
Liberty Hyde Bailey
1858 – 1954
Lilian Helen Alexander
1861 – 1934
Lorenzo Viotti
b. 1990
Loïc Féry
b. 1974
Lucian Bernhard
1883 – 1972
Luís da Gama e Silva
1913 – 1979
Maija Isola
1927 – 2001
Marcus E. Raichle
b. 1937
Marina Raskova
1912 – 1943
Marius Lazurca
b. 1971
Martin Karplus
1930 – 2024
Mary Chase Perry Stratton
1867 – 1961
María Hervás
b. 1986
Masahiko Kōmura
b. 1942
Mauro Ferri
1920 – 2015
Max Rosenheim, Baron Rosenheim
1908 – 1972
Megan Morrone
b. 1973
Melih Esenbel
1915 – 1995
Mike Haridopolos
b. 1970
Mohammed Sadyk-Bej
1865 – 1944
Mongi Kooli
1930 – 2018
Moungi Bawendi
b. 1961
Nadezhda Kozhushanaya
1952 – 1997
Nikolai Aksyonenko
1949 – 2005
Novruz Mammadov
b. 1947
Oleh Makhnitskyi
b. 1970
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
1893 – 1972
Patrick Peter Chan
b. 1961
Pavel Chobanyan
1948 – 2017
Radoslav Kvapil
b. 1934
Richard E. Hallgren
1932 – 2023
Robert Brandenberger
b. 1954
Robert Carnwath, Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill
b. 1945
Robert Kühner
1903 – 1996
Robert L. Gordon III
b. 1957
Robert Lemaignen
1893 – 1980
Roger Curtis Green
1932 – 2009
Rosa Beltrán
b. 1960
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
b. 1943
Rostam Bastuni
1923 – 1994
Samuel Stanhope Smith
1751 – 1819
Satoshi Morimoto
b. 1941
Stefan Müller
b. 1962
Sunetra Gupta
b. 1965
Susan Stewart
b. 1952
Talbak Nazarov
b. 1938
Ted Kaufman
b. 1939
Thomas J. O'Brien
b. 1964
Thomas Perronet Thompson
1783 – 1869
Tobie Goedewaagen
1895 – 1980
Tymofiy Mylovanov
b. 1975
Vladislav Flyarkovsky
b. 1958
Werner Gruber
b. 1970
Wilhelm Joest
1852 – 1897
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
1779 – 1848
William Mitchell Ramsay
1851 – 1939
Wu Xianwen
1900 – 1985
Władysław Stasiak
1966 – 2010
Xavier Leroy
b. 1968
Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas
b. 1966
Yakov Zhilinskiy
1853 – 1918
Yvonne Jones
b. 1968
Élisée Reclus
1830 – 1905
A'Salfo
b. 1979
… and 4,515 more
Died on March 15
Arthur Holly Compton
1892 – 1962
Gad al-Haq
1917 – 1996
James Joseph Sylvester
1814 – 1897
Abraham Niclas Edelcrantz
1754 – 1821
Cesare Arzelà
1847 – 1912
Davidson Black
1884 – 1934
Deane Montgomery
1909 – 1992
Dionizy
1876 – 1960
Eugene Parker
1927 – 2022
Eugeniusz Wyzner
1931 – 2026
Hans Heinrich Landolt
1831 – 1910
Hidesaburō Hanafusa
1929 – 2009
Jaime García Añoveros
1932 – 2000
Jean-Marie Souriau
1922 – 2012
Johan Jakob Nervander
1805 – 1848
John Pople
1925 – 2004
John Scott Haldane
1860 – 1936
Okwui Enwezor
1963 – 2019
Salim Joubran
1947 – 2024
Stanisław Lorentz
1899 – 1991
Tarō Nakayama
1924 – 2023
Vasily Aleksandrovich Yushkevich
1897 – 1951
Abe Saperstein
1902 – 1966
Abraham Harkavy
1835 – 1919
Aleksander Kamiński
1903 – 1978
Aleksandr Laktionov
1910 – 1972
Aleksandr Shirvindt
1934 – 2024
Alexander von Zemlinsky
1871 – 1942
Alexei Rykov
1881 – 1938
Alfred C. Richmond
1902 – 1984
Alfred Mansfeld
1912 – 2004
Alice Amsden
1943 – 2012
Andrew Kenneth Burroughs
1953 – 2014
Audrey Callaghan, Baroness Callaghan of Cardiff
1915 – 2005
Auguste Warnier
1810 – 1875
Awni Abd al-Hadi
1889 – 1970
Bengt Gustafsson
1933 – 2019
Benjamin Spock
1903 – 1998
Bill Pickering
1910 – 2004
Bo Callaway
1927 – 2014
Charles Newman
1938 – 2006
Colin Goad
1914 – 1998
David M. Brugge
1927 – 2013
Durward Gorham Hall
1910 – 2001
Eduard Čech
1893 – 1960
Edward Tuckerman
1817 – 1886
Edward-Charles Blount
1809 – 1905
Electa Nobles Lincoln Walton
1824 – 1908
Elwin Bruno Christoffel
1829 – 1900
Ernest Seillière
1866 – 1955
François-Jules Pictet de la Rive
1809 – 1872
François-Édouard Picot
1786 – 1868
George Louis Beer
1872 – 1920
George Mackey
1916 – 2006
Georgette Chen
1906 – 1993
Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti
1774 – 1849
Gustav Karsten
1820 – 1900
Harold Courlander
1908 – 1996
Herbert Girton Deignan
1906 – 1968
Hermann Hüffer
1830 – 1905
Hernán Lara Zavala
1946 – 2025
Hubert Aquin
1929 – 1977
István Kniezsa
1898 – 1965
Jack Metcalf
1927 – 2007
Jean Victor Schnetz
1787 – 1870
Johan Ramstedt
1852 – 1935
Josep Lluís Sert
1902 – 1983
Julia V. Taft
1942 – 2008
Just Knud Qvigstad
1853 – 1957
Jürgen Heike
1949 – 2022
Kallam Anji Reddy
1939 – 2013
Khuang Aphaiwong
1902 – 1968
Lauro Cavazos
1927 – 2022
Laxminarayan Ramdas
1933 – 2024
Leland S. Kollmorgen
1927 – 2025
Leonid Leibenzon
1879 – 1951
Lily Garafulic
1914 – 2012
Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer
1715 – 1785
Luigi Cherubini
1760 – 1842
Marian Król
1939 – 2024
Mark Dvorzhetski
1908 – 1975
Maud Mannoni
1923 – 1998
Max Neuburger
1868 – 1955
Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez
1895 – 1986
Nevil Sidgwick
1873 – 1952
Nikolai Bukharin
1888 – 1938
Nikolay Bogolepov
1846 – 1901
Norman A. Phillips
1923 – 2019
Paul Josef Cordes
1934 – 2024
Peter Heintz
1920 – 1983
Piet Bukman
1934 – 2022
Pietro Bucalossi
1905 – 1992
Rebecca West
1892 – 1983
René Clair
1898 – 1981
René Doynel de Saint-Quentin
1883 – 1961
Robert von Puttkamer
1828 – 1900
Ron Silver
1946 – 2009
Rudolf Berthold
1891 – 1920
Salo Weisselberger
1867 – 1931
Sebastian Rahtz
1955 – 2016
Shōzō Murata
1878 – 1957
Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet
1826 – 1902
Sten Wåhlin
1914 – 1981
Tamara Grigsby
1974 – 2016
Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley
1540 – 1617
Thomas Southorn
1879 – 1957
Tomasz Łubieński
1938 – 2024
Tyge W. Böcher
1909 – 1983
Victor Veretennikov
1940 – 2023
Wataru Asō
1939 – 2025
Wiesław Kilian
1952 – 2019
William J. Crawford
1918 – 2000
William J. Porter
1914 – 1988
William Maynard Gomm
1784 – 1875
William Sterling Cole
1904 – 1987
William W. Tait
1929 – 2024
William Weaver Austin
1920 – 2000
Wolfgang Harich
1923 – 1995
Wollert Konow
1845 – 1924
Xu Caihou
1943 – 2015
Abraham Bäck
1713 – 1795
Abraham C. Ratshesky
1864 – 1943
Adam August Müller
1811 – 1844
Adolf Fényes
1867 – 1945
Affonso Arinos de Mello Franco
1930 – 2020
Aleksander Łuczak
1943 – 2023
Alexandre Parodi
1901 – 1979
Alexandre Pourcel
1841 – 1934
Alexej von Jawlensky
1864 – 1941
Alfred Augustus Stockton
1842 – 1907
Alfred Oscar Lawrence
1904 – 1986
Amos Bar
1931 – 2011
Andrew J. Boyle
1911 – 2001
André Bénard
1922 – 2016
Ann Sothern
1909 – 2001
Antje Vollmer
1943 – 2023
Antônio Fernando Brochini
1946 – 2024
Arthur Wesley Wheen
1897 – 1971
Arthur White Greeley
1875 – 1904
Asa Briggs
1921 – 2016
Attila Lőte
1934 – 2026
Auguste Anastasi
1820 – 1889
Auguste-Arthur, Comte de Beugnot
1797 – 1865
Augustus Legge
1839 – 1913
B. Everett Jordan
1896 – 1974
Baard Iversen
1836 – 1920
Benjamin J. Lea
1833 – 1894
Bob Williams
1942 – 2022
Booth Gardner
1936 – 2013
Bowie Kuhn
1926 – 2007
Bronson La Follette
1936 – 2018
Charles Bonney
1813 – 1897
Charles Hugo
1826 – 1871
Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester
1460 – 1526
Chemancheri Kunhiraman Nair
1916 – 2021
Chuck Niles
1927 – 2004
Cipriano Portocarrero
1784 – 1839
Clarissa Dickson Wright
1947 – 2014
Constantine Phipps
1840 – 1911
Czesław Gawlikowski
1899 – 1984
César-Mansuète Despretz
1791 – 1863
Dave Hood, Jr.
1954 – 2019
Dave Stallworth
1941 – 2017
DeRosey Caroll Cabell
1861 – 1924
Dietrich Wilhelm Heinrich Busch
1788 – 1858
Dmitry Furmanov
1891 – 1926
Dominique Noguez
1942 – 2019
Donald J. Grace
1926 – 2007
Douglas Abbott
1899 – 1987
Douglas Lochhead
1922 – 2011
Earline White Parmon
1943 – 2016
Edgar C. Ellis
1854 – 1947
Eduard Wallnöfer
1913 – 1989
Eilert Waldemar Preben Ramm
1769 – 1837
Eliphalet Frazer Andrews
1835 – 1915
Elizabeth Gregg Patterson
1904 – 1987
Emerson C. Itschner
1903 – 1995
Emilia Boncodin
1954 – 2010
Emiliyan Stanev
1907 – 1979
Ernst Amberg
1871 – 1952
Eva Likova
1919 – 2004
Fayzulla Khodzhayev
1896 – 1938
Federico Comandini
1893 – 1967
Ferdinand Ďurčanský
1906 – 1974
Fernando Freire García de la Huerta
1872 – 1953
Frances Harriet Williams
1898 – 1992
Francis Elisha Baker
1860 – 1924
Francis Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell
1895 – 1978
Franz Oberwinkler
1939 – 2018
Fred Mulley
1918 – 1995
Friedrich Wilhelm Semmler
1860 – 1931
G. Aravindan
1935 – 1991
G. David Low
1956 – 2008
G. Devarajan
1924 – 2006
Gaetano Cozzi
1922 – 2001
Genrikh Yagoda
1891 – 1938
George Alexander
1858 – 1918
George B. Duncan
1861 – 1950
George Conrad Westervelt
1879 – 1956
George Edmund Foss
1863 – 1936
… and 1,876 more