April 15th, 1980

Born on April 15th, 1980

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 16,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 919 days, exactly on October 31st, 2026, people who were born on April 15th, 1980 will be 17,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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, 1980

44

Patrick Carney

American drummer

*April 15th, 1980, Akron

44

Fränk Schleck

Luxembourgish cyclist

*April 15th, 1980, Luxembourg

44

Alessija Lause

German actress

*April 15th, 1980, Bad Aibling

44

Arian Moayed

American actor and writer

*April 15th, 1980, Tehran

44

Billy Yates

American football player and coach (born 1980)

*April 15th, 1980, Fort Worth

44

Willie Mason

New Zealand-Australian rugby league footballer

*April 15th, 1980, Auckland

44

James Foster

Cricket player of England. (born 1980)

*April 15th, 1980, Leytonstone

44

Siri Svegler

Swedish actress

*April 15th, 1980, Gothenburg

44

Yoel Hernández

Venezuelan baseball player

*April 15th, 1980, Ciudad Bolívar

44

Ljubomir Pavlović

Serbian handball player

*April 15th, 1980, Niš

44

Fanny Rinne

Field hockey player

*April 15th, 1980, Mannheim

44

Pierre-Alain Frau

French footballer

*April 15th, 1980, Montbéliard

44

Aida Mollenkamp

American chef

*April 15th, 1980, Los Angeles

44

Raül López

Basketball player

*April 15th, 1980, Vic

44

Michelle L'amour

American neo-burlesque performer

*April 15th, 1980, Orland Park

44

Jodi Ellen Malpas

British writer

*April 15th, 1980, Northampton

44

Damien Dante Wayans

American actor

*April 15th, 1980, New York City

44

Natalie Casey

English actress

*April 15th, 1980, Rawtenstall

Same Day
Who's birthday is on April 15th?

34

Emma Watson

English actress and activist (born 1990)

*April 15th, 1990, Le Marais

67

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

*April 15th, 1452, Anchiano †May 2nd, 1519, Amboise

41

Joachim Son-Forget

French radiologist and politician

*April 15th, 1983, Seoul

48

Steve Williams

English rower

*April 15th, 1976, Royal Leamington Spa

27

Maisie Williams

British actress

*April 15th, 1997, Bristol

45

Luke Evans

Welsh actor and singer

*April 15th, 1979, Pontypool

42

Seth Rogen

Canadian actor, comedian, and filmmaker (born 1982)

*April 15th, 1982, Vancouver

41

Martin Pedersen

Danish road bicycle racer, born 1983

*April 15th, 1983, Brøndby Municipality

42

Albert Riera

Spanish association football player

*April 15th, 1982, Manacor

33

Javier Fernández

Spanish figure skater

*April 15th, 1991, Madrid

75

Alla Pugacheva

Soviet-Russian singer, composer and actress

*April 15th, 1949, Moscow

51

Olivier Nakache

French film director, actor and screenwriter

*April 15th, 1973, Suresnes

64

Philippe of Belgium

King of the Belgians since 2013

*April 15th, 1960, Belvédère Castle

43

Mike Lewis

Canadian rower

*April 15th, 1981, Victoria

32

John Guidetti

Swedish association football player

*April 15th, 1992, Västerled

36

Chris Stuckmann

American film critic

*April 15th, 1988, Ohio

65

Emma Thompson

British actress, comedian and screenwriter

*April 15th, 1959, Paddington

60

Jörg-Uwe Lütt

German handball player

*April 15th, 1964, Kiel

63

Carol Greider

American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate

*April 15th, 1961, San Diego

47

Reed Morano

American cinematographer

*April 15th, 1977, Omaha

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Born in 1980

43

Kristen Bell

American actress (born 1980)

*July 18th, 1980, Huntington Woods

44

Cai Yun

Chinese badminton player

*January 19th, 1980, Suzhou

43

Jeph Jacques

Comic author and illustrator (1980-)

*June 17th, 1980, Rockville

44

Volker Bruch

German actor

*March 9th, 1980, Munich

44

Julia Hummer

German actress and singer

*April 24th, 1980, Hagen

44

Henriett Koósz

Paralympic tennis and badminton player

*February 14th, 1980, Kőszeg

43

Dag Inge Ulstein

Norwegian politician

*December 4th, 1980, Sula

43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

43

Mathias Boe

Danish badminton player

*July 11th, 1980, Frederikssund

43

Sudheer Babu

Indian film actor and former professional badminton player

*May 11th, 1980, Vijayawada

38

Vibeke Skofterud

Norwegian cross country skier

*April 20th, 1980, Askim Municipality †July 29th, 2018, Hove

43

Maya Diab

Lebanese singer, entertainer, actress and television personality

*November 12th, 1980, Beirut

43

Mustafa Ceceli

Turkish singer

*November 2nd, 1980, Ankara

43

Matias Varela

Swedish actor

*November 1st, 1980, Stockholm

43

Roman Weidenfeller

German association football player

*August 6th, 1980, Diez

44

Dani Kind

Canadian actress

*January 10th, 1980, Toronto

43

Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

Emir of Qatar

*June 3rd, 1980, Doha

44

Lee Kyung-won

South Korean badminton player

*January 21st, 1980, Changwon

43

Wolke Hegenbarth

Actress

*May 6th, 1980, Meerbusch

44

Kennevic Asuncion

Badminton player

*March 21st, 1980, Barbaza

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Leap year

Yes: 1980 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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