Famous people born on 15 August

• NapoleonFrench military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 · 1769–1821
  51 yrs
• Walter ScottScottish novelist, poet and playwright · 1771–1832
  61 yrs
• Louis de BroglieNobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter · 1892–1987
  94 yrs
• Aurobindo GhoshIndian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist · 1872–1950
  78 yrs
• Gerty CoriAustro-Hungarian-American biochemist · 1896–1957
  61 yrs
• Julia ChildAmerican chef · 1912–2004
  91 yrs
• Stieg LarssonSwedish author · 1954–2004
  50 yrs
• Óscar Romero ↗Salvadoran Catholic archbishop and saint · 1917–1980
  62 yrs
• Richard F. Heck ↗American chemist · 1931–2015
  84 yrs
• Thomas De Quincey ↗British author · 1785–1859
  74 yrs
• Jules Grévy ↗French statesman and lawyer · 1807–1891
  84 yrs
• Ethel Barrymore ↗American actress · 1879–1959
  79 yrs
• Oscar Peterson ↗Canadian jazz pianist · 1925–2007
  82 yrs
• Konstantinos Stephanopoulos ↗Greek politician, former president of the Hellenic Republic · 1926–2016
  90 yrs
• Stanley Milgram ↗American social psychologist · 1933–1984
  51 yrs
• Akira Nozawa ↗Japanese association football player · 1914–2000
  85 yrs
• Matthias Claudius ↗German poet · 1740–1815
  74 yrs
• Wendy Hiller ↗English film and stage actress · 1912–2003
  90 yrs
• Yukio Tsuda ↗Japanese association football player · 1917–1979
  61 yrs
• Edith Nesbit ↗English author and poet · 1858–1924
  65 yrs
• Edna Ferber ↗American novelist, short story writer and playwright · 1885–1968
  82 yrs
• Elias Magnus Fries ↗Swedish biologist considered to be one of the founding fathers of the modern taxonomy of mushrooms · 1794–1878
  83 yrs
• Rose Marie ↗American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer · 1923–2017
  94 yrs
• Joseph Justus Scaliger ↗French historian · 1540–1609
  68 yrs
• Florence Harding ↗First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923 · 1860–1924
  64 yrs
• Phyllis Schlafly ↗American conservative activist · 1924–2016
  92 yrs
• Bernard Lacombe ↗French football manager · 1952–2025
  72 yrs
• Michael Hainisch ↗President of Austria · 1858–1940
  81 yrs
• Nicolas Roeg ↗English film director and cinematographer · 1928–2018
  90 yrs
• Mike Connors ↗American actor · 1925–2017
  91 yrs
• Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum ↗Emir of Dubai · 1943–2006
  62 yrs
• Gudrun Ensslin ↗German far-left militant · 1940–1977
  37 yrs

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