April 15th All Events |
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| April 15th, 2008 (April 15 2008) | Death | Krister Stendahl, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop (born in 1921) | |
| April 15th, 2008 (April 15 2008) | Death | Benoit Lamy, Belgian Movie Director (born in 1945) | |
| April 15th, 2007 (April 15 2007) | Death | Brant Parker, American cartoonist (born in 1920) | |
| April 15th, 2005 (April 15 2005) | Death | John Fred, American singer (born in 1941) | |
| April 15th, 2004 (April 15 2004) | Death | Ray Condo, Canadian musician (born in 1950) | |
| April 15th, 2003 (April 15 2003) | Death | Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (born in 1941) | |
| April 15th, 2003 (April 15 2003) | Death | Reg Bundy, British performer (born in 1941) | |
| April 15th, 2002 (April 15 2002) | Event | An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128. | |
| April 15th, 2002 (April 15 2002) | Death | Damon Knight, American author (born in 1922) | |
| April 15th, 2002 (April 15 2002) | Death | Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (born in 1917) | Byron White Quotes |
| April 15th, 2001 (April 15 2001) | Death | Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (born in 1951) | |
| April 15th, 2000 (April 15 2000) | Death | Edward Gorey, American illustrator (born in 1925) | |
| April 15th, 1999 (April 15 1999) | Death | Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer (born in 1944) | |
| April 15th, 1998 (April 15 1998) | Death | Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (born in 1925) | |
| April 15th, 1997 (April 15 1997) | Event | Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is 343. | |
| April 15th, 1995 (April 15 1995) | Death | Harry Shoulberg, American painter, serigrapher (born in 1903) | |
| April 15th, 1994 (April 15 1994) | Event | Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995). | |
| April 15th, 1994 (April 15 1994) | Death | John Curry, English figure skater (born in 1949) | |
| April 15th, 1993 (April 15 1993) | Birth | Madeleine Martin, American television actress | |
| April 15th, 1993 (April 15 1993) | Death | John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (born in 1908) | |
| April 15th, 1993 (April 15 1993) | Death | Leslie Charteris, Singapore-born author (born in 1907) | |
| April 15th, 1992 (April 15 1992) | Event | The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. | |
| April 15th, 1992 (April 15 1992) | Birth | Amy Diamond, Swedish singer | |
| April 15th, 1990 (April 15 1990) | Birth | Emma Watson, English actress | |
| April 15th, 1990 (April 15 1990) | Death | Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (born in 1905) | |
| April 15th, 1989 (April 15 1989) | Event | Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of football club Sheffield Wednesday, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool FC fans. | |
| April 15th, 1989 (April 15 1989) | Event | Upon Hu Yaobang s death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People s Republic of China. | |
| April 15th, 1989 (April 15 1989) | Death | Nesuhi Ertegun, American record executive (born in 1917) | |
| April 15th, 1989 (April 15 1989) | Death | Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (born in 1915) | |
| April 15th, 1988 (April 15 1988) | Death | Kenneth Williams, English actor and comedian (born in 1926) | |
| April 15th, 1988 (April 15 1988) | Death | Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (born in 1954) | |
| April 15th, 1986 (April 15 1986) | Event | The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya. | |
| April 15th, 1986 (April 15 1986) | Birth | Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Dutch footballer | |
| April 15th, 1986 (April 15 1986) | Death | Jean Genet, French author (born in 1910) | Jean Genet Quotes |
| April 15th, 1985 (April 15 1985) | Birth | John Danks, American baseball player | |
| April 15th, 1985 (April 15 1985) | Birth | Aaron Laffey, American baseball player | |
| April 15th, 1984 (April 15 1984) | Event | British comedian Tommy Cooper suffers a massive heart attack while live on TV. | |
| April 15th, 1984 (April 15 1984) | Birth | Rodney Carney, NBA athlete | |
| April 15th, 1984 (April 15 1984) | Birth | Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player | |
| April 15th, 1984 (April 15 1984) | Birth | Ben Kasica, Guitarist of rock band Skillet | |
| April 15th, 1984 (April 15 1984) | Death | Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (born in 1921) | |
| April 15th, 1984 (April 15 1984) | Death | Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (born in 1925) | |
| April 15th, 1983 (April 15 1983) | Birth | Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player | |
| April 15th, 1983 (April 15 1983) | Birth | Alice Braga, Brazilian actress | |
| April 15th, 1983 (April 15 1983) | Birth | Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer | |
| April 15th, 1983 (April 15 1983) | Birth | Bronson La Cassie, Australian professional golfer | |
| April 15th, 1983 (April 15 1983) | Death | Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (born in 1892) | |
| April 15th, 1982 (April 15 1982) | Birth | Anthony Green, American musician | |
| April 15th, 1982 (April 15 1982) | Birth | Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer | |
| April 15th, 1982 (April 15 1982) | Birth | Albert Riera, Spanish footballer | |
| April 15th, 1982 (April 15 1982) | Birth | Michael Aubrey, American baseball player | |
| April 15th, 1982 (April 15 1982) | Death | Arthur Lowe, British actor (born in 1915) | |
| April 15th, 1981 (April 15 1981) | Birth | Andres D Alessandro, Argentine football player | |
| April 15th, 1981 (April 15 1981) | Birth | Seth Wulsin, American artist | |
| April 15th, 1980 (April 15 1980) | Birth | Natalie Casey, British actress | |
| April 15th, 1980 (April 15 1980) | Birth | James Foster, English cricketer | |
| April 15th, 1980 (April 15 1980) | Birth | Raul Lopez, Spanish basketball player | |
| April 15th, 1980 (April 15 1980) | Birth | Victor Nunez, Costa Rican footballer | |
| April 15th, 1980 (April 15 1980) | Birth | Frank Schleck, Luxembourgish cyclist | |
| April 15th, 1980 (April 15 1980) | Death | Raymond Bailey, American actor (born in 1904) | |
| April 15th, 1980 (April 15 1980) | Death | Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (born in 1905) | Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes |
| April 15th, 1979 (April 15 1979) | Event | A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) on Montenegro coast. Media:http://lemnos.geo.auth.gr/~zroum/Albania/Albania.htm[1] | |
| April 15th, 1978 (April 15 1978) | Birth | Austin Aries, American wrestler | |
| April 15th, 1978 (April 15 1978) | Birth | Milton Bradley, American baseball player | |
| April 15th, 1978 (April 15 1978) | Birth | Tim Corcoran, American baseball player | |
| April 15th, 1977 (April 15 1977) | Birth | Brian Pothier, American ice hockey player | |
| April 15th, 1976 (April 15 1976) | Birth | Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| April 15th, 1976 (April 15 1976) | Birth | Susan Ward, American actress | |
| April 15th, 1975 (April 15 1975) | Birth | Paul Dana, American race car driver (died in 2006) | |
| April 15th, 1975 (April 15 1975) | Death | Richard Conte, American actor (born in 1910) | |
| April 15th, 1974 (April 15 1974) | Birth | Mike Quinn, American football player | |
| April 15th, 1974 (April 15 1974) | Birth | Keith Malley, American comedian and podcaster (Keith and The Girl) | |
| April 15th, 1974 (April 15 1974) | Birth | Danny Pino, American actor | |
| April 15th, 1974 (April 15 1974) | Birth | Douglas Spain, American actor | |
| April 15th, 1974 (April 15 1974) | Birth | Josh Todd, American musician (Buckcherry) | |
| April 15th, 1974 (April 15 1974) | Death | Giovanni D Anzi, Italian songwriter (born in 1906) | |
| April 15th, 1972 (April 15 1972) | Birth | Lou Romano, American voice actor | |
| April 15th, 1972 (April 15 1972) | Birth | Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer | |
| April 15th, 1971 (April 15 1971) | Birth | Katy Hill, British television presenter | |
| April 15th, 1971 (April 15 1971) | Birth | Sarah Jane Hamilton, British pornographic actress | |
| April 15th, 1971 (April 15 1971) | Birth | Jason Sehorn, American football player | |
| April 15th, 1971 (April 15 1971) | Death | Dan Reeves, American football team owner (born in 1912) | |
| April 15th, 1970 (April 15 1970) | Birth | Flex Alexander, American actor | |
| April 15th, 1970 (April 15 1970) | Death | Ripper Collins, American baseball player (born in 1904) | |
| April 15th, 1969 (April 15 1969) | Birth | Jeromy Burnitz, American baseball player | |
| April 15th, 1969 (April 15 1969) | Birth | Jimmy Waite, Canadian ice hockey goaltender | |
| April 15th, 1969 (April 15 1969) | Death | Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain (born in 1887) | |
| April 15th, 1968 (April 15 1968) | Birth | Ed O Brien, British musician (Radiohead) | |
| April 15th, 1968 (April 15 1968) | Birth | Stacey Williams, American model | |
| April 15th, 1967 (April 15 1967) | Event | Scotland defeats rival England 3-2 at Wembley Stadium, causing the Scots fans to jokingly claim their side as "Unofficial world Champions", creating the phenomenon of the Unofficial Football World Championships. | |
| April 15th, 1967 (April 15 1967) | Birth | Frankie Poullain, British musician (The Darkness) | |
| April 15th, 1967 (April 15 1967) | Birth | Dara Torres, American swimmer | |
| April 15th, 1967 (April 15 1967) | Birth | Alt, Brazilian comic creator | |
| April 15th, 1966 (April 15 1966) | Birth | Samantha Fox, English singer | |
| April 15th, 1965 (April 15 1965) | Birth | Linda Perry, American musician | |
| April 15th, 1963 (April 15 1963) | Birth | Bobby Pepper, American journalist | |
| April 15th, 1963 (April 15 1963) | Death | Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (born in 1903) | |
| April 15th, 1962 (April 15 1962) | Birth | Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi Bhangra singer | |
| April 15th, 1962 (April 15 1962) | Birth | Nawal El Moutawakel, Morrocan hurdler | |
| April 15th, 1962 (April 15 1962) | Birth | Tom Kane, American voice actor | |
| April 15th, 1962 (April 15 1962) | Death | Clara Blandick, American actress (born in 1881) | |
| April 15th, 1962 (April 15 1962) | Death | Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (born in 1911) | |
| April 15th, 1960 (April 15 1960) | Birth | Tony Jones (snooker), English snooker player | |
| April 15th, 1960 (April 15 1960) | Birth | Pedro Delgado, Spanish cyclist | |
| April 15th, 1960 (April 15 1960) | Birth | HRH Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne | |
| April 15th, 1959 (April 15 1959) | Birth | Fruit Chan, Hong Kong film director | |
| April 15th, 1959 (April 15 1959) | Birth | Emma Thompson, English actress | |
| April 15th, 1959 (April 15 1959) | Birth | Thomas F. Wilson, American actor | |
| April 15th, 1959 (April 15 1959) | Birth | Kevin Lowe, Canadian ice hockey player and general manager | |
| April 15th, 1958 (April 15 1958) | Birth | Keith Acton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach | |
| April 15th, 1958 (April 15 1958) | Birth | Dolores Gordon-Smith, British Writer | Gordon Smith Quotes |
| April 15th, 1958 (April 15 1958) | Birth | Noni ?oannidou, Greek fashion model and actress | |
| April 15th, 1958 (April 15 1958) | Birth | Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer | |
| April 15th, 1957 (April 15 1957) | Event | White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city. | |
| April 15th, 1957 (April 15 1957) | Birth | Evelyn Ashford, American athlete | |
| April 15th, 1957 (April 15 1957) | Death | Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (born in 1917) | |
| April 15th, 1956 (April 15 1956) | Birth | Michael Cooper, American basketball player | |
| April 15th, 1955 (April 15 1955) | Event | Ray Kroc opens his first franchise of McDonald s restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois. | |
| April 15th, 1955 (April 15 1955) | Birth | Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (died in 1997) | |
| April 15th, 1954 (April 15 1954) | Birth | Seka, American pornographic actress | |
| April 15th, 1952 (April 15 1952) | Event | The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress | |
| April 15th, 1952 (April 15 1952) | Birth | Bengt Gingsjo, Swedish swimmer | |
| April 15th, 1952 (April 15 1952) | Birth | Kym Gyngell, Australian comedian | |
| April 15th, 1952 (April 15 1952) | Birth | Sam McMurray, American actor | |
| April 15th, 1951 (April 15 1951) | Birth | Heloise, American newspaper columnist | |
| April 15th, 1950 (April 15 1950) | Birth | Josiane Balasko, French actress, director and screenwriter | |
| April 15th, 1950 (April 15 1950) | Birth | Amy Wright, American actress | |
| April 15th, 1949 (April 15 1949) | Birth | Tonio K, American singer | |
| April 15th, 1949 (April 15 1949) | Birth | Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer | |
| April 15th, 1949 (April 15 1949) | Birth | Craig Zadan, American film producer | |
| April 15th, 1949 (April 15 1949) | Death | Wallace Beery, American actor (born in 1885) | |
| April 15th, 1948 (April 15 1948) | Birth | Michael Kamen, American composer (died in 2003) | |
| April 15th, 1948 (April 15 1948) | Death | Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (died in 1892) | |
| April 15th, 1947 (April 15 1947) | Event | Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball s color line. | |
| April 15th, 1947 (April 15 1947) | Birth | Lois Chiles, American actress | |
| April 15th, 1947 (April 15 1947) | Birth | Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish politician | |
| April 15th, 1947 (April 15 1947) | Birth | Mike Chapman, British songwriter | |
| April 15th, 1947 (April 15 1947) | Birth | Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, American writer and television producer | |
| April 15th, 1945 (April 15 1945) | Event | The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated. | |
| April 15th, 1945 (April 15 1945) | Death | Hermann Florstedt, Nazi leader (born in 1895) | |
| April 15th, 1944 (April 15 1944) | Birth | Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (died in 1996) | |
| April 15th, 1944 (April 15 1944) | Birth | Dave Edmunds, Welsh musician | |
| April 15th, 1943 (April 15 1943) | Event | An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians. | |
| April 15th, 1943 (April 15 1943) | Death | Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (died in 1882) | |
| April 15th, 1942 (April 15 1942) | Event | George Cross is awarded to "to the island fortress of Maltaits people and defenders" by King George VI. | |
| April 15th, 1942 (April 15 1942) | Birth | Francis X. DiLorenzo, American Catholic prelate | |
| April 15th, 1942 (April 15 1942) | Birth | Walt Hazzard, American basketball player | |
| April 15th, 1942 (April 15 1942) | Birth | Kenneth Lay, American businessman (died in 2006) | |
| April 15th, 1942 (April 15 1942) | Death | Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (born in 1880) | |
| April 15th, 1941 (April 15 1941) | Event | In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland killing one thousand people. | |
| April 15th, 1941 (April 15 1941) | Birth | Howard Berman, American politician | |
| April 15th, 1940 (April 15 1940) | Event | The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany. | |
| April 15th, 1940 (April 15 1940) | Birth | Jeffrey Archer, British author | Jeffrey Archer Quotes |
| April 15th, 1940 (April 15 1940) | Birth | Willie Davis, American baseball player | |
| April 15th, 1940 (April 15 1940) | Birth | Woodie Fryman, American baseball player | |
| April 15th, 1940 (April 15 1940) | Birth | Robert Lacroix, French Canadian professor of economics | |
| April 15th, 1940 (April 15 1940) | Birth | Robert Walker Jr., American actor | |
| April 15th, 1939 (April 15 1939) | Birth | Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress | |
| April 15th, 1939 (April 15 1939) | Birth | Marty Wilde, British singer | |
| April 15th, 1938 (April 15 1938) | Birth | Hso Khan Pha, Burmese politician | |
| April 15th, 1938 (April 15 1938) | Death | Cesar Vallejo, Peruvian poet (born in 1892) | |
| April 15th, 1937 (April 15 1937) | Birth | Bob Luman, American country singer (died in 1978) | |
| April 15th, 1936 (April 15 1936) | Birth | Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist | |
| April 15th, 1933 (April 15 1933) | Birth | Roy Clark, American musician | |
| April 15th, 1933 (April 15 1933) | Birth | David Hamilton, British photographer, film director and producer | |
| April 15th, 1933 (April 15 1933) | Birth | Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (died in 1995) | |
| April 15th, 1933 (April 15 1933) | Birth | Boris Strugatsky, Russian author | |
| April 15th, 1930 (April 15 1930) | Birth | Vigdis Finnbogadottir, President of Iceland | |
| April 15th, 1927 (April 15 1927) | Birth | Robert Mills, American physicist (died in 1999) | |
| April 15th, 1927 (April 15 1927) | Death | Gaston Leroux, French writer (born in 1868) | |
| April 15th, 1924 (April 15 1924) | Event | Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas. | |
| April 15th, 1924 (April 15 1924) | Birth | Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor | |
| April 15th, 1923 (April 15 1923) | Event | Insulin becomes generally available for use by diabetics. | |
| April 15th, 1922 (April 15 1922) | Birth | Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor | |
| April 15th, 1922 (April 15 1922) | Birth | Harold Washington, American politician (died in 1987) | |
| April 15th, 1921 (April 15 1921) | Birth | Georgi Beregovoi, Russian cosmonaut (died in 1995) | |
| April 15th, 1920 (April 15 1920) | Event | Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store. | |
| April 15th, 1920 (April 15 1920) | Birth | Richard von Weizsacker, President of Germany | |
| April 15th, 1917 (April 15 1917) | Birth | Hans Conried, American actor (died in 1982) | |
| April 15th, 1917 (April 15 1917) | Birth | James Kee, American politician (died in 1989) | |
| April 15th, 1916 (April 15 1916) | Birth | Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (died in 1982) | |
| April 15th, 1912 (April 15 1912) | Event | The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic, after hitting an iceberg two and a half hours earlier, the previous day. | |
| April 15th, 1912 (April 15 1912) | Birth | Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (died in 1994) | |
| April 15th, 1912 (April 15 1912) | Death | Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (born in 1850) | |
| April 15th, 1912 (April 15 1912) | Death | John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (born in 1864) | |
| April 15th, 1912 (April 15 1912) | Death | William T. Stead American author and journalist. (born in 1849) | |
| April 15th, 1908 (April 15 1908) | Birth | Eden Ahbez, American songwriter (died in 1995) | Eden Ahbez Quotes |
| April 15th, 1908 (April 15 1908) | Birth | Lita Grey, American actress (died in 1995) | |
| April 15th, 1907 (April 15 1907) | Birth | Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist, Nobel laureate (died in 1988) | |
| April 15th, 1906 (April 15 1906) | Event | The Armenian organization AGBU is established. | |
| April 15th, 1904 (April 15 1904) | Birth | Arshile Gorky, Armenian Artist (died in 1948) | |
| April 15th, 1902 (April 15 1902) | Birth | Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (died in 2002) | |
| April 15th, 1901 (April 15 1901) | Birth | Joe Davis, English snooker player (died in 1978) | |
| April 15th, 1898 (April 15 1898) | Death | Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader | |
| April 15th, 1896 (April 15 1896) | Birth | Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (died in 1986) | |
| April 15th, 1895 (April 15 1895) | Birth | Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (died in 1980) | |
| April 15th, 1894 (April 15 1894) | Birth | Bessie Smith, American blues singer (died in 1937) | |
| April 15th, 1892 (April 15 1892) | Event | The General Electric Company is formed. | |
| April 15th, 1892 (April 15 1892) | Birth | Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (died in 1983) | |
| April 15th, 1892 (April 15 1892) | Birth | Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot (died in 1975) | |
| April 15th, 1889 (April 15 1889) | Birth | Thomas Hart Benton, American muralist (died in 1975) | |
| April 15th, 1889 (April 15 1889) | Birth | A. Philip Randolph, American activist (died in 1979) | |
| April 15th, 1889 (April 15 1889) | Death | Father Damien, Belgian missionary (born in 1840) | |
| April 15th, 1888 (April 15 1888) | Birth | Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (died in 1904) | |
| April 15th, 1888 (April 15 1888) | Death | Matthew Arnold, English poet (born in 1822) | Matthew Arnold Quotes |
| April 15th, 1886 (April 15 1886) | Birth | Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (died in 1921) | |
| April 15th, 1885 (April 15 1885) | Birth | Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (died in 1947) | |
| April 15th, 1883 (April 15 1883) | Birth | Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (died in 1967) | |
| April 15th, 1879 (April 15 1879) | Birth | Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer (died in 1980) | |
| April 15th, 1878 (April 15 1878) | Birth | Robert Walser, Swiss writer (died in 1956) | |
| April 15th, 1875 (April 15 1875) | Birth | James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (died in 1953) | |
| April 15th, 1874 (April 15 1874) | Birth | George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist (died in 1954) | George Harrison Quotes |
| April 15th, 1874 (April 15 1874) | Birth | Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel laureate (died in 1957) | |
| April 15th, 1865 (April 15 1865) | Event | Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson is then sworn in as the 17th President of the United States. | Andrew Johnson Quotes |
| April 15th, 1865 (April 15 1865) | Death | Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (born in 1809) | Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| April 15th, 1861 (April 15 1861) | Birth | Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (died in 1929) | Bliss Carman Quotes |
| April 15th, 1858 (April 15 1858) | Birth | Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (died in 1917) | |
| April 15th, 1854 (April 15 1854) | Death | Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (born in 1773) | |
| April 15th, 1843 (April 15 1843) | Birth | Henry James, American author (died in 1916) | Henry James Quotes |
| April 15th, 1841 (April 15 1841) | Birth | Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (died in 1919) | |
| April 15th, 1832 (April 15 1832) | Birth | Wilhelm Busch, German poet (died in 1908) | |
| April 15th, 1809 (April 15 1809) | Birth | Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician (died in 1877) | |
| April 15th, 1804 (April 15 1804) | Death | Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (born in 1761) | |
| April 15th, 1802 (April 15 1802) | Event | William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. | William Wordsworth Quotes |
| April 15th, 1800 (April 15 1800) | Birth | James Clark Ross, English explorer (died in 1862) | |
| April 15th, 1794 (April 15 1794) | Birth | Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (died in 1867) | |
| April 15th, 1793 (April 15 1793) | Birth | Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (died in 1864) | |
| April 15th, 1793 (April 15 1793) | Death | Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (born in 1718) | |
| April 15th, 1788 (April 15 1788) | Death | Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (born in 1711) | |
| April 15th, 1783 (April 15 1783) | Event | Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified. | |
| April 15th, 1772 (April 15 1772) | Birth | Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (died in 1844) | |
| April 15th, 1765 (April 15 1765) | Death | Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist and writer (born in 1711) | |
| April 15th, 1764 (April 15 1764) | Death | Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (born in 1721) | |
| April 15th, 1764 (April 15 1764) | Death | Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (born in 1679) | |
| April 15th, 1761 (April 15 1761) | Death | Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (born in 1682) | |
| April 15th, 1761 (April 15 1761) | Death | William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (born in 1696) | |
| April 15th, 1755 (April 15 1755) | Event | Samuel Johnson s A Dictionary of the English Language published in London. | Samuel Johnson Quotes |
| April 15th, 1754 (April 15 1754) | Death | Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (born in 1676) | |
| April 15th, 1741 (April 15 1741) | Birth | Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier and naturalist (died in 1827) | |
| April 15th, 1738 (April 15 1738) | Event | Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. | George Frideric Handel Quotes |
| April 15th, 1721 (April 15 1721) | Birth | Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (died in 1765) | |
| April 15th, 1719 (April 15 1719) | Death | Francoise d Aubigne, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (born in 1635) | Louis XIV of France Quotes |
| April 15th, 1715 (April 15 1715) | Event | Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina. | |
| April 15th, 1710 (April 15 1710) | Birth | William Cullen, Scottish physician (died in 1790) | |
| April 15th, 1707 (April 15 1707) | Birth | Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (died in 1783) | |
| April 15th, 1704 (April 15 1704) | Death | Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (born in 1628) | |
| April 15th, 1688 (April 15 1688) | Birth | Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (died in 1758) | |
| April 15th, 1684 (April 15 1684) | Birth | Catherine I of Russia (died in 1727) | |
| April 15th, 1659 (April 15 1659) | Death | Simon Dach, German poet (born in 1605) | |
| April 15th, 1652 (April 15 1652) | Death | Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church | |
| April 15th, 1646 (April 15 1646) | Birth | King Christian V of Denmark (died in 1699) | |
| April 15th, 1646 (April 15 1646) | Birth | Pierre Poiret, French mystic (died in 1719) | |
| April 15th, 1642 (April 15 1642) | Birth | Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (died in 1691) | |
| April 15th, 1641 (April 15 1641) | Birth | Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (died in 1722) | |
| April 15th, 1641 (April 15 1641) | Death | Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (born in 1581) | |
| April 15th, 1632 (April 15 1632) | Event | Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War. | |
| April 15th, 1632 (April 15 1632) | Death | George Calvert, Proprietor of the Avalon (Maryland) Colony (born in 1580) | |
| April 15th, 1621 (April 15 1621) | Death | John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony | |
| April 15th, 1610 (April 15 1610) | Death | Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (born in 1546) | |
| April 15th, 1588 (April 15 1588) | Birth | Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (died in 1653) | |
| April 15th, 1552 (April 15 1552) | Birth | Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (died in 1626) | |
| April 15th, 1489 (April 15 1489) | Birth | Sinan, Ottoman architect (died in 1588) | |
| April 15th, 1469 (April 15 1469) | Birth | Guru Nanak Dev, Founder of Sikhism (died in 1539) | |
| April 15th, 1452 (April 15 1452) | Birth | Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (died in 1519) | |
| April 15th, 1450 (April 15 1450) | Event | Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France. | |
| April 15th, 1446 (April 15 1446) | Death | Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (born in 1377) | |
| April 15th, 1415 (April 15 1415) | Death | Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian | |
| April 15th, 1220 (April 15 1220) | Death | Adolf of Altena, Archbishop of Cologne | |
| April 15th, 1053 (April 15 1053) | Death | Godwin, Earl of Wessex | Earl of Wessex Godwin Quotes |
