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April 15
(Redirected from 15 April)
April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). There are 260 days remaining.
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1400-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
Births
1400-1899
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1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, artist (d. 1519)
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1642 - Suleiman II, Sultan, Ottoman Empire (d. 1691)
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1684 - Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
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1688 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer (d. 1758)
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1707 - Leonhard Euler, mathematician (d. 1783)
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1793 - Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, astronomer (d. 1864)
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1800 - James Clark Ross, explorer (d. 1862)
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1815 - Mary Ann Day Brown, wife of John Brown (d. 1884)
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1832 - Wilhelm Busch, poet, graphic artist and painter (d. 1908)
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1843 - Henry James, author (d. 1916)
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1858 - Émile Durkheim, sociologist (d. 1917)
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1861 - Bliss Carman, poet (d. 1929)
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1878 - Robert Walser, lyricist and narrator (d. 1956)
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1879 - Melville Henry Cane, U.S. lawyer and poet (d. 1980)
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1883 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
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1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. muralist (d. 1975)
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1894 - Bessie Smith, blues singer (d. 1937)
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1895 - Clark McConachy, billiards and snooker player (d. 1980)
1900-1999
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1901 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (d. 1978)
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1902 - Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)
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1912 - Kim Il Sung, dictator of North Korea (d. 1994)
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1916 - Helene Hanff , author (d. 1997)
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1917 - Hans Conried, actor (d. 1982)
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1920 - Richard von Weizäcker, President of Germany 1984-1994
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1921 - Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut (d. 1995)
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1924 - Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor and violinist
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1930 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, former President of Iceland
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1931 - Raymond McNally , author (d. 2002)
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1933 - Roy Clark, country musician
- 1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (d. 1995)
- 1933 - Boris Strugatsky, author
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1938 - Claudia Cardinale, actress
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1940 - Jeffrey Archer, author, Member of Parliament
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1942 - Walt Hazzard , basketball star
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1944 - Dave Edmunds, musician
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1950 - Amy Wright, actress
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1951 - Heloise, newspaper columnist
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1954 - Seka, pornographic film actress
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1955 - Dodi Fayed, businessman (d. 1997)
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1957 - Evelyn Ashford, track athlete
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1959 - Emma Thompson, actress
- 1959 - Thomas F. Wilson, actor
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1960 - Tony Jones, English snooker player
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1962 - Nawal El Moutawakel, hurdler
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1965 - Linda Perry, musician
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1966 - Samantha Fox, singer
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1967 - Dara Torres , swimmer
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1968 - Stacey Williams, supermodel
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1972 - Arturo Gatti, world champion boxer
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1983 - Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian NHL player
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1987 - Harutyun Gyurjyan
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1990 - Emma Watson, actress
Deaths
1700-1899
1900-1999
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1911 - Antoine Lumière , photographer, industrialist, father of Auguste and Louis Lumière
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1912 - John Jacob Astor IV, businessman (b. 1864)
- 1912 - Benjamin Guggenheim, businessman (b. 1865)
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1942 - Robert Musil, novelist (The Man Without Qualities ) (b. 1880)
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1949 - Wallace Beery, actor (b. 1885)
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1964 - Rachel Carson, American biologist and author (b. 1907)
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1969 - Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena Maria Christina of Battenberg , Queen consort of Spain
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1974 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter
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1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher and writer (b. 1905)
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1982 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915)
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1984 - Tommy Cooper, comedy magician (b. 1921)
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1986 - Jean Genet, author (b. 1910)
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1988 - Kenneth Williams, actor and comedian (b. 1926)
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1989 - Hu Yaobang, leader of China (b. 1915)
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1990 - Greta Garbo, actress (b. 1905)
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1993 - John Tuzo Wilson, geologist (b. 1908)
- 1993 - Leslie Charteris, author (b. 1907)
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1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925)
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
April 14 - April 16 - March 15 - May 15 -- listing of all days
Last updated: 02-08-2005 06:36:06
Last updated: 05-03-2005 17:50:55
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