On This Day

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May 15 1990

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Events on This Day

Born in Atlanta, Georgia
Tyler James Robinson
milestone

Born on This Day

Died on This Day

🇦🇹Adolf Jobst
deceased
Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, german nation politician, painter and restorer (1900-1974) · 1900–1974
Days lived
27,033
Alfred Berkeley
deceased
Bishop of Barbados and of the Windward Islands; Anglican bishop (1862-1938) · 1862–1938
Days lived
27,825

Who Was Alive

Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).

Animals Alive

Notable animals alive on this date.

Companies That Existed

Brands and companies already founded by this date.

Already Published

Notable books already in print.

Already Released

Films already out by this date.

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Days lived

30,747

🇬🇧Andy Murray

British tennis player · b. 1987

Days alive

1,096

🇦🇹Arthur Schnitzler

deceased

Austrian writer (1862–1931) · 1862–1931

Days lived

25,360

🇬🇧Athene Donald

scientist · b. 1953

Days alive

13,514

Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini

deceased

Prime Minister of Swaziland (1942-2018) · 1942–2018

Days lived

27,895

🇩🇪Ben

German singer · b. 1981

Days alive

3,287

🇩🇪Claus Roxin

deceased

German jurist (1931–2025) · 1931–2025

Days lived

34,248

🇩🇪Claus Spahn

German television presenter · b. 1940

Days alive

18,262

🇺🇸Desmond Howard

American football player (born 1970) · b. 1970

Days alive

7,305

🇬🇧Dick Keith

deceased

Northern Irish footballer (1933-1967) · 1933–1967

Days lived

12,342

🇺🇸Dorothy Hansine Andersen

deceased

scientist · 1901–1963

Days lived

22,572

🇺🇸Ellen Axson Wilson

deceased

artist · 1860–1914

Days lived

19,805

🇳🇱Erik van den Doel

Dutch chess player · b. 1979

Days alive

4,018

Frank de Boer

football player · b. 1970

Days alive

7,305

🇭🇺György Margó

deceased

Hungarian 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

14,975

🇩🇪Heinz Haber

deceased

German physicist (1913–1990) · 1913–1990

Days lived

28,033

🇩🇪Herta Oberheuser

deceased

Nazi physician (1911–1978) · 1911–1978

Days lived

24,361

🇵🇱Jan Frycz

Polish actor · b. 1954

Days alive

13,149

🇨🇿Jan Trefulka

deceased

Czech bookwriter (1929–2012) · 1929–2012

Days lived

30,507

🇺🇸Jasper Johns

artist · b. 1930

Days alive

21,915

🇺🇸Jonathan Dekker

player of American football · b. 1983

Days alive

2,557

🇦🇹Josef Weninger

deceased

Austrian anthropologist (1886–1959) · 1886–1959

Days lived

26,614

🇺🇸Joseph Cotten

deceased

American actor (1905–1994) · 1905–1994

Days lived

32,409

🇺🇸Josh Beckett

film director · b. 1980

Days alive

3,652

🇩🇪Judith Hermann

German writer · b. 1970

Days alive

7,305

🇨🇦Justin Morneau

film director · b. 1981

Days alive

3,287

🇮🇩Jusuf Kalla

entrepreneur · b. 1942

Days alive

17,532

🇺🇸Kathleen Sebelius

United States Secretary of Health and Human Services · b. 1948

Days alive

15,340

🇩🇪Klaus Michler

German field hockey player · b. 1970

Days alive

7,305

🇩🇪Klaus-Peter Siegloch

German television presenter, journalist and news presenter · b. 1946

Days alive

16,071

🇩🇪Konrad Meyer-Hetling

deceased

German SS Officer (1901-1973) : defendant in the RuSHA Trial (NMT 8) · 1901–1973

Days lived

26,278

🇱🇧Layal Abboud

Composer · b. 1982

Days alive

2,922

🇬🇧Lena Martell

Scottish singer · b. 1940

Days alive

18,262

🇺🇸Leonard B. Jordan

deceased

politician · 1899–1983

Days lived

30,726

🇨🇳Li Xueying

Olympic weightlifter · b. 1990

Days alive

0

🇨🇳Li Yanfeng

Chinese discus thrower · b. 1979

Days alive

4,018

🇮🇳Madhuri Dixit

Film actor · b. 1967

Days alive

8,401

Marcell Turi

athlete · b. 1991

🇩🇪Martin Sonneborn

German satirist, journalist and politician · b. 1965

Days alive

9,131

🇺🇸Melle Mel

musician · b. 1962

Days alive

10,227

🇫🇷Michel Audiard

deceased

writer · 1920–1985

Days lived

23,815

🇬🇧Mike Oldfield

singer · b. 1953

Days alive

13,514

🇺🇦Mikhail Bulgakov

deceased

actor · 1891–1940

Days lived

17,831

🇪🇸Naroa Agirre

actor · b. 1979

Days alive

4,018

🇵🇰Naseer Bunda

deceased

field hockey player (1932–1993) · 1932–1993

Days lived

22,224

🇦🇲Norayr Vardanyan

Armenian weightlifter · b. 1987

Days alive

1,096

Ousmane Dembélé

association football player · b. 1997

🇫🇷Patrice Evra

football player · b. 1981

Days alive

3,287

🇩🇪Patricia Ott

German field hockey player · b. 1960

Days alive

10,957

🇩🇪Peter Hussing

deceased

boxer (1948-2012) · 1948–2012

Days lived

23,492

🇸🇬Rachel Wee

Socialite, Entrepreneur, Luxury Lifestyle Consultant · b. 1985

Days alive

1,826

🇺🇸Ray Lewis

American football player (born 1975) · b. 1975

Days alive

5,479

🇩🇪Reinhard Süring

deceased

scientist · 1866–1950

Days lived

30,908

🇮🇹Renato Dirnei Florêncio

football player · b. 1979

Days alive

4,018

🇵🇱Romuald Mainka

German chess player · b. 1963

Days alive

9,862

🇺🇸Ron Simmons

American football player and professional wrestler (born 1958) · b. 1958

Days alive

11,688

🇺🇸Ryan Leaf

American football player (born 1976) · b. 1976

Days alive

5,113

🇪🇨Segundo Castillo De Barberan

Ecuadorian footballer · b. 1982

Days alive

2,922

🇦🇹Stephan Palla

Association footballer · b. 1989

Days alive

365

🇩🇪Ursula Thiess

deceased

German actress (1924-2010) · 1924–2010

Days lived

31,446

🇱🇹Vladas Jakubėnas

deceased

journalist · 1904–1976

Days lived

26,510

🇩🇪Wilhelm von Opel

deceased

German industrialist and Nazi party member (1871-1948) · 1871–1948

Days lived

28,111

🇨🇳Zhan Xugang

Chinese weightlifter · b. 1974

Days alive

5,844

🇪🇸Alfredo R. Placencia Jauregui

deceased

poet · 1875–1930

Days lived

19,965

🇦🇹Archduke Rudolf of Austria

deceased

Austrian Imperial and Royal (1919–2010) · 1919–2010

Days lived

33,125

🇩🇪Arno Lustiger

deceased

German historian and author of Jewish origin (1924-2012) · 1924–2012

Days lived

32,150

🇩🇪Charlotte Beradt

deceased

German writer and journalist (1907-1986) · 1907–1986

Days lived

28,649

🇺🇸Edward Hopper

deceased

American realist painter and printmaker (1882-1967) · 1882–1967

Days lived

30,977

Edwin Charles Boulton

deceased

American bishop (1928-2000) · 1928–2000

Days lived

26,328

🇮🇹Franco Nenci

deceased

Italian boxer (1935-2020) · 1935–2020

Days lived

31,157

🇫🇷Georges Bonnenfant

deceased

model · 1876–1955

Days lived

28,845

🇺🇸Goose Goslin

deceased

film director · 1900–1971

Days lived

25,778

🇵🇱Henryk Ehrlich

deceased

journalist · 1882–1942

Days lived

22,048

🇵🇱Irena Skwierczyńska

deceased

actress (1897-1984) · 1897–1984

Days lived

31,795

🇨🇦Irénée Beaubien

deceased

Canadian Jesuit priest · 1916–2017

Days lived

37,006

🇧🇪Jean-Luc Dehaene

deceased

politician · 1940–2014

Days lived

26,944

Josef Silný

deceased

athlete · 1902–1981

Days lived

28,967

🇩🇪Karl-Otto Apel

deceased

philosopher · 1922–2017

Days lived

34,760

🇨🇿Ladislav Kareš

deceased

Czechoslovak soccer player (1919–2001) · 1919–2001

Days lived

29,763

🇩🇰Per Røntved

deceased

Danish association football player (1949-2023) · 1949–2023

Days lived

27,136

🇩🇪Richard Jaeger

deceased

German politician (1913-1998) · 1913–1998

Days lived

31,134

Ru van der Haar

deceased

field hockey player (1913–1943) · 1913–1943

Days lived

10,813

Theo Griep

deceased

writer · 1916–2007

Days lived

33,072

🇩🇪Walther Bierkamp

deceased

SS officer and lawyer (1901–1945) · 1901–1945

Days lived

15,855

🇵🇱Wanda Jarszewska

deceased

actress (1888-1964) · 1888–1964

Days lived

27,586

🇵🇱Zbigniew Tadeusz Kaczmarek

deceased

Polish-German weightlifter (1946-2023) · 1946–2023

Days lived

28,087

🇪🇸José Miguel Barandiarán

deceased

Basque anthropologist, etnologist and archaeologist (1889–1991) · 1889–1991

Days lived

37,244

🇺🇸Frank J. Skinner

American football player · b. 1891

Days alive

36,198

🇩🇪Johannes Paul

deceased

scientist · 1891–1990

Days lived

36,178

🇩🇪Walter Schenk

deceased

German military personnel · 1891–2000

Days lived

39,634

🇺🇸Hal Roach

deceased

American filmmaker (1892–1992) · 1892–1992

Days lived

36,817

Lajos Perley

athlete · b. 1892

Days alive

35,861

Lang Jingshan

deceased

artist · 1892–1995

Days lived

37,506

🇱🇹Zośka Vieras

deceased

Belarusian writer and poet (1892-1991) · 1892–1991

Days lived

36,166

🇺🇸Lillian Gish

deceased

American actress (1893–1993) · 1893–1993

Days lived

36,295

🇺🇸Martha Graham

deceased

Ballet dancer · 1894–1991

Days lived

35,388

🇮🇹Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

deceased

Italian film director (1894–1998) · 1894–1998

Days lived

37,799

Hermann Florstedt

deceased

military person · 1895–2000

Days lived

38,302

🇦🇹Adolf Pokorny

deceased

Austrian-born dermatologist and doctor; defendant in the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg (1895-?) · 1895–2000

Days lived

38,144

🇺🇸Silas Simmons

deceased

American baseball player (1895–2006) · 1895–2006

Days lived

40,557

🇩🇪Heinrich Eberbach

deceased

German general (1895–1992) · 1895–1992

Days lived

35,295

🇧🇷Sylvia de Arruda Botelho Bittencourt

deceased

Brazilian journalist · 1896–1995

Days lived

36,188

🇩🇪Friedrich Hund

deceased

chemist · 1896–1997

Days lived

36,945

🇺🇸Lilia Skala

deceased

Austrian-American actress (1896-1994) · 1896–1994

Days lived

35,813

🇪🇨Lonesome George

deceased

Pinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012

Days lived

37,430

🇹🇼Lin Wang

deceased

Asian elephant · 1917–2003

Days lived

31,467

🇺🇸Washoe

deceased

Chimpanzee · 1965–2007

Days lived

15,399

🇺🇸Koko

deceased

Western lowland gorilla · 1971–2018

Days lived

17,152

🇺🇸Alex

deceased

African grey parrot · 1976–2007

Days lived

11,433

🇮🇸Keiko

deceased

Orca · 1977–2003

Days lived

9,841

🇺🇸Berkshire Hathaway

Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839

Days since founding

55,286

🇬🇧HSBC

Banking · b. 1865

Days since founding

45,728

🇮🇳Tata Group

Conglomerate · b. 1868

Days since founding

44,694

🇺🇸Goldman Sachs

Investment Banking · b. 1869

Days since founding

44,328

🇺🇸Eli Lilly

Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876

Days since founding

41,772

🇺🇸Chevron

Oil & Gas · b. 1879

Days since founding

40,424

🇬🇧Pride and Prejudice

Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813

Days in print

64,755

🇷🇺Crime and Punishment

Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866

Days in print

45,424

🇺🇸The Great Gatsby

Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925

Days in print

23,776

🇬🇧Brave New World

Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932

Days in print

21,319

🇬🇧The Hobbit

Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937

Days in print

19,229

🇫🇷The Little Prince

Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943

Days in print

17,206

🇺🇸The Godfather

Crime/Drama Film · b. 1972

Days since release

6,626

🇺🇸Jaws

Thriller/Adventure Film · b. 1975

Days since release

5,443

🇺🇸Star Wars: A New Hope

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film · b. 1977

Days since release

4,738

Mad Max

Film · b. 1979

Days since release

4,051

🇺🇸Alien

Sci-Fi/Horror Film · b. 1979

Days since release

4,008

The Shining

Film · b. 1980

Days since release

3,787

On This Day

Events on This Day

Born on This Day

🇺🇸Ahmet Zappa

🇯🇵Akina Minami

🇬🇧Alice Everett

Died on This Day

🇦🇹Adolf Jobst

Alfred Berkeley

Who Was Alive

Sándor Farkas

Horst von der Goltz

Animals Alive

🇦🇺Harriet

🇸🇭Jonathan

Companies That Existed

🇫🇷Hermes

🇺🇸Procter & Gamble

Already Published

🇮🇹Meditations

🇪🇸Don Quixote

Already Released

Wuthering Heights

🇺🇸12 Angry Men

🇬🇧Andy Murray

🇦🇹Arthur Schnitzler

🇬🇧Athene Donald

Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini

🇩🇪Ben

🇩🇪Claus Roxin

🇩🇪Claus Spahn

🇺🇸Desmond Howard

🇬🇧Dick Keith

🇺🇸Dorothy Hansine Andersen

🇺🇸Ellen Axson Wilson

🇳🇱Erik van den Doel

Frank de Boer

🇭🇺György Margó

🇰🇷Haerin (Kang Hae-rin)

🇩🇪Hagen von Ortloff

🇩🇪Heinz Haber

🇩🇪Herta Oberheuser

🇵🇱Jan Frycz

🇨🇿Jan Trefulka

🇺🇸Jasper Johns

🇺🇸Jonathan Dekker

🇦🇹Josef Weninger

🇺🇸Joseph Cotten

🇺🇸Josh Beckett

🇩🇪Judith Hermann

🇨🇦Justin Morneau

🇮🇩Jusuf Kalla

🇺🇸Kathleen Sebelius

🇩🇪Klaus Michler

🇩🇪Klaus-Peter Siegloch

🇩🇪Konrad Meyer-Hetling

🇱🇧Layal Abboud

🇬🇧Lena Martell

🇺🇸Leonard B. Jordan

🇨🇳Li Xueying

🇨🇳Li Yanfeng

🇮🇳Madhuri Dixit

Marcell Turi

🇩🇪Martin Sonneborn

🇺🇸Melle Mel

🇫🇷Michel Audiard

🇬🇧Mike Oldfield

🇺🇦Mikhail Bulgakov

🇪🇸Naroa Agirre

🇵🇰Naseer Bunda

🇦🇲Norayr Vardanyan

Ousmane Dembélé

🇫🇷Patrice Evra

🇩🇪Patricia Ott

🇩🇪Peter Hussing

🇸🇬Rachel Wee

🇺🇸Ray Lewis

🇩🇪Reinhard Süring

🇮🇹Renato Dirnei Florêncio

🇵🇱Romuald Mainka