Anniversaries 15 May

Birth

Mary Wortley Montagu8

writer and poet from England 1689–1762

Klemens von Metternich4

Austrian diplomat 1773–1859

Samuel Laman Blanchard40

British author and journalist 1804–1845

Youssef Bey Karam6

Lebanese rebel 1823–1889

L. Frank Baum108

Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter 1856–1919

Pierre Curie1

French physicist 1859–1906

Henry Charles Beeching3

English clergyman, author and poet 1859–1919

Cassius Jackson Keyser1

American mathematician and journalist of pronounced philoso… 1862–1947

Arthur Schnitzler2

Austrian writer 1862–1931

Yasuji Okamura1

Japanese general 1884–1966

Helen Cruickshank4

British poet 1886–1975

Edwin Muir6

British poet, novelist and translator 1887–1959

Katherine Anne Porter43

American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist… 1890–1980

Richard J. Daley8

American politician 1902–1976

Clifton Fadiman6

American editor 1904–1999

Max Frisch67

Swiss playwright and novelist 1911–1991

Paul A. Samuelson47

American economist 1915–2009

Montague Levine1

British surgeon 1922–2013

Richard Avedon2

American photographer 1923–2004

Peter Shaffer6

English playwright and screenwriter 1926–2016

Gene Hill1

American author 1928–1997

Jasper Johns34

American artist 1930

Ken Venturi2

Professional golfer 1931–2013

Norma Fox Mazer1

American children's writer 1931–2009

Utah Phillips9

American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller and poet 1935–2008

Ralph Steadman22

British cartoonist 1936

Paul Zindel1

American dramatist and children's writer 1936–2003

Madeleine K. Albright21

Former U.S. Secretary of State 1937–2022

Nancy Garden8

American fiction writer 1938–2014

Roger Ailes4

Television executive 1940–2017

Basil Mramba1

Tanzanian politician 1940

Jusuf Kalla1

The tenth Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia 1942

Richard H. Black1

American politician 1944

Muhyiddin Yassin6

Home Affairs Minister of Malaysia 1947

Brian Eno13

English musician, composer, record producer and visual arti… 1948

William Hanna Shomali1

auxiliary bishop of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem 1950

David Almond10

British children's writer 1951

Frank Wilczek49

physicist 1951

Mike Oldfield97

English musician, multi-instrumentalist 1953

Tan Zuoren2

Chinese activist 1954

Anatoly Antonov2

Russian diplomat and statesman, Russian Ambassador to the U… 1955

Dan Patrick23

American sportscaster 1956

David Farland3

American writer 1957

Julie Otsuka2

writer 1962

Amit Chaudhuri94

contemporary Indian-English novelist 1962

Lars Løkke Rasmussen4

Danish politician 1964

Madhuri Dixit16

Indian actress 1967

Laura Hillenbrand16

American writer 1967

Cecilia Malmström3

Swedish politician 1968

Emmitt Smith12

American football player and sports broadcaster 1969

Lauren Myracle18

American children's writer 1969

Ray Lewis (American football)2

former American football linebacker 1975

Caroline Dhavernas2

Canadian actress 1978

Rocky Marquette2

American film actor 1980

Layal Abboud14

Lebanese pop singer 1982

Andy Murray5

British tennis player 1987

Death

Heloise8

French nun, writer, scholar, and abbess 1101–1164

Suzanne Curchod6

French-Swiss salonist and writer 1737–1794

Daniel O'Connell10

Irish political leader 1775–1847

Emily Dickinson187

American poet 1830–1886

William J. Locke2

British writer 1863–1930

Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden5

British politician 1864–1937

Kazimir Malevich31

Russian and Soviet artist of polish descent 1879–1935

Mary Antin4

American memoirist 1881–1949

Edward Hopper48

prominent American realist painter and printmaker 1882–1967

Charles Williams6

British poet, novelist, theologian, literary critic, and me… 1886–1945

Hugh Kingsmill15

British writer and journalist 1889–1949

William March12

United States Marine, novelist, short story writer 1893–1954

Robert Menzies22

Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia 1894–1978

Lionel Robbins3

British economist 1898–1984

Tyrone Guthrie2

English actor and director 1900–1971

Ida Friederike Görres57

Austrian writer and noble 1901–1971

Michael Lydon1

Irish politician 1907–1977

Francis Schaeffer8

American theologian 1912–1984

Willis Lamb5

American Physicist 1913–2008

Jean Craighead George2

American novelist and nature writer 1919–2012

Carlos Fuentes10

Mexican writer 1928–2012

June Carter Cash1

American singer, songwriter and actress 1929–2003

Jerry Falwell29

American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservativ… 1933–2007

Ian Brady8

British serial killer, perpetrator of the Moors murders 1938–2017

Gloria E. Anzaldúa7

Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory 1942–2004

Yolanda King28

American actress 1955–2007

Lynn Shelton4

American film director, screenwriter, film editor, actress … 1965–2020