Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 15

Births

• 1254 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (d. 1324)
• 1613 - François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (d. 1680)
• 1649 - Titus Oates, English minister and plotter (d. 1705)
• 1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist (d. 1851)
• 1830 - Porfirio Díaz, President of Mexico (d. 1915)
• 1857 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (d. 1930)
• 1894 - Jean Renoir, (pictured) French film director (d. 1979)
• 1907 - Fay Wray, Canadian-born American actress (d. 2004)
• 1916 - Margaret Lockwood, British actress (d. 1990)
• 1933 - Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor (d. 2014)
• 1945 - Jessye Norman, American opera singer (d. 2019)
• 1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, American actor
• 1946 - Oliver Stone, American film director
• 1984 - Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

Deaths

• 1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)
• 1830 - William Huskisson, first rail fatality (b. 1770)
• 1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
• 1864 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)
• 2006 - Rob Levin, Freenode IRC Network Founder (b. 1955)