Burkhard Cordes (84)
May 15th, 1939

Brazilian sailor – Burkhard Cordes was born in Darmstadt (City in Hesse, Germany) on May 15th, 1939 and is 84 years old today.

Other personalities born on May 15

78

Inga Ålenius

Swedish actress (1938-2017)

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

58

Martin Sonneborn

German satirist, journalist and politician

*May 15th, 1965, Göttingen

64

Andrew Eldritch

British singer

*May 15th, 1959, Ely

84

Madeleine Albright

United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001

*May 15th, 1937, Prague †March 23rd, 2022, Washington, D.C.

72

Lois Johnson

American country music singer, vocalist (1942-2014)

*May 15th, 1942, Union County †July 7th, 2014, Nashville

75

Brian Eno

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

*May 15th, 1948, Melton

53

Mika Vainio

Finnish electronic musician

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

28

Victoria Williams

Badminton player

*May 15th, 1995, Sheffield

60

Grete Mogensen

Badminton player

*May 15th, 1963, Skive

66

Paul Zindel

American dramatist and children's writer (1936-2003)

*May 15th, 1936, Tottenville †March 27th, 2003, New York City

23

Carolina Ponce

Argentinian Beach handball player

*May 15th, 2000, Ensenada

80

Neville Jordan

New Zealand electrical engineer and businessperson (b. 1943)

*May 15th, 1943, Petone

46

Pierre Curie

French physicist (1859-1906)

*May 15th, 1859, Paris †April 19th, 1906, Paris

23

Caterina Benedetti

Argentinian handball player

*May 15th, 2000, Buenos Aires

33

Sannatasah Saniru

Malaysian badminton player

*May 15th, 1990, Sabah

79

Mireille Darc

French actress and director

*May 15th, 1938, Toulon †August 28th, 2017, 8th arrondissement of Paris

70

Athene Donald

British physicist

*May 15th, 1953, London

25

Sun Feixiang

Chinese badminton player

*May 15th, 1998, Yichang

28

Yu Igarashi

Japanese badminton player

*May 15th, 1995, Yamagata Prefecture

65

Michel Audiard

French screenwriter and film director (1920–1985)

*May 15th, 1920, 14th arrondissement of Paris †July 28th, 1985, Dourdan

75

Anthony Shaffer

Writer, barrister and advertising executive from England

*May 15th, 1926, Liverpool †November 6th, 2001, London

72

Frank Wilczek

Physicist

*May 15th, 1951, Mineola

26

Ousmane Dembélé

French footballer

*May 15th, 1997, Vernon

41

Layal Abboud

Lebanese pop singer

*May 15th, 1982, Kniseh, Tyre

26

Fachryza Abimanyu

Badminton player

*May 15th, 1997, Jakarta

83

Lainie Kazan

American actress and singer

*May 15th, 1940, Brooklyn

79

Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini

Argentinian paleontologist

*May 15th, 1944, La Plata

71

Dieter Muscheid

German politician (1943–2015)

*May 15th, 1943, Koblenz †March 2nd, 2015, Nassau

83

Svetlana Svetlichnaya

Soviet and Russian actress

*May 15th, 1940, Gyumri

80

Dieter Spöri

German politician

*May 15th, 1943, Stuttgart

Also born in 1939

85

Hans Kloft

German historian of classical antiquity

*April 10th, 1939, Düsseldorf

64

João César Monteiro

Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic

*February 2nd, 1939, Figueira da Foz †February 3rd, 2003, Lisbon

77

Dudley Storey

New Zealand rower

*November 27th, 1939, Wairoa †March 6th, 2017, Auckland

84

Thilo Ulbert

German christian archaeologist

*June 20th, 1939, Augsburg

83

Tina Turner

American-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)

*November 26th, 1939, Brownsville †May 24th, 2023, Küsnacht

83

Hans-Christian Ströbele

German lawyer and politician (1939–2022)

*June 7th, 1939, Halle (Saale) †August 29th, 2022, Moabit

78

Oscar Fulloné

Argentine association football player and manager (1939-2017)

*April 4th, 1939, La Plata †May 22nd, 2017, Casablanca

84

Helga Piur

German actress and voice actress

*May 24th, 1939, Berlin

84

Yves Meyer

French mathematician

*July 19th, 1939, Paris

84

Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist,pépiniériste and inventor

*November 18th, 1939, Ottawa

56

Peter Aust

1939-1996 German actor

*March 17th, 1939, Bytom †January 26th, 1996, Bad Wildungen

70

Dixie Carter

American actress (1939–2010)

*May 25th, 1939, McLemoresville †April 10th, 2010, Houston

78

Irio De Paula

Brazilian composer

*May 10th, 1939, Rio de Janeiro †May 23rd, 2017, Rome

78

Peter Grünberg

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

*May 18th, 1939, Plzeň †April 7th, 2018, Jülich

59

Dusty Springfield

British singer (1939–1999)

*April 16th, 1939, London †March 2nd, 1999, Henley-on-Thames

74

Karen Black

American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter (1939-2013)

*July 1st, 1939, Park Ridge †August 8th, 2013, Santa Monica

80

Karel Gott

Czech singer and actor

*July 14th, 1939, Plzeň †October 1st, 2019, Prague

84

Brenda Vaccaro

American actress

*November 18th, 1939, Brooklyn

80

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

*August 22nd, 1939, Suffern †August 30th, 2019, Los Angeles

84

Jane Alexander

American actress (b. 1939)

*October 28th, 1939, Boston

84

Amanda Lear

French singer, actress, television presenter

*November 18th, 1939, Ho Chi Minh City

85

Beate Klarsfeld

French journalist, Nazi hunter, and historian

*February 13th, 1939, Berlin

85

Tommy Tune

American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer

*February 28th, 1939, Wichita Falls

85

Francis Ford Coppola

American filmmaker

*April 7th, 1939, Detroit

85

Ariane Mnouchkine

French theater and film director, theater director and author

*March 3rd, 1939, Boulogne-Billancourt

80

Ginger Baker

British drummer (1939–2019)

*August 19th, 1939, Lewisham †October 6th, 2019, Canterbury

80

Sid Haig

American actor (1939–2019)

*July 14th, 1939, Fresno †September 21st, 2019, Los Angeles

85

Alan Ayckbourn

English playwright

*April 12th, 1939, London

85

Gro Harlem Brundtland

29th Prime Minister of Norway

*April 20th, 1939, Bærum Municipality

85

Marty Wilde

British rock and roll singer (born 1939)

*April 15th, 1939, Blackheath

Burkhard Cordes