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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 15th of August 0778 | EVENT | The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed. |
| 15th of August 0927 | EVENT | The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto. |
| 15th of August 0982 | EVENT | Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria |
| 15th of August 1018 | EVENT | Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria. |
| 15th of August 1040 | EVENT | King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland. |
| 15th of August 1057 | EVENT | King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Mael Coluim mac Donnchada. |
| 15th of August 1185 | EVENT | The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia. |
| 15th of August 1248 | EVENT | The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.) |
| 15th of August 1261 | EVENT | Michael VIII Palaeologus is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople. |
| 15th of August 1309 | EVENT | The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes. |
| 15th of August 1430 | EVENT | Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca. |
| 15th of August 1461 | EVENT | The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmet II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered. |
| 15th of August 1483 | EVENT | Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel. |
| 15th of August 1517 | EVENT | Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernao Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary. |
| 15th of August 1519 | EVENT | Panama City, Panama, is founded. |
| 15th of August 1534 | EVENT | Saint Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540. |
| 15th of August 1537 | EVENT | Asuncion, Paraguay, is founded. |
| 15th of August 1540 | EVENT | Arequipa, Peru, is founded. |
| 15th of August 1549 | EVENT | Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549). |
| 15th of August 1599 | EVENT | Nine Years War: Battle of Curlew Pass : Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle. |
| 15th of August 1695 | EVENT | French forces end the Bombardment of Brussels, leaving a third of the buildings in the city in ruins. |
| 15th of August 1760 | EVENT | Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz : Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst von Laudon. |
| 15th of August 1824 | EVENT | Freed American slaves found Liberia. |
| 15th of August 1843 | EVENT | The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States. |
| 15th of August 1843 | EVENT | Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark. |
| 15th of August 1863 | EVENT | The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863). |
| 15th of August 1869 | EVENT | The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto. |
| 15th of August 1891 | EVENT | San Sebastian Church in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed. |
| 15th of August 1907 | EVENT | Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies. |
| 15th of August 1909 | EVENT | A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms. |
| 15th of August 1914 | EVENT | A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground. |
| 15th of August 1914 | EVENT | The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship Ancon. |
| 15th of August 1914 | EVENT | The First Russian Army, led by Pavel Rennenkampf, enters Eastern Prussia. |
| 15th of August 1920 | EVENT | Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw : Poles defeat the Red Army. |
| 15th of August 1935 | EVENT | Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska. |
| 15th of August 1939 | EVENT | 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. No survivors. |
| 15th of August 1940 | EVENT | An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbour during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October. |
| 15th of August 1941 | EVENT | Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7:12am, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for treason. |
| 15th of August 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Pedestal : The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses. |
| 15th of August 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Dragoon : Allied forces land in southern France. |
| 15th of August 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Victory over Japan Day : Japan surrenders. |
| 15th of August 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Korean Liberation Day. |
| 15th of August 1947 | EVENT | India gains Independence from the British Indian Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| 15th of August 1947 | EVENT | Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan in Karachi. |
| 15th of August 1948 | EVENT | The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north. |
| 15th of August 1950 | EVENT | Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India. |
| 15th of August 1952 | EVENT | Devon, United Kingdom A flashflood drenches the town of Lynmouth, killing 34 people. |
| 15th of August 1954 | EVENT | Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay. |
| 15th of August 1960 | EVENT | Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France. |
| 15th of August 1961 | EVENT | Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall. |
| 15th of August 1962 | EVENT | James Joseph Dresnok defects to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea after running across the Korean DMZ. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang. |
| 15th of August 1963 | EVENT | President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital. |
| 15th of August 1963 | EVENT | Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland. |
| 15th of August 1965 | EVENT | The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, in an event later seen as marking the birth of stadium rock. |
| 15th of August 1969 | EVENT | The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens. |
| 15th of August 1971 | EVENT | President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors. |
| 15th of August 1971 | EVENT | Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom. |
| 15th of August 1973 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends. |
| 15th of August 1974 | EVENT | Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee. |
| 15th of August 1975 | EVENT | Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup. |
| 15th of August 1975 | EVENT | Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II. |
| 15th of August 1977 | EVENT | The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project. |
| 15th of August 1984 | EVENT | The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military |
| 15th of August 1995 | EVENT | In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later). |
| 15th of August 1998 | EVENT | Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles |
| 15th of August 1999 | EVENT | Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco. |
| 15th of August 2007 | EVENT | An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090. |
| 15th of August 1171 | BIRTHDAY | King Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230) |
| 15th of August 1195 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (d. 1231) |
| 15th of August 1432 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (d. 1484) |
| 15th of August 1575 | BIRTHDAY | Bartol Kasic, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650) |
| 15th of August 1613 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Menage, French scholar (d. 1692) |
| 15th of August 1717 | BIRTHDAY | Blind Jack, English roadbuilder (d. 1810) |
| 15th of August 1740 | BIRTHDAY | Matthias Claudius, German poet (d. 1815) |
| 15th of August 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican-born French military officer and dictator (d. 1821) |
| 15th of August 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832) |
| 15th of August 1785 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas De Quincey, English author (d. 1859) |
| 15th of August 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Grevy, French statesman (d. 1891) |
| 15th of August 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1908) |
| 15th of August 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (d. 1916) |
| 15th of August 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Ballin, German shipping tycoon (d. 1918) |
| 15th of August 1858 | BIRTHDAY | E. Nesbit, English author (d. 1924) |
| 15th of August 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Comiskey, American baseball owner (d. 1931) |
| 15th of August 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist (d. 1941) |
| 15th of August 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Florence Harding, American First Lady (d. 1924) |
| 15th of August 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (d. 1945) |
| 15th of August 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Mikao Usui, Japanese spiritual figure (d. 1926) |
| 15th of August 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Sri Aurobindo, Indian writer and philosopher (d. 1950) |
| 15th of August 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer (d. 1912) |
| 15th of August 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Stylianos Gonatas, Greek military officer and politician (d. 1966) |
| 15th of August 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna (d. 1941) |
| 15th of August 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1928) |
| 15th of August 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Ethel Barrymore, American actress (d. 1959) |
| 15th of August 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (d. 1956) |
| 15th of August 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Mortensen, Danish-born American supercentenarian (d. 1998) |
| 15th of August 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Mestrovic, Croatian sculptor (d. 1962) |
| 15th of August 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Edna Ferber, American novelist (d. 1968) |
| 15th of August 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Whitty, Australian cricketer (d. 1974) |
| 15th of August 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Bolden, American Supercentenarian (d. 2006) |
| 15th of August 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Ibert, French composer (d. 1962) |
| 15th of August 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987) |
| 15th of August 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and mechanical computation designer (d. 1950) |
| 15th of August 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Gerty Cori, Austrian biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1957) |
| 15th of August 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (d. 1958) |
| 15th of August 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Doherty, Russian-born Canadian activist (d. 1985) |
| 15th of August 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (d. 1993) |
| 15th of August 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (d. 1966) |
| 15th of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Estelle Brody, American actress (d. 1995) |
| 15th of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician (d. 1975) |
| 15th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | George Klein, Canadian inventor (d. 1992) |
| 15th of August 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Emile St. Godard, Canadian dog sled racer (d. 1948) |
| 15th of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Winterhalter, American composer and bandleader (d. 1973) |
| 15th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Signe Hasso, Swedish actress (d. 2002) |
| 15th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Child, American cook and TV personality (d. 2004) |
| 15th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Wendy Hiller, English actress (d. 2003) |
| 15th of August 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Rand, American graphic designer (d. 1996) |
| 15th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Aleks Caci, Albanian writer (d. 1989) |
| 15th of August 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Lynch, Irish politician (d. 1999) |
| 15th of August 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Romero, El Salvadorian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1980) |
| 15th of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Benedict Kiely, Irish author (d. 2007) |
| 15th of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Huntz Hall, American actor (d. 1999) |
| 15th of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Lukas Foss, German-born composer (d. 2009) |
| 15th of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Mouzakis, Greek songwriter and musician (d. 2005) |
| 15th of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Leonard Baskin, American sculptor and graphic artist (d. 2000) |
| 15th of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Rose Marie, American actress |
| 15th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bolt, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1995) |
| 15th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Abrolat, German actor (d. 1997) |
| 15th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Connors, American actor |
| 15th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (d. 2007) |
| 15th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Pinkney, American baritone singer (d. 2007) |
| 15th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Sami Michael, Iraqi-born Israeli author |
| 15th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Costis Stephanopoulos, Greek politician |
| 15th of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Leadbeater, England cricketer |
| 15th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Roeg, English film director |
| 15th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Ageeda Paavel, Estonian freedom fighter |
| 15th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Lange, American game show host |
| 15th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Helms, American pop singer (d. 1997) |
| 15th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Byrd, American soul/funk singer (d. 2007) |
| 15th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer (d. 1998) |
| 15th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Reginald Scarlett, West Indian cricketer |
| 15th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Dale, English actor |
| 15th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Lionel Taylor, American football player |
| 15th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Vernon Jordan Jr., American presidential advisor |
| 15th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Maxine Waters, American politician |
| 15th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer |
| 15th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Rita Shane, American soprano |
| 15th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Gudrun Ensslin, German terrorist (d. 1977) |
| 15th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Manolis Mavrommatis, Greek politician |
| 15th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Hartsell, American martial arts instructor (d. 2007) |
| 15th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Rojo, Mexican actress and politician |
| 15th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Ellerbee, American journalist |
| 15th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Murphy, American politician |
| 15th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitris Sioufas, Greek lawyer and politician |
| 15th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvie Vartan, Bulgarian pop singer |
| 15th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Begum Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician |
| 15th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Upshaw, American football player (d. 2008) |
| 15th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Robinson, English actor and television presenter |
| 15th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Webb, American musician and composer |
| 15th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Raakhee Gulzar, Indian actress |
| 15th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jenny Hanley, British TV presenter |
| 15th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Uschi Digard, American pornographic actress and model |
| 15th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Patsy Gallant, Canadian pop singer |
| 15th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | George Ryton, British engineer |
| 15th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Beverly Lynn Burns, American pilot |
| 15th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor |
| 15th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Mark B. Rosenberg, American educator |
| 15th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Garry Disher, Australian author |
| 15th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom |
| 15th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Aldridge, American musician |
| 15th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Kelly, American baseball manager |
| 15th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Biderman, American film and television writer |
| 15th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Caldwell, American singer and musician |
| 15th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | John Childs, England cricketer |
| 15th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Daba Diawara, Malian politician |
| 15th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ranjan Gunatilleke, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 15th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (d. 2004) |
| 15th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Jo Salter, American poet |
| 15th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Lorraine Desmarais, French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer |
| 15th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Zeljko Ivanek, Slovenian-American actor |
| 15th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Craig MacTavish, Canadian ice hockey player/coach |
| 15th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Baron-Cohen, British psychiatrist and author |
| 15th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Rondell Sheridan, American actor and comedian |
| 15th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Laurie Bembenek, American convicted murderer and fugitive (d. 2010) |
| 15th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Shenderovich, Russian satirist |
| 15th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Kubiak, American football coach |
| 15th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Gillespie, American White House counsel to George W. Bush |
| 15th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Colicchio, American chef |
| 15th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Russell, England cricketer |
| 15th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Valery Levaneuski, entrepreneur, politician, former political prisoner |
| 15th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Mexican film director |
| 15th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Melinda French Gates, American wife of Bill Gates |
| 15th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Thomas, American writer |
| 15th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Brosius, American baseball player |
| 15th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitris Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player |
| 15th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Shirley Kwan, Hong Kong singer |
| 15th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Hermann American actor |
| 15th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Debra Messing, American actress |
| 15th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Cheng, Hong Kong actor and singer |
| 15th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Fanning, Australian singer/songwriter (Powderfinger) |
| 15th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Cris Judd, American actor/choreographer |
| 15th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Anderson, American comedian and actor |
| 15th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Maddie Corman, American actress |
| 15th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Silverman, American TV executive |
| 15th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Morrissey, American film director/actor |
| 15th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Wood, American actor and sound editor |
| 15th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Alexander, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007) |
| 15th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Affleck, American actor |
| 15th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Adnan Sami, British-born Pakastani music composer and singer |
| 15th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Willard, American musician (The Offspring) |
| 15th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tomasz Suwary, Polish footballer |
| 15th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress |
| 15th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Bertrand Berry, American football player |
| 15th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Vijay Bharadwaj, Indian cricketer |
| 15th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Morrison, Canadian hockey player |
| 15th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kara Wolters, American basketball player |
| 15th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch football player |
| 15th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Biron, Canadian ice hockey goaltender |
| 15th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast |
| 15th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Paggi, American actress |
| 15th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Lilia Podkopayeva, Ukrainian gymnast |
| 15th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Foreman, American bassist (Switchfoot) |
| 15th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Stavros Tziortziopoulos, Greek footballer |
| 15th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kerri Walsh, American beach volleyball player |
| 15th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Edwards, American NASCAR driver |
| 15th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nathalie Press, English actress |
| 15th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Hansen, American swimmer |
| 15th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Song Ji-hyo, South Korean actress |
| 15th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Perez, American baseball player |
| 15th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Casey Burgener, American weightlifter |
| 15th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Tiffanie Anderson, American performer (Girlicious) |
| 15th of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Belinda, Mexican singer |
| 15th of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Jonas, American actor and singer |
| 15th of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Pena Jr., American actor and singer (Big Time Rush) |
| 15th of August 0423 | DEATH | Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (Born 384) |
| 15th of August 0778 | DEATH | Roland, Frankish commander |
| 15th of August 1038 | DEATH | King Stephen I of Hungary |
| 15th of August 1057 | DEATH | Macbeth, King of Scotland |
| 15th of August 1118 | DEATH | Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (Born 1048) |
| 15th of August 1196 | DEATH | Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (Born 1173) |
| 15th of August 1274 | DEATH | Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and educator (Born 1201) |
| 15th of August 1369 | DEATH | Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of Edward III of England |
| 15th of August 1528 | DEATH | Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (Born 1485) |
| 15th of August 1552 | DEATH | Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (Born 1477) |
| 15th of August 1621 | DEATH | John Barclay, Scottish writer (Born 1582) |
| 15th of August 1666 | DEATH | Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary (Born 1591) |
| 15th of August 1714 | DEATH | Constantin Brancoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (Born 1654) |
| 15th of August 1728 | DEATH | Marin Marais, French composer and viol player (Born 1656) |
| 15th of August 1758 | DEATH | Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (Born 1698) |
| 15th of August 1799 | DEATH | Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (Born 1729) |
| 15th of August 1852 | DEATH | Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (Born 1760) |
| 15th of August 1859 | DEATH | Nathaniel Claiborne, American politician (Born 1777) |
| 15th of August 1880 | DEATH | Adelaide Neilson, English actress (Born 1848) |
| 15th of August 1907 | DEATH | Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (Born 1831) |
| 15th of August 1909 | DEATH | Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (Born 1866) |
| 15th of August 1917 | DEATH | Thomas J. Higgins, American Union Army soldier (Born 1831) |
| 15th of August 1925 | DEATH | Konrad Magi, Estonian artist (Born 1878) |
| 15th of August 1931 | DEATH | Nigar Shikhlinskaya, Azerbaijani WWI nurse (Born ca. 1878) |
| 15th of August 1935 | DEATH | Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (Born 1879) |
| 15th of August 1935 | DEATH | Wiley Post, American pilot (Born 1898) |
| 15th of August 1935 | DEATH | Paul Signac, French painter (Born 1863) |
| 15th of August 1936 | DEATH | Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1871) |
| 15th of August 1942 | DEATH | Mahadev Desai, personal secretary of Mahatma Gandhi (Born1892) |
| 15th of August 1945 | DEATH | Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (Born 1887) |
| 15th of August 1951 | DEATH | Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (Born 1882) |
| 15th of August 1953 | DEATH | Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (Born 1875) |
| 15th of August 1959 | DEATH | Blind Willie McTell, American singer (Born 1901) |
| 15th of August 1962 | DEATH | Lei Feng, Chinese revolutionary (Born 1940) |
| 15th of August 1967 | DEATH | Rene Magritte, Belgian painter (Born 1898) |
| 15th of August 1971 | DEATH | Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (Born 1887) |
| 15th of August 1975 | DEATH | Clay Shaw, American lawyer and John F. Kennedy assassination investigator (Born 1913) |
| 15th of August 1975 | DEATH | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladeshi statesman (Born 1920) |
| 15th of August 1982 | DEATH | Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1903) |
| 15th of August 1989 | DEATH | Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek Army officer (Born 1897) |
| 15th of August 1990 | DEATH | Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician (Born 1962) |
| 15th of August 1995 | DEATH | John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (Born 1906) |
| 15th of August 1999 | DEATH | Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and artist (Born 1910) |
| 15th of August 2001 | DEATH | Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (Born 1972) |
| 15th of August 2003 | DEATH | Gosta Sundqvist, Finnish songwriter and singer (heart attack) (Born 1957) |
| 15th of August 2004 | DEATH | Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (Born 1941) |
| 15th of August 2004 | DEATH | Semiha Berksoy, first Turkish opera singer (Born 1910) |
| 15th of August 2004 | DEATH | Sune Bergstrom, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1916) |
| 15th of August 2005 | DEATH | Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (Born 1927) |
| 15th of August 2006 | DEATH | Te Atairangi Kaahu, Maori queen (Born 1931) |
| 15th of August 2006 | DEATH | Faas Wilkes, Dutch international footballer (Born 1923) |
| 15th of August 2006 | DEATH | Rick Bourke, Australian rugby league player (Born c. 1955) |
| 15th of August 2006 | DEATH | Coenraad Bron, Dutch computer scientist (Born 1937) |
| 15th of August 2007 | DEATH | Geoffrey Orbell, New Zealand bush walker (Born 1908) |
| 15th of August 2007 | DEATH | Richard Bradshaw, British opera conductor, (Born 1944) |
| 15th of August 2007 | DEATH | John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (Born 1918) |
| 15th of August 2007 | DEATH | Sam Pollock, Canadian sports executive (Born 1925) |
| 15th of August 2008 | DEATH | Leroy Sievers, American journalist (Born 1955) |
| 15th of August 2008 | DEATH | Jerry Wexler, American music producer (Born 1917) |
| 15th of August 2008 | DEATH | James Orthwein, American businessman (Born 1924) |
| 15th of August 2008 | DEATH | Vic Toweel, South African boxer (Born 1929) |