Driss Dahak (84)
August 15th, 1939

Moroccan civil servant – Driss Dahak was born in Ksar el-Kebir (City in northwest Morocco) on August 15th, 1939 and is 84 years old today.

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77

Jean-Claude Arnault

Swedish photographer

*August 15th, 1946, Marseille

47

Abiy Ahmed Ali

Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018

*August 15th, 1976, Beshasha

81

Raman Ghosh

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1942, Bareilly

28

Setyana Mapasa

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1995, Kawangkoan

33

Nipsey Hussle

American rapper (1985–2019)

*August 15th, 1985, Crenshaw †March 31st, 2019, Los Angeles

73

Eni Faleomavaega

American Samoan politician (1943–2017)

*August 15th, 1943, American Samoa †February 22nd, 2017, Provo

82

Laura Mulvey

British feminist film theorist

*August 15th, 1941, England

78

Alain Juppé

92nd Prime Minister of France

*August 15th, 1945, Mont-de-Marsan

52

Valentina Polkhanova

Russian racing cyclist

*August 15th, 1971, Saransk

51

Napoleon

French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815

*August 15th, 1769, Ajaccio †May 5th, 1821, Longwood House

85

Stephen Breyer

US Supreme Court justice from 1994 to 2022

*August 15th, 1938, San Francisco

55

Tomomi Matsuo

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1968, Kumamoto Prefecture

28

Chief Keef

American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer (born 1995)

*August 15th, 1995, Chicago

33

Jennifer Lawrence

American actress and producer

*August 15th, 1990, Indian Hills

59

Charlotte Bøving

Danish actress

*August 15th, 1964, Aarhus

86

Bounnhang Vorachith

Former General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (2016-2021)

*August 15th, 1937, Savannakhet Province

88

Jim Dale

British actor, singer, songwriter

*August 15th, 1935, Rothwell

85

Maxine Waters

American politician (born 1938)

*August 15th, 1938, Kinloch

32

Rena Wang

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1991, Pasadena

30

Viktor Sheen

Czech rapper

*August 15th, 1993, Almaty

51

Ben Affleck

American film actor, director and screenwriter

*August 15th, 1972, Berkeley

29

Oliver Schaller

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1994, Bösingen

73

Anne, Princess Royal

Daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

*August 15th, 1950, Clarence House

34

Mikkel Elbjørn

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1989, Hvidovre

26

Ty Alexander Lindeman

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1997, St. Albert

83

Bill Dowdy

American musician

*August 15th, 1933, Arkansas †May 12th, 2017, Battle Creek

55

Debra Messing

American actress

*August 15th, 1968, Brooklyn

79

Alice M. Batchelder

American attorney and jurist

*August 15th, 1944, Wilmington

21

Srivedya Gurazada

US American badminton player

*August 15th, 2002, Boston

61

Detlef Seif

German politician

*August 15th, 1962, Euskirchen

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

Driss Dahak