May 15th, 1278

Born on May 15th, 1278

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 272,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 547 days, exactly on October 26th, 2025, people who were born on May 15th, 1278 will be 273,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on May 15th?

May 15th, 2010

Three days before her seventeenth birthday, Jessica Watson arrived in Sydney after sailing non-stop and unassisted around the world.

May 15th, 2004

Arsenal became the first football team in England's top flight to finish a season undefeated since Preston North End did so in 1888–1889.

May 15th, 1990

Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet was sold at auction at Christie's in New York for US$82.5 million, making it the world's most expensive painting at the time.

May 15th, 1972

The Ryukyu Islands were returned to Japan by the United States, and the U.S. occupation government was abolished.

May 15th, 1966

Disapproving of General Tôn Thất Đính's handling of the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ ordered an attack on his forces and ousted Đính from his post.

May 15th, 1957

The United Kingdom tested its first hydrogen bomb over Malden Island in Operation Grapple.

May 15th, 1953

Don Murphy organized the first pinewood derby, an event for Cub Scouts of the Boy Scouts of America where wooden cars built by the scouts are raced.

May 15th, 1945

The British Army directed fleeing Croatian soldiers to surrender to the Yugoslav Partisans, beginning the Bleiburg repatriations.

May 15th, 1916

Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas.

May 15th, 1911

Mexican Revolution: A force of Maderistas captured Torreón and proceeded to massacre 303 of the city's Chinese residents.

May 15th, 1904

Russo-Japanese War: The Japanese battleships Hatsuse and Yashima sank after striking several mines off Port Arthur, China.

May 15th, 1869

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, breaking away from the American Equal Rights Association which they had also previously founded.

May 15th, 1864

American Civil War: A small Confederate force, which included cadets from the Virginia Military Institute, forced the Union Army out of the Shenandoah Valley.

May 15th, 1855

Thieves stole 224 pounds (102 kg) of gold from a train travelling from London to Folkestone, England.

May 15th, 1836

English astronomer Francis Baily observed Baily's beads (example pictured), a phenomenon during a solar eclipse in which the rugged topography of the lunar limb allows sunlight to shine through.

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

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

58

Martin Sonneborn

German satirist, journalist and politician

*May 15th, 1965, Göttingen

64

Andrew Eldritch

British singer

*May 15th, 1959, Ely

28

Victoria Williams

Badminton player

*May 15th, 1995, Sheffield

46

Pierre Curie

French physicist (1859-1906)

*May 15th, 1859, Paris †April 19th, 1906, Paris

53

Mika Vainio

Finnish electronic musician

*May 15th, 1963, Helsinki †April 12th, 2017, Trouville-sur-Mer

23

Carolina Ponce

Argentinian Beach handball player

*May 15th, 2000, Ensenada

23

Caterina Benedetti

Argentinian handball player

*May 15th, 2000, Buenos Aires

33

Sannatasah Saniru

Malaysian badminton player

*May 15th, 1990, Sabah

25

Sun Feixiang

Chinese badminton player

*May 15th, 1998, Yichang

28

Yu Igarashi

Japanese badminton player

*May 15th, 1995, Yamagata Prefecture

60

Grete Mogensen

Badminton player

*May 15th, 1963, Skive

26

Ousmane Dembélé

French footballer

*May 15th, 1997, Vernon

26

Fachryza Abimanyu

Badminton player

*May 15th, 1997, Jakarta

78

Inga Ålenius

Swedish actress (1938-2017)

*May 15th, 1938, Stockholm †April 24th, 2017, Helsingborg

75

Brian Eno

British musician, music producer, music theorist and visual artist (born 1948)

*May 15th, 1948, Melton

41

Layal Abboud

Lebanese pop singer

*May 15th, 1982, Kniseh, Tyre

76

Wilhelm von Opel

Member of the German Opel family

*May 15th, 1871, Rüsselsheim am Main †May 2nd, 1948, Wiesbaden

41

Alexandra Breckenridge

American actress

*May 15th, 1982, Bridgeport

27

Birdy

British singer

*May 15th, 1996, Lymington

81

Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs

German chemist and mineralogist (1774-1856)

*May 15th, 1774, Bavarian Forest †March 5th, 1856, Munich

65

Michel Audiard

French screenwriter and film director (1920–1985)

*May 15th, 1920, 14th arrondissement of Paris †July 28th, 1985, Dourdan

36

Anaïs Bescond

French biathlete

*May 15th, 1987, Aunay-sur-Odon

62

Michael William Balfe

Irish composer

*May 15th, 1808, Dublin †October 20th, 1870, Hertfordshire

56

Madhuri Dixit

Indian actress

*May 15th, 1967, Mumbai

51

Danny Alexander

British banker and former Liberal Democrat politician

*May 15th, 1972, Edinburgh

56

Simen Agdestein

Norwegian chess player, chess coach and football player

*May 15th, 1967, Asker

76

Claudio Monteverdi

Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest (1567–1643)

*May 15th, 1567, Cremona †November 29th, 1643, Venice

36

Andy Murray

British tennis player (born 1987)

*May 15th, 1987, Glasgow

87

Anna Maria Alberghetti

Italian-born operatic singer and actress

*May 15th, 1936, Pesaro

84

Madeleine Albright

United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001

*May 15th, 1937, Prague †March 23rd, 2022, Washington, D.C.

72

Lois Johnson

American country music singer, vocalist (1942-2014)

*May 15th, 1942, Union County †July 7th, 2014, Nashville

70

Athene Donald

British physicist

*May 15th, 1953, London

36

Linda Sembrant

Swedish association football player

*May 15th, 1987, Uppsala

94

Paul Samuelson

American economist

*May 15th, 1915, Gary †December 13th, 2009, Belmont

75

Anthony Shaffer

Writer, barrister and advertising executive from England

*May 15th, 1926, Liverpool †November 6th, 2001, London

86

Klemens von Metternich

Austrian diplomat and statesman

*May 15th, 1773, Koblenz †June 11th, 1859, Vienna

47

Anže Logar

Slovenian politician

*May 15th, 1976, Ljubljana

72

Frank Wilczek

Physicist

*May 15th, 1951, Mineola

76

Jimmy Wilde

Welsh professional boxer

*May 15th, 1892, Quakers Yard †March 10th, 1969, Cardiff

75

Hermann Wilhelm Bödeker

German pastor (1799-1875)

*May 15th, 1799, Osnabrück †January 5th, 1875, Hanover

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Public holidays on May 15th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on May 15th.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1278 is a normal year and no leap year.

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