Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 15
Births
edit- 1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, (pictured) Emperor of the French (d. 1821)
- 1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832)
- 1875 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer (d. 1912)
- 1878 - Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1928)
- 1879 - Ethel Barrymore, American actress (d. 1959)
- 1892 - Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987)
- 1924 - Robert Bolt, English playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter (d. 1995)
- 1945 - Begum Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician
- 1950 - The Princess Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom
- 1972 - Ben Affleck, American actor
Deaths
edit- 423 - Flavius Honorius, Western Roman Emperor (b. 384)
- 1057 - King Macbeth of Scotland
- 1945 - Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (b. 1887)
- 1967 - René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
- 2001 - Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (b. 1972)