On this day: 15 July
Events, births and deaths on 15 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Events · Stranger Things
- Events · 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt
- Events · Turkish Peace Council
100 years ago1926
- Births · Leopoldo Galtieri
- Births · Driss Chraïbi
- Births · Raymond Gosling
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1015 · Deaths · Vladimir the Great
- 998 · Deaths · Abu al-Wafa Buzjani
- 980 · Births · Ichijō
Events · 25
- 1240(Julian date)Battle of the Neva — 1240 battle
- 1410(Julian date)Battle of Grunwald — 1410 battle between the Teutonic Knights and Poland–Lithuania
- 1840Convention of London — 1840 treaty leading to the Oriental Crisis
- 1870Manitoba — province of Canada
- 1870Northwest Territories — territory of Canada
- 18881888 eruption of Mount Bandai — 1888 volcanic eruption in present-day Bandai, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
- 1916Boeing — American global aerospace and defense corporation
- 1920Silesian Voivodeship — autonomous province (voivodeship) of the interwar Second Polish Republic
- 1922Japanese Communist Party — Political party in Japan
- 1927July Revolt of 1927 — July 1927 political unrest in Austria
- 1927715 Incident — event in which Wuhan Government leader Wang Jingwei ordered a purge of Communists in July 1927
- 1966Operation Hastings — 1966 battle of the Vietnam War
- 1971United Red Army — militant organization that operated in Japan (1971–1972)
- 19741974 Cypriot coup d'état — Coup
- 1975Apollo–Soyuz — joint Soviet-American human spaceflight
- 1983Orly Airport attack — bombing in Orly airport by ASALA
- 19961996 Belgian Air Force Hercules accident — 1996 aviation accident in Eindhoven, Netherlands
- 2003Mozilla Foundation — American non-profit organization
- 2009Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 — aviation accident
- 20092009 Fiordland earthquake — earthquake
- 20142014 Moscow Metro derailment — train wreck on Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line of Moscow Metro on July 15, 2014
- 2016Stranger Things — American science fiction horror television series
- 20162016 Turkish coup d'état attempt — July 2016 attempted military junta coup in Turkey
- 2016Turkish Peace Council — attempted coup
- 20182018 FIFA World Cup Final — Championship match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Births · 60
- 1573Inigo Jones — English architect and stage designer (1573-1652)
- 1606Rembrandt — Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669)
- 1848Vilfredo Pareto — Italian economist and sociologist (1848-1923)
- 1850Frances Xavier Cabrini — Italian-American Catholic nun, misionary and saint (1850-1917)
- 1858Emmeline Pankhurst — English suffragist
- 1867Jean-Baptiste Charcot — French scientist (1867-1936)
- 1892Walter Benjamin — German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
- 1904Rudolf Arnheim — German psychologist (1904-2007)
- 1917Nur Muhammad Taraki — 1st General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
- 1917Robert Conquest — British historian and poet
- 1918Bertram Brockhouse — Canadian physicist
- 1919Iris Murdoch — Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)
- 1921Robert Bruce Merrifield — American biochemist
- 1922Leon M. Lederman — American mathematician and physicist
- 1926Leopoldo Galtieri — military, dictator and de facto president of Argentina from 1981 until 1982
- 1928Carl Woese — American microbiologist
- 1930Jacques Derrida — French philosopher (1930–2004)
- 1930Stephen Smale — American mathematician
- 1931Clive Cussler — American novelist (1931–2020)
- 1933John Hopfield — American scientist (born 1933)
- 1939Aníbal Cavaco Silva — Portuguese politician (born 1939)
- 1943Jocelyn Bell Burnell — British astrophysicist (born 1943)
- 1945David A. Granger — Guyanese politician
- 1946Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei — Sultan of Brunei since 1967
- 1946Linda Ronstadt — American singer (born 1946)
Deaths · 60
- 756(Julian date)Yang Guifei — Tang dynasty imperial consort (719–756)
- 998(Julian date)Abu al-Wafa Buzjani — Persian mathematician and astronomer (940–998)
- 1015(Julian date)Vladimir the Great — Grand Prince of Kiev
- 1274(Julian date)Bonaventure — Franciscan, bishop, cardinal, Doctor of the Church, Catholic saint (1221–1274)
- 1291Rudolph I of Germany — count of Habsburg, king of Germany (1218–1291)
- 1299(Julian date)Eric II of Norway — Norwegian king
- 1381(Julian date)John Ball — English rebel and priest (1338-1381)
- 1406(Julian date)Duke Wilhelm I, Duke of Austria — Duke of Inner Austria (1386–1406)
- 1410(Julian date)Ulrich von Jungingen — German noble (1360-1410)
- 1445(Julian date)Joan Beaufort — Queen Consort of Scotland from 1424 to 1437
- 1609Annibale Carracci — Bolognese painter (1560–1609)
- 1614Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme — French historian (1540–1614)
- 1655Girolamo Rainaldi — Italian architect (1570-1655)
- 1685(Julian date)James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth — English nobleman and soldier (1649–1685)
- 1750(Julian date)Vasily Tatishchev — Russian historian (1686-1750)
- 1765
- 1828Jean-Antoine Houdon — French artist (1741–1828)
- 1844Claude Charles Fauriel — French historian, philologist and critic (1772-1844)
- 1857Carl Czerny — Austrian composer and pianist (1791-1857)
- 1858Alexander Ivanov — Russian artist (1806-1858)
- 1883General Tom Thumb — American circus performer (1838–1883)
- 1890Gottfried Keller — Swiss poet and writer of German literature (1819–1890)
- 1904Anton Chekhov — Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
- 1907Qiu Jin — Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer (1875-1907)
- 1919Hermann Emil Fischer — German chemist (1852–1919)
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