On This Day
Wednesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
May 15 1968
Born on This Day
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Ahmet Zappa🇺🇸
Film producer · b. 1974
Akina Minami🇯🇵
Japanese idol · b. 1989
Alice Everett🇬🇧
deceasedBritish astronomer and engineer (1865–1949) · 1865–1949
Days lived
30,747
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Andy Murray🇬🇧
British tennis player · b. 1987
Arthur Schnitzler🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian writer (1862–1931) · 1862–1931
Days lived
25,360
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Athene Donald🇬🇧
scientist · b. 1953
Days alive
5,479
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini
deceasedPrime Minister of Swaziland (1942-2018) · 1942–2018
Days lived
27,895
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Ben🇩🇪
German singer · b. 1981
Claus Roxin🇩🇪
deceasedGerman jurist (1931–2025) · 1931–2025
Days lived
34,248
Claus Spahn🇩🇪
German television presenter · b. 1940
Days alive
10,227
Desmond Howard🇺🇸
American football player (born 1970) · b. 1970
Dick Keith🇬🇧
deceasedNorthern Irish footballer (1933-1967) · 1933–1967
Days lived
12,342
Dorothy Hansine Andersen🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1901–1963
Days lived
22,572
Ellen Axson Wilson🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1860–1914
Days lived
19,805
Erik van den Doel🇳🇱
Dutch chess player · b. 1979
Frank de Boer
football player · b. 1970
György Margó🇭🇺
deceasedHungarian field hockey player (1912–1988) · 1912–1988
Days lived
27,937
Haerin (Kang Hae-rin)🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (NewJeans) · b. 2006
Hagen von Ortloff🇩🇪
German television personality · b. 1949
Days alive
6,940
Heinz Haber🇩🇪
deceasedGerman physicist (1913–1990) · 1913–1990
Days lived
28,033
Herta Oberheuser🇩🇪
deceasedNazi physician (1911–1978) · 1911–1978
Days lived
24,361
Jan Frycz🇵🇱
Polish actor · b. 1954
Days alive
5,114
Jan Trefulka🇨🇿
deceasedCzech bookwriter (1929–2012) · 1929–2012
Days lived
30,507
Jasper Johns🇺🇸
artist · b. 1930
Days alive
13,880
Jonathan Dekker🇺🇸
player of American football · b. 1983
Josef Weninger🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian anthropologist (1886–1959) · 1886–1959
Days lived
26,614
Joseph Cotten🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor (1905–1994) · 1905–1994
Days lived
32,409
Josh Beckett🇺🇸
film director · b. 1980
Judith Hermann🇩🇪
German writer · b. 1970
Justin Morneau🇨🇦
film director · b. 1981
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Jusuf Kalla🇮🇩
entrepreneur · b. 1942
Days alive
9,497
Kathleen Sebelius🇺🇸
United States Secretary of Health and Human Services · b. 1948
Days alive
7,305
Klaus Michler🇩🇪
German field hockey player · b. 1970
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Klaus-Peter Siegloch🇩🇪
German television presenter, journalist and news presenter · b. 1946
Days alive
8,036
Konrad Meyer-Hetling🇩🇪
deceasedGerman SS Officer (1901-1973) : defendant in the RuSHA Trial (NMT 8) · 1901–1973
Days lived
26,278
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Layal Abboud🇱🇧
Composer · b. 1982
Lena Martell🇬🇧
Scottish singer · b. 1940
Days alive
10,227
Leonard B. Jordan🇺🇸
deceasedpolitician · 1899–1983
Days lived
30,726
Li Xueying🇨🇳
Olympic weightlifter · b. 1990
Li Yanfeng🇨🇳
Chinese discus thrower · b. 1979
Madhuri Dixit🇮🇳
Film actor · b. 1967
Days alive
366
Marcell Turi
athlete · b. 1991
Martin Sonneborn🇩🇪
German satirist, journalist and politician · b. 1965
Days alive
1,096
Melle Mel🇺🇸
musician · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
Michel Audiard🇫🇷
deceasedwriter · 1920–1985
Days lived
23,815
Mike Oldfield🇬🇧
singer · b. 1953
Days alive
5,479
Mikhail Bulgakov🇺🇦
deceasedactor · 1891–1940
Days lived
17,831
Naroa Agirre🇪🇸
actor · b. 1979
Naseer Bunda🇵🇰
deceasedfield hockey player (1932–1993) · 1932–1993
Days lived
22,224
Norayr Vardanyan🇦🇲
Armenian weightlifter · b. 1987
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Ousmane Dembélé
association football player · b. 1997
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Patrice Evra🇫🇷
football player · b. 1981
Patricia Ott🇩🇪
German field hockey player · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
Peter Hussing🇩🇪
deceasedboxer (1948-2012) · 1948–2012
Days lived
23,492
Rachel Wee🇸🇬
Socialite, Entrepreneur, Luxury Lifestyle Consultant · b. 1985
Ray Lewis🇺🇸
American football player (born 1975) · b. 1975
Reinhard Süring🇩🇪
deceasedscientist · 1866–1950
Days lived
30,908
Renato Dirnei Florêncio🇮🇹
football player · b. 1979
Romuald Mainka🇵🇱
German chess player · b. 1963
Days alive
1,827
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Ron Simmons🇺🇸
American football player and professional wrestler (born 1958) · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
Ryan Leaf🇺🇸
American football player (born 1976) · b. 1976
Segundo Castillo De Barberan🇪🇨
Ecuadorian footballer · b. 1982
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Stephan Palla🇦🇹
Association footballer · b. 1989
Ursula Thiess🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1924-2010) · 1924–2010
Days lived
31,446
Vladas Jakubėnas🇱🇹
deceasedjournalist · 1904–1976
Days lived
26,510
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Wilhelm von Opel🇩🇪
deceasedGerman industrialist and Nazi party member (1871-1948) · 1871–1948
Days lived
28,111
Zhan Xugang🇨🇳
Chinese weightlifter · b. 1974
Died on This Day
Adolf Jobst🇦🇹
deceasedCzechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, german nation politician, painter and restorer (1900-1974) · 1900–1974
Days lived
27,033
Alfred Berkeley
deceasedBishop of Barbados and of the Windward Islands; Anglican bishop (1862-1938) · 1862–1938
Days lived
27,825
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Alfredo R. Placencia Jauregui🇪🇸
deceasedpoet · 1875–1930
Days lived
19,965
Archduke Rudolf of Austria🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian Imperial and Royal (1919–2010) · 1919–2010
Days lived
33,125
Arno Lustiger🇩🇪
deceasedGerman historian and author of Jewish origin (1924-2012) · 1924–2012
Days lived
32,150
Charlotte Beradt🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer and journalist (1907-1986) · 1907–1986
Days lived
28,649
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Edward Hopper🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican realist painter and printmaker (1882-1967) · 1882–1967
Days lived
30,977
Edwin Charles Boulton
deceasedAmerican bishop (1928-2000) · 1928–2000
Days lived
26,328
Franco Nenci🇮🇹
deceasedItalian boxer (1935-2020) · 1935–2020
Days lived
31,157
Georges Bonnenfant🇫🇷
deceasedmodel · 1876–1955
Days lived
28,845
Goose Goslin🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1900–1971
Days lived
25,778
Henryk Ehrlich🇵🇱
deceasedjournalist · 1882–1942
Days lived
22,048
Irena Skwierczyńska🇵🇱
deceasedactress (1897-1984) · 1897–1984
Days lived
31,795
Irénée Beaubien🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian Jesuit priest · 1916–2017
Days lived
37,006
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Jean-Luc Dehaene🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1940–2014
Days lived
26,944
Josef Silný
deceasedathlete · 1902–1981
Days lived
28,967
Karl-Otto Apel🇩🇪
deceasedphilosopher · 1922–2017
Days lived
34,760
Ladislav Kareš🇨🇿
deceasedCzechoslovak soccer player (1919–2001) · 1919–2001
Days lived
29,763
Per Røntved🇩🇰
deceasedDanish association football player (1949-2023) · 1949–2023
Days lived
27,136
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Richard Jaeger🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1913-1998) · 1913–1998
Days lived
31,134
Ru van der Haar
deceasedfield hockey player (1913–1943) · 1913–1943
Days lived
10,813
Theo Griep
deceasedwriter · 1916–2007
Days lived
33,072
Walther Bierkamp🇩🇪
deceasedSS officer and lawyer (1901–1945) · 1901–1945
Days lived
15,855
Wanda Jarszewska🇵🇱
deceasedactress (1888-1964) · 1888–1964
Days lived
27,586
Zbigniew Tadeusz Kaczmarek🇵🇱
deceasedPolish-German weightlifter (1946-2023) · 1946–2023
Days lived
28,087
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,137
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,808
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Digit🇷🇼
deceasedMountain gorilla · 1967–1977
Days lived
4,017
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,981
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,678
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,251
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,693
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,659
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,293
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,737
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,389
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,188
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,702
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,720
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,389
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,741
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,284
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,194
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,171
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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