Famous Births on 15 Sep

Famous Births on 15 Sep

1254 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)
1533 - Catherine of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1572)
1580 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (d. 1659)
1613 - François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)
1649 - Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705)
1666 - Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle (d. 1726)
1715 - Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist (d. 1789)
1760 - Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars (d. 1824)
1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist (d. 1851)
1828 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
1830 - Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915)
1852 - Edward Bouchet, American physicist (d. 1918)
1857 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)
1858 - JenÅ' Hubay, Hungarian violinist (d. 1937)
1860 - Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya, Indian engineer (d. 1962)
1863 - Horatio Parker, American composer (d. 1919)
1867 - Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1920)
1876 - Bruno Walter, German conductor (d. 1962)
1876 - Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian novelist (d. 1938)
1877 - Jakob Ehrlich, Austrian politician and zionist (d. 1938)
1879 - Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
1881 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile engineer and designer (d. 1947)
1883 - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (d. 1950)
1887 - Carlos Dávila, former President of Chile (d. 1955)
1888 - Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925)
1889 - Robert Benchley, American author (d. 1945)
1890 - Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976)
1890 - Frank Martin, Swiss composer (d. 1974)
1892 - Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor (d. 1962)
1894 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (d. 1977)
1894 - Jean Renoir, French film director (d. 1979)
1895 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania (d. 1977)
1898 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (d. 1936)
1901 - Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985)
1903 - Roy Acuff, American country musician (d. 1992)
1904 - King Umberto II of Italy (d. 1983)
1906 - Jacques Becker, French screenwriter and director (d. 1960)
1907 - Fay Wray, Canadian-born American actress (d. 2004)
1907 - Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and writer (d. 1968)
1908 - Penny Singleton, American actress (d. 2003)
1909 - C.N.Annadurai, Former Chief Minnister of Tamilnadu
1911 - Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born American golf entrepreneur (d. 2000)
1913 - John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General and Watergate figure (d. 1988)
1913 - Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (d.1994)
1914 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
1914 - Creighton Abrams, American Army general (d. 1974)
1915 - Albert Whitlock, English motion picture matte artist (d. 1999)
1916 - Margaret Lockwood, English actress (d. 1990)
1918 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian (d. 2005)
1919 - Fausto Coppi, Italian racing cyclist (d. 1960)
1919 - Nelson Gidding, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
1921 - Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (d. 2001)
1922 - Jackie Cooper, American actor and director
1922 - Bob Anderson (fencer), English sword-master
1923 - Anton Heiller, Austrian organist (d. 1979)
1924 - Bobby Short, American musician (d. 2005)
1926 - Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
1926 - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (d. 2006)
1927 - David Stove, Australian philosopher, (d. 1994)
1928 - Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1975)
1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1929 - Eva Burrows, the 13th General of The Salvation Army
1933 - Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor
1933 - Henry Darrow, American actor
1934 - Fred Nile, Australian politician
1937 - Fernando de la Rúa, 51st President of Argentina
1937 - Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist, Nobel laureate
1938 - Gaylord Perry, baseball player
1940 - Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor
1940 - Norman Spinrad, American science fiction author
1941 - Viktor Zubkov, Russian government official
1941 - Yuri Norstein, Russian animator
1941 - Mirosław Hermaszewski, Polish cosmonaut
1941 - Signe Toly Anderson, American singer
1941 - Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer
1942 - Lee Dorman, American Bassist
1944 - Sotirios Hatzigakis, Greek politician
1945 - Ron Shelton, American film director
1945 - Hans-Gert Pöttering, well-known German politician in the European union, President of the European Parliament since 16 January 2007.
1945 - Carmen Maura, Spanish actress
1945 - Jessye Norman, American opera singer
1946 - Howard Waldrop, American science fiction author
1946 - Oliver Stone, American film director
1946 - Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer for ABBA (d. 2008)
1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
1948 - Suzyn Waldman, American Sportscaster
1949 - Joe Barton, American politician
1951 - Pete Carroll, American football coach
1951 - Johan Neeskens, Dutch footballer
1954 - Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007)
1955 - Željka Antunović, Croatian politician
1956 - Maggie Reilly, Scottish folk singer
1956 - Jaki Graham, English singer
1958 - Dr. Know, American guitarist (Bad Brains)
1958 - Joel Quenneville, Canadian ice hockey player
1958 - Wendie Jo Sperber, American actress (d. 2005)
1960 - Kevin Allen, Welsh actor
1961 - Dan Marino, American football player
1961 - Terry Lamb, Australian rugby league footballer
1962 - Dina Lohan, American actress and reality television star, mother of Lindsay Lohan
1964 - Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, former guitarrist for horror punk band The Misfits
1964 - Róbert Fico, Slovak Prime minister
1968 - Danny Nucci, American actor
1969 - Jim Curtiss, American writer
1971 - Nathan Astle, New Zealand cricketer
1971 - Josh Charles, American actor
1971 - Ben Wallers, English musician and songwriter (Country Teasers)
1972 - Kit Chan, Singaporean singer
1972 - Princess Letizia of Spain
1972 - Jimmy Carr, English comedian
1973 - Julie Cox, English actress
1974 - Jamie Stevens, German singer
1976 - Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer (Franz Ferdinand)
1976 - Matt Thornton, American baseball player
1977 - Tom Hardy, British actor
1977 - Marisa Ramirez, American actress
1977 - Jason Terry, American basketball player
1977 - Leander Jordan, National Football League offensive lineman
1977 - Sophie Dahl, English model
1977 - Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
1978 - Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
1979 - Patrick Marleau, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Carlos Ruiz, Guatemalan soccer player
1979 - Amy Davidson, American actress
1979 - Dave Annable, American actor
1980 - David Diehl, American football player
1980 - Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese pop singer
1980 - Mike Dunleavy, Jr., American basketball player
1983 - Luke Hochevar, American baseball player
1984 - Prince Henry of Wales
1986 - Heidi Montag, American reality television star
1987 - Aly Cissokho, French football (soccer) player
1988 - Chelsea Staub, American actress
1989 - Chetan Ramlu, New Zealand musician
973 - Al-Biruni, mathematician (d. 1048)