April 15th, 1653

Born on April 15th, 1653

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 135,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 474 days, exactly on August 23rd, 2025, people who were born on April 15th, 1653 will be 136,000 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

49

Suleiman II

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1687 to 1691

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

44

Patrick Carney

American drummer

*April 15th, 1980, Akron

31

Christoph Schelhammer

German physician

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

72

Henry James

American and British writer (1843–1916)

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

53

Christian V of Denmark

King of Denmark and Norway (1646-1699)

*April 15th, 1646, Flensburg †August 25th, 1699, Copenhagen

75

Alla Pugacheva

Soviet-Russian singer, composer and actress

*April 15th, 1949, Moscow

27

Maisie Williams

British actress

*April 15th, 1997, Bristol

75

Wilhelm Busch

German painter, poet and cartoonist (1832–1908)

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

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

83

Tomas Tranströmer

Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)

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

43

Bessie Smith

American blues singer (1894–1937)

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

83

David Hamilton

British photographer and film director

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

64

Philippe of Belgium

King of the Belgians since 2013

*April 15th, 1960, Belvédère Castle

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

33

Javier Fernández

Spanish figure skater

*April 15th, 1991, Madrid

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Born in 1653

59

Arcangelo Corelli

Italian violinist and composer

*February 17th, 1653, Fusignano †January 8th, 1713, Rome

90

Marie Poussepin

French Dominican and founder of Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation

*October 4th, 1653, Dourdan †January 24th, 1744, Sainville

36

Jeremiáš Süssner

German sculptor (1653-1690)

*December 12th, 1653, Ostrov †June 5th, 1690, Prague

79

Emperor Reigen

Emperor of Japan

*July 9th, 1653, Kyoto †September 24th, 1732, Kyoto

52

Johann Pachelbel

German composer, organist and teacher

*September 1st, 1653, Nuremberg †March 3rd, 1706, Nuremberg

50

Giovanni Anastasi

Italian painter (1653-1704)

*March 17th, 1653, Senigallia †March 13th, 1704, Macerata

76

Anton Maria Salvini

Italian naturalist and classicist

*January 12th, 1653, Florence †May 17th, 1729, Florence

89

André-Hercule de Fleury

Catholic cardinal (1653-1743)

*June 22nd, 1653, Lodève †January 29th, 1743, Paris

76

Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour

French classical scholar (1653-1730)

*March 1st, 1653, Paris †January 4th, 1730, Paris

74

Johann Conrad Brunner

Swiss anatomist

*January 16th, 1653, Diessenhofen †October 2nd, 1727, Mannheim

81

Claude Louis Hector de Villars

Marshal General of France

*May 8th, 1653, Moulins †June 17th, 1734, Turin

55

Prince George, Duke of Cumberland

Husband of Queen Anne, who reigned over Great Britain from 1702

*April 2nd, 1653, Copenhagen Castle †October 28th, 1708, Kensington Palace

75

Louis-Guillaume Pécour

French ballet dancer and choreographer

*August 10th, 1653, Paris †April 22nd, 1729, Paris

40

Christian II, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg

Duke of Saxe-Merseburg

*November 19th, 1653, Merseburg †October 20th, 1694, Merseburg

81

Carlo Ruzzini

Doge of Venice

*November 11th, 1653, Venice †January 5th, 1735, Venice

66

Johann Heinrich Majus

German historian and theologian

*February 5th, 1653, Pforzheim †September 3rd, 1719, Giessen

90

Matthias Klotz

German luthier

*January 1st, 1653, Mittenwald †August 16th, 1743, Mittenwald

44

Giovanni Francesco Grossi

Italian opera singer (1653–1697)

*February 12th, 1653, Chiesina Uzzanese †May 29th, 1697, Malalbergo

57

Joan van Hoorn

Dutch colonial governor (1653-1711)

*November 16th, 1653, Amsterdam †February 21st, 1711, Amsterdam

63

Joseph Sauveur

French mathematician and founder of the science of acoustics

*March 24th, 1653, La Flèche †July 9th, 1716, Paris

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1653 is a normal year and no leap year.

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