April 15th, 1988

Born on April 15th, 1988

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 13,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 847 days, exactly on August 14th, 2026, people who were born on April 15th, 1988 will be 14,000 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, 1988

36

Chris Stuckmann

American film critic

*April 15th, 1988, Ohio

36

Steven Defour

Belgian association football player

*April 15th, 1988, Mechelen

36

Nicolas de Jong

French basketball player

*April 15th, 1988, Chambray-lès-Tours

36

Yann David

French rugby union player

*April 15th, 1988, Lyon

36

Chris Tillman

American baseball player

*April 15th, 1988, Anaheim

36

Blake Ayshford

Australian rugby league footballer

*April 15th, 1988, Paddington

36

Bill Clark

American basketball player

*April 15th, 1988, Redondo Beach

36

Brad Scott

Australian paralympic athlete

*April 15th, 1988, Liverpool

36

Benedict Samuel

Actor, writer and photographer

*April 15th, 1988, Australia

36

Galin Ivanov

Bulgarian footballer (born 1988)

*April 15th, 1988, Kazanlak

36

Danielle Hill

English footballer (born 1988)

*April 15th, 1988, Liverpool

30

Elly Mayday

Canadian model (1988-2019)

*April 15th, 1988, Aylesbury †March 1st, 2019, Vancouver

36

Manami Numakura

Japanese voice actress

*April 15th, 1988, Hiratsuka

36

Eliza

British singer

*April 15th, 1988, London

36

Yoann Arquin

French association football player

*April 15th, 1988, Le Havre

Same Day
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

33

Javier Fernández

Spanish figure skater

*April 15th, 1991, Madrid

27

Maisie Williams

British actress

*April 15th, 1997, Bristol

41

Joachim Son-Forget

French radiologist and politician

*April 15th, 1983, Seoul

32

John Guidetti

Swedish association football player

*April 15th, 1992, Västerled

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

38

Tom Heaton

English association football player

*April 15th, 1986, Chester

42

Seth Rogen

Canadian actor, comedian, and filmmaker (born 1982)

*April 15th, 1982, Vancouver

44

Fränk Schleck

Luxembourgish cyclist

*April 15th, 1980, Luxembourg

42

Albert Riera

Spanish association football player

*April 15th, 1982, Manacor

64

Philippe of Belgium

King of the Belgians since 2013

*April 15th, 1960, Belvédère Castle

35

Darren Nicholls

Australian rugby league footballer

*April 15th, 1989, Sydney

51

Olivier Nakache

French film director, actor and screenwriter

*April 15th, 1973, Suresnes

65

Emma Thompson

British actress, comedian and screenwriter

*April 15th, 1959, Paddington

37

Eva Crutzen

Dutch actor, singer and comedian

*April 15th, 1987, Maastricht

76

Leonhard Euler

Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)

*April 15th, 1707, Basel †September 18th, 1783, Saint Petersburg

Same year
Born in 1988

35

Adele

British singer

*May 5th, 1988, Tottenham

36

Wang Yihan

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1988, Shanghai

35

Mizuki Fujii

Badminton player

*August 5th, 1988, Ashikita

35

Ma Jin

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

35

Arun Vishnu

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Kozhikode

36

Line Damkjær Kruse

Badminton player

*January 7th, 1988, Aarhus

36

Chan Yun Lung

Badminton player

*February 29th, 1988, Hong Kong

35

Gzuz

German rapper

*June 29th, 1988, Hamburg

36

KC Rebell

German rapper

*January 26th, 1988, Pazarcık

36

Christian Meaas Svendsen

Norwegian musician

*February 26th, 1988, Kongsberg Municipality

35

Jérôme Boateng

German association football player

*September 3rd, 1988, West Berlin

35

Pramod Bhagat

Indian para-badminton player

*June 4th, 1988, Attabira

35

Mats Hummels

German association football player

*December 16th, 1988, Bergisch Gladbach

35

Sara Hjort Ditlevsen

Danish actress

*May 23rd, 1988, Copenhagen

35

Monika Lewczuk

Polish singer-songwriter and former model

*June 10th, 1988, Łomża

36

Gabi Tóth

Hungarian singer

*January 17th, 1988, Tapolca

35

Friðrik Dór

Icelandic singer

*October 7th, 1988, Hafnarfjörður

36

Marcel Schmelzer

German footballer

*January 22nd, 1988, Magdeburg

35

Lyna bonasera

Belgian actress

*May 17th, 1988, West Los Angeles

35

Savitree Amitrapai

Badminton player

*November 19th, 1988, Bangkok

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Leap year

Yes: 1988 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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