On This Day — July 15
4301 noted people were born and 1874 died on July 15 in our archive, including David Cox, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Rem Khokhlov.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on July 15
David Cox
1924 – 2022
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
b. 1943
Rem Khokhlov
1926 – 1977
William Gemmell Cochran
1909 – 1980
Alain Seban
b. 1964
Andrzej Kijowski
b. 1954
Ann Dowling
b. 1952
Anne Sinclair
b. 1948
Aníbal Cavaco Silva
b. 1939
Ardo Hansson
b. 1958
Arianna Huffington
b. 1950
Arshag Chobanian
1872 – 1954
Ashoke Sen
b. 1956
Bertram Brockhouse
1918 – 2003
Brenda Milner
b. 1918
Carl Bildt
b. 1949
Carl Woese
1928 – 2012
Colin Barnett
b. 1950
Domenico Siniscalco
b. 1954
Erik Jorpes
1894 – 1973
Folke K. Skoog
1908 – 2001
Gero Miesenböck
b. 1965
Gunter Schöbel
b. 1959
Hendrik Casimir
1909 – 2000
Henryk Arctowski
1871 – 1958
Henryk Zygalski
1908 – 1978
Jacek Malczewski
1854 – 1929
Jacques Rivière
1886 – 1925
Jacques-Yvan Morin
1931 – 2023
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
1867 – 1936
John Hopfield
b. 1933
John Spence
1929 – 2013
Jürgen Möllemann
1945 – 2003
Lansana Kouyaté
b. 1950
Leon M. Lederman
1922 – 2018
Louis Lavelle
1883 – 1951
Manuel Bibes
b. 1976
Max Bodenstein
1871 – 1942
Monica Grady
b. 1958
Nugroho Notosusanto
1930 – 1985
Pulickel Ajayan
b. 1962
Péter Mészáros
b. 1943
Robert Bruce Merrifield
1921 – 2006
Robert Winston
b. 1940
Rudolf Arnheim
1904 – 2007
Scott Matheson, Jr.
b. 1953
Scott Ritter
b. 1961
Shigekazu Nagata
b. 1949
Stephen Smale
b. 1930
Wilhelm Wirtinger
1865 – 1945
Włodzimierz Antoniewicz
1893 – 1973
A. Sivathanu Pillai
b. 1947
Adam Savage
b. 1967
Ahmed El Keiy
b. 1967
Albert Ghiorso
1915 – 2010
Alexander Tsybulsky
b. 1979
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
1793 – 1884
Andrew Morton
b. 1959
Andy Josephson
b. 1964
Arcadio Poveda
1930 – 2022
Aurelio Iragorri Valencia
b. 1966
Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia
b. 1947
Boris Kolker
b. 1939
Boris Stürmer
1848 – 1917
Brian Sutton-Smith
1924 – 2015
Charity Clark
b. 1975
Cho Zang-hee
b. 1936
Christophe Di Pompeo
b. 1964
Claire Smith
b. 1957
Claude-Marie Carnot
1755 – 1836
Costin Nenițescu
1902 – 1970
Crispin Blunt
b. 1960
Curt Göransson
1909 – 1996
Dan Lipinski
b. 1966
Daniel Heath Justice
b. 1975
Daniel Mesguich
b. 1952
David Miliband
b. 1965
David Mount
b. 1955
David Pearey
b. 1948
Desmond Lee
b. 1976
Diana Gribbon Motz
b. 1943
Donald F. Steiner
1930 – 2014
Doris Runge
b. 1943
Driss Chraïbi
1926 – 2007
Durgabai Deshmukh
1909 – 1981
Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies
1906 – 1992
Edward Abbott
1841 – 1908
Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton
1911 – 1994
Emmeline Pankhurst
1858 – 1928
Enrique Soro Barriga
1884 – 1954
Erik Sjöqvist
1903 – 1975
Fiona Hall
b. 1955
Forest Whitaker
b. 1961
Frank Lockwood
1846 – 1897
Frank Pé
1956 – 2025
Frank Vargas Pazzos
b. 1934
Franklin Knight Lane
1864 – 1921
Frederick Hervey, 2nd Marquess of Bristol
1800 – 1864
Gary Roughead
b. 1951
Georg Friedrich Parrot
1767 – 1852
George Bridges, Baron Bridges of Headley
b. 1970
George Voinovich
1936 – 2016
Georgios Kaminis
b. 1954
Giovanni Pitruzzella
b. 1959
Gonzague de Reynold
1880 – 1970
Guy Pujolle
b. 1949
Harold Austin
1877 – 1943
Harrison Birtwistle
1934 – 2022
Harrison Storms
1915 – 1992
Hartwig Löger
b. 1965
Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei
b. 1946
Heath Tarbert
b. 1976
Henry Cole
1808 – 1882
Henry Thoby Prinsep
1793 – 1878
Herbert Lightfoot Eason
1874 – 1949
Ildar Ibragimov
b. 1932
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
b. 1952
Issa G. Shivji
b. 1946
Ivan Shirokogorov
1869 – 1946
Ivo Miro Jović
b. 1950
Jacques Derrida
1930 – 2004
James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde
1777 – 1838
James E. Sheridan
1922 – 2015
Jane Satterfield
b. 1964
Jean Henri Magne
1804 – 1885
Jean Rey
1902 – 1983
Jean-Christophe Grangé
b. 1961
Jean-Pierre Milovanoff
b. 1940
Jeremiah Denton
1924 – 2014
Jesse Ventura
b. 1951
Jill Long Thompson
b. 1952
Joan Lerma
b. 1951
John Denham
b. 1953
John F. Benton
1931 – 1988
John Hughes
b. 1958
John Joseph Kindred
1864 – 1937
Joseph Carter Abbott
1825 – 1881
Juan Edgardo Angara
b. 1972
Juan Álvarez de Toledo
1488 – 1557
Julian Bream
1933 – 2020
Kamaladdin Heydarov
b. 1961
Kan'ichi Terazawa
1882 – 1969
Karsten Jakobsen
1928 – 2019
Kendall L. Card
b. 1955
Ketil Lund
b. 1939
Kliment Boyadzhiev
1861 – 1933
Leslie Cree
b. 1941
Lisa Kahn
1927 – 2013
Loree K. Sutton
b. 1959
Louis Gentil
1868 – 1925
Ludovic Chaker
b. 1979
Lydia Davis
b. 1947
Mac Thornberry
b. 1958
Maciej Dejczer
b. 1953
Magali Vaissière
b. 1957
Maria Lea Pedini-Angelini
b. 1954
Marianne Bernadotte
1924 – 2025
Marius Hægstad
1850 – 1927
Matthew Robbins
b. 1945
Michel Diefenbacher
1947 – 2017
Michel Ferrari
b. 1954
Midori Matsushima
b. 1956
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
b. 1949
Nicholas Rescher
1928 – 2024
Nicolae Dabija
1948 – 2021
Nikhil Kumar
b. 1941
Nina Simon
b. 1981
Nina Witoszek
b. 1954
Patrick Timsit
b. 1959
Paul Hudak
1952 – 2015
Pavlo Movchan
b. 1939
Peter Armitage
1924 – 2024
Peter Navarro
b. 1949
Peter Reith
1950 – 2022
Peter van Uhm
b. 1955
Philip Sharp
b. 1942
Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada
1884 – 1948
Przemysław Wipler
b. 1978
Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov
1827 – 1889
Raivo E. Tamm
b. 1965
Raymond Gosling
1926 – 2015
Raymond Thouvenot
1896 – 1981
Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen
b. 1980
Reinhold Begas
1831 – 1911
Richard Russo
b. 1949
Robert Conquest
1917 – 2015
Robert Harper
b. 1957
Robert Peele
1858 – 1942
Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill
1941 – 2010
Saliamonas Banaitis
1866 – 1933
Serge von Bubnoff
1888 – 1957
Takeshi Sasaki
b. 1942
Theodor Paleologu
b. 1973
Thomas Francis, Jr.
1900 – 1969
Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath
1862 – 1946
Tom King
b. 1978
Tomer Capone
b. 1985
Vijay P. Singh
b. 1946
Vijay Shekhar Sharma
b. 1978
Viktor Perelman
1929 – 2003
… and 4,101 more
Died on July 15
Absattar Derbisali
1947 – 2021
Anne Buttimer
1938 – 2017
Clarence Zener
1905 – 1993
Eugen Bleuler
1857 – 1939
Eugène Poubelle
1831 – 1907
Georges Jean Marie Darrieus
1888 – 1979
Gustav Rose
1798 – 1873
Harry Borrer Kirk
1859 – 1948
Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley
1804 – 1884
Hermann Emil Fischer
1852 – 1919
John J. Pershing
1860 – 1948
Konstantin Fedin
1892 – 1977
Ladislaus Bortkiewicz
1868 – 1931
Michel Roux-Spitz
1888 – 1957
Mortimer Caplin
1916 – 2019
Nikoloz Muskhelishvili
1891 – 1976
Pieter Cort van der Linden
1846 – 1935
Robert Liston
1742 – 1836
Schelto Patijn
1936 – 2007
Thomas Chapais
1858 – 1946
Werner Müller
1946 – 2019
Alexander Drenteln
1820 – 1888
Alexander Karpinsky
1846 – 1936
Alfred Janniot
1889 – 1969
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
1793 – 1884
Andrey Selivanov
1847 – 1917
Arthur Edward Hardinge
1828 – 1892
Artur Sandauer
1913 – 1989
Bohdan Dobrzański
1909 – 1987
Bonaventure
1221 – 1274
Brian Goodwin
1931 – 2009
Charles Kingsmill
1855 – 1935
Charles-Eugène Guye
1866 – 1942
Czesław Mączyński
1881 – 1935
Dominique Vandamme
1770 – 1830
Edith Irby Jones
1927 – 2019
Einar Utzon-Frank
1888 – 1955
Erik Solem
1877 – 1949
Francis Condon
1884 – 1961
Francis Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden
1883 – 1966
Frederic Carrington
1807 – 1901
Frederik Markmann
1848 – 1927
Gaston Méry
1866 – 1909
George Brown
1920 – 1999
Giovanni Cantoni
1818 – 1897
Gustav Friedrich Waagen
1794 – 1868
Gustave Besnard
1833 – 1903
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz
1911 – 1979
Helen Rose Hull
1888 – 1971
Henry Hoyle Howorth
1842 – 1923
Herbert Laming, Baron Laming
1936 – 2026
Hipólito Unanue
1755 – 1833
Irving Babbitt
1865 – 1933
Jacques Defermon
1752 – 1831
James Thomson Shotwell
1874 – 1965
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Lassus
1807 – 1857
Jerry Lewis
1934 – 2021
John T. Riedl
1962 – 2013
John Wynne
1667 – 1743
Jonny Löhr
1899 – 1967
Juan Álvarez de Lorenzana, 10th Viscount of Barrantes
1818 – 1883
Kanō Tomonobu
1843 – 1912
Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
1770 – 1827
Karl Wolff
1900 – 1984
Karlo Lukanov
1897 – 1982
Kelvin Ogilvie
1942 – 2025
Khalid Bakdash
1912 – 1995
Kliment Boyadzhiev
1861 – 1933
Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck
1809 – 1887
Lawrence Tibbett
1896 – 1960
Leo Hoegh
1908 – 2000
Lucien Georges Bazor
1889 – 1974
Martin L. Pipes
1850 – 1932
Matvey Sulkevich
1865 – 1920
Miriam Ben-Peretz
1927 – 2020
Nikolay Svyatopolk-Mirsky
1833 – 1898
Nikolay Yusupov
1750 – 1831
Nuri as-Said
1888 – 1958
Otto Binswanger
1852 – 1929
Patricio Carvajal
1916 – 1994
Paul Maas
1880 – 1964
Pavel Grabbe
1789 – 1875
Raimundo Fernández Villaverde
1848 – 1905
Rex Richards
1922 – 2019
Richard Dixon Oldham
1858 – 1936
Robert Abirached
1930 – 2021
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz
1886 – 1942
Ruben Lagus
1896 – 1959
Sergei Godunov
1929 – 2023
Stanisław Żaryn
1913 – 1964
Stephen Jurika
1910 – 1993
Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross
1892 – 1955
Toke Talagi
1951 – 2020
Vyacheslav von Plehve
1846 – 1904
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth
1731 – 1801
William O'Malley
1931 – 2023
William Thierry Preyer
1841 – 1897
Zinaida Nikolaevna Rajh
1894 – 1939
Édith Lejet
1941 – 2024
Aagot Lading
1909 – 1963
Achille Alberti
1860 – 1943
Adam Czartoryski
1770 – 1861
Agostino Gemelli
1878 – 1959
Akhter Husain
1902 – 1983
Alan Curtis
1934 – 2015
Albert G. Mumma
1906 – 1997
Albert W. Sanborn
1853 – 1937
Aleksander Fredro
1793 – 1876
Alireza Shapour Shahbazi
1942 – 2006
Anastasios Ntalipis
1896 – 1949
André Suchetet
1849 – 1910
Anton Csorich
1795 – 1864
Archibald Hill Carmichael
1864 – 1947
Aron Aronov
1937 – 2022
Arthur Thomson
1890 – 1977
Arturo Mor Roig
1914 – 1974
Barbour Lewis
1818 – 1893
Bert Convy
1933 – 1991
Billy McKinney
1927 – 2010
Bluma Appel
1919 – 2007
Boris Zubarev
1875 – 1952
Camille Ferdinand Dreyfus
1849 – 1915
Carolyne M. Van Vliet
1929 – 2016
Cecilia Hennel Hendricks
1883 – 1969
Celeste Holm
1917 – 2012
Cemil Cahit Toydemir
1883 – 1956
Charles Binet
1869 – 1936
Charles Jessel
1860 – 1928
Charles La Rocque
1809 – 1875
Clas Tott
1630 – 1674
Claude Charles Fauriel
1772 – 1844
Colin Gilray
1885 – 1974
Constance Markievicz
1868 – 1927
David Brian
1914 – 1993
David Daiches
1912 – 2005
David Ochterlony
1758 – 1825
Denis O'Conor
1794 – 1847
Derek Malcolm
1932 – 2023
Diego Cisneros
1911 – 1980
Dorsey W. Shackleford
1853 – 1936
Edward Perl
1926 – 2014
Elmo Smith
1909 – 1968
Elwin Marg
1918 – 2010
Eric Berne
1910 – 1970
Ernest Bloch
1880 – 1959
Ernest Langlois
1857 – 1924
Ernesto Barros Jarpa
1894 – 1977
Ernst Wiesner
1890 – 1971
Fergus Millar
1935 – 2019
Francis Cherry
1908 – 1965
Francis Rose
1921 – 2006
Francis of Waldeck
1488 – 1553
Francisco Bertrand
1866 – 1926
Francisco Espejo
1758 – 1814
Frank S. Besson, Jr.
1910 – 1985
Frederick Percival Mackie
1875 – 1944
Friedrich Schey von Koromla
1815 – 1881
Frits Lugt
1884 – 1970
Fyodor Tyutchev
1803 – 1873
Gary Bradds
1942 – 1983
George Dickie
1812 – 1882
George Simon
1947 – 2020
George Valentine Nash
1864 – 1921
George W. Comstock
1915 – 2007
Georges-Gabriel de Pellieux
1842 – 1900
Giovanni Antonio Campano
1429 – 1477
Gira Sarabhai
1923 – 2021
Gottfried Keller
1819 – 1890
Gunnar Horn
1894 – 1946
Guy Scott
1944 – 2026
Hammer DeRoburt
1922 – 1992
Hassan Basry
1923 – 1984
Heizō Kanayama
1883 – 1964
Henry Riggs Rathbone
1870 – 1928
Hunter Holmes Moss, Jr.
1874 – 1916
Jack O'Hagan
1898 – 1987
James MacGregor Burns
1918 – 2014
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth
1649 – 1685
James Waterman Glover
1868 – 1941
James Zagel
1941 – 2023
Jan Schokking
1864 – 1941
Janez Bernik
1933 – 2016
Jani Kiço Lufi
1931 – 2023
Jaroslav Olesnitsky
1875 – 1933
Jean-Antoine Houdon
1741 – 1828
Jean-Baptiste Rey
1734 – 1810
Jerry H. Bentley
1949 – 2012
John Ball
1338 – 1381
John Beard
1797 – 1876
John Crook
1930 – 2011
John Edward Brownlee
1883 – 1961
John Gale
1831 – 1929
John H. O'Neall
1838 – 1907
John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
1662 – 1711
John Louis Esposito
1940 – 2026
John Pastore
1907 – 2000
John Percival Postgate
1853 – 1926
John Strachey
1901 – 1963
John Strode
1561 – 1642
John Williston Cook
1844 – 1922
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