Anniversaries 15 October

Birth

Virgil138

Ancient Roman poet -70–-19 BC

Akbar13

3rd Mughal Emperor 1542–1605

Alexander Fraser Tytler3

Scottish advocate, judge, writer and historian 1747–1813

James Holman1

Royal Navy officer 1787–1857

Helen Hunt Jackson10

Novelist, poet, writer, activist 1830–1885

Isaac Parker3

American politician 1838–1896

Honoré Mercier3

Canadian politician 1840–1894

Friedrich Nietzsche655

German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900

Harry F. Ward2

American methodist minister 1873–1966

P.G. Wodehouse302

English author 1881–1975

William Temple5

Archbishop of Canterbury 1881–1944

S. S. Van Dine12

American journalist 1888–1939

C. P. Snow7

British writer 1905–1980

John Kenneth Galbraith207

American economist and diplomat 1908–2006

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.5

American historian, social critic, and public intellectual 1917–2007

Mario Puzo53

American Novelist 1920–1999

Italo Calvino44

Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels 1923–1985

Lee Iacocca10

American businessman 1924–2019

Douglas Reeman40

British author 1924–2017

Koo Kwang-ming1

Taiwanese businessman and independence activist 1926

Michel Foucault128

French philosopher 1926–1984

Milorad Pavić2

Serbian writer 1929–2009

FM-20302

author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and co… 1930–2000

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam43

11th President of India, scientist and science administrator 1931–2015

Leonard Peikoff5

Canadian-American philosopher 1933

Matthias Ssekamaanya1

Ugandan Roman Catholic bishop 1936

Andrejs Dunkels1

1939–1998

Telesphore Toppo1

Catholic cardinal 1939–2023

Xi Murong1

Taiwanese poet and painter 1943

Stanley Fischer2

American economist 1943

John F. Street2

American politician 1943

Orlando Antonini1

Italian priest 1944

David Trimble2

Northern Irish politician 1944–2022

David Lee2

politician and diplomat from Taiwan 1949

Joni Eareckson Tada10

American artist 1949

Peter Bernus5

Hungarian-Australian computer scientist 1949

Cathy Ladman1

American actor and comedian 1955

Alfie Kohn13

American author and lecturer 1957

Yumi Hotta4

Japanese manga artist 1957

Stephen Clarke6

British author 1958

Michael Lewis40

American writer 1960

Aron Ra190

Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men P… 1962

Liz Kessler2

British children's writer 1966

Kenneth Griffin11

American hedge fund manager 1968

Kshama Sawant3

American politician and economist 1973

Raphaël Glucksmann1

French film director and journalist 1979

David Heinemeier Hansson1

programmer, racing driver, creator of Ruby of Rails, 2012-2… 1979

Swati Maliwal4

women activist who fights for women rights 1984

Khanyi Mbau1

South African television & radio personality, actress and a… 1985

Jenna Talackova2

Canadian model 1988

Mesut Özil2

German footballer 1988

Vincent Martella1

American actor 1992

Death

Hasan al-Basri4

Iranian Sufi Saint 642–728

Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi3

Persian polymath, physician, alchemist and chemist, philoso… 865–925

Andreas Vesalius8

early anatomist 1514–1564

Tadeusz Kościuszko3

Polish and American military leader 1746–1817

Letitia Elizabeth Landon785

English poet and novelist 1802–1838

Ludwig von Rochau1

German politician 1810–1873

W. W. Thayer1

American judge 1827–1899

Sai Baba of Shirdi28

Hindu and muslim saint 1836–1918

Henry R. Towne10

American engineer 1844–1924

Raymond Poincaré26

10th President of the French Republic 1860–1934

Gus Cannon1

American blues musician 1883–1979

Cole Porter33

American composer and songwriter 1891–1964

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji3

English composer, music critic, pianist and writer 1892–1988

Hermann Göring40

German politician and military leader 1893–1946

Scott O'Dell2

American children's writer 1898–1989

William Soutar4

British poet 1898–1943

Stepan Bandera6

Ukrainian anti-communist 1909–1959

Virginia Lee Burton1

American children's writer and illustrator 1909–1968

Anne Ridler1

English poet, editor 1912–2001

Norodom Sihanouk24

Cambodian King 1922–2012

James Lee Barrett2

Tony Award winner, screenwriter and United States Marine 1929–1989

Sarah Kofman6

philosopher from France 1934–1994

Thomas Sankara12

President of Upper Volta 1949–1987

Paul Allen11

American inventor, investor and philanthropist 1953–2018