On This Day — May 15
4486 noted people were born and 2046 died on May 15 in our archive, including Edwin Alderman, Pierre Curie and Ray Lankester.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on May 15
Edwin Alderman
1861 – 1931
Pierre Curie
1859 – 1906
Ray Lankester
1847 – 1929
Adi Bulsara
b. 1951
Alimuddin Zumla
b. 1955
Alois Riedler
1850 – 1936
Cecilia Malmström
b. 1968
Charles J. Scicluna
b. 1959
Claus Roxin
1931 – 2025
Clifton Fadiman
1904 – 1999
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby
1797 – 1863
Dieter Spöri
b. 1943
Dorothy Hansine Andersen
1901 – 1963
Edward Harland
1831 – 1895
Egil Andersen Hylleraas
1898 – 1965
Endymion Porter Wilkinson
b. 1941
Eoin MacNeill
1867 – 1945
Frank L. Culbertson
b. 1949
Frank Wilczek
b. 1951
Gu Chaohao
1926 – 2012
Gustaf Aulén
1879 – 1977
Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers
1821 – 1901
Henry Beeching
1859 – 1919
Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
b. 1931
Kevin Ellis
1908 – 1975
Klemens von Metternich
1773 – 1859
Laura Codruța Kövesi
b. 1973
Laurence Boone
b. 1969
Lydia Antonova
b. 1950
Madeleine Albright
1937 – 2022
Mary F. Lyon
1925 – 2014
Michael Dexter
b. 1945
Mukharbiy Ulbashev
b. 1960
Robert Kowalski
b. 1941
Roger Ailes
1940 – 2017
Roger D. Launius
b. 1954
Sveinung Rotevatn
b. 1987
Ursula Schleicher
1933 – 2026
Vernon Treatt
1897 – 1984
William Hume-Rothery
1899 – 1968
Yuri Izrael
1930 – 2014
A.J. Han Vinck
b. 1949
Abdel Moneim Saeed
1933 – 2021
Abraham Hamadeh
b. 1991
Adolf Hoel
1879 – 1964
Albert Verwey
1865 – 1937
Aleh Bełakoniew
b. 1965
Alexander Schmidt
1831 – 1894
Anatoly Antonov
b. 1955
Andreas Loverdos
b. 1956
Andrei Eshpai
1925 – 2015
Andrew Bertie
1929 – 2008
Andrew Nien-dzu Yang
b. 1955
Andriy Teteruk
b. 1973
Andrzej Walicki
1930 – 2020
Angus MacLean
1914 – 2000
Anna Macleod
1917 – 2004
Anthony W. England
b. 1942
Anuj Sharma
b. 1976
Arkady Volsky
1932 – 2006
Arthur Winfree
1942 – 2002
Athene Donald
b. 1953
Barbara Hammer
1939 – 2019
Baron Vaea
1921 – 2009
Ben Wallace
b. 1970
Benjamin Alvord, Jr.
1860 – 1927
Boris Berman
1901 – 1939
Brad Hatfield
b. 1956
Carl Wernicke
1848 – 1905
Carl Wilhelm Böttiger
1807 – 1878
Carlos de la Torre y Huerta
1858 – 1950
Caroline Thomson
b. 1954
Cassius Jackson Keyser
1862 – 1947
Cecilia Hagen
b. 1946
Charles Vilain XIIII
1803 – 1878
Charles Wardell Stiles
1867 – 1941
Charles van der Plas
1891 – 1977
Chawalit Yongchaiyut
b. 1932
Chris Martin
1973 – 2015
Chris Meledandri
b. 1959
Christian J. Lambertsen
1917 – 2011
Christoph Gerber
b. 1942
Christopher C. McGrath
1902 – 1986
Christy Smith
b. 1969
Clarence Dutton
1841 – 1912
Claudia Roth
b. 1955
Cyryl
b. 1961
Danny Alexander
b. 1972
Dariusz Szpakowski
b. 1951
Dave Wolverton
1957 – 2022
David Almond
b. 1951
David Bodian
1910 – 1992
Diana Liverman
b. 1954
Dinesh Kumar Tripathi
b. 1964
Dmitry Medoyev
b. 1960
Dmitry Samokvasov
1843 – 1911
Domenico Rossi
b. 1951
Doug Lowe
b. 1942
Eduard Prokosch
1876 – 1938
Ellen Axson Wilson
1860 – 1914
Elvira Rodríguez
b. 1949
Erik Rauch
1974 – 2005
Erin Schuman
b. 1963
Etsujirō Uehara
1877 – 1962
Eugenia Charles
1919 – 2005
Fausto Lopo de Carvalho
1890 – 1970
Ferdynand Goetel
1890 – 1960
Francesco Mussoni
b. 1971
Frank Heart
1929 – 2018
Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg
1794 – 1874
Frits Korthals Altes
1931 – 2025
Frits van Oostrom
b. 1953
Fritz Feigl
1891 – 1971
Fritz Julius Kuhn
1896 – 1951
Fusae Ichikawa
1893 – 1981
Gail Phillips
1944 – 2021
George Hawkins
b. 1946
Gerald Stourzh
b. 1929
Gholam Reza Pahlavi
1923 – 2017
Gülşara Äbdıqalyqova
b. 1965
Habib El Malki
b. 1946
Haddon Storey
b. 1930
Hedi Turki
1922 – 2019
Hege Skjeie
1955 – 2018
Helen Alma Newton Turner
1908 – 1995
Henkjan Honing
b. 1959
Henrik Mohn
1835 – 1916
Hisui Sugiura
1876 – 1965
Humberto Delgado
1906 – 1965
Ida Rhodes
1900 – 1986
Ioannis Psycharis
1854 – 1929
Iryna Herashchenko
b. 1971
Isa Mustafa
b. 1951
Ivan Horbachevsky
1854 – 1942
J. Caleb Boogs
1909 – 1993
J. D. Mesnard
b. 1980
Jakucho Setouchi
1922 – 2021
James Gadsden
1788 – 1858
James Mayer de Rothschild
1792 – 1868
Jaroslav Bašta
1948 – 2024
Jason Hu
b. 1948
Jean Cavaillès
1903 – 1944
Jean of Luxembourg
b. 1957
Jennifer Rizzotti
b. 1974
Johann Georg Heinrich Feder
1740 – 1821
Johannes Vogel
b. 1963
John H. Hoover
1887 – 1970
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore
1757 – 1832
John Lipsky
b. 1947
Jonathan Gershenzon
b. 1955
Jonathan W. Greenert
b. 1953
Joseph Ludwig Raabe
1801 – 1859
José Cubiles
1894 – 1971
José Pablo López Sánchez
b. 1977
Jusuf Kalla
b. 1942
Kate Knuth
b. 1981
Kevin Hewison
b. 1954
Konstantin Ozgan
1939 – 2016
Lars Løkke Rasmussen
b. 1964
Lars-Erik Larsson
1908 – 1986
Levi Lincoln Sr.
1749 – 1820
Luis María Linde
b. 1945
Lyudmila Kasatkina
1925 – 2012
Margaret Guilfoyle
1926 – 2020
Maria Reiche
1903 – 1998
Marian Kukiel
1885 – 1973
Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard
1861 – 1942
Mario Rosario Morelli
b. 1941
Markus Pieper
b. 1963
Martin Eberhard
b. 1960
Martin Sonneborn
b. 1965
Mary C. Wheeler
1846 – 1920
Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy
1885 – 1955
Meg Gardiner
b. 1957
Michael Lentz
b. 1964
Mikhail Taube
1869 – 1961
Molly Meacher
b. 1940
Mordechay Lewy
b. 1948
Moti Yung
b. 1959
Mu Sochua
b. 1954
Muhyiddin Yassin
b. 1947
Muna el-Kurd
b. 1998
Mykoła Dżyha
b. 1949
Nadezhda Pavlova
b. 1956
Naokuni Nomura
1885 – 1973
Nasrallah Peter Sfeir
1920 – 2019
Neville Jordan
b. 1943
Nicolai L. Volodos
1934 – 2016
Nikolay Denin
b. 1958
Nurtai Äbiqaev
b. 1947
Pasko Rakic
b. 1933
Paul Samuelson
1915 – 2009
Paul Zindel
1936 – 2003
Peter Hussing
1948 – 2012
Peter Swire
b. 1958
Rauf Hajiyev
1922 – 1995
Raymond Federman
1928 – 2009
Rebecca Cliffe
b. 1990
Reinhard Süring
1866 – 1950
René Drucker Colín
1937 – 2017
… and 4,286 more
Died on May 15
André Brahic
1942 – 2016
Arthur Gordon Webster
1863 – 1923
Carlos Fuentes
1928 – 2012
Charles R. Doering
1956 – 2021
Edward Raymond Ames
1806 – 1879
Edwin Dun
1842 – 1931
Fritz Baade
1893 – 1974
Gaston Deschamps
1861 – 1931
Gottfried Semper
1803 – 1879
Inukai Tsuyoshi
1855 – 1932
Jerzy Trela
1942 – 2022
Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer
1899 – 1957
Leon Petrażycki
1867 – 1931
Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
1898 – 1984
Natalya Gundareva
1948 – 2005
Robert Lucas
1937 – 2023
Robert Maynard Hutchins
1899 – 1977
Shintarō Abe
1924 – 1991
Thomas Henry Holland
1868 – 1947
Walter Richard Miles
1885 – 1978
Willis Lamb
1913 – 2008
Zhautilov Primbek
1911 – 1989
Albert Smijers
1888 – 1957
Ali Shayegan
1903 – 1981
Allen Lee
1940 – 2020
Andreas Floer
1956 – 1991
Andrzej Drawicz
1932 – 1997
André Dauchez
1870 – 1948
André Jean René Lacrampe
1941 – 2015
Angelica Domröse
1941 – 2026
Arthur Foljambe, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
1870 – 1941
Atanas Burov
1875 – 1954
Bernard Benjamin
1910 – 2002
Constantine John Alexopoulos
1907 – 1986
Dušan Vujović
1951 – 2025
Edmund Phelps
1933 – 2026
Eduardo A. Roca
1921 – 2019
Edwin S. Shneidman
1918 – 2009
Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases
1766 – 1842
Frank Shaughnessy
1884 – 1969
Franz von Dingelstedt
1814 – 1881
François Fortassin
1939 – 2017
Frederick Debartzch Monk
1856 – 1914
Frederick Kantor
1942 – 2020
Friedrich Dittes
1829 – 1896
General Nelson A. Miles
1839 – 1925
Georgie Anne Geyer
1935 – 2019
Gheorghe Marinescu
1863 – 1938
Giuseppe Dezza
1830 – 1898
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
1942 – 2004
Gustaf af Wetterstedt
1776 – 1837
Hel Braun
1914 – 1986
Helvi Sipilä
1915 – 2009
Herbert Grötzsch
1902 – 1993
Ida Freund
1863 – 1914
Ikuo Kamei
1933 – 2019
Ivan Akimov
1755 – 1814
Javier Heraud
1942 – 1963
Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre
1714 – 1789
Jean-Luc Dehaene
1940 – 2014
John Shepherd-Barron
1925 – 2010
John Willingham
1932 – 2013
Joseph Hermann Schmidt
1804 – 1852
Josephine Tilden
1869 – 1957
K. M. Cariappa
1899 – 1993
Karl-Otto Apel
1922 – 2017
Kees Edelman
1903 – 1964
Leif Størmer
1905 – 1979
Margery Corbett Ashby
1882 – 1981
Maria Mokrzycka
1882 – 1971
Mario Einaudi
1904 – 1994
Max d'Ollone
1875 – 1959
Mihajlo Janketić
1938 – 2019
Milenko Radomar Vesnić
1862 – 1921
Mohammad-Amin Riahi
1923 – 2009
Mykhailo Hrechukha
1902 – 1976
Nicolae Filip
1926 – 2009
Nimai Mukhopadhyay
1944 – 2000
Patriarch Sergius of Moscow
1867 – 1944
Paul Baum
1859 – 1932
Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant
1852 – 1924
Richard Jaeger
1913 – 1998
Richard Theodore Greener
1844 – 1922
Robert Menzies
1894 – 1978
Robert Morris Page
1903 – 1992
Ronald Ribman
1932 – 2025
Samuel Eliot Morison
1887 – 1976
Samuel George Morton
1799 – 1851
Semyon Ginzburg
1897 – 1993
Shang Zhen
1888 – 1978
Stuart Thomas Butler
1926 – 1982
Susanna Agnelli
1922 – 2009
Tatiana Okunevskaya
1914 – 2002
Thomas Oliver
1853 – 1942
Thorvald Jørgensen
1867 – 1946
Théodore Deck
1823 – 1891
Tyrone Guthrie
1900 – 1971
Vladimir Kolesov
1934 – 2019
Vladko Maček
1879 – 1964
Wilhelm Mauritz Klingspor
1744 – 1814
William Angus
1871 – 1965
Yae Ibuka
1897 – 1989
Étienne-Jules Marey
1830 – 1904
Abdullatif Abdulhamid
1954 – 2024
Abiram Chamberlain
1837 – 1911
Adam Tanner
1571 – 1632
Adolf Aron Baginsky
1843 – 1918
Agha Mehdiyev
1920 – 2003
Ahasverus Samuel van Nierop
1813 – 1878
Alan B. Gold
1917 – 2005
Albert J. Pearson
1846 – 1905
Albert W. Gilchrist
1858 – 1926
Alexander Gordon Bearn
1923 – 2009
Alphonse Lavallée
1797 – 1873
Anatolio Salinas
1917 – 1998
André Laliberté
1947 – 2026
Anna Lindhagen
1870 – 1941
Anne Lucy Bosworth Focke
1868 – 1907
Annie May Hurd Karrer
1893 – 1984
Antonio Miró Quesada de la Guerra
1875 – 1935
Archduke Rudolf of Austria
1919 – 2010
Arthur Bridgman Clark
1866 – 1948
Arthur Talmage Abernethy
1872 – 1956
Barbara Nawrocka-Dońska
1924 – 2018
Beman Gates Dawes
1870 – 1953
Benjamin W. Lacy
1839 – 1895
Beresford Kidd
1864 – 1948
Berndt Lindholm
1841 – 1914
Bert Locke
1910 – 1977
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
1923 – 2010
Bhudev Mukhopadhyay
1827 – 1894
Billy Raymond
1938 – 2013
Braulio Carrillo Colina
1800 – 1845
Cao Kun
1862 – 1938
Carl Clewing
1884 – 1954
Carl Plate
1909 – 1977
Charles Kittel
1916 – 2019
Charles Martel
1860 – 1945
Charles Robert Barry
1824 – 1897
Charles Strouse
1928 – 2025
Chen Mingshu
1889 – 1965
Chic Hecht
1928 – 2006
Claes Borgström
1944 – 2020
Clarence J. McLeod
1895 – 1959
Clark Shaughnessy
1892 – 1970
Constantin Dăscălescu
1923 – 2003
Cris Derksen
1981 – 2026
Daniel O'Connell
1775 – 1847
Daniel du Toit
1871 – 1959
David F. Hardwick
1934 – 2021
David Ferdinand Koreff
1783 – 1851
Ede Reményi
1828 – 1898
Edmund Wilson, Sr.
1863 – 1923
Edward Hopper
1882 – 1967
Emanuel Boekman
1889 – 1940
Emiliano Figueroa
1866 – 1931
Emily Dickinson
1830 – 1886
Eugene Kozlovsky
1946 – 2023
Ezio Bosso
1971 – 2020
Ferdinand Flocon
1800 – 1866
Forest K. Ferguson
1919 – 1954
Frances F. Alexander
1919 – 2010
Francis Bedford
1816 – 1894
Francisco Altino Lima
1924 – 1989
Francisco Valdés Vergara
1854 – 1916
Frank F. Ledford, Jr.
1934 – 2019
Frederic Joseph Brown
1934 – 2024
Frederick Hickford
1862 – 1929
Frederick S. Lovell
1813 – 1878
Frederik Christian Rosenkrantz
1724 – 1802
Friedrich Anton von Heynitz
1725 – 1802
Geoffrey Arthur
1920 – 1984
Georg J:son Karlin
1859 – 1939
George Coventry, 8th Earl of Coventry
1784 – 1843
George Crile III
1945 – 2006
George Fife Angas
1789 – 1879
George Walsh
1899 – 1979
Georgy Shakhnazarov
1924 – 2001
Giacomo Trecourt
1812 – 1882
Giulio Boschi
1838 – 1920
Gunter d'Alquen
1910 – 1998
Guy Simonds
1903 – 1974
Hall S. Lusk
1883 – 1983
Harry J. Capehart
1881 – 1955
Hasan Tahsin
1888 – 1919
Hassan Hallak
1946 – 2023
Henry A. Courtney, Jr.
1916 – 1945
Héctor Guevara Ramírez
1956 – 2022
Ignacy Gogolewski
1931 – 2022
Isaiah of Rostov
1050 – 1090
Italo Montemezzi
1875 – 1952
Jacob Jensen
1926 – 2015
Jacques Coghen
1791 – 1858
Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet
1913 – 1994
Jakob Stämpfli
1820 – 1879
James Watson
1750 – 1806
Javier Valdez Cárdenas
1967 – 2017
Jean Baptiste Lolo
1798 – 1868
Jean Craighead George
1919 – 2012
Jean-Gabriel Chauvin
1889 – 1976
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