March 15th, 1947

Born on March 15th, 1947

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What happened on March 15th?

March 15th, 1960

Students from Atlanta University Center, inspired by similar actions in Greensboro, North Carolina, began occupying lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.

March 15th, 1956

The musical My Fair Lady, based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, debuted at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City.

March 15th, 1951

The Iranian oil industry was nationalized in a movement led by Mohammad Mosaddegh.

March 15th, 1943

The deportation of 50,000 Jews from the Greek city of Thessaloniki began.

March 15th, 1927

In rowing, Oxford defeated Cambridge in the inaugural edition of the Women's Boat Race.

March 15th, 1921

Talaat Pasha, the main perpetrator of the Armenian genocide, was assassinated by Soghomon Tehlirian.

March 15th, 1917

Russian Revolution: Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule.

March 15th, 1916

Six days after Pancho Villa and his cross-border raiders attacked Columbus, New Mexico, U.S. General John J. Pershing led a punitive expedition into Mexico to pursue Villa.

March 15th, 1910

Prospectors drilled into a pressurized deposit within the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in California, resulting in the largest accidental oil spill in history, which eventually released 9 million barrels (1.4 million m3) of crude oil over 18 months.

March 15th, 1875

John McCloskey, the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, was created the first cardinal from the United States.

March 15th, 1823

Sailor Benjamin Morrell erroneously reported the existence of the island of New South Greenland near Antarctica.

March 15th, 1783

George Washington delivered a speech to Continental Army officers in Newburgh, New York, asking them to support the supremacy of the Congress of the Confederation, defusing a potential coup.

March 15th, 1311

In the Battle of Halmyros, the Catalan Company defeated the forces of Walter V, Count of Brienne, taking control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in present-day Greece.

March 15th, 1147

Reconquista: Portuguese troops under King Afonso I captured the city of Santarém from the Almoravids.

March 15th, 0856

Byzantine emperor Michael III (pictured) overthrew the regency of his mother Theodora to assume power for himself.

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

Born on March 15th, 1947

77

Ry Cooder

American guitarist, singer and composer

*March 15th, 1947, Los Angeles

76

Jean-Claude Nallet

Olympic athlete

*March 15th, 1947, Champdor †August 20th, 2023, Mont-Saint-Aignan

77

Jean Carn

American singer

*March 15th, 1947, Columbus

77

Juraj Kukura

Slovak actor and singer

*March 15th, 1947, Prešov

77

Franz Schuh

Austrian writer, literary critic and essayist

*March 15th, 1947, Vienna

77

Federico Peña

U.S. Secretary of Transportation, 1993-1997

*March 15th, 1947, Laredo

77

Tony Osoba

British actor

*March 15th, 1947, Maryhill

57

Masao Kato

Japanese Go player (1947-2004)

*March 15th, 1947, Fukuoka †December 30th, 2004

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62

Markus Merk

German football referee

*March 15th, 1962, Kaiserslautern

80

Bernhard Schrader

German chemist (1931-2012)

*March 15th, 1931, Quedlinburg †January 8th, 2012, Essen

67

David Silverman

American animator and director

*March 15th, 1957, New York City

25

Margot Lambert

Badminton player

*March 15th, 1999, Guilherand-Granges

72

Andrzej Grabowski

Polish actor and voice actor

*March 15th, 1952, Chrzanów

89

Judd Hirsch

American actor

*March 15th, 1935, The Bronx

57

Bobby Bonds

American baseball player and coach

*March 15th, 1946, Riverside †August 23rd, 2003, San Carlos

74

Wolfgang Schadewaldt

German classical philologist, literary theorist and translator

*March 15th, 1900, Berlin †November 10th, 1974, Tübingen

75

Molly Peters

British actress and model (1942-2017)

*March 15th, 1942, Walsham le Willows †May 30th, 2017, Taunton

28

Levin Öztunalı

German association football player

*March 15th, 1996, Hamburg

81

Lynda La Plante

English writer and actress

*March 15th, 1943, Liverpool

76

Kate Bornstein

American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist

*March 15th, 1948, Neptune City

49

Eva Longoria

American actress and producer (born 1975)

*March 15th, 1975, Corpus Christi

88

Zhores Alferov

Soviet-Russian physicist (1930–2019)

*March 15th, 1930, Vitebsk †March 1st, 2019, Saint Petersburg

80

Josef Joffe

German publisher-editor

*March 15th, 1944, Łódź

63

Moungi Bawendi

American chemist of French and Tunisian descent

*March 15th, 1961, Paris

55

Sérgio Vieira de Mello

UN official (1948-2003)

*March 15th, 1948, Rio de Janeiro †August 19th, 2003, Baghdad

38

Vimala Pons

French actress

*March 15th, 1986, Thiruvananthapuram

78

Andrew Jackson

President of the United States from 1829 to 1837

*March 15th, 1767, Waxhaws †June 8th, 1845, The Hermitage

31

Paul Pogba

French association football player

*March 15th, 1993, Lagny-sur-Marne

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Born in 1947

76

Rodney Williams

Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)

*November 2nd, 1947, Swetes

76

Hillary Clinton

American politician and diplomat (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

77

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

69

Gregg Allman

American musician

*December 8th, 1947, Saint Thomas Hospital †May 27th, 2017, Richmond Hill

76

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

German association football player and manager

*July 19th, 1947, Dresden

69

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

*January 8th, 1947, Brixton †January 10th, 2016, Manhattan

77

Wiranto

Indonesian politician

*April 4th, 1947, Yogyakarta City

76

Stephen King

American writer (born 1947)

*September 21st, 1947, Portland

76

Angry Anderson

Australian rock singer

*August 5th, 1947, Melbourne

76

Kjell Magne Bondevik

33rd Prime Minister of Norway

*September 3rd, 1947, Molde Municipality

76

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)

*July 30th, 1947, Thal

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

77

Mitt Romney

United States Senator from Utah since 2019

*March 12th, 1947, Detroit

76

Dilma Rousseff

President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 (born 1947)

*December 14th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

76

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

*July 30th, 1947, Paris

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

68

Johan Cruyff

Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)

*April 25th, 1947, Amsterdam †March 24th, 2016, Barcelona

77

Glenn Close

American actress

*March 19th, 1947, Greenwich

77

Edward James Olmos

American actor

*February 24th, 1947, Los Angeles

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No: With 365 days 1947 is a normal year and no leap year.

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