Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 15

Births

• 1843 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (d. 1907)
• 1882 - Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1946)
• 1914 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (d. 1984)
• 1932 - Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York (d. 2015)
• 1937 - Waylon Jennings, American singer (d. 2002)
• 1954 - Paul Rusesabagina, Manager of hotel des diplomates during the Rwandan genocide
• 1964 - Courteney Cox, American actress
• 1969 - Ice Cube, American singer and actor
• 1969 - Oliver Kahn, German footballer
• 1985 - Nadine Coyle, Northern Irish singer (Girls Aloud)

Deaths

• 1889 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (b. 1850)
• 1968 - Wes Montgomery, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1976 - Jimmy Dykes, baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
• 1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, (pictured) American singer (b. 1917)

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