March 15th, 1955

Born on March 15th, 1955

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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, 1955

69

Dee Snider

American singer

*March 15th, 1955, Astoria

69

Mickey Hatcher

American baseball player

*March 15th, 1955, Cleveland

69

Mohsin Khan

Pakistani cricketer

*March 15th, 1955, Karachi

37

Lee Yang-ji

Japanese writer (1955-1992)

*March 15th, 1955, Nishikatsura †May 22nd, 1992

69

Issei Futamata

Japanese voice actor and narrator

*March 15th, 1955, Misawa

69

Angelina Fiordellisi

American actress

*March 15th, 1955, Detroit

69

Bunny DeBarge

American singer-songwriter

*March 15th, 1955, Detroit

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Who's birthday is on March 15th?

62

Markus Merk

German football referee

*March 15th, 1962, Kaiserslautern

67

David Silverman

American animator and director

*March 15th, 1957, New York City

72

Andrzej Grabowski

Polish actor and voice actor

*March 15th, 1952, Chrzanów

80

Bernhard Schrader

German chemist (1931-2012)

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

25

Margot Lambert

Badminton player

*March 15th, 1999, Guilherand-Granges

63

Moungi Bawendi

American chemist of French and Tunisian descent

*March 15th, 1961, Paris

28

Levin Öztunalı

German association football player

*March 15th, 1996, Hamburg

89

Judd Hirsch

American actor

*March 15th, 1935, The Bronx

74

Wolfgang Schadewaldt

German classical philologist, literary theorist and translator

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

49

Eva Longoria

American actress and producer (born 1975)

*March 15th, 1975, Corpus Christi

67

Joaquim de Almeida

Portuguese actor

*March 15th, 1957, Lisbon

68

Waltraud Wolff

German politician

*March 15th, 1956, Weißandt-Gölzau

66

Giuseppe Di Capua

Italian coxswain

*March 15th, 1958, Salerno

72

Dominique Orliac

French politician

*March 15th, 1952, Palaiseau

64

Göran Johansson

Swedish rower

*March 15th, 1957, Gothenburg †October 30th, 2021

38

Vimala Pons

French actress

*March 15th, 1986, Thiruvananthapuram

75

Molly Peters

British actress and model (1942-2017)

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

70

Eliana Guttman

Brazilian actress

*March 15th, 1954, São Paulo

31

Paul Pogba

French association football player

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

88

Zhores Alferov

Soviet-Russian physicist (1930–2019)

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

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Born in 1955

63

Pete Shelley

British singer-songwriter (1955–2018)

*April 17th, 1955, Leigh †December 6th, 2018, Tallinn

68

Adolf Sauerland

German politician

*June 4th, 1955, Duisburg

68

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

*October 28th, 1955, Seattle

68

Guillermo Lasso

47 president of Ecuador

*November 16th, 1955, Guayaquil

68

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)

*June 8th, 1955, London

68

Lars Brygmann

Danish actor

*November 30th, 1955, Copenhagen

56

Steve Jobs

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)

*February 24th, 1955, San Francisco †October 5th, 2011, Palo Alto

69

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

68

Steve Jones

English guitarist

*September 3rd, 1955, Shepherd's Bush

69

Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

61

Bill Paxton

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

*May 17th, 1955, Fort Worth †February 25th, 2017, Los Angeles

68

Caroline Loeb

French actress and singer

*October 5th, 1955, Neuilly-sur-Seine

68

Saw Swee Leong

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1955, Penang

69

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

61

Jimmy LaFave

American musician

*July 12th, 1955, Wills Point †May 21st, 2017, Austin

69

Steve Mann

British chemist

*April 1st, 1955, Leeds

69

Jair Bolsonaro

President of Brazil from 2019 to 2022

*March 21st, 1955, Glicério

43

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

69

Martin Jehne

German historian of classical antiquity

*January 27th, 1955, Hamburg

68

Isabelle Adjani

French actress

*June 27th, 1955, 17th arrondissement of Paris

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No: With 365 days 1955 is a normal year and no leap year.

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