October 15th, 1857

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Born on October 15th, 1857 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on October 15th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on October 15th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (October 1857)

Born on October 15th, 1857

Weekday

Thursday

October 15th, 1857 was a Thursday.

Age

166

People born on October 15th, 1857 will turn 167 this year (2024), in exactly 171 days .

Zodiac

♎

Libra (The Scales)

September 24th, 1857 - October 23rd, 1857

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 60,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 175 days, exactly on October 19th, 2024, people who were born on October 15th, 1857 will be 61,000 days old!

60,825 Days

8,689 Weeks

1,998 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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Hours

What happened on October 15th?

October 15th, 2013

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Bohol in the Philippines, resulting in 222 deaths.

October 15th, 2011

Global demonstrations against economic inequality, corporate influence on government, and other issues, were held in more than 950 cities in 82 countries.

October 15th, 2007

New Zealand Police conducted several anti-terrorism raids in relation to the discovery of an alleged paramilitary training camp in the Urewera mountain ranges, arresting 17 people and seizing four guns and 230 rounds of ammunition.

October 15th, 2005

A march by members of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group, in Toledo, Ohio, U.S., sparked a riot among protestors.

October 15th, 1979

President Carlos Humberto Romero of El Salvador was overthrown and exiled in a military coup d'état.

Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War

October 15th, 1965

Vietnam War protests: At an anti-war rally in New York City, David J. Miller burned his draft card (example pictured), the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.

October 15th, 1954

Hurricane Hazel (flooding pictured) made landfall in the Carolinas in the United States before moving north to Toronto in Canada later the same day, killing 176 people in the two countries.

October 15th, 1888

George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London, received the "From Hell" letter, allegedly from Jack the Ripper.

October 15th, 1864

American Civil War: Confederate forces captured Glasgow, Missouri, although it had little long-term benefit as Price's Missouri Expedition was defeated a week later.

October 15th, 1529

Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The siege of Vienna ended with Austrian forces repelling the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of conquest in Europe by the Ottoman Empire.

October 15th, 2016

One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.

October 15th, 2008

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.

October 15th, 2007

Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.

October 15th, 2003

China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission.

October 15th, 2001

NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io.

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

Born on October 15th, 1857

Hermann Seeger

German painter (1857-1945)

*October 15th, 1857, Halberstadt †February 23rd, 1945, Drawsko Pomorskie

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

German philosopher (1844–1900)

*October 15th, 1844, Röcken †August 25th, 1900, Weimar

Sebastián Yatra

Colombian singer, actor and songwriter

*October 15th, 1994, Medellín

Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl

Norwegian musician

*October 15th, 1885, Christiania †June 21st, 1959, Oslo

Josefin Asplund

Swedish actress

*October 15th, 1991, Stockholm

P. G. Wodehouse

English author (1881–1975)

*October 15th, 1881, Guildford †February 14th, 1975, Village of Southampton

Michel Foucault

French philosopher

*October 15th, 1926, Poitiers †June 25th, 1984, 13th arrondissement of Paris

Hans Wußing

German historian of mathematics

*October 15th, 1927, Waldheim †April 26th, 2011, Leipzig

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

Ivan Michurin

Russian botanist (1855-1935)

*October 15th, 1855, Michurovka †June 7th, 1935, Michurinsk

رونالدو عمك

German-Turkish association footballer

*October 15th, 1988, Gelsenkirchen

Akbar

3rd Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605

*October 15th, 1542, Umarkot Fort †October 15th, 1605, Fatehpur Sikri

Dominic West

British actor

*October 15th, 1969, Sheffield

Franz von Löher

German historian (1818–1892)

*October 15th, 1818, Paderborn †March 1st, 1892, Munich

Anthony Joshua

British boxer (born 1989)

*October 15th, 1989, Watford

Tom Boonen

Belgian road bicycle racer

*October 15th, 1980, Mol

Wes Moore

American politician, investment banker, author and television producer

*October 15th, 1978, Takoma Park

Robert Nivelle

French General who participated in the First World War

*October 15th, 1856, Tulle †March 23rd, 1924, Paris

Carlo Janka

Alpine skier

*October 15th, 1986, Obersaxen

Ncuti Gatwa

Rwandan-Scottish Actor

*October 15th, 1992, Kigali

Mohammed Zahir Shah

King of Afghanistan from 1933 to 1973

*October 15th, 1914, Kabul †July 23rd, 2007, Kabul

Same year
Born in 1857

Ernst Fabricius

German historian, archaeologist and scholar (1857–1942)

*September 6th, 1857, Darmstadt †March 22nd, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau

William Howard Taft

President of the United States from 1909 to 1913

*September 15th, 1857, Cincinnati †March 8th, 1930, Washington metropolitan area

Ferdinand de Saussure

Swiss linguist (1857-1913)

*November 26th, 1857, Geneva †February 22nd, 1913, Vufflens-le-Château

Friedrich August Emil Heuer

*December 27th, 1857, Rammenau †March 29th, 1934, Dresden

Heinrich Hertz

German physicist (1857–1894)

*February 22nd, 1857, Hamburg †January 1st, 1894, Bonn

Joseph Conrad

Polish-British writer (1857–1924)

*December 3rd, 1857, Terekhove †August 3rd, 1924, Bishopsbourne

Pius XI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939

*May 31st, 1857, Desio †February 10th, 1939, Vatican City

Henrik Pontoppidan

Writer, Nobel Laureate

*July 24th, 1857, Fredericia †August 21st, 1943, Copenhagen

Otto Sidow

German politician (SPD)

*May 1st, 1857, Friesack †September 6th, 1927, Brandenburg an der Havel

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

Lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement (1857-1941)

*February 22nd, 1857, Paddington †January 8th, 1941, Nyeri

Eugène Regnault

French diplomat (1857-1941)

*December 28th, 1857, Boulogne-sur-Mer †September 25th, 1941, Gorre

Mario Méndez Bejarano

Spanish author

*December 5th, 1857, Seville †January 16th, 1931, Madrid

Julien Tiersot

French musicologist, composer and pioneer in ethnomusicology (1857-1936)

*July 5th, 1857, Bourg-en-Bresse †August 10th, 1936, 13th arrondissement of Paris

Margaret Deland

American writer and poet (1857–1945)

*February 23rd, 1857, Allegheny †January 13th, 1945, Boston

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Italian composer

*April 23rd, 1857, Naples †August 9th, 1919, Montecatini Terme

Edward Elgar

English composer (1857-1934)

*June 2nd, 1857, Lower Broadheath †February 23rd, 1934, Worcester

Alfred Binet

French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test

*July 8th, 1857, Nice †October 18th, 1911, Paris

Charles Scott Sherrington

English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)

*November 27th, 1857, Islington †March 4th, 1952, Eastbourne

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Austrian doctor, Nobel prize laureate and psychiatrist

*March 7th, 1857, Wels †September 27th, 1940, Vienna

Theo Van Gogh

Dutch art dealer (1857–1891)

*May 1st, 1857, Zundert †January 25th, 1891, Utrecht

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on October 15th

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

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XV.X.MDCCCLVII

15.10.1857

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1857 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
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October 15th, 1857

Born on October 15th, 1857

Weekday

Thursday

Age

Zodiac

♎

Libra (The Scales)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 60,000 days old!

60,825 Days

8,689 Weeks

1,998 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on October 15th?

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Bohol in the Philippines, resulting in 222 deaths.

Global demonstrations against economic inequality, corporate influence on government, and other issues, were held in more than 950 cities in 82 countries.

New Zealand Police conducted several anti-terrorism raids in relation to the discovery of an alleged paramilitary training camp in the Urewera mountain ranges, arresting 17 people and seizing four guns and 230 rounds of ammunition.

A march by members of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group, in Toledo, Ohio, U.S., sparked a riot among protestors.

President Carlos Humberto Romero of El Salvador was overthrown and exiled in a military coup d'état.

Vietnam War protests: At an anti-war rally in New York City, David J. Miller burned his draft card (example pictured), the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.

Hurricane Hazel (flooding pictured) made landfall in the Carolinas in the United States before moving north to Toronto in Canada later the same day, killing 176 people in the two countries.

George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee in London, received the "From Hell" letter, allegedly from Jack the Ripper.

American Civil War: Confederate forces captured Glasgow, Missouri, although it had little long-term benefit as Price's Missouri Expedition was defeated a week later.

Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The siege of Vienna ended with Austrian forces repelling the invading Turks, turning the tide against almost a century of conquest in Europe by the Ottoman Empire.

One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.

Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.

China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission.

NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io.

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

Born on October 15th, 1857

German painter (1857-1945)

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

Same year Born in 1857

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on October 15th

Anniversary of the 1987 Coup d'État (Burkina Faso)

Breast Health Day (Europe)

Bruno of Querfurt

Cúan of Ahascragh

Teresa of Ávila

Thecla of Kitzingen

October 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Evacuation Day (Tunisia)

King Father's Commemoration Day (Cambodia)

National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (United States)

Shwmae Su'mae Day (Wales)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

15.10.1857

Legend

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Calendar
October 1857

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