On this day: 15 January
Events, births and deaths on 15 January. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Melba Montgomery
- Deaths · Linda Nolan
- Deaths · Paul Danan
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Manuel Velázquez
- Deaths · Francisco X. Alarcón
- Events · Battle of El Adde
100 years ago1926
- Births · Maria Schell
- Deaths · Enrico Toselli
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 967 · Deaths · Fujiwara no Asatada
Events · 20
- 1777Vermont Republic — republic in North America between 1777-1791
- 1857Esing Bakery incident — poisoning case
- 1867Regent's Park skating disaster — disaster in London in 1867
- 1908Alpha Kappa Alpha — international historically African American collegiate sorority
- 1919Great Molasses Flood — wave of molasses which killed 21 people in 1919 in Boston
- 19341934 Bihar earthquake — January 1934 earthquake in India and Nepal
- 1935Zunyi Conference — meeting of the Chinese Communist Party in January 1935
- 19661966 Nigerian coup d'etat — violent overthrow of Nigerian government
- 1967Super Bowl I — 1967 edition of the Super Bowl
- 1975Alvor Agreement — peace treaty
- 1977Linjeflyg Flight 618 — 1977 aviation accident
- 1981Hill Street Blues — American serial police drama television series (1981–1987)
- 2001Wikipedia — free multilingual online encyclopedia
- 2001Wikipedia Day — commemoration of Wikipedia founding in 2001
- 2009US Airways Flight 1549 — 2009 aircraft accident in New York, USA
- 2016Battle of El Adde — 2016 battle between Kenyan soldiers and Al-Shabaab militants
- 20192019 Nairobi attack — Terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya
- 20212021 West Sulawesi earthquake — 2021 earthquake in Indonesia
- 20222022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami — major volcanic eruption in Tonga that occurred on 15 January 2022
- 2023Yeti Airlines Flight 691 — 15 January 2023 aircraft crash
Births · 60
- 5 BCE(Julian date)Emperor Guangwu of Han — emperor and founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty (5 BC - AD 57) (r. AD 25 - AD 57)
- 1432(Julian date)Afonso V of Portugal — King of Portugal and the Algarves
- 1622Molière — French playwright and actor (1622–1673)
- 1791
- 1795Alexander Griboyedov — Russian diplomat, playwriter, poet, and composer (1795–1829)
- 1809Pierre-Joseph Proudhon — French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (1809-1865)
- 1842Josef Breuer — Austrian physician (1842-1925)
- 1850Sofia Kovalevskaya — 19th-century Russian mathematician
- 1850Mihai Eminescu — Romanian poet, novelist and journalist (1850-1889)
- 1863Wilhelm Marx — German politician (1863–1946)
- 1866Nathan Söderblom — Swedish clergyman and archbishop (1866–1931)
- 1869Stanisław Wyspiański — Polish playwright, painter and poet (1869–1907)
- 1875Thomas Burke — American sprinter
- 1882Princess Margaret of Connaught — British princess; Crown Princess of Sweden as the first wife of King Gustaf VI Adolf (1882-1920)
- 1895Artturi Ilmari Virtanen — Finnish chemist and professor (1895–1973)
- 1902Nâzım Hikmet — Turkish communist poet, playwright and novelist (1902–1963)
- 1902Saud of Saudi Arabia — King of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964
- 1906Aristotle Onassis — Greek shipping magnate (1906–1975)
- 1907Janusz Kusociński — Polish long distance runner (1907-1940)
- 1908Edward Teller — Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
- 1912Michel Debré — 79th Prime Minister of France (1912-1996)
- 1913Lloyd Bridges — American actor (1913–1998)
- 1918Gamal Abdel Nasser — President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970
- 1918João Figueiredo — Brazilian politician and military officer, 30th President of Brazil from 1979 to 1985
- 1923Lee Teng-hui — 7-9th President of Republic of China(Taiwan) (1923-2020)
Deaths · 60
- 69(Julian date)Galba — sixth Roman Emperor (68–69)
- 849Theophylact — Byzantine co-emperor
- 1149(Julian date)Berengaria of Barcelona — Queen consort of Castile, León and Galicia
- 1568(Julian date)Nicolaus Olahus — Roman Catholic archbishop
- 1623Paolo Sarpi — Venetian patriot, scholar, scientist and church reformer
- 1775Giovanni Battista Sammartini — Italian composer
- 1813Anton Bernolák — Slovak linguist and roman catholic priest
- 1815Emma, Lady Hamilton — Mistress of Lord Nelson (1765-1815)
- 1841Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann — German zoologist (1802-1841)
- 1866Massimo d'Azeglio — Italian statesman, novelist and painter (1798–1866)
- 1876Eliza McCardle Johnson — First Lady of the United States from 1865 to 1869
- 1878Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz — German botanist (1834-1878)
- 1893Frances Anne Kemble — English actress and writer (1809–1893)
- 1896Mathew Benjamin Brady — American photographer (c. 1823 – 1896)
- 1909Arnold Janssen — German-Dutch Roman Catholic priest and saint
- 1919Rosa Luxemburg — Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
- 1919Karl Liebknecht — German socialist, editor, and co-founder of the Spartacus League (1871-1919)
- 1926Enrico Toselli — Italian pianist and composer (1883-1926)
- 1939Kullervo Manner — Finnish politician (1880-1939)
- 1945Wilhelm Wirtinger — Austrian mathematician (1865–1945)
- 1948Henri-Alexandre Deslandres — French astronomer (1853-1948)
- 1948Josephus Daniels — American diplomat and newspaper editor (1862–1948)
- 1950Henry H. Arnold — American general officer holding the ranks of General of the Army and General of the Air Force (1886-1950)
- 1955
- 1964Jack Teagarden — American jazz trombonist and singer (1905–1964)
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