On This Day — August 15
4584 noted people were born and 1999 died on August 15 in our archive, including Leon Theremin, Louis de Broglie and Adolf Hoffmeister.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on August 15
Leon Theremin
1896 – 1993
Louis de Broglie
1892 – 1987
Adolf Hoffmeister
1902 – 1973
Adriana Marais
b. 1983
Ahmad Toukan
1903 – 1981
Alain Juppé
b. 1945
Aleksey Krylov
1863 – 1945
Antonio Luque
b. 1941
Arthur Tansley
1871 – 1955
Bedřich Moldan
b. 1935
Carlo Miranda
1912 – 1982
Dora Barrancos
b. 1940
Edward Marian Frankowski
b. 1937
Elias Magnus Fries
1794 – 1878
Friedrich Martens
1845 – 1909
Gaston Boissier
1823 – 1908
Gerty Cori
1896 – 1957
Grafton Elliot Smith
1871 – 1937
Henri de Castries
b. 1954
Henry James Sumner Maine
1822 – 1888
Hermann Brück
1905 – 2000
Isabelle Guyon
b. 1961
Jacques Ibert
1890 – 1962
Jean Chazy
1882 – 1955
John Torrey
1796 – 1873
Jorge Haddock Acevedo
b. 1955
Josef Klaus
1910 – 2001
Kathleen Maisey Curtis
1892 – 1994
Lorraine Desmarais
b. 1956
Louisa Aldrich-Blake
1865 – 1925
Manfredo do Carmo
1928 – 2018
Melinda Gates
b. 1964
Michael Hainisch
1858 – 1940
Nagaoka Hantarō
1865 – 1950
Ng Cho-nam
1960 – 2019
Paul W. Merrill
1887 – 1961
Richard F. Heck
1931 – 2015
Robert F. Goheen
1919 – 2008
Robert Kirshner
b. 1949
Robert Macfarlane
b. 1976
Simon Baron-Cohen
b. 1958
Stanley Milgram
1933 – 1984
Stephen Breyer
b. 1938
Suzanne Bastid
1906 – 1995
Tor Bergeron
1891 – 1977
Vahagn Davtyan
1922 – 1996
Valeriya Zaklunnaya
1942 – 2016
Victor Morin
1865 – 1960
Victor Shenderovich
b. 1958
William Green Miller
1931 – 2019
Yegor Borisov
b. 1954
Abiy Ahmed
b. 1976
Adele Lim
b. 1975
Alan Collins
1928 – 2016
Albert Eide Parr
1900 – 1991
Albert Hazen Wright
1879 – 1970
Albert Rehm
1871 – 1949
Alberto Ascoli
1877 – 1957
Aldo Ciccolini
1925 – 2015
Alejandro González Iñárritu
b. 1963
Aleksandr Filippov
1853 – 1927
Aleksandr Surikov
b. 1940
Alexandre Leduc
b. 1984
Anatoly Kvashnin
1946 – 2022
Andreas Demetriou
b. 1950
Andrew Gamble
b. 1947
Anne, Princess Royal
b. 1950
Anne-Marie Escoffier
b. 1942
Anthony Gill
b. 1972
Aseel Anabtawi
b. 1969
Asunción Lavrin
b. 1935
Ayọ Tometi
b. 1984
Barry Schwartz
b. 1946
Ben Kimura
b. 1939
Bijan Kumar Mukherjea
1891 – 1956
Bukichi Miki
1884 – 1956
Carel Sirardus Willem van Hogendorp
1788 – 1856
Carl von Blixen-Finecke
1822 – 1873
Cesare Terranova
1921 – 1979
Charles A. Hufnagel
1916 – 1989
Charles Elliot
1801 – 1875
Charles Fisher
1808 – 1880
Charles Howard-Bury
1881 – 1963
Conrad Moench
1744 – 1805
Cornelis Koeman
1918 – 2006
Coşkun Çörüz
b. 1963
Daniel Samper Ospina
b. 1974
Danilo Zavrtanik
b. 1953
Danuta Kuroń
b. 1949
Dimitris Sioufas
1944 – 2019
Eikei Suzuki
b. 1974
Eileen Bell
b. 1943
Elizabeth Nyamayaro
b. 1975
Eugene Braunwald
1929 – 2026
Faina Ranevskaya
1896 – 1984
Fernando Picó
1941 – 2017
Fiann Paul
b. 1980
Francisco Javier Varela Salas
b. 1952
Franz Werner
1867 – 1939
Frederic Hauge
b. 1965
Freedom Neruda
b. 1956
Gennady Gudkov
b. 1956
George Klein
1904 – 1992
Gerald W. VandeWalle
b. 1933
Giampaolo Di Paola
b. 1944
Glória Maria
1949 – 2023
Gong Qihuang
b. 1964
Grigori Sokolnikov
1888 – 1939
Günter Sommer
b. 1943
Haitham al-Maleh
b. 1931
Hamilton Mourão
b. 1953
Hartmut Rosa
b. 1965
Henry Betterton, 1st Baron Rushcliffe
1872 – 1949
Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland
1590 – 1649
Herbert Hupka
1915 – 2006
Herfried Münkler
b. 1951
Ismahane Elouafi
b. 1971
Ivan Meštrović
1883 – 1962
Jack Tworkov
1900 – 1982
James Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown
1765 – 1835
Jan M. Rabaey
b. 1955
Janet Lilly
b. 1957
Jarl Lundqvist
1896 – 1965
Jean Brossel
1918 – 2003
Joachim Mrugowsky
1905 – 1948
Joaquín María López y López
1798 – 1855
John Marius Opitz
1935 – 2023
John Silber
1926 – 2012
John Strathearn Hendrie
1857 – 1923
Jorma Ollila
b. 1950
Joseph Goldmark
1819 – 1881
Jules Grévy
1807 – 1891
Juli Minoves Triquell
b. 1969
Julia Child
1912 – 2004
Julius Arnold Koch
1864 – 1956
Julián Barrio Barrio
b. 1946
Karl Clausen
1904 – 1972
Karl Joseph von Firmian
1716 – 1782
Karl Korsch
1886 – 1961
Karol Hutten-Czapski
1860 – 1904
Kate Osamor
b. 1968
Kathryn J. Whitmire
b. 1946
Kenneth L. Hale
1934 – 2001
Kiese Laymon
b. 1974
Kimberly Cheatle
b. 1972
Koma Kawabuchi
1883 – 1946
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
1926 – 2016
Kuan Chung-ming
b. 1956
Laura Mulvey
b. 1941
Laurent Stefanini
b. 1960
Lee Ailesa
b. 1954
Lee Harris
b. 1978
Leo Hepp
1907 – 1987
Leonard Baskin
1922 – 2000
Lex Fridman
b. 1983
Lia Quartapelle
b. 1982
Linda Ellerbee
b. 1944
Luc Chatel
b. 1964
Lukas Foss
1922 – 2009
M.P. Veerendra Kumar
1937 – 2020
Mack A. Breazeale
1930 – 2009
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
1948 – 2018
Mancherjee Bhownagree
1851 – 1933
Marc-André Bédard
1935 – 2020
Maria Pevchikh
b. 1987
Mary Jo Salter
b. 1954
Maryse Joissains-Masini
b. 1942
Maxine Waters
b. 1938
Michel Duflo
b. 1943
Mohamed Béavogui
b. 1953
Moina Michael
1869 – 1944
Monroe Work
1866 – 1945
Moon Seong-hyeok
b. 1958
Mykhailo Kutsyn
b. 1957
Naoto Tajima
1912 – 1990
Napoleon
1769 – 1821
Olof Åhlström
1756 – 1835
Onno Ruding
b. 1939
Otto Kerner, Jr.
1908 – 1976
Ove Trellevik
b. 1965
Paul Henderson
b. 1962
Penleigh Boyd
1890 – 1923
Per Michael Johansen
b. 1960
Petter Eide
b. 1959
Phil Ferguson
1903 – 1978
Pierre de Poletica
1778 – 1849
Raphael Mahler
1899 – 1977
Raymond Gower
1916 – 1989
Richard Deacon
b. 1949
Richard Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam
1795 – 1879
Robert David Lawson
b. 1944
Robert Jan van Pelt
b. 1955
Robert Syms
b. 1956
Roger Willemsen
1955 – 2016
Roger Wright
b. 1956
Roy Conli
b. 1971
Régine Deforges
1935 – 2014
Scott Altman
b. 1959
Selmar Schonland
1860 – 1940
Sergey Kovalyov
1919 – 2011
… and 4,384 more
Died on August 15
Edward Waring
1736 – 1798
Ludwig Prandtl
1875 – 1953
Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield
1768 – 1846
Christian Lobeck
1781 – 1860
Eduardo Rodríguez Larreta
1888 – 1973
Fiske Kimball
1888 – 1955
Gerhard Noodt
1647 – 1725
Henrik Munthe
1860 – 1958
Henryk Wujec
1940 – 2020
Jacques Bardoux
1874 – 1959
James Freeman Gilbert
1931 – 2014
Javier Barros Sierra
1915 – 1971
Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae
1821 – 1885
Johan Gadolin
1760 – 1852
John Kerr
1824 – 1907
John Shipley Rowlinson
1926 – 2018
Julian Bond
1940 – 2015
Karl Weinhold
1823 – 1901
Lawrence Quincy Mumford
1903 – 1982
Ruth Gavison
1945 – 2020
Shavarsh Krissian
1886 – 1915
Sune Bergström
1916 – 2004
Viggo Brun
1885 – 1978
William Herschel
1738 – 1822
Abdul Rahman Al-Sumait
1947 – 2013
Ada Deer
1935 – 2023
Adam Beck
1857 – 1925
Adrianus Antonius van Nijnatten
1880 – 1948
Aileen Osborn Webb
1892 – 1979
Albert Ladenburg
1842 – 1911
Aleksei Chichibabin
1871 – 1945
Alexander Pietrov
1838 – 1915
Amaat Joos
1855 – 1937
Anatoli Papanov
1922 – 1987
Antonio Rastrelli
1927 – 2019
August Jürima
1887 – 1942
Austin Scott
1848 – 1922
Bertram Boltwood
1870 – 1927
Bindeshwar Pathak
1943 – 2023
Charles Pearson, Lord Pearson
1843 – 1910
Charles Wilson, 2nd Baron Nunburnholme
1875 – 1924
Charles-Henri Tabareau
1790 – 1866
Conyers Clifford
1560 – 1599
Cyril Tenison White
1890 – 1950
Eberhard Jäckel
1929 – 2017
Edith Bernardin
1903 – 1994
Elias Loomis
1811 – 1889
Evelyn Stokes
1936 – 2005
Florian Cajori
1859 – 1930
Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys
1837 – 1924
Frederick Buechner
1926 – 2022
Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
1724 – 1767
George P. Merrill
1854 – 1929
Gordon Dean
1905 – 1958
Gunnar Birkerts
1925 – 2017
Gérard Leclerc
1951 – 2023
Harvey Littlejohn
1862 – 1927
Heinz Bauer
1928 – 2002
Hendrik Muller Szn.
1819 – 1898
Heydar Huseynov
1908 – 1950
Hugo Theorell
1903 – 1982
Humphrey Waldock
1904 – 1981
Ivan Gronsky
1894 – 1985
Ivan Tyulenev
1892 – 1978
J. W. Bhore
1878 – 1960
James R. Carrigan
1929 – 2014
Jan Ekier
1913 – 2014
Javier Lambán
1957 – 2025
Jesse Brown
1944 – 2002
Joachim Seelig
1942 – 2024
John Gofman
1918 – 2007
John Livingston Lowes
1867 – 1945
Joseph Joachim
1831 – 1907
Josiah Whitney
1819 – 1896
Kanji Ishiwara
1889 – 1949
Kateryna Yushchenko
1919 – 2001
Katherine G. Langley
1888 – 1948
Korechika Anami
1887 – 1945
Lancelot Ware
1915 – 2000
Lina Unali
1936 – 2024
Louis Rosen
1918 – 2009
Luis A. Eguiguren
1887 – 1967
Lynton K. Caldwell
1913 – 2006
Mahadev Desai
1892 – 1942
Malcolm Richard Wilkey
1918 – 2009
Manuel Prado Ugarteche
1889 – 1967
Marian Kukiel
1885 – 1973
Marie-Françoise Bucquet
1937 – 2018
Matome Ugaki
1890 – 1945
Max Greger
1926 – 2015
Minoru Genda
1904 – 1989
Miroslav Komárek
1924 – 2013
Nicola Romeo
1876 – 1938
Nikol Aghbalian
1875 – 1947
Otto Ruge
1882 – 1961
Pavel Egorov
1948 – 2017
Peter Heszler
1958 – 2009
Pierre Boutroux
1880 – 1922
Ricardo Gómez Rojí
1881 – 1936
Roger Hendrix
1943 – 2017
Ruben Jaari
1906 – 1991
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
1920 – 1975
Siarhei Kalyakin
1952 – 2024
Te Atairangikaahu
1931 – 2006
Thomas Tyrwhitt
1730 – 1786
Thore Horve
1899 – 1990
Vern Ehlers
1934 – 2017
Vida Goldstein
1869 – 1949
William Archibald Dunning
1857 – 1922
William H. Simpson
1888 – 1980
Winston Dugan, 1st Baron Dugan of Victoria
1876 – 1951
Yngvar Lundh
1932 – 2020
Abdirahman Jama Barre
1937 – 2017
Abney Golam Samad
1929 – 2021
Adolfo Carranza
1857 – 1914
Adrian G. Duplantier
1929 – 2007
Ahmed Samy Khalifa
1933 – 2015
Aimé-Victor-François Guilbert
1812 – 1889
Albert Millaire
1935 – 2018
Albert Osswald
1919 – 1996
Aleksandr Zasukhin
1928 – 2012
Alexandru G. Golescu
1819 – 1881
Alfred H. Barr
1902 – 1981
Alice Vanderbilt Morris
1874 – 1950
Allen R Miller
1942 – 2010
Amarsinh Chaudhary
1941 – 2004
Andre Keyser
1938 – 2010
André Corap
1878 – 1953
Anne Sewell Young
1871 – 1961
Anthony Wingfield
1488 – 1552
Armand Limnander
1814 – 1892
Armando Lambruschini
1924 – 2004
Arthur Henry Soden
1845 – 1925
Artur Schnabel
1882 – 1951
Augustin Gabriel d'Aboville
1774 – 1820
B. B. Comer
1848 – 1927
Basil Phillott Blackett
1882 – 1935
Behn Cervantes
1938 – 2013
Bert Lance
1931 – 2013
Bill Gillis
1936 – 2009
Bobby Hutcherson
1941 – 2016
Brett Cloutman
1891 – 1971
Carlos Coolidge
1792 – 1866
Chaim Joseph Zadok
1913 – 2002
Charles H. Graves
1872 – 1940
Charles Nielson
1871 – 1924
Charles Sumner
1790 – 1874
Charles Warren Stone
1843 – 1912
Chen Jie
1885 – 1951
Chen Kuei-miao
1934 – 2014
Chilla Porter
1936 – 2020
Christine Townend
1944 – 2025
Claire B. Bird
1868 – 1954
Clay Shaw
1913 – 1974
Coenraad Bron
1937 – 2006
David Smith
1933 – 2022
Devereux Milburn
1881 – 1942
Dick Schafrath
1937 – 2021
Earl B. Ruth
1916 – 1989
Edward R. Weidlein
1887 – 1983
Edward St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset
1775 – 1855
Elbert Henry Gary
1846 – 1927
Euclides da Cunha
1866 – 1909
Federico Gamboa
1864 – 1939
Flavia Lattanzi
1940 – 2026
François Garnier
1944 – 2018
Frederick L. Wieseman
1908 – 1994
G. B. Greene, Jr.
1914 – 1998
Gabriel de L'Aubespine
1579 – 1630
Galina Brok-Beltsova
1925 – 2024
Georg Heinrich Zincke
1692 – 1769
George Edward Bonsor Saint Martin
1855 – 1930
George H. Large
1850 – 1939
Ghāzī al-Quṣaybī
1940 – 2010
Giacomo Medici Del Vascello
1883 – 1949
Giorgio Perlasca
1910 – 1992
Glenn Tasker
1951 – 2019
Grazia Deledda
1871 – 1936
Hans Bernd von Haeften
1905 – 1944
Harald Wiberg
1908 – 1986
Harold Dickie
1874 – 1954
Harry C. Ingles
1888 – 1976
Harry Gandy
1881 – 1957
Heinrich Krone
1895 – 1989
Heitor de Melo
1875 – 1920
Helmuth Gericke
1909 – 2007
Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale
1818 – 1876
Henry Rankin Poore
1859 – 1940
Herbert Collett
1877 – 1947
Herbert Hill
1924 – 2004
Ida Gerhardt
1905 – 1997
Imru Haile Selassie
1892 – 1980
Inés Enríquez Frödden
1913 – 1998
Ismael Moreno Pino
1927 – 2013
Jacques Vergès
1925 – 2013
James Hugh Ward
1853 – 1916
James Kennedy Patterson
1833 – 1922
James P. Goodrich
1864 – 1940
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope
1880 – 1967
Jan Cock Blomhoff
1779 – 1853
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