Famous people born in 1915

The best-known people born in 1915, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Édith Piaf
French singer (1915–1963)
December 19 · d. 1963
Photo: Studio Harcourt, Public domain
Frank Sinatra
American singer and actor (1915–1998)
December 12 · d. 1998
Photo: Photograph by Capitol Records , per a credit found in the 1959 edition of the International Celebrit, Public domain
Ingrid Bergman
Swedish actress (1915–1982)
August 29 · d. 1982
Photo: László Josef Willinger, Public domain
Saul Bellow
Canadian-American writer (1915–2005)
June 10 · d. 2005
Photo: Photograph by Jeff Lowenthal. Published by Viking Press., Public domain
Augusto Pinochet
Chilean military officer and politician (1915–2006)
November 25 · d. 2006
Photo: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile, CC BY 2.0 cl
Arthur Miller
American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)
October 17 · d. 2005
Photo: Wolfgang Fischer, CC BY-SA 4.0
Orson Welles
American actor and filmmaker (1915–1985)
May 6 · d. 1985
Photo: Carl Van Vechten, Public domain
Paul Samuelson
American economist (1915–2009)
May 15 · d. 2009
Photo: Innovation & Business Architectures, Inc., CC BY 1.0
Billie Holiday
American jazz singer (1915–1959)
April 7 · d. 1959
Photo: William P. Gottlieb, Public domain
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)
November 12 · d. 1980
Photo: Unknown, Public domain
Charles Hard Townes
20th-century American physicist
July 28 · d. 2015
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Anthony Quinn
Mexican and American actor (1915–2001)
April 21 · d. 2001
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Moshe Dayan
Israeli military leader and politician (1915–1981)
May 20 · d. 1981
Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit photographer, CC BY-SA 3.0
Isaac Shamir
7th Prime Minister of Israel (1915-2012)
October 22 · d. 2012
Photo: Yolene Haik (יולנה חייק), CC BY 4.0
Robert Hofstadter
American physicist and Nobel laureate (1915-1990)
February 5 · d. 1990
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Fred Hoyle
British astronomer (1915–2001)
June 24 · d. 2001
Photo: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Clayton Collection, Attribution
Norman Foster Ramsey
American physicist (1915–2011)
August 27 · d. 2011
Photo: ENERGY.GOV, Public domain
Eli Wallach
American actor (1915–2014)
December 7 · d. 2014
Photo: Studio, Public domain
Aung San
Burmese revolutionary leader (1915-1947)
February 13 · d. 1947
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Peter Medawar
English-brazilian biologist (1915–1987)
February 28 · d. 1987
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Les Paul
American jazz guitarist, country guitarist, songwriter and inventor (1915–2009)
June 9 · d. 2009
Photo: William P. Gottlieb, Public domain
Clifford Shull
American physicist (1915–2001)
September 23 · d. 2001
Photo: Photo is from US Atomic Energy Commission or Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Article rights are T. E., CC BY 3.0
David Rockefeller
American banker and philanthropist (1915–2017)
June 12 · d. 2017
Photo: Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain
Henry Taube
Canadian-born American chemist (1915–2005)
November 30 · d. 2005
Photo: ENERGY.GOV, Public domain
Stanley Matthews
English association football player (1915-2000)
February 1 · d. 2000
Photo: Harry Pot for Anefo ]] NL-HaNA / neg. stroken, 1945-1989, CC0
Arthur Lewis
Saint Lucian economist (1915–1991)
January 23 · d. 1991
Photo: Ulises Icardi, CC BY-SA 4.0
Konstantin Simonov
Soviet writer, poet, playwright and wartime correspondent (1915–1979)
November 28 · d. 1979
Photo: Григорий Михайлович Вайль, Public domain
Sviatoslav Richter
Soviet pianist (1915-1997)
March 20 · d. 1997
Photo: Щербинин Юрий, CC BY-SA 3.0
Vasily Zaytsev
Soviet sniper (1915-1991)
March 23 · d. 1991
Photo: Министерство обороны Российской Федерации, CC BY 4.0
Takeshi Kamo
Japanese association football player (1915-2004)
February 8 · d. 2004
Photo: Photographer: unknown, Editor/Publisher: Asahi-Shinbun, Public domain

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Month by month

January

January 6 · Alan Watts, British American author and lecturer (1915–1973)
January 6 · Liisi Oterma, Finnish astronomer
January 6 · Ibolya Csák, Hungarian athletics competitor (born 1915)
January 18 · Santiago Carrillo, Spanish politician (1915–2012)
January 20 · Ghulam Ishaq Khan, 7th President of Pakistan (1915-2006)
January 31 · Alan Lomax, American musicologist (1915–2002)

February

February 2 · Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat and politician (1915-2002)
February 2 · Khushwant Singh, Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician (1914–2014)
February 11 · Richard Hamming, American mathematician and information theorist (1915–1998)
February 21 · Ann Sheridan, American actress (1915-1967)
February 23 · Paul Tibbets, United States Air Force pilot (1915–2007)
February 28 · Zero Mostel, American actor (1915-1977)

March

March 5 · Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (1915-2002)
March 7 · Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 82nd Prime Minister of France (1915–2000)
March 16 · Kunihiko Kodaira, Japanese mathematician (1915–1997)
March 20 · Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian diplomat, politician, judge, and eighth President of Austria (1915–2000)
March 20 · Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American gospel musician (1915–1973)
March 31 · Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese World War II Soldier (1915−1997)

April

April 3 · Piet de Jong, prime minister of the Netherlands (1915–2016)
April 4 · Amedeo Biavati, Italian footballer (1915-1979)
April 7 · Albert O. Hirschman, German-American economist; member of the French Resistance
April 7 · Henry Kuttner, American author (1915–1958)
April 10 · Harry Morgan, American actor (1915–2011)
April 21 · Garrett Hardin, American ecologist (1915–2003)

May

May 5 · Alice Faye, American actress and singer (1915–1998)
May 10 · Denis Thatcher, English businessman, husband of Margaret Thatcher (1915–2003)
May 12 · Frère Roger, Swiss monk (1915–2005)
May 16 · Mario Monicelli, Italian film director and screenwriter (1915–2010)
May 27 · Herman Wouk, American writer (1915-2019)
May 28 · Joseph Greenberg, American linguist

June

June 4 · Modibo Keïta, Malian politician and President of Mali (1915-1977)
June 13 · Don Budge, American tennis player (1915-2000)
June 15 · Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist (1915-2008)
June 16 · Mariano Rumor, Italian politician (1915-1990)
June 16 · John Tukey, American mathematician (1915-2000)
June 20 · Terence Young, British film director and screenwriter (1915–1994)

July

July 1 · Willie Dixon, American blues musician (1915–1992)
July 7 · Yvonne Mitchell, British actress (1915–1979)
July 13 · Kaoru Ishikawa, Japanese business theorist (1915–1989)
July 15 · Albert Ghiorso, American nuclear scientist
July 25 · Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., junior officer in the United States Navy and elder brother of John F. Kennedy
July 27 · Mario Del Monaco, Italian opera singer

August

August 2 · Gary Merrill, film and television character actor from the United States (1915-1990)
August 6 · Queen Geraldine of Albania, Queen Consort of Albania
August 18 · Joseph Arthur Ankrah, Ghanaian politician (1915-1992)
August 24 · Alice Bradley Sheldon, American science fiction writer (1915–1987)
August 30 · Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, Welsh model who became a member of the Swedish royal family (1915-2013)
August 31 · Gretl Braun, sister of Eva Braun (1915-1987); sister-in-law of Adolf Hitler

September

September 6 · Franz Josef Strauß, German politician (1915–1988)
September 7 · Kiyoshi Itō, Japanese mathematician who pioneered stochastic calculus (1915–2008)
September 10 · Edmond O'Brien, American actor (1915–1985)
September 15 · Helmut Schön, German football player and coach (1915-1996)
September 17 · M. F. Husain, Indian artist (1915–2011)
September 23 · Sergio Bertoni, Italian footballer (1915-1995)

October

October 1 · Jerome Bruner, American psychologist and scholar
October 7 · Margarita Aliger, Soviet poet, translator, and journalist (1915–1992)
October 9 · Henner Henkel, German tennis player (1915-1943)
October 14 · Loris Francesco Capovilla, Roman Catholic archbishop (1915–2016)
October 22 · Jean Despeaux, boxer (1915-1989)
October 24 · Bob Kane, American comic book artist, the co-creator of Batman (1915-1998)

November

November 4 · Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (1915–2005)
November 9 · Sargent Shriver, American diplomat, politician and activist (1915–2011)
November 19 · Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist (1915–1974)
November 20 · Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (1915-1989), former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
November 20 · Kon Ichikawa, Japanese film director and screenwriter (1915–2008)
November 29 · Billy Strayhorn, American musician, composer, lyricist and arranger (1915–1967)

December

December 9 · Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German opera soprano (1915–2006)
December 12 · Shogo Kamo, Japanese association football player (1915-1977)
December 13 · Curd Jürgens, German-Austrian actor (1915–1982)
December 13 · B. J. Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978
December 17 · Robert A. Dahl, American political scientist (1915–2014)
December 29 · Jo Van Fleet, American actress (1915-1996)

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