April 15th, 1945

Born on April 15th, 1945

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What happened on April 15th, 1945?

April 15th, 1945

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp

What else happened on April 15th?

April 15th, 2019

A fire (pictured) 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, 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.

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

Born on April 15th, 1945

79

Dagmar Frederic

German musician

*April 15th, 1945, Eberswalde

61

Milton Peláez

Dominican rock musician; drummer (1945-2006)

*April 15th, 1945, Santa Cruz de Barahona †July 4th, 2006, Santo Domingo

79

Bob DeSimone

American actor

*April 15th, 1945, Boston

72

Liam O'Flynn

Irish musician (1945-2018)

*April 15th, 1945, Kill †March 14th, 2018, Dublin

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Who's birthday is on April 15th?

34

Emma Watson

English actress and activist (born 1990)

*April 15th, 1990, Le Marais

75

Alla Pugacheva

Soviet-Russian singer, composer and actress

*April 15th, 1949, Moscow

67

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

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

44

Patrick Carney

American drummer

*April 15th, 1980, Akron

85

Marty Wilde

British rock and roll singer (born 1939)

*April 15th, 1939, Blackheath

81

Robert Lefkowitz

American physician and biochemist

*April 15th, 1943, The Bronx

80

Kunishige Kamamoto

Japanese association football player and manager

*April 15th, 1944, Kyoto

76

Werner Otto

East German racing cyclist

*April 15th, 1948, Dresden

86

Claudia Cardinale

French-Italian actress

*April 15th, 1938, Tunis

83

Tomas Tranströmer

Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)

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

83

David Hamilton

British photographer and film director

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

62

Elizabeth Montgomery

American actress (1933-1995)

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

64

Philippe of Belgium

King of the Belgians since 2013

*April 15th, 1960, Belvédère Castle

65

Emma Thompson

British actress, comedian and screenwriter

*April 15th, 1959, Paddington

83

Raymond Poulidor

French cyclist

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

27

Maisie Williams

British actress

*April 15th, 1997, Bristol

94

Richard von Weizsäcker

President of Germany from 1984 to 1994

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

62

Hugh Thompson Jr.

United States helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War

*April 15th, 1943, Atlanta †January 6th, 2006, Alexandria

78

Winfried Nachtwei

German politician

*April 15th, 1946, Wulfen

64

Donald Harvey

American serial killer (1952–2017)

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

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Born in 1945

78

Vernon Wells

Australian actor

*December 31st, 1945, Rushworth

79

Manuel Neuer

German association football player

*March 27th, 1945, Gelsenkirchen

78

Franz Beckenbauer

German footballer (1945–2024)

*September 11th, 1945, Richard-Wagner-Straße 19 (München) †January 7th, 2024, Salzburg

75

Gerd Müller

German footballer (1945–2021)

*November 3rd, 1945, Nördlingen †August 15th, 2021, Wolfratshausen

79

Thilo Sarrazin

German economist and politician

*February 12th, 1945, Gera

72

Christine Kaufmann

German actress and businesswoman (1945-2017)

*January 11th, 1945, Lengdorf †March 28th, 2017, Munich

78

Victoria Bond

American composer

*May 6th, 1945, Los Angeles

78

Andreas Schmidt-Schaller

German actor

*October 30th, 1945, Arnstadt

78

Lasse Berghagen

Swedish singer, musician, songwriter, writer and television presenter

*May 13th, 1945, Enskede-Årsta-Vantör city district †October 19th, 2023, Stockholms Sankt Johannes

79

Rodrigo Duterte

President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022

*March 28th, 1945, Maasin

78

Helen Mirren

English actor (born 1945)

*July 26th, 1945, Hammersmith

36

Bob Marley

Jamaican reggae musician (1945–1981)

*February 6th, 1945, Nine Mile †May 11th, 1981, Jackson Memorial Hospital

78

Manfred Clauss

German historian of classical antiquity

*August 16th, 1945, Cologne

78

Aung San Suu Kyi

Former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy

*June 19th, 1945, Yangon

78

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

President of Brazil (2003–2010, 2023–present)

*October 27th, 1945, Caetés

78

Radovan Karadžić

Bosnian Serb politician, psychiatrist and poet convicted of genocide

*June 19th, 1945, Petnjica

78

John Lithgow

American actor

*October 19th, 1945, Rochester

76

Peter Patzak

Austrian film director and Screenwriter (1945-2021)

*January 2nd, 1945, Vienna †March 11th, 2021, Krems

71

Claus Ryskjær

Danish actor (1945-2016)

*June 26th, 1945, Frederiksberg †December 12th, 2016

72

Barkley L. Hendricks

African American painter

*April 16th, 1945, Nicetown-Tioga †April 18th, 2017, New London

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No: With 365 days 1945 is a normal year and no leap year.

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