On This Day — October 15
4333 noted people were born and 1872 died on October 15 in our archive, including Bernhard Neumann, Nikolay Dollezhal and Agustín García Calvo.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on October 15
Bernhard Neumann
1909 – 2002
Nikolay Dollezhal
1899 – 2000
Agustín García Calvo
1926 – 2012
Alexus Grynkewich
b. 1971
Antonio Cañizares Llovera
b. 1945
Antonio Fontán
1923 – 2010
Asaph Hall
1829 – 1907
Bernhard Karlgren
1889 – 1978
Carl Hellmuth Hertz
1920 – 1990
Charles Rees
1927 – 2006
Clément Juglar
1819 – 1905
Constantin Ion Parhon
1874 – 1969
David Burbidge
b. 1943
David Trimble
1944 – 2022
Eduard Päll
1903 – 1989
Edward T. Seay
1868 – 1941
Edwin O. Reischauer
1910 – 1990
Fujishima Takeji
1867 – 1943
Gaetano De Sanctis
1870 – 1957
Gian Carlo Wick
1909 – 1992
Günther Ramin
1898 – 1956
Hans Wußing
1927 – 2011
Henri Dupuy de Lôme
1816 – 1885
Henry Chilton
1877 – 1954
Ivar Afzelius
1848 – 1921
John Kenneth Galbraith
1908 – 2006
John Ousterhout
b. 1954
José Arce
1881 – 1968
Justin Yifu Lin
b. 1952
Lee Iacocca
1924 – 2019
Ludmila Pagliero
b. 1983
Marie Stopes
1880 – 1958
Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker
1811 – 1886
Neophyte of Bulgaria
1945 – 2024
Niko Miljanić
1892 – 1957
Paolo Petrocelli
b. 1984
Pascal Demurger
b. 1964
Peter C. Doherty
b. 1940
Richard F. W. Bader
1931 – 2012
Roxane Gay
b. 1974
Rush D. Holt, Jr.
b. 1948
Sali Berisha
b. 1944
Stanley Fischer
1943 – 2025
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
b. 1950
Tomaso Montanari
b. 1971
Vadym Slyusar
b. 1964
Vazeh Asgarov
b. 1978
Wes Moore
b. 1978
Yu Minhong
b. 1962
Zhao Jiuzhang
1907 – 1968
Åke Sundborg
1921 – 2007
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
1931 – 2015
Abdul Rahman Al-Sumait
1947 – 2013
Afonso Florence
b. 1960
Ahmed Laraki
1931 – 2020
Akhsarbek Galazov
1929 – 2013
Albert Weiler
b. 1965
Alberto Campo Baeza
b. 1946
Alberto Lista
1775 – 1848
Alexander Abercromby
1745 – 1795
Alexander Ryabov
1936 – 2019
Alexandra Kertz-Welzel
b. 1970
Alfred Grünberger
1875 – 1935
Alisa Ivanova
b. 1954
André-Louis Cholesky
1875 – 1918
Anne Lill
b. 1946
Antonino Zichichi
1929 – 2026
Antonio Rastrelli
1927 – 2019
Arshaluys P. Tarverdyan
b. 1945
Arthur M. Schlesinger
1917 – 2007
Artyom Kobzev
b. 1953
Benoît-Marie Langénieux
1824 – 1905
Biljana Srbljanović
b. 1970
Boualem Sansal
b. 1944
Brian McBride
b. 1955
Brice Marden
1938 – 2023
Camille Papin Tissot
1868 – 1917
Carl D. Perkins
1912 – 1984
Carmen Riu
b. 1955
Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, 15th Marchioness of Casa Fuerte
b. 1974
Cecil Madigan
1889 – 1947
Charles-Eugène Guye
1866 – 1942
Chris Holmes
b. 1971
Christian Wiyghan Tumi
1930 – 2021
Christopher C. Miller
b. 1965
Chynybai Tursunbekov
1960 – 2020
Danyal Bayaz
b. 1983
Darrell Steinberg
b. 1959
David Heinemeier Hansson
b. 1979
David Murray
1830 – 1905
Denys Shmyhal
b. 1975
Donna Bullock
b. 1978
Edward C. Papenfuse
b. 1943
Elizabeth Truswell
b. 1941
Elmer Drew Merrill
1876 – 1956
Erwin Bolthausen
b. 1945
Evangelista Torricelli
1608 – 1647
Fabio Fabbri
1933 – 2024
Fazil Mustafa
b. 1965
Fernand Gillet
1882 – 1980
Franz von Löher
1818 – 1892
George Gordon Coulton
1858 – 1947
George Laking
1912 – 2008
Grigor Gurzadyan
1922 – 2014
Grigore Mărăcuță
b. 1942
Gustavo Villapalos Salas
1949 – 2021
Günther Oettinger
b. 1953
Günther van Well
1922 – 1993
Habib Wahid
b. 1979
Hans Dragendorff
1870 – 1941
Hans Olof Holmström
1784 – 1855
Harmon Northrop Morse
1848 – 1920
Harold MacMichael
1882 – 1969
Harold W. Gehman, Jr.
b. 1942
Harry F. Ward
1873 – 1966
Heiko Oberman
1930 – 2001
Henry Wade Rogers
1853 – 1926
Herbert E. Gregory
1869 – 1952
Honoré Mercier
1840 – 1894
Hubert Dreyfus
1929 – 2017
Ingemar Mundebo
1930 – 2018
James H. Davenport
b. 1953
James Tissot
1836 – 1902
Jana Toom
b. 1966
Jim Leach
1942 – 2024
Joanna Truffaut
b. 1977
Johan Olof Wallin
1779 – 1839
John Carew Rolfe
1859 – 1943
John Gavan Duffy
1844 – 1917
John Thwaites
b. 1955
Joseph H. Silverman
1924 – 1989
Juan Asenjo Pelegrina
b. 1945
Juan González
b. 1947
Julia Mary Yeomans
b. 1954
János Csák
b. 1962
Kameshwar C. Wali
1927 – 2022
Kari Rajamäki
b. 1948
Karl Richter
1926 – 1981
Kate Wetzel Jameson
1870 – 1967
Kazimieras Ragulskis
1926 – 2023
Kido Okamoto
1872 – 1939
Kiyokazu Abo
1870 – 1948
Krista Kodres
b. 1957
Leonard Thornton
1916 – 1999
Lewis Knudson
1884 – 1958
Lim Yew Hock
1914 – 1984
Linda Lavin
1937 – 2024
Lorenzo Lauri
1864 – 1941
Louis-Eugène Cavaignac
1802 – 1857
Lyubov Sliska
b. 1953
Lúcia Vânia Abrão Costa
b. 1944
Magnus Fredrik Brahe
1756 – 1826
Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie
1622 – 1686
Majid Takht-Ravanchi
b. 1958
Malcolm Chisholm
1945 – 2015
Malcolm Ross
1919 – 1985
Marco Causi
1956 – 2025
Marguerite Andersen
1924 – 2022
Mari Kushibuchi
b. 1967
Maria da Assunção Esteves
b. 1956
Michael Lewis
b. 1960
Michel Aumont
1936 – 2019
Miloslav Petrusek
1936 – 2012
Mira Nair
b. 1957
Mohammed Zahir Shah
1914 – 2007
Nicholas Green
b. 1958
Nicola Mancino
b. 1931
Nikodim
1929 – 1978
Nora Ikstena
1969 – 2026
Olgierd Geblewicz
b. 1972
Olof August Danielsson
1852 – 1933
Oscar Nierstrasz
b. 1957
Oskar Cohn
1869 – 1934
Park Kyung-mee
b. 1965
Patricia Selinger
b. 1949
Paul Reynaud
1878 – 1966
Peter Caruana
b. 1956
Pierre Joseph Étienne Finck
1797 – 1870
Pierre Peytier
1793 – 1864
Prannoy Roy
b. 1949
Raphaël Glucksmann
b. 1979
Robert Frederick Froehlke
1922 – 2016
Robert Lim
1897 – 1969
Ron Johnson
b. 1959
Sam Brown
b. 1983
Sarah Ferguson
b. 1959
Seymour Benzer
1921 – 2007
Silvia Calvó i Armengol
b. 1969
Soraya Post
b. 1956
Stefan Dziedzic
1927 – 2006
Stephen Sherbourne
b. 1945
Steve Bracks
b. 1954
Sylvère Lotringer
1938 – 2021
Tadashige Daigo
1891 – 1947
Tatiana Țîbuleac
b. 1978
Tatul Altunyan
1901 – 1973
Todd Solondz
b. 1959
Try Sutrisno
1935 – 2026
Tse Chin-wan
b. 1957
Valentyna Rakytianska
1948 – 2021
… and 4,133 more
Died on October 15
John Morgan
1735 – 1789
Marcel Berger
1927 – 2016
Abraham Fraenkel
1891 – 1965
Alfons Verplaetse
1930 – 2020
Antonio Skármeta
1940 – 2024
Boris Piotrovsky
1908 – 1990
E. Allen Emerson
1954 – 2024
Eoin MacNeill
1867 – 1945
Gatewood Lincoln
1875 – 1957
Georges Pruvôt
1852 – 1924
Giovanni Battista Rizza
1924 – 2018
Hans Riegel
1923 – 2013
Herbert Henry Dow
1866 – 1930
Lipót Fejér
1880 – 1959
M. S. Gill
1936 – 2023
Maxime Collignon
1849 – 1917
Mikhail Lavrentyev
1900 – 1980
Nitobe Inazō
1862 – 1933
Oliver Franks, Baron Franks
1905 – 1992
Parker Cleaveland
1780 – 1858
Paul Allen
1953 – 2018
Pierre-Basile Mignault
1854 – 1945
Raymond Poincaré
1860 – 1934
Robert Haab
1865 – 1939
Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander
1940 – 2021
Theodor Boveri
1862 – 1915
Thomas Frederic Cheeseman
1846 – 1923
Władysław Abraham
1860 – 1941
Abraham Heidanus
1597 – 1678
Alan Goodrich Kirk
1888 – 1963
Alfred Stephen
1802 – 1894
Allen Apsley
1616 – 1683
Andreas Steinhuber
1825 – 1907
Andrés Bello
1781 – 1865
Cancio Garcia
1937 – 2013
Carl Gustaf Mosander
1797 – 1858
Charles Ellicott
1819 – 1905
Charles John Vaughan
1816 – 1897
Claude Cheysson
1920 – 2012
Daniel O'Connell
1896 – 1982
Danilo Kiš
1935 – 1989
David Amess
1952 – 2021
Deane B. Judd
1900 – 1972
Dmitry Lachinov
1842 – 1902
Donald R. Heath
1894 – 1981
Désiré-Alexandre Batton
1798 – 1855
Edwin Emery Slosson
1865 – 1929
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
1939 – 2009
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
1778 – 1853
Gabriel Louis Angoulvant
1872 – 1932
Georg I of Saxony
1832 – 1904
Georg Klebs
1857 – 1918
George James Peirce
1868 – 1954
George Negus
1942 – 2024
Georges Mathé
1922 – 2010
Giovanni Reale
1931 – 2014
Hans Pischner
1914 – 2016
Hermann Göring
1893 – 1946
Hershel W. Gober
1936 – 2024
István Rusznyák
1889 – 1974
Ivan Rerberg
1869 – 1932
Jacob L. Devers
1887 – 1979
Jacques Charon
1920 – 1975
James Hastings
1852 – 1922
Jarl Axel Wasastjerna
1896 – 1972
Jean Vendeville
1527 – 1592
Jim Bolger
1935 – 2025
Karl Friedrich Küstner
1856 – 1936
Katherine Bitting
1869 – 1937
Konrad Emil Bloch
1912 – 2000
Lancelot Carnegie
1861 – 1933
Leo Eitinger
1912 – 1996
Louis Eugène Marie Bautain
1796 – 1867
Louis Napoléon Champagne
1860 – 1911
László Rajk
1909 – 1949
Léon Delacroix
1867 – 1929
Mary Burnett Talbert
1866 – 1923
Maurice F. Weisner
1917 – 2006
Michael David Jackson
1944 – 2024
Michał Rola-Żymierski
1890 – 1989
Mokutaro Kinoshita
1885 – 1945
Nicolai Johan Lohmann Krog
1787 – 1856
Nikolay Dobrokhotov
1889 – 1963
Norodom Sihanouk
1922 – 2012
Oral Muchamedschanow
1948 – 2013
Osmond Brock
1869 – 1947
Pat O'Brien
1899 – 1983
Pietro Krohn
1840 – 1905
Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark
1908 – 1980
Raila A Odinga
1945 – 2025
Reidar Omang
1897 – 1964
Ross Gunn
1897 – 1966
Simon Michelet
1863 – 1942
Suzanne Somers
1946 – 2023
Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton
1853 – 1934
Teofilo Torres Corzo
1946 – 2023
Thomas Sankara
1949 – 1987
Urban VI
1318 – 1389
William Edwin Minshall, Jr.
1911 – 1990
Yu Pingbo
1900 – 1990
Yuri Ozerov
1921 – 2001
Zhang Xueliang
1901 – 2001
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke
1919 – 1969
Abram Isaac Elkus
1867 – 1947
Alastair M. Taylor
1915 – 2005
Albert I of Käfernburg
1170 – 1232
Alex Josey
1910 – 1986
Ann C. Whitman
1908 – 1991
Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg
1673 – 1741
Anne Ridler
1912 – 2001
Antoine Blatin
1841 – 1911
Antonio Cotogni
1831 – 1918
Antonio Losada Diéguez
1884 – 1929
Antonio Ángel Algora Hernando
1940 – 2020
Antonín Liška
1924 – 2003
Arie Aroch
1908 – 1974
Armindo Monteiro
1896 – 1955
Arthur Sherwood
1854 – 1940
Aydın Sayılı
1913 – 1993
Bedřich Bridel
1619 – 1680
Benjamín Claro Velasco
1902 – 1968
Bernard Denis Stewart
1900 – 1988
Bernard de la Monnoye
1641 – 1728
Bhanu Athaiya
1929 – 2020
Carl W. Helstrom
1925 – 2013
Carlos María Fitz-James Stuart, 16th Duke of Alba
1849 – 1901
Carlota Bustelo
1939 – 2025
Carmen Petra-Basacopol
1926 – 2023
Charles Samaran
1879 – 1982
Chiken Kakazu
1941 – 2024
Cho Man-sik
1883 – 1950
Clarence Raymond Adams
1898 – 1965
Cole Porter
1891 – 1964
Craig Raymond
1945 – 2018
Dan Benishek
1952 – 2021
Debi Prasad Roy Choudhury
1899 – 1975
Delphine Seyrig
1932 – 1990
Diego de León, 1st Count of Belascoáin
1807 – 1841
Dmitry Khilkov
1857 – 1914
Don Hilary Gingery
1884 – 1961
Donald Dunstan
1923 – 2011
Ed Benguiat
1927 – 2020
Edie Adams
1927 – 2008
Edwin Francis Lyford
1857 – 1929
Ernest Henry Wilson
1876 – 1930
Erol Günaydın
1933 – 2012
Ettore Paratore
1907 – 2000
Eugenie M. Morenus
1881 – 1966
F. L. Washburn
1860 – 1927
Farrukh Jaffar
1933 – 2021
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca
1914 – 2008
Floyd Henry Allport
1890 – 1979
Frank G. Higgins
1864 – 1905
François-Marie Delessert
1780 – 1868
Frederick G. Katzmann
1875 – 1953
Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell
1876 – 1966
Friedrich Karl Theodor Zarncke
1825 – 1891
Friedrich Reusch
1843 – 1906
Gabrielle Réval
1869 – 1938
Games Slayter
1896 – 1964
George Anson Starkweather
1794 – 1879
George Dawe
1781 – 1829
George Hay
1729 – 1811
George Meader
1907 – 1994
George W. Patterson
1799 – 1879
Georges Thill
1897 – 1984
Gerd Ruge
1928 – 2021
Gertrude Sumner Ely
1876 – 1970
Gilles Li Muisis
1272 – 1352
Gregorio Y. Zara
1902 – 1978
Harold Perkin
1926 – 2004
Helen Gregory
1946 – 2025
Helen Rushall
1914 – 1984
Henrique de Carvalho Santos
1940 – 2023
Henry E. Lackey
1876 – 1952
Henry de Boulay Forde
1933 – 2024
Herbert W. Taylor
1869 – 1931
Herbert Watts
1858 – 1934
Hirotsu Ryurō
1861 – 1928
Hubert Netzer
1865 – 1939
Hugh W. Cross
1896 – 1972
Isaac R. Sherwood
1835 – 1925
Ivan Rosly
1902 – 1980
Ivan Zakharkin
1889 – 1944
J. L. P. Roche Victoria
1894 – 1962
Jacoba Hol
1886 – 1964
James Anderson
1739 – 1808
James C. Magee
1883 – 1975
James E. Held
1938 – 1967
James Lee Barrett
1929 – 1989
James McAuley
1917 – 1976
James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby
1607 – 1651
Jan Piotr Sapieha
1569 – 1611
Jens Lindhard
1922 – 1997
Jimmy Durrant
1913 – 1990
Joanna Merlin
1931 – 2023
John Hamilton, 1st Baron Hamilton of Dalzell
1829 – 1900
John Hatsell
1733 – 1820
John Perceval
1923 – 2000
Jole Santelli
1968 – 2020
… and 1,672 more