May 15th, 1964

Born on May 15th, 1964

Age in days, weeks and months
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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, 1964

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Lars Løkke Rasmussen

25th Prime Minister of Denmark

*May 15th, 1964, Vejle

59

Philipp Murmann

German politician

*May 15th, 1964, Kiel

59

Dave Reid

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1964)

*May 15th, 1964, Toronto

59

Michael Lentz

German writer

*May 15th, 1964, Düren

59

Levi Henriksen

Norwegian writer

*May 15th, 1964, Kongsvinger Municipality

59

Sijue Wu

American mathematician

*May 15th, 1964, People's Republic of China

59

Erik de Haan

Dutch footballer

*May 15th, 1964, Amsterdam

58

Michael Gerson

American political speechwriter and columnist (1964–2022)

*May 15th, 1964, Belmar †November 17th, 2022, Washington, D.C.

59

Pavel Tykač

Czech billionaire and entrepreneur

*May 15th, 1964, Čelákovice

59

Leo Stopfer

Austrian artist

*May 15th, 1964, Tulln an der Donau

59

David Nakhid

Footballer and politician from Trinidad and Tobago

*May 15th, 1964, Port of Spain

37

Digna Ochoa

Mexican lawyer (1964-2001)

*May 15th, 1964, Misantla †October 19th, 2001

59

Uwe Köller

German musician

*May 15th, 1964, Neuss

59

Stephen Dean

English cricketer (born 1964)

*May 15th, 1964, Welwyn Garden City

59

Syeda Shehla Raza

Politician in Pakistan

*May 15th, 1964, Karachi

59

L'Houssaine Kherchtou

Moroccan al-Qaeda member

*May 15th, 1964, Morocco

59

Juan Carlos Núñez Armas

Mexican politician

*May 15th, 1964, Maravatío

59

Glenn Capacio

Basketball coach

*May 15th, 1964, Palo

59

Dawn H. Beam

Associate Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court

*May 15th, 1964, Marks

59

Andrey Sigle

Russian film producer and musician

*May 15th, 1964, Nizhny Novgorod

59

Andrei Afanasyev

Russian footballer

*May 15th, 1964, Moscow

59

Sulejman Demollari

Albanian footballer

*May 15th, 1964, Tirana

59

Javier Guízar Macías

Mexican politician

*May 15th, 1964, Ahualulco de Mercado

59

Katie Rich

American comedian

*May 15th, 1964, Chicago

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58

Martin Sonneborn

German satirist, journalist and politician

*May 15th, 1965, Göttingen

64

Andrew Eldritch

British singer

*May 15th, 1959, Ely

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

56

Madhuri Dixit

Indian actress

*May 15th, 1967, Mumbai

56

Simen Agdestein

Norwegian chess player, chess coach and football player

*May 15th, 1967, Asker

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

51

Danny Alexander

British banker and former Liberal Democrat politician

*May 15th, 1972, Edinburgh

33

Sannatasah Saniru

Malaysian badminton player

*May 15th, 1990, Sabah

23

Carolina Ponce

Argentinian Beach handball player

*May 15th, 2000, Ensenada

41

Layal Abboud

Lebanese pop singer

*May 15th, 1982, Kniseh, Tyre

23

Caterina Benedetti

Argentinian handball player

*May 15th, 2000, Buenos Aires

64

Ronald Pofalla

German politician (CDU)

*May 15th, 1959, Weeze

28

Yu Igarashi

Japanese badminton player

*May 15th, 1995, Yamagata Prefecture

25

Sun Feixiang

Chinese badminton player

*May 15th, 1998, Yichang

78

Inga Ålenius

Swedish actress (1938-2017)

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

41

Alexandra Breckenridge

American actress

*May 15th, 1982, Bridgeport

26

Ousmane Dembélé

French footballer

*May 15th, 1997, Vernon

26

Fachryza Abimanyu

Badminton player

*May 15th, 1997, Jakarta

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Born in 1964

60

David Woodard

American conductor and writer

*April 6th, 1964, Santa Barbara

60

Li Lingwei

Badminton player

*January 4th, 1964, Lishui

60

Marit Törnqvist

Swedish writer, illustrator and translator

*January 19th, 1964, Uppsala Cathedral Assembly

59

Boris Johnson

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022

*June 19th, 1964, New York City

59

Maxi Mounds

American pornographic actress

*October 25th, 1964, Valley Stream

59

Dieter Hecking

German association football player and manager

*September 12th, 1964, Castrop-Rauxel

60

Linda French

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1964, Elmhurst

60

Gillian Gowers

British badminton player

*April 9th, 1964, Horfield

59

Kamala Harris

Vice president of the United States since 2021

*October 20th, 1964, Oakland Medical Center

59

Hape Kerkeling

German comedian

*December 9th, 1964, Recklinghausen

59

Christa Miller

American actress

*May 28th, 1964, Manhattan

60

Alexander Fischinger

German association football player and manager

*April 10th, 1964, Triberg im Schwarzwald

59

Jan Suski

German illustrator

*October 28th, 1964, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

59

Tor Mikkel Wara

Norwegian politician

*December 27th, 1964, Karasjok Municipality

59

Doris Ahnen

German politician (SPD)

*August 29th, 1964, Trier

60

Nicolas Cage

American actor

*January 7th, 1964, Long Beach

59

Keanu Reeves

Canadian actor (born 1964)

*September 2nd, 1964, Beirut

60

Russell Crowe

New Zealand actor

*April 7th, 1964, Wellington

60

Kimiko Jinnai

Badminton player

*March 12th, 1964, Yatsushiro

59

Clive Owen

British actor

*October 3rd, 1964, Coventry

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Leap year

Yes: 1964 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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