August 15

Born on this day

15 people found

1954(1)

Stieg Larsson

19542004

Swedish author

1931(1)

Richard F. Heck

19312015

American chemist

1926(1)

Konstantinos Stephanopoulos

19262016

Greek politician, former president of the Hellenic Republic

1925(1)

Oscar Peterson

19252007

Canadian jazz pianist

1917(1)

Yukio Tsuda

19171979

Japanese association football player

1914(1)

Akira Nozawa

19142000

Japanese association football player

1912(1)

Julia Child

19122004

American chef

1896(1)

Gerty Cori

18961957

Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist

1892(1)

Louis de Broglie

18921987

Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter

1879(1)

Ethel Barrymore

18791959

American actress

1872(1)

Aurobindo Ghosh

18721950

Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist

1807(1)

Jules Grévy

18071891

French statesman and lawyer

1785(1)

Thomas De Quincey

17851859

British author

1771(1)

Walter Scott

17711832

Scottish novelist, poet and playwright

1769(1)

Napoleon

17691821

French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815