April 15th, 1159

Born on April 15th, 1159

Age in days, weeks and months
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Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 991 days, exactly on March 15th, 2027, people who were born on April 15th, 1159 will be 317,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on April 15th?

April 15th, 2019

A fire severely damaged Notre-Dame de Paris, destroying the cathedral's timber spire and much of the roof.

April 15th, 2013

Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev set off two pressure cooker bombs during the running of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring 264 others.

April 15th, 1989

The Hillsborough disaster (memorial pictured), a human crush that caused 97 deaths in the worst disaster in British sporting history, occurred during an FA Cup match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in Sheffield.

April 15th, 1958

On Walter O'Malley's initiative, the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants played the first Major League Baseball game on the U.S. West Coast.

April 15th, 1957

The Indiaman departed Victoria Coach Station, London, as part of the first UK–India bus service.

April 15th, 1952

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered, strategic bomber operated by the U.S. Air Force for most of the aircraft's history, made its first flight.

April 15th, 1947

Jackie Robinson, the first African American to break the baseball color line, played his first game in Major League Baseball.

April 15th, 1927

Torrential rains caused the Mississippi River to break out of its levee system in at least 145 places, resulting in the worst flooding in the history of the United States.

April 15th, 1922

U.S. senator John B. Kendrick (pictured) introduced a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal involving U.S. president Warren G. Harding's administration, leading to the Teapot Dome scandal.

April 15th, 1912

More than 1,500 people on the Titanic died when the passenger liner sank after colliding with an iceberg southeast of Newfoundland.

April 15th, 1861

The Italian tricolour is adopted as national flag by the newly formed Kingdom of Italy.

April 15th, 1802

English poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy encountered a "long belt" of daffodils while walking around Ullswater in the Lake District, inspiring him to pen his best-known work, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".

April 15th, 1738

Serse, an opera by Baroque composer George Frideric Handel loosely based on Xerxes I of Persia, premiered in London.

April 15th, 1632

Thirty Years' War: A Swedish–German army defeated the forces of the Catholic League at the Battle of Rain, mortally wounding their commander Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly.

April 15th, 1071

Byzantine–Norman wars: After a siege of almost three years, Italo-Norman forces conquered the city of Bari, the capital of the Catepanate of Italy, ending more than five centuries of Byzantine presence in the region.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on April 15th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on April 15th?

67

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

*April 15th, 1452, Anchiano †May 2nd, 1519, Amboise

34

Emma Watson

English actress and activist (born 1990)

*April 15th, 1990, Le Marais

76

Leonhard Euler

Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)

*April 15th, 1707, Basel †September 18th, 1783, Saint Petersburg

44

Patrick Carney

American drummer

*April 15th, 1980, Akron

72

Henry James

American and British writer (1843–1916)

*April 15th, 1843, New York City †February 28th, 1916, Chelsea

27

Maisie Williams

British actress

*April 15th, 1997, Bristol

75

Alla Pugacheva

Soviet-Russian singer, composer, and actress

*April 15th, 1949, Moscow

83

Tomas Tranströmer

Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)

*April 15th, 1931, Stockholm †March 26th, 2015, Stockholm

59

Émile Durkheim

French sociologist

*April 15th, 1858, Épinal †November 15th, 1917, Paris

94

Richard von Weizsäcker

President of Germany from 1984 to 1994

*April 15th, 1920, New Palace †January 31st, 2015, Berlin

75

Wilhelm Busch

German painter, poet and cartoonist (1832–1908)

*April 15th, 1832, Wiedensahl †January 9th, 1908, Mechtshausen

43

Bessie Smith

American blues singer (1894–1937)

*April 15th, 1894, Chattanooga †September 26th, 1937, Clarksdale

64

Philippe of Belgium

King of the Belgians since 2013

*April 15th, 1960, Belvédère Castle

33

Javier Fernández

Spanish figure skater

*April 15th, 1991, Madrid

83

David Hamilton

British photographer and film director

*April 15th, 1933, London †November 25th, 2016, 6th arrondissement of Paris

85

Marty Wilde

British rock and roll singer (born 1939)

*April 15th, 1939, Blackheath

62

Elizabeth Montgomery

American actress (1933-1995)

*April 15th, 1933, Hollywood †May 18th, 1995, Beverly Hills

31

Christoph Schelhammer

German physician

*April 15th, 1620, Hamburg †June 20th, 1651, Weimar

65

Emma Thompson

British actress and screenwriter (born 1959)

*April 15th, 1959, Paddington

41

Joachim Son-Forget

French radiologist and politician

*April 15th, 1983, Seoul

86

Claudia Cardinale

French-Italian actress

*April 15th, 1938, Tunis

48

Steve Williams

English rower

*April 15th, 1976, Royal Leamington Spa

82

Kim Il-sung

Founder of North Korea and General Secretary of the Workers' Party from 1948 to 1994

*April 15th, 1912, Mangyongdae District †July 8th, 1994, Pyongyang

83

Johannes Stark

German physicist (1874-1957)

*April 15th, 1874, Freihung †June 21st, 1957, Traunstein

32

John Guidetti

Swedish association football player

*April 15th, 1992, Västerled

43

Giovanni Amendola

Italian journalist and politician (1882-1926)

*April 15th, 1882, Naples †April 7th, 1926, Cannes

63

Carol Greider

American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate

*April 15th, 1961, San Diego

60

Jörg-Uwe Lütt

German handball player

*April 15th, 1964, Kiel

83

Raymond Poulidor

French cyclist

*April 15th, 1936, Masbaraud-Mérignat †November 13th, 2019, Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat

49

Suleiman II

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1687 to 1691

*April 15th, 1642, Constantinople †June 22nd, 1691, Edirne

51

Olivier Nakache

French film director, actor and screenwriter

*April 15th, 1973, Suresnes

65

Harold Washington

American politician, former Mayor of the city of Chicago (1922—1987)

*April 15th, 1922, Chicago †November 25th, 1987, Chicago

41

Martin Pedersen

Danish road bicycle racer, born 1983

*April 15th, 1983, Brøndby Municipality

76

Werner Otto

East German racing cyclist

*April 15th, 1948, Dresden

70

Guru Nanak

First Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism

*April 15th, 1469, Nankana Sahib †September 22nd, 1539, Kartarpur

44

Fränk Schleck

Luxembourgish cyclist

*April 15th, 1980, Luxembourg

36

Chris Stuckmann

American film critic

*April 15th, 1988, Ohio

64

Donald Harvey

American serial killer (1952–2017)

*April 15th, 1952, Butler County †March 30th, 2017, Toledo

81

Robert Lefkowitz

American physician and biochemist

*April 15th, 1943, The Bronx

59

Nick Kamen

British singer, model and musician (1962–2021)

*April 15th, 1962, Harlow †May 4th, 2021, Notting Hill

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1159 is a normal year and no leap year.

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