April 15th, 1950

Born on April 15th, 1950

Age in days, weeks and months
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What 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.

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

Born on April 15th, 1950

73

Jango Edwards

American clown

*April 15th, 1950, Detroit †August 4th, 2023, Barcelona

74

Karel Kroupa

Czech soccer player

*April 15th, 1950, Brno

74

Josiane Balasko

French actress, film director, writer and screenwriter

*April 15th, 1950, Paris

74

Declan Ronan Lang

Catholic bishop

*April 15th, 1950, Cowes

74

AbdulRahman bin Hamad al-Attiyah

Qatari diplomat and former secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council

*April 15th, 1950, Doha

74

Tommy Kenter

Danish actor

*April 15th, 1950, Copenhagen

74

Amy Wright

American actress

*April 15th, 1950, Chicago

70

Azmi Mohamed Megahed

Egyptian volleyball player

*April 15th, 1950, Dakahlia Governorate †September 12th, 2020, Dokki

63

Paul Lüönd

Swiss composer and politician (1950-2014)

*April 15th, 1950, Ingenbohl †April 3rd, 2014, Ingenbohl

74

Cecilia Alvarez

American artist

*April 15th, 1950, San Diego

73

Gottfried Glassner

Austrian priest and theologian

*April 15th, 1950, Kottes-Purk †December 1st, 2023

74

Eva Fritjofson

Swedish actress

*April 15th, 1950, Stockholm

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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

44

Patrick Carney

American drummer

*April 15th, 1980, Akron

67

Walter Quintus

German musician and music executive

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

76

Werner Otto

East German racing cyclist

*April 15th, 1948, Dresden

64

Donald Harvey

American serial killer (1952–2017)

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

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

65

Emma Thompson

British actress, comedian and screenwriter

*April 15th, 1959, Paddington

75

Matthias Wissmann

German politician

*April 15th, 1949, Ludwigsburg

83

Tomas Tranströmer

Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)

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

27

Maisie Williams

British actress

*April 15th, 1997, Bristol

83

David Hamilton

British photographer and film director

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

86

Claudia Cardinale

French-Italian actress

*April 15th, 1938, Tunis

62

Elizabeth Montgomery

American actress (1933-1995)

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

63

Carol Greider

American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate

*April 15th, 1961, San Diego

63

Ewald Schurer

German politician (1954-2017)

*April 15th, 1954, Ebersberg †December 2nd, 2017, Ebersberg

94

Richard von Weizsäcker

President of Germany from 1984 to 1994

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

60

Jörg-Uwe Lütt

German handball player

*April 15th, 1964, Kiel

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Born in 1950

67

Jeff Lowe

American mountain climber

*September 13th, 1950, Ogden †August 24th, 2018, Colorado

73

Annette Badland

English actress

*August 26th, 1950, Edgbaston

73

Narendra Modi

14th Prime Minister of India

*September 17th, 1950, Vadnagar

66

Martin McGuinness

Sinn Féin politician and deputy First Minister (1950-2017)

*May 23rd, 1950, Derry †March 21st, 2017, Altnagelvin Area Hospital

74

Billy Currie

British multi-instrumentalist

*April 1st, 1950, Huddersfield

66

Sandra Reemer

Dutch singer and presenter (1950–2017)

*October 17th, 1950, Bandung City †June 6th, 2017, Amsterdam

73

Øivind Blunck

Norwegian actor and comedian

*December 28th, 1950, Norway

73

Wayne Eagling

Canadian ballet dancer

*November 27th, 1950, Montreal

74

Peter Funke

German historian of classical antiquity

*March 18th, 1950, Rheine

74

Rötger Feldmann

German comic artist

*March 17th, 1950, Travemünde

73

Pedro Barceló

Spanish historian of classical antiquity

*April 30th, 1950, Vinaròs

70

Jóhannes Eðvaldsson

Icelandic football player (1950-2021)

*September 3rd, 1950, Reykjavík †January 24th, 2021, Glasgow

74

Ade Chandra

Badminton player

*February 4th, 1950, Jakarta

73

Ed Harris

American actor and director (born 1950)

*November 28th, 1950, Englewood

67

Horace Burrell

Jamaican sports executive

*February 8th, 1950, Clarendon Parish †June 6th, 2017, Kingston

73

Harriet Walter

British actress

*September 24th, 1950, London

74

Martin Short

Canadian actor and comedian (born 1950)

*March 26th, 1950, Hamilton

73

Stevie Wonder

American musician (born 1950)

*May 13th, 1950, Saginaw

74

William Sadler

American actor

*April 13th, 1950, Buffalo

74

Rick Perry

14th United States Secretary of Energy

*March 4th, 1950, Haskell

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1950 is a normal year and no leap year.

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