April 15th, 1947

Born on April 15th, 1947

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What happened on April 15th, 1947?

April 15th, 1947

Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.

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April 15th, 1947

Jackie Robinson, the first African American to break the baseball color line, played his first game in Major League Baseball.

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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, 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, 1947

71

Lothar Vosseler

German author

*April 15th, 1947, Wülfer-Bexten †January 29th, 2019, Detmold

63

Woolly Wolstenholme

British musician (1947–2010)

*April 15th, 1947, Chadderton †December 13th, 2010, London

77

Cristina Husmark Pehrsson

Swedish politician

*April 15th, 1947, Uddevalla

77

Claudio Pacifico

Italian Diplomat, Traveller and Author

*April 15th, 1947, Rome

77

Bojoura

Dutch singer

*April 15th, 1947, The Hague

77

Lois Chiles

American actress and model (born 1947)

*April 15th, 1947, Houston

77

Sepp Krassnitzer

Austrian musician and singer

*April 15th, 1947, Straßburg

77

Bill Aitken

Politician (born 1947)

*April 15th, 1947, Glasgow

77

Martin Broughton

British businessman (born 1947)

*April 15th, 1947, London

77

Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

American writer and television producer

*April 15th, 1947, Poplar Bluff

63

Enrique Curiel

Spanish politician

*April 15th, 1947, Vigo †March 2nd, 2011, Majadahonda

46

Roy Raymond

American businessman, founder of Victoria's Secret (1947-1993)

*April 15th, 1947, Connecticut †August 26th, 1993, Marin County

72

DeDe Lind

American glamour model

*April 15th, 1947, Los Angeles †February 4th, 2020, Boca Raton

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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

76

Werner Otto

East German racing cyclist

*April 15th, 1948, Dresden

44

Patrick Carney

American drummer

*April 15th, 1980, Akron

85

Marty Wilde

British rock and roll singer (born 1939)

*April 15th, 1939, Blackheath

67

Walter Quintus

German musician and music executive

*April 15th, 1949, Bremen †February 20th, 2017

64

Philippe of Belgium

King of the Belgians since 2013

*April 15th, 1960, Belvédère Castle

83

Tomas Tranströmer

Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)

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

86

Claudia Cardinale

French-Italian actress

*April 15th, 1938, Tunis

83

David Hamilton

British photographer and film director

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

81

Robert Lefkowitz

American physician and biochemist

*April 15th, 1943, The Bronx

62

Elizabeth Montgomery

American actress (1933-1995)

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

65

Emma Thompson

British actress, comedian and screenwriter

*April 15th, 1959, Paddington

64

Donald Harvey

American serial killer (1952–2017)

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

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

83

Raymond Poulidor

French cyclist

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

78

Winfried Nachtwei

German politician

*April 15th, 1946, Wulfen

75

Matthias Wissmann

German politician

*April 15th, 1949, Ludwigsburg

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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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