Anniversaries 15 November

Birth

Bernard Mandeville35

Anglo-Dutch writer and physician 1670–1733

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham36

British politician 1708–1778

William Herschel36

German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and compo… 1738–1822

Johann Kaspar Lavater24

Swiss poet 1741–1801

Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher1

Danish scientist 1757–1830

James Henry Hammond3

Governor of South Carolina, South Carolina politician 1807–1864

African Spir98

Russian philosopher 1837–1890

Robert Stanley Weir6

Canadian judge and poet 1856–1926

Charles Edward Merriam8

American political scientist 1874–1953

August Krogh1

Danish physiologist 1874–1949

William Hope Hodgson11

British writer 1877–1918

Franklin Pierce Adams6

United States humor writer 1881–1960

Felix Frankfurter67

American judge 1882–1965

René Guénon28

French metaphysician 1886–1951

Georgia O'Keeffe59

American artist 1887–1986

Marianne Moore59

American poet and writer 1887–1972

Anders Nygren2

Swedish bishop 1890–1978

Erwin Rommel24

German field marshal of World War II 1891–1944

W. Averell Harriman1

American businessman, politician and diplomat 1891–1986

Aneurin Bevan33

Welsh politician 1897–1960

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao12

Indian activist 1902–1975

Curtis LeMay13

American general and politician 1906–1990

N. G. L. Hammond12

British classical scholar 1907–2001

Edith Penrose7

economist 1914–1996

Raymond F. Jones1

American writer 1915–1994

Roy Hilligenn1

South African bodybuilder 1922–2008

J. G. Ballard78

British writer 1930–2009

Mwai Kibaki4

Former president of Kenya 1931

Alvin Plantinga5

American Christian philosopher 1932

Petula Clark5

British actress and singer 1932

Luke Rhinehart2

American writer 1932

Theodore Roszak43

American social historian, social critic, writer 1933–2011

Mahmoud Abbas5

Palestinian statesman 1935

Daniel Pinkwater1

writer 1941

Daniel Barenboim9

Israeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor 1942

Anni-Frid Lyngstad14

Swedish female singer 1945

Gregory Chaitin5

Argentinian mathematician and computer scientist 1947

Bill Richardson2

politician and governor from the United States 1947

Maleeha Lodhi1

Pakistani diplomat 1953

Aleksander Kwaśniewski1

Polish politician, president of Poland 1954

Tibor Fischer6

British writer 1959

Gao Fu2

Chinese virologist and immunologist 1961

Kevin J. O'Connor (actor)2

American actor 1963

Fausto Brizzi1

Italian film director, screenwriter and producer 1968

Ol' Dirty Bastard7

American rapper 1968–2004

Brandon DiCamillo11

American actor 1976

Intan Paramaditha2

Indonesian writer and feminist academic 1979

William Eubank1

American film director 1982

Jeffree Star1

American singer-songwriter, make-up artist, fashion designe… 1985

Bob van Luijt1

Dutch entrepreneur 1985

Sania Mirza45

Indian tennis player 1986

Death

Albertus Magnus5

Dominican friar 1206–1280

Ferenc Dávid3

Hungarian noble 1510–1579

Johannes Kepler51

German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer 1571–1630

John Amos Comenius12

Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer 1592–1670

Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama15

sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet 1683–1706

John Witherspoon3

Scottish-American Presbyterian minister and a Founding Fath… 1723–1794

Jean-Baptiste Say72

French economist and businessman 1767–1832

Empress Dowager Cixi6

Chinese empress 1835–1908

Henryk Sienkiewicz38

Polish journalist, Nobel Prize-winning novelist, and philan… 1846–1916

Agnes Repplier11

American essayist 1855–1950

Émile Durkheim43

French sociologist (1858-1917) 1858–1917

Frank Johnson Goodnow4

American historian 1859–1939

Oswald Chambers43

British missionary 1874–1917

Gerrit Benner12

Dutch painter 1897–1981

Margaret Mead133

American anthropologist 1901–1978

W. Ross Ashby26

British psychiatrist 1903–1972

Elizabeth George Speare7

American writer 1908–1994

Nathuram Godse12

Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi 1910–1949

Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj2

spiritual leader 1922–2013

Grace Hartigan4

American artist 1922–2008

Adrian Rogers1

American television evangelist 1931–2005

Sallie McFague2

American feminist and theologian 1933–2019

Hugh Prather10

American writer 1938–2010

Stokely Carmichael6

American activist 1941–1998

Barbara Park6

American juvenile author 1947–2013

Leslie Feinberg3

activist and author known for authoring Stone Butch Blues 1949–2014

Lil Peep12

American rapper 1996–2017