On This Day — June 15
4341 noted people were born and 1908 died on June 15 in our archive, including Alain Aspect, Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy and Lakshmi Mittal.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on June 15
Alain Aspect
b. 1947
Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy
1755 – 1809
Lakshmi Mittal
b. 1950
Abdelhadi Tazi
1921 – 2015
Alfred de Quervain
1879 – 1927
Allan Leal
1917 – 1999
Charles R. Alcock
b. 1951
Clare Martin
b. 1952
Einar Löfstedt
1880 – 1955
Frants Klintsevich
b. 1957
Gavriil Ilizarov
1921 – 1992
Germaine Kouméalo Anaté
b. 1968
Hagen Kleinert
1941 – 2025
Herbert Feuerstein
1937 – 2020
Herbert Simon
1916 – 2001
Hubertus Strughold
1898 – 1986
Ikuo Hirayama
1930 – 2009
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
1928 – 2018
Jeffrey Heer
b. 1979
Jim Bridenstine
b. 1975
John Fenn
1917 – 2010
John Redwood
b. 1951
Julian Reichelt
b. 1980
Lans Bovenberg
b. 1958
Leon Biliński
1846 – 1923
Maciej Lasek
b. 1967
María Teresa Fernández de la Vega
b. 1949
Maurice Françon
1913 – 1996
Michèle Cotta
b. 1937
Mickey Chaimovich
b. 1962
Mikhail Afanasov
b. 1953
Mo Udall
1922 – 1998
Muhammad Sharif
b. 1962
Nicole Belloubet
b. 1955
Ninian Stephen
1923 – 2017
Onni Talas
1877 – 1958
Osami Nagano
1880 – 1947
Thomas Huckle Weller
1915 – 2008
Tiphaine Samoyault
b. 1968
Xi Jinping
b. 1953
Yevgeny Kiselyov
b. 1956
Agnes Lidbeck
b. 1981
Akif Çağatay Kılıç
b. 1976
Alan Soper
b. 1951
Albert Lincoln Washburn
1911 – 2007
Alexander George Woodford
1782 – 1870
Andrea Rost
b. 1962
Andriy Mokhnyk
b. 1972
André Donner
1918 – 1992
Ange Mancini
b. 1944
Anna Kovalchuk
b. 1977
Anwar Choudhury
b. 1959
Arne Wilhelmsen
1929 – 2020
Bashar Warda
b. 1969
Bernard Lamy
1640 – 1715
Choi Bool-am
b. 1940
Chris Ellison
b. 1954
Claude-Auguste Lamy
1820 – 1878
Clayborne Carson
b. 1944
Clifford J. Levy
b. 1967
Courteney Cox
b. 1964
César Landa
b. 1958
Dana Bash
b. 1971
Danial Ahmetov
b. 1954
David Gibbons
1927 – 2014
Donald E. Edwards
1937 – 2018
Duncan K. Foley
b. 1942
Eduardo Wilde
1844 – 1913
Edward Channing
1856 – 1931
Effie Ellis
1913 – 1994
Elena Nikolaidi
1909 – 2002
Elliott C. Cutler, Jr.
1920 – 2007
Erik Erikson
1902 – 1994
Erlend Rian
1941 – 2020
Ernest Howard Griffiths
1851 – 1932
Evan Vucci
b. 1977
Ezer Weizman
1924 – 2005
Fouad Mebazaa
1933 – 2025
Francesc Vendrell i Vendrell
1940 – 2022
Francisco Mateos Gago
1827 – 1890
Gene Roberts
b. 1932
George Amsberg
1905 – 1980
Georges Colomb
b. 1953
Gheorghe Ciuhandu
b. 1947
Gladys Tantaquidgeon
1899 – 2005
Guy Ropartz
1864 – 1955
Gültan Kışanak
b. 1961
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
b. 1948
Heinrich Frey
1822 – 1890
Henri Wallon
1879 – 1962
Henry McLeish
b. 1948
Henry Thomas Colebrooke
1765 – 1837
Herman Smith-Johannsen
1875 – 1987
Hugh McDermott
b. 1968
Ivan Mykolaichuk
1941 – 1987
Jack Horner
b. 1946
Jack P. F. Gremillion
1914 – 2001
James Lupton
b. 1955
James Robertson Justice
1907 – 1975
Jan Aleksander Lipski
1690 – 1746
Jan Nepomuk Woldřich
1834 – 1906
Jarl Hjalmarson
1904 – 1993
Jean-Jacques Bourdin
b. 1949
Jean-Marie Speich
b. 1955
Joe Ghartey
b. 1961
Joseph Lipman
b. 1938
Julia Fischer
b. 1983
Julien Anfruns
b. 1973
Józef Dulak
b. 1962
Jānis Lagzdiņš
b. 1952
Karim Massimov
b. 1965
Karl Steinbuch
1917 – 2005
Karuppannan Jaishankar
b. 1973
Keith Park
1892 – 1975
Kálmán Vánky
1930 – 2021
Lamberto Zannier
b. 1954
Lawrence Wilkerson
b. 1945
Léon Degrelle
1906 – 1994
Léon de Laborde
1807 – 1869
Magomedali Magomedov
1930 – 2022
Maria Pavlova
1854 – 1938
Marie Harf
b. 1981
Marjorie Agosín
1955 – 2025
Mary L. Dudziak
b. 1956
Masataka Okano
b. 1964
Matei Călinescu
1934 – 2009
Michael Burawoy
1947 – 2025
Michael Schudrich
b. 1955
Michèle Laroque
b. 1960
Mikhail Derzhavin
1936 – 2018
Miriam Defensor Santiago
1945 – 2016
Monica Semedo
b. 1984
Myroslav Horbatiuk
b. 1940
Nelson Annandale
1876 – 1924
Paul Giesler
1895 – 1945
Paul Rusesabagin
b. 1954
Pavel Shatev
1882 – 1951
Pedro José Greer
b. 1956
Peter Smith
1926 – 2013
Pierre Vimont
b. 1949
Qiheng Hu
b. 1934
Raimonds Vējonis
b. 1966
Rajendrasinhji Jadeja
1899 – 1964
Ramtan Liamamira
b. 1952
Rauf Mirgadirov
b. 1961
Richard Bellamy
b. 1957
Richard Ruggles
1916 – 2001
Robert Charles Wallace
1881 – 1955
Robert Sarah
b. 1945
Roland Dorgelès
1885 – 1973
Rudolf Seitz
1842 – 1910
Salvatore Scoca
1894 – 1962
Sarmento Rodrigues
1899 – 1979
Saul Steinberg
1914 – 1999
Sin Chung-kai
b. 1960
Sir Charles Monro, 1st Baronet
1860 – 1929
Suleiman Frangieh
1910 – 1992
Sylvia Trent-Adams
b. 1965
Theodor Meynert
1833 – 1892
Thomas Mitchell
1792 – 1855
Tom Leppert
b. 1954
Trevor Huddleston
1913 – 1998
Uffe Elbæk
b. 1954
Veaceslav Untilă
b. 1956
Viktor Baloha
b. 1963
Vladimir Dekanozov
1898 – 1953
Vladimir Pecherin
1807 – 1885
Vladimir Petlyakov
1891 – 1942
Wes Jackson
b. 1936
Wilfrid Kilian
1862 – 1925
Wilhelm Koppe
1896 – 1975
William Butler Ogden
1805 – 1877
William Robert Graham
b. 1937
Wu Ching-ji
b. 1951
Yervand Kochar
1899 – 1979
YoungJu Choie
b. 1959
Yuri Poluneev
b. 1956
Álvaro Colom
1951 – 2023
Ōura Kanetake
1850 – 1918
Adam Smith
b. 1965
Adolf Láng
1848 – 1913
Aharon April
1932 – 2020
Akwasi Yeboah
b. 1997
Alan Huckle
b. 1948
Albert David Baumhart, Jr.
1908 – 2001
Albert Smith
1867 – 1942
Albert Tarantola
1949 – 2009
Albert Vaguet
1865 – 1943
Aldon D. Morris
b. 1949
Aleksandar Martinović
b. 1976
Aleksandr Maysuryan
b. 1969
Alexander Armstrong
1916 – 1985
Alexander Ritter
1833 – 1896
Alfredo Lagarrigue
1891 – 1974
Allan O. Hunter
1916 – 1995
Alyssa Farah Griffin
b. 1989
Amos Sawyer
1945 – 2022
Ana Castillo
b. 1953
Ana Varela Tafur
b. 1963
Anastase Murekezi
b. 1961
… and 4,141 more
Died on June 15
Arthur Lewis
1915 – 1991
'Aziz 'Ali al-Misri
1879 – 1965
Friedrich Robert Helmert
1843 – 1917
Glenda Jackson
1936 – 2023
Grant MacEwan
1902 – 2000
John Connally
1917 – 1993
John Vincent Atanasoff
1903 – 1995
Karel Engliš
1880 – 1961
Kenneth G. Wilson
1936 – 2013
Kristian Birkeland
1867 – 1917
Lev Gumilev
1912 – 1992
Norman Brook, 1st Baron Normanbrook
1902 – 1967
Stanisław Sołdek
1916 – 1970
Traian Lalescu
1882 – 1929
Walter Heller
1915 – 1987
Wendell Meredith Stanley
1904 – 1971
William Watson Goodwin
1831 – 1912
Adam Józef Potocki
1822 – 1872
Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart
1919 – 1999
Aleksey Batalov
1928 – 2017
Alexandre Rousselin de Saint-Albin
1773 – 1847
Alfred Cortot
1877 – 1962
Alv Jakob Fostervoll
1932 – 2015
Anton Schlembach
1932 – 2020
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso
1890 – 1970
Barry Vercoe
1937 – 2025
Bernard A. Clarey
1912 – 1996
Bill Wentworth
1907 – 2003
Bronisław Pieracki
1895 – 1934
Carl Wernicke
1848 – 1905
Cecil Morgan
1898 – 1999
Charles Francis Brush
1849 – 1929
Charles Richard Vaughan
1774 – 1849
Charles Simon
1882 – 1915
Christen Friis Rottbøll
1727 – 1797
David Hall
1928 – 2016
Edgar Rochette
1890 – 1953
Edmond Leburton
1915 – 1997
Eduardo Torroja
1899 – 1961
Ernest Courtot de Cissey
1810 – 1882
Eugeniusz Baziak
1890 – 1962
Francine Leca
1938 – 2024
Franco Zeffirelli
1923 – 2019
Frank Matthews Leslie
1935 – 2000
Freddy Willockx
1947 – 2024
Frederick III, German Emperor
1831 – 1888
George Mellish
1814 – 1877
Gopi Chand Narang
1931 – 2022
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia
1858 – 1915
Gustav Uhlig
1838 – 1914
Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton
1540 – 1614
Herbert J. Davenport
1861 – 1931
Hermann Schlichting
1907 – 1982
Hiroshi Matsumoto
1942 – 2025
I. Robert Lehman
1924 – 2026
Jakob Jud
1882 – 1952
James Mansergh
1834 – 1905
James Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown
1765 – 1835
James W. McCord, Jr.
1924 – 2017
James William Beekman
1815 – 1877
Jean Doré
1944 – 2015
Ján Langoš
1946 – 2006
K. A. Nilakanta Sastri
1892 – 1975
Kevin Killian
1952 – 2019
Kinji Imanishi
1902 – 1992
Leslie Grantham
1947 – 2018
Lodewijk Thomson
1869 – 1914
Lois Duncan
1934 – 2016
Louie Croft Boyd
1871 – 1951
Michel Roquebert
1928 – 2020
Michio Takeyama
1903 – 1984
Muhammad Loutfi Goumah
1886 – 1953
Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare
1928 – 2024
Ole Richter
1829 – 1888
Otfrid Foerster
1873 – 1941
Paulus Berensohn
1933 – 2017
Peter Littlewood
1955 – 2026
Pierre-Michel-François Chevalier
1812 – 1863
Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati
1921 – 2017
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia
1828 – 1885
Raffaele Fornari
1787 – 1854
René Richard Louis Castel
1758 – 1832
Roosseno
1908 – 1996
Sankichi Takahashi
1882 – 1966
Serhii Osyka
1955 – 2026
Sir Fitzroy MacLean, 1st Baronet
1911 – 1996
Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet
1722 – 1809
Steve Cochran
1917 – 1965
Verner W. Clapp
1901 – 1972
Vladimir Shatalov
1927 – 2021
Werner Henke
1909 – 1944
William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton
1851 – 1913
William Liley
1929 – 1983
William vanden Heuvel
1930 – 2021
Yuri Nozhikov
1934 – 2010
Älfiä Äfzalova
1933 – 2017
Ōtori Keisuke
1833 – 1911
Abbas Shafiee
1937 – 2016
Abdullah Ibrahim
1934 – 2026
Adelbert Cronkhite
1861 – 1937
Adolphe Barrot
1801 – 1870
Albert Houtum-Schindler
1846 – 1916
Albert von Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein
1861 – 1945
Aleksander Sochaczewski
1843 – 1923
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Rittikh
1868 – 1930
Alfred Bruneau
1857 – 1934
Ambrose Swasey
1846 – 1937
Annamalai Chettiar
1881 – 1948
Anton van Wilderode
1918 – 1998
Antonín Pospíšil
1903 – 1973
António Marques Mendes
1934 – 2015
Apolinar Serrano Díez
1833 – 1876
Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford
1806 – 1864
Arnulfo E. Acedera
1941 – 2020
Arthur Holroyd
1806 – 1887
Arturo Michelini
1909 – 1969
Arvid Mörne
1876 – 1946
Augustin Édouard Michel du Faing d'Aigremont
1855 – 1931
B. Santosh Babu
1982 – 2020
Beth Levine
1960 – 2020
Bretislaus III, Duke of Bohemia
1137 – 1197
Carl Wiman
1867 – 1944
Casey Kasem
1932 – 2014
Charles Edwards
1867 – 1954
Charles F. Thompson
1882 – 1954
Charles K. Wheeler
1863 – 1933
Charles Wentworth Upham
1802 – 1875
Claude Ferguson
1923 – 2006
Curtis Chillingworth
1896 – 1955
Cécile de Jong van Beek en Donk
1866 – 1944
Dan Tsalka
1936 – 2005
Daniel Harris Johnson
1825 – 1900
Daniel McFarlan Moore
1869 – 1936
Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia
1883 – 1969
Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov
1852 – 1927
David Esterly
1944 – 2019
David Pareus
1548 – 1622
David Simonsen
1853 – 1932
Donald Maclean
1864 – 1932
Edward Chaytor
1868 – 1939
Edward E. Burns
1858 – 1941
Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton
1563 – 1644
Edwin Alonzo Sherman
1844 – 1916
Edwin P. Morrow
1877 – 1935
Eero Rydman
1889 – 1963
Elaina Marie Tuttle
1963 – 2016
Enrico Castelnuovo
1929 – 2014
Ernest Corbett
1898 – 1968
Ernest Greenwood
1884 – 1955
Fabrizio Spada
1643 – 1717
Ferdinando Bartolommei
1821 – 1869
Fred Jarvis
1924 – 2020
Frederick G. Payne
1904 – 1978
Friedrich August Wilhelm Wenck
1741 – 1810
Georg von Adelmann
1811 – 1888
George Nakashima
1905 – 1990
George W. Fuller
1868 – 1934
Giles Sutherland Rich
1904 – 1999
Giulio Giorello
1945 – 2020
Giuseppe Alberigo
1926 – 2007
Happy Chandler
1898 – 1991
Heinrich Lummer
1932 – 2019
Helen Hughes
1928 – 2013
Henri Alekan
1909 – 2001
Henri Fréville
1905 – 1987
Henri Jean Baptiste Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu
1842 – 1912
Henri Queuille
1884 – 1970
Henry Augustus Boardman
1808 – 1880
Henry Palmer
1827 – 1895
Henry Pollexfen
1632 – 1691
Henry Renny-Tailyour
1849 – 1920
Henry Sacheverell
1674 – 1724
Hermann Wissmann
1853 – 1905
Huang Zuo-shen
1915 – 1975
Hume Cronyn
1911 – 2003
Hussein Avni Pasha
1819 – 1876
Hédi Mabrouk
1921 – 2000
Ibrahim Abouleish
1937 – 2017
Ichiro Oga
1883 – 1965
Ingrid Dessau
1923 – 2000
Jaan Kalviste
1898 – 1936
Jack B. Weinstein
1921 – 2021
Jacques Charpentier
1933 – 2017
Jacques-Louis Dumesnil
1882 – 1956
Jacques-Marie Le Père
1763 – 1841
James Blythe Rogers
1802 – 1852
James D. Hittle
1915 – 2002
James K. Polk
1795 – 1849
James Melville Babington
1854 – 1936
James Patrick Mahon
1800 – 1891
Jim Phelan
1929 – 2021
Jim Sparkes
1889 – 1974
Johann Hermann Carmiencke
1810 – 1867
John Ashburnham
1603 – 1671
John J. Daley
1923 – 2000
John Michael Uhrich
1877 – 1951
Joseph R. Williams
1808 – 1861
Josiah Scott
1803 – 1879
José Gil Fortoul
1861 – 1943
Julius Kruttschnitt I
1854 – 1925
… and 1,708 more