May 15th, 1959

Born on May 15th, 1959

Age in days, weeks and months
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Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 280 days, exactly on January 28th, 2025, people who were born on May 15th, 1959 will be 24,000 days old!

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What happened on May 15th?

May 15th, 2010

Three days before her seventeenth birthday, Jessica Watson arrived in Sydney after sailing non-stop and unassisted around the world.

May 15th, 2004

Arsenal became the first football team in England's top flight to finish a season undefeated since Preston North End did so in 1888–1889.

May 15th, 1990

Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet was sold at auction at Christie's in New York for US$82.5 million, making it the world's most expensive painting at the time.

May 15th, 1972

The Ryukyu Islands were returned to Japan by the United States, and the U.S. occupation government was abolished.

May 15th, 1966

Disapproving of General Tôn Thất Đính's handling of the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ ordered an attack on his forces and ousted Đính from his post.

May 15th, 1957

The United Kingdom tested its first hydrogen bomb over Malden Island in Operation Grapple.

May 15th, 1953

Don Murphy organized the first pinewood derby, an event for Cub Scouts of the Boy Scouts of America where wooden cars built by the scouts are raced.

May 15th, 1945

The British Army directed fleeing Croatian soldiers to surrender to the Yugoslav Partisans, beginning the Bleiburg repatriations.

May 15th, 1916

Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas.

May 15th, 1911

Mexican Revolution: A force of Maderistas captured Torreón and proceeded to massacre 303 of the city's Chinese residents.

May 15th, 1904

Russo-Japanese War: The Japanese battleships Hatsuse and Yashima sank after striking several mines off Port Arthur, China.

May 15th, 1869

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, breaking away from the American Equal Rights Association which they had also previously founded.

May 15th, 1864

American Civil War: A small Confederate force, which included cadets from the Virginia Military Institute, forced the Union Army out of the Shenandoah Valley.

May 15th, 1855

Thieves stole 224 pounds (102 kg) of gold from a train travelling from London to Folkestone, England.

May 15th, 1836

English astronomer Francis Baily observed Baily's beads (example pictured), a phenomenon during a solar eclipse in which the rugged topography of the lunar limb allows sunlight to shine through.

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

Born on May 15th, 1959

64

Andrew Eldritch

British singer

*May 15th, 1959, Ely

64

Ronald Pofalla

German politician (CDU)

*May 15th, 1959, Weeze

64

Chris Meledandri

American film producer

*May 15th, 1959, New York City

64

Khaosai Galaxy

Thai boxer, kickboxer

*May 15th, 1959, Phetchabun

64

Einar Gelius

Norwegian priest and author

*May 15th, 1959, Arendal

64

Gene Banks

American basketball player

*May 15th, 1959, Philadelphia

64

John Arch

American heavy metal singer

*May 15th, 1959, Colorado Springs

64

Beverly Jo Scott

American musician

*May 15th, 1959, Deer Park

64

Maurizio Angeloni

Italian film director and screenwriter

*May 15th, 1959, Teramo

64

Thomas Springel

German handball player

*May 15th, 1959, Aachen

64

Luis Pérez-Sala

Spanish racecar driver

*May 15th, 1959, Barcelona

64

Peter Donnelly

Australian mathematician and statistician

*May 15th, 1959, Australia

64

Henkjan Honing

Dutch researcher

*May 15th, 1959, Hilversum

64

Isidro Sandoval

Paraguayan footballer

*May 15th, 1959, Lambaré

64

Michael Steinberg

Film director, film producer

*May 15th, 1959, Rapid City

64

Jerry Boyarsky

American football player

*May 15th, 1959, Scranton

64

Frimpong Manso

Ghanaian footballer

*May 15th, 1959, Ghana

64

Edwin Bailey

American football player

*May 15th, 1959, Savannah

64

Don Robert

Businessperson

*May 15th, 1959, Portland

64

Kaokor Galaxy

Thai boxer

*May 15th, 1959, Phetchabun

64

Cheba Zahouania

Algerian singer known for raï music.,Born: May 15, 1959 Oran, Algeria.

*May 15th, 1959, Oran

64

Shin'ichi Tanaka

Japanese ski jumper

*May 15th, 1959, Hokkaido

64

Othman Aziz

Malaysian politician

*May 15th, 1959, Alor Setar

64

Page Moseley

American actor

*May 15th, 1959, Mooresville

64

Leszek Andrzejczak

Polish sportsperson

*May 15th, 1959, Poznań

64

Isidro del Prado

Filipino sprinter

*May 15th, 1959, Barcelona

64

Hiroshi Aro

Japanese manga artist

*May 15th, 1959, Tokyo

64

Charles J. Scicluna

Roman Catholic prelate

*May 15th, 1959, Toronto

61

Isidro Pedraza Chávez

Mexican politician

*May 15th, 1959, Jacala †November 10th, 2020, Mexico

32

Max Cantor

American actor and journalist

*May 15th, 1959, New York City †October 3rd, 1991, New York City

61

Chris Isaac

American football player (1959-2020)

*May 15th, 1959, New Smyrna Beach †October 19th, 2020

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Who's birthday is on May 15th?

58

Martin Sonneborn

German satirist, journalist and politician

*May 15th, 1965, Göttingen

53

Mika Vainio

Finnish electronic musician

*May 15th, 1963, Helsinki †April 12th, 2017, Trouville-sur-Mer

60

Grete Mogensen

Badminton player

*May 15th, 1963, Skive

28

Victoria Williams

Badminton player

*May 15th, 1995, Sheffield

75

Brian Eno

British musician, music producer, music theorist and visual artist (born 1948)

*May 15th, 1948, Melton

68

Claudia Roth

German politician (1955-)

*May 15th, 1955, Ulm

70

Athene Donald

British physicist

*May 15th, 1953, London

56

Madhuri Dixit

Indian actress

*May 15th, 1967, Mumbai

56

Simen Agdestein

Norwegian chess player, chess coach and football player

*May 15th, 1967, Asker

78

Inga Ålenius

Swedish actress (1938-2017)

*May 15th, 1938, Stockholm †April 24th, 2017, Helsingborg

23

Carolina Ponce

Argentinian Beach handball player

*May 15th, 2000, Ensenada

33

Sannatasah Saniru

Malaysian badminton player

*May 15th, 1990, Sabah

59

Lars Løkke Rasmussen

25th Prime Minister of Denmark

*May 15th, 1964, Vejle

23

Caterina Benedetti

Argentinian handball player

*May 15th, 2000, Buenos Aires

41

Layal Abboud

Lebanese pop singer

*May 15th, 1982, Kniseh, Tyre

28

Yu Igarashi

Japanese badminton player

*May 15th, 1995, Yamagata Prefecture

25

Sun Feixiang

Chinese badminton player

*May 15th, 1998, Yichang

51

Danny Alexander

British banker and former Liberal Democrat politician

*May 15th, 1972, Edinburgh

26

Ousmane Dembélé

French footballer

*May 15th, 1997, Vernon

72

Frank Wilczek

Physicist

*May 15th, 1951, Mineola

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Born in 1959

64

Jim Kerr

Scottish singer

*July 9th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Martin Atkins

English musician

*August 3rd, 1959, Coventry

56

Nahed Hattar

Jordanian writer

*November 30th, 1959, Amman †September 25th, 2016, Amman

64

Wolfgang Rolff

German association football player and manager

*December 26th, 1959, Lamstedt

64

Mike Pence

Vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021

*June 7th, 1959, Columbus

64

Morten Andreas Meyer

Norwegian politician

*October 20th, 1959, Sarpsborg Municipality

64

Jon Fosse

Norwegian writer, theater writer and translator

*September 29th, 1959, Haugesund Municipality

64

Donna Strickland

Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel laurate

*May 27th, 1959, Guelph

64

Dave Ball

English producer and electronic musician

*May 3rd, 1959, Blackpool

64

Charlie Burchill

Scottish musician and composer

*November 27th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Rolf Mützenich

German politician (SPD)

*June 25th, 1959, Cologne

64

Michael Boddenberg

German politician

*July 15th, 1959, Troisdorf

64

Bryan Adams

Canadian guitarist

*November 5th, 1959, Kingston

64

Steve Alten

American writer

*August 21st, 1959, Philadelphia

64

Carla Antonelli

Spanish actress and activist

*July 12th, 1959, Güímar

64

Johannes Röring

German politician

*May 16th, 1959, Vreden

64

Peter Enders

German politician (1959–)

*May 10th, 1959, Eichen

64

Allison Janney

American actress

*November 19th, 1959, Boston

65

Luc Besson

French film director, writer, and producer

*March 18th, 1959, Paris

64

Stephen Harper

22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015

*April 30th, 1959, Toronto

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Born on May 15th, 1959
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1959 is a normal year and no leap year.

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