April 15th, 1987

Born on April 15th, 1987

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, 1987

37

Eva Crutzen

Dutch actor, singer and comedian

*April 15th, 1987, Maastricht

37

Samira Wiley

American actor and model

*April 15th, 1987, Washington, D.C.

37

Christina Haack

German athletics competitor

*April 15th, 1987, Herten

37

Jenna Mohr

German ski jumper

*April 15th, 1987, Korbach

37

Asad Siddiqui

Pakistani actor

*April 15th, 1987, Karachi

37

James Middleton

English entrepreneur and younger brother of Catherine, Princess of Wales

*April 15th, 1987, Royal Berkshire Hospital

37

Sapphire Elia

British actress

*April 15th, 1987, London

37

Pavel Shalin

Russian track and field athlete

*April 15th, 1987, Lipetsk

37

Iyaz

Singer-songwriter and dancer from the British Virgin Islands

*April 15th, 1987, Road Town

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Who's birthday is on April 15th?

34

Emma Watson

English actress and activist (born 1990)

*April 15th, 1990, Le Marais

44

Patrick Carney

American drummer

*April 15th, 1980, Akron

67

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

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

36

Chris Stuckmann

American film critic

*April 15th, 1988, Ohio

27

Maisie Williams

British actress

*April 15th, 1997, Bristol

33

Javier Fernández

Spanish figure skater

*April 15th, 1991, Madrid

41

Joachim Son-Forget

French radiologist and politician

*April 15th, 1983, Seoul

32

John Guidetti

Swedish association football player

*April 15th, 1992, Västerled

38

Tom Heaton

English association football player

*April 15th, 1986, Chester

36

Steven Defour

Belgian association football player

*April 15th, 1988, Mechelen

41

Martin Pedersen

Danish road bicycle racer, born 1983

*April 15th, 1983, Brøndby Municipality

75

Alla Pugacheva

Soviet-Russian singer, composer and actress

*April 15th, 1949, Moscow

48

Steve Williams

English rower

*April 15th, 1976, Royal Leamington Spa

42

Seth Rogen

Canadian actor, comedian, and filmmaker (born 1982)

*April 15th, 1982, Vancouver

42

Albert Riera

Spanish association football player

*April 15th, 1982, Manacor

44

Fränk Schleck

Luxembourgish cyclist

*April 15th, 1980, Luxembourg

38

Sylvain Marveaux

French association football player

*April 15th, 1986, Vannes

64

Philippe of Belgium

King of the Belgians since 2013

*April 15th, 1960, Belvédère Castle

51

Olivier Nakache

French film director, actor and screenwriter

*April 15th, 1973, Suresnes

36

Nicolas de Jong

French basketball player

*April 15th, 1988, Chambray-lès-Tours

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Born in 1987

36

Kendrick Lamar

American rapper, singer and record producer (born 1987)

*June 17th, 1987, Compton

36

Tontowi Ahmad

Indonesian badminton player

*July 18th, 1987, Banyumas

37

Annari Viljoen

Badminton player

*January 16th, 1987, Bloemfontein

36

Jax Jones

English DJ, songwriter, record producer and remixer

*July 25th, 1987, London

36

Kontra K

German rapper

*July 3rd, 1987, Berlin

36

Milan Borjan

Canadian association football player

*October 23rd, 1987, Knin

37

Eva Avila

Canadian singer, songwriter and actress

*February 25th, 1987, Gatineau

36

Philippa Strache

Austrian presenter and politician

*December 1st, 1987, Vienna

36

Rosalie Thomass

German actress

*August 14th, 1987, Munich

36

Lionel Messi

Argentine association football player (born 1987)

*June 24th, 1987, Rosario

36

Vladimir Ivanov

Russian badminton player

*July 3rd, 1987, Kusa

37

Andrew Ellis

Badminton player

*January 21st, 1987, Leeds

36

Shendy Puspa Irawati

Indonesian badminton player

*May 20th, 1987, Nganjuk

36

Sevdaliza

Iranian-Dutch singer-songwriter, record producer, visual artist and director

*September 1st, 1987, Tehran

37

Anna Hopkins

Canadian actress

*February 12th, 1987, Montreal

37

Vaidas Baumila

Lithuanian singer

*March 28th, 1987, Vilnius

37

Megan Sweeney

American luger

*February 17th, 1987, Portland

36

Duda Beat

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*October 8th, 1987, Recife

37

Kevin-Prince Boateng

Ghanaian association football player

*March 6th, 1987, West Berlin

36

Novak Djokovic

Serbian tennis player (1987–)

*May 22nd, 1987, Belgrade

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No: With 365 days 1987 is a normal year and no leap year.

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