On this day: 15 August
Events, births and deaths on 15 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · 2025 Russia–United States summit
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
- Births · Julius Katchen
- Births · Sami Michael
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1038 · Deaths · Stephen I of Hungary
- 1118 · Deaths · Alexios I Komnenos
- 1057 · Deaths · Macbeth
Events · 42
- 636(Julian date)Battle of Yarmouk — battle of the Arab–Byzantine wars
- 717Siege of Constantinople — 717-718 combined land and sea offensive by the Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate against the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople
- 778(Julian date)Battle of Roncevaux Pass — 778 battle between Charlemagne and Basques
- 1057(Julian date)Battle of Lumphanan — 1057 battle between Macbeth and Malcolm III of Scotland
- 1224(Julian date)Siege of Tartu — 1224 military conflict in Estonia during Livonian Crusade
- 1237(Julian date)Battle of the Puig — 1237 battle
- 1540(Julian date)Arequipa — city of Peru, capital of Arequipa region
- 1592Battle of Hansan Island — naval battle (1592) in southern Korea during the First Japanese Invasion of Korea
- 1599Battle of Curlew Pass — 1599 battle
- 1645Battle of Kilsyth — 1645 battle
- 1684Truce of Ratisbon — peace treaty
- 1760Battle of Liegnitz — 1760 Prussian victory over Austrian army in the Seven Years' War
- 1812Battle of Fort Dearborn — war of 1812 battle in modern-day Chicago
- 1843Tivoli Gardens — amusement park in Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1843Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace — cathedral in Honolulu, Hawaii
- 1863Bombardment of Kagoshima — 1863 battle between Britain and the Satsuma Domain
- 1914Battle of Cer — battle fought between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in August 1914
- 1944Operation Dragoon — Allied invasion of southern France on 15 August 1944
- 1945Hirohito surrender broadcast — radio broadcast in which Emperor Hirohito announced the Japanese surrender in World War II
- 1947India — country in South Asia
- 1947Prime Minister of India — Head of the Government of India
- 1947Dominion of India — period of Indian history between 1947 and 1950
- 1948South Korea — country in East Asia
- 1948First Republic of South Korea — Government of South Korea from August 1948 to April 1960
- 19501950 Assam–Tibet earthquake — earthquake
- 1959American Airlines Flight 514 — 1959 aviation accident
- 1965The Beatles' 1965 US tour — 1965 concert tour by the Beatles
- 1969Woodstock Festival — 1969 music festival in New York, United States
- 1971Nixon Shock — 1971 decoupling of the US dollar from gold
- 1976SAETA Flight 232 — 1976 aviation accident
- 1977Wow! signal — 1977 narrowband radio signal from SETI
- 1978Tze-Chiang Train — class of Taiwanese passenger train service
- 19841984 PKK attacks — 1984 battle during the Turkish-Kurdish conflicts
- 1989China Eastern Airlines Flight 5510 — plane crash in China
- 1998Omagh bombing — car bombing in Northern Ireland in 1998
- 20072007 Peru earthquake — Earthquake in Peru in August 2007
- 2007Lok Ma Chau Spur Line — Railway line in Hong Kong
- 2013August 2013 Beirut bombing — 2013 Islamist terror attack in Beirut, Lebanon
- 2015Pyongyang time — time zone used in North Korea, corresponding to UTC+09:00
- 20172017 Taiwan blackout — blackout happened on August 15, 2017 in Taiwan
- 2021Fall of Kabul — Taliban capture of the capital of Afghanistan in 2021
- 20252025 Russia–United States summit — meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska on 15 August 2025
Births · 60
- 1171(Julian date)Alfonso IX of León — King of León and Galicia from 1188 to 1230
- 1195(Julian date)Anthony of Padua — Franciscan saint, Doctor of the Church (1195–1231)
- 1432(Julian date)Luigi Pulci — Italian poet (1432-1484)
- 1740Matthias Claudius — German poet (1740-1815)
- 1769Napoleon — French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 (1769–1821)
- 1771Walter Scott — Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
- 1785Thomas De Quincey — British author (1785–1859)
- 1807Jules Grévy — French statesman and lawyer (1807–1891)
- 1856Keir Hardie — Scottish socialist and labour leader (1856–1915)
- 1858Edith Nesbit — English author and poet (1858–1924)
- 1860Florence Harding — First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923
- 1872Aurobindo Ghosh — Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)
- 1879Ethel Barrymore — American actress (1879–1959)
- 1883Ivan Meštrović — Croatian sculptor and architect (1883–1962)
- 1885Edna Ferber — American novelist, short story writer and playwright (1885–1968)
- 1890Jacques Ibert — French composer
- 1892Louis de Broglie — Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter (1892–1987)
- 1896Gerty Cori — Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist (1896–1957)
- 1912Julia Child — American chef
- 1912Wendy Hiller — English film and stage actress (1912-2003)
- 1914Paul Rand — American graphic designer (1914–1996)
- 1917Óscar Romero — Salvadoran Catholic archbishop and saint (1917–1980)
- 1917Yukio Tsuda — Japanese association football player (1917–1979)
- 1923Rose Marie — American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer (1923–2017)
- 1924Phyllis Schlafly — American conservative activist (1924-2016)
Deaths · 60
- 1 BCE(Julian date)Emperor Ai of Han — emperor of the Han dynasty
- 423(Julian date)Honorius — 4th and 5th-century Roman emperor
- 465(Julian date)Libius Severus — Western Roman Emperor (420-465)
- 778(Julian date)Roland — Frankish knight
- 873Emperor Yizong of Tang — emperor of the Tang Dynasty
- 978Li Yu — ruler of the Southern Tang Kingdom in ancient China
- 1038(Julian date)Stephen I of Hungary — 11th-century king of Hungary and saint
- 1057(Julian date)Macbeth — King of Scotland from 1040 to 1057
- 1118Alexios I Komnenos — Byzantine emperor (1048–1118)
- 1196(Julian date)Conrad II, Duke of Swabia — German nobleman (1172–1196)
- 1257(Julian date)Hyacinth of Poland — Polish Dominican priest
- 1274(Julian date)Robert de Sorbon — French theologian, the chaplain of Louis IX of France and founder of the Sorbonne college in Paris
- 1275(Julian date)Lorenzo Tiepolo — Doge of Venice
- 1328(Julian date)Yesün Temür Khan — emperor of the Yuan Dynasty
- 1369(Julian date)Philippa of Hainault — queen consort of King Edward III of England
- 1496(Julian date)Isabella of Portugal — Queen of Castile
- 1506Alexander Agricola — Netherlandish composer
- 1666Johann Adam Schall von Bell — German astronomer and Jesuit missionary active in China (1592-1666)
- 1714Constantin Brâncoveanu — Prince of Wallachia
- 1728Marin Marais — French composer and viol player (1656–1728)
- 1758Pierre Bouguer — French astronomer and mathematician (1698-1758)
- 1799Giuseppe Parini — Italian poet
- 1852Johan Gadolin — Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist (1760–1852)
- 1907Joseph Joachim — Hungarian violinist, composer, and teacher (1831–1907)
- 1909Euclides da Cunha — Brazilian writer (1866–1909)
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