Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 15

Births

• 70 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
• 1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900)
• 1874 - Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (d. 1899)
• 1881 - P. G. Wodehouse, British novelist (d. 1975) (pictured)
• 1942 - Penny Marshall, American actress (d. 2018)
• 1959 - Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
• 1959 - Emeril Lagasse, American chef

Deaths

• 412 - Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria
• 1837 - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet (b. 1760)
• 1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)
• 1946 - Hermann Göring, German air force commander (suicide) (b. 1893)
• 1964 - Cole Porter, American composer (b. 1891)