On this day: 15 October
Events, births and deaths on 15 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Raila A Odinga
- Deaths · Jim Bolger
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Michel Foucault
- Births · Evan Hunter
- Births · Jean Peters
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 961 · Deaths · Abd-ar-Rahman III
- 1080 · Deaths · Rudolf of Rheinfelden
- 1002 · Deaths · Henry I, Duke of Burgundy
Events · 17
- 1211Battle of the Rhyndacus — 1211 battle of the Nicaean-Latin Wars
- 1582Gregorian calendar — internationally accepted civil calendar, first used in 1582
- 1864Battle of Glasgow — Missouri minor engagement of the American Civil War
- 1932Air India — flag-carrier airline of India
- 1944Operation Panzerfaust — military operation to occupy Hungary in October 1944
- 1954Hurricane Hazel — Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 1954
- 1957Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge — bridge across the Yangtze River in Wuhan, Hubei, China
- 1966Black Panther Party — US black power organization (1966–1982)
- 1979Salvadoran Civil War — 13 year 1979-1992 civil war in El Salvador
- 19791979 Salvadoran coup d'état — Coup d'état in El Salvador
- 19871987 Burkinabé coup d'état — Coup that brought Blaise Compaoré to power
- 1987Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 — 1987 aviation accident
- 20062006 Hawaii earthquake — 2006 earthquake in Hawaii, United States
- 200717th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party — 2007 Chinese Communist Party conference
- 201115 October 2011 global protests — series of protests
- 20132013 Philippines earthquake — 15 October 2013 earthquake in Bohol
- 2018kidnapping of Jayme Closs — Kidnapping and double homicide in Barron, Wisconsin in October 2018
Births · 60
- 70 BCE(Julian date)Virgil — Roman poet (1st century BC)
- 1265(Julian date)Temür Khan — 2nd emperor of the Yuan Dynasty
- 1542(Julian date)Akbar — the third and greatest Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605
- 1608Evangelista Torricelli — Italian physicist and mathematician (1608-1647)
- 1802Louis-Eugène Cavaignac — French general and politician (1802-1857)
- 1814Mikhail Lermontov — Russian writer, poet and painter (1814–1841)
- 1829Asaph Hall — American astronomer (1829–1907)
- 1836James Tissot — French painter and illustrator (1836–1902)
- 1844Friedrich Nietzsche — German philosopher (1844-1900)
- 1856Robert Nivelle — French general who participated in the First World War (1856–1924)
- 1872Wilhelm Miklas — Austrian politician; President (1928–1938)
- 1878Paul Reynaud — French politician and lawyer (1878-1966)
- 1879Jane Darwell — American actress (1879-1967)
- 1881P. G. Wodehouse — English author (1881–1975)
- 1893Carol II of Romania — king of Romania from 1930 to 1940
- 1894Moshe Sharett — 2nd Prime Minister of Israel from 1954 to 1955
- 1900Mervyn LeRoy — American film director and producer (1900–1987)
- 1905C. P. Snow — English novelist and physical chemist (1905–1980)
- 1908John Kenneth Galbraith — Canadian-American economist and diplomat (1908–2006)
- 1914Mohammed Zahir Shah — King of Afghanistan (1933-1973)
- 1920Mario Puzo — American author, screenwriter, and journalist
- 1920Henri Verneuil — French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker (1920-2002)
- 1923Italo Calvino — Italian journalist and writer (1923-1985)
- 1924Lee Iacocca — American businessman (1924–2019)
- 1926Michel Foucault — French philosopher (1926–1984)
Deaths · 60
- 55 BCE(Julian date)Lucretius — 1st-century BC Roman poet and philosopher
- 412(Julian date)Pope Theophilus of Alexandria — Patriarch of Alexandria from 384 to 412
- 892(Julian date)Al-Mu'tamid — Abbasid Caliph from 870 to 892
- 898(Julian date)Lambert II of Spoleto — king of Italy, Holy Roman Emperor, and Duke of Spoleto and Camerino (880-898)
- 912Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi — Emir of Córdoba from 888 to 912
- 961Abd-ar-Rahman III — final Emir of Córdoba (r. 912–929); founder and 1st Caliph of Córdoba (r. 929–961)
- 1002(Julian date)Henry I, Duke of Burgundy — Duke of Burgundy from 965 to 1002
- 1080(Julian date)Rudolf of Rheinfelden — Duke of Swabia from 1057 to 1079
- 1174(Julian date)Petronilla of Aragon — queen of Aragón and countess of Barcelona
- 1240(Julian date)Razia Sultana — 5th monarch of the Delhi Sultanate
- 1243Hedwig of Silesia — Duchess of Silesia (1174–1243)
- 1389(Julian date)Urban VI — pope of the Catholic Church from 1378 to 1389 (1318–1389)
- 1419Jeongjong of Joseon — 2nd King of Joseon Dynasty (1357 - 1419)
- 1690Juan de Valdés Leal — Spanish artist (1622-1690)
- 1817Tadeusz Kościuszko — Polish, Lithuanian and American military leader (1746–1817)
- 1820Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg — Austrian field marshal (1771–1820)
- 1837Ivan Dmitriev — Russian writer and politician
- 1838Letitia Elizabeth Landon — British poet and novelist (1802–1838)
- 1900Zdeněk Fibich — Czech conductor, music educator, composer and choirmaster (1850-1900)
- 1917Mata Hari — Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and spy (1876-1917)
- 1918Sai Baba of Shirdi — Indian saint
- 1930Herbert Henry Dow — Canadian American chemical industrialist (1866–1930)
- 1933Nitobe Inazō — Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
- 1934Raymond Poincaré — French statesman and lawyer, President of France (1860-1934)
- 1940Lluís Companys — 123rd President of Catalonia (1934–1940)
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