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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 15th of May 1252 | EVENT | Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. |
| 15th of May 1525 | EVENT | The battle of Frankenhausen ends the German Peasants' War. |
| 15th of May 1536 | EVENT | Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest. She is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury. |
| 15th of May 1567 | EVENT | Mary, Queen of Scots, marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband. |
| 15th of May 1602 | EVENT | Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Cape Cod. |
| 15th of May 1618 | EVENT | Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made). |
| 15th of May 1648 | EVENT | The Treaty of Westphalia signed. |
| 15th of May 1701 | EVENT | The War of the Spanish Succession begins. |
| 15th of May 1718 | EVENT | James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun. |
| 15th of May 1755 | EVENT | Laredo, Texas is established by the Spaniards. |
| 15th of May 1776 | EVENT | American Revolution: the Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence. |
| 15th of May 1791 | EVENT | Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance. |
| 15th of May 1792 | EVENT | War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia. |
| 15th of May 1793 | EVENT | Diego Marin Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted flights. |
| 15th of May 1796 | EVENT | First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph. |
| 15th of May 1800 | EVENT | George III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt by James Hadfield, who is later acquitted by reason of insanity. |
| 15th of May 1811 | EVENT | Paraguay declares independence from Spain. |
| 15th of May 1817 | EVENT | Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 15th of May 1829 | EVENT | The Aaronic Priesthood is restored to Joseph Smith Jr. and Oliver Cowdery, prior to the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| 15th of May 1836 | EVENT | Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse. |
| 15th of May 1849 | EVENT | Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily |
| 15th of May 1850 | EVENT | The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon. |
| 15th of May 1858 | EVENT | Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. |
| 15th of May 1862 | EVENT | President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| 15th of May 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends. |
| 15th of May 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia : students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley. |
| 15th of May 1869 | EVENT | Woman's suffrage: in New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. |
| 15th of May 1904 | EVENT | The Russian minelayer Amur laid a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sank Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and "Yashima". |
| 15th of May 1905 | EVENT | Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km?), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off. |
| 15th of May 1911 | EVENT | In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up. |
| 15th of May 1919 | EVENT | The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00 a.m., almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job. |
| 15th of May 1919 | EVENT | Greek invasion of Izmir. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks. Those responsible are punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades. |
| 15th of May 1928 | EVENT | Mickey Mouse premiered in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy |
| 15th of May 1929 | EVENT | A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123. |
| 15th of May 1932 | EVENT | The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d'etat, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed. |
| 15th of May 1934 | EVENT | Karlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia. |
| 15th of May 1935 | EVENT | The Moscow Metro is opened to public. |
| 15th of May 1936 | EVENT | Amy Johnson arrives back in England after a record-breaking return flight to Cape Town |
| 15th of May 1940 | EVENT | USS Sailfish (SS-192) recommissioned, originally the USS Squalus. |
| 15th of May 1940 | EVENT | World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation. |
| 15th of May 1940 | EVENT | McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California. |
| 15th of May 1942 | EVENT | World War II: in the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law. |
| 15th of May 1943 | EVENT | Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International). |
| 15th of May 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia. |
| 15th of May 1948 | EVENT | Following the demise of the British Mandate of Palestine, Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. |
| 15th of May 1951 | EVENT | The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czes?aw Mi?osz, asks the French government for political asylum. |
| 15th of May 1957 | EVENT | At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. The device fails to detonate properly. |
| 15th of May 1958 | EVENT | The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3. |
| 15th of May 1960 | EVENT | The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4. |
| 15th of May 1963 | EVENT | Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space. |
| 15th of May 1966 | EVENT | After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam's ruling junta launches a military attack on the forces of General Ton That Dinh, forcing him to abandon his command. |
| 15th of May 1969 | EVENT | People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot called Bloody Thursday. |
| 15th of May 1970 | EVENT | President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals. |
| 15th of May 1970 | EVENT | Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests. |
| 15th of May 1972 | EVENT | In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to be become President. |
| 15th of May 1972 | EVENT | The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control. |
| 15th of May 1974 | EVENT | Ma'alot massacre: In an Arab terrorist attack and hostage taking at an Israeli school, a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren. |
| 15th of May 1987 | EVENT | The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit. |
| 15th of May 1988 | EVENT | Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. |
| 15th of May 1990 | EVENT | Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million, the most expensive painting at the time. |
| 15th of May 1991 | EVENT | Edith Cresson becomes France's first female prime minister. |
| 15th of May 1997 | EVENT | The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans. |
| 15th of May 2008 | EVENT | California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional. |
| 15th of May 2010 | EVENT | Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo. |
| 15th of May 1567 | BIRTHDAY | (baptism) Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643) |
| 15th of May 1608 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Goupil, French Catholic missionary (Canadian Martyrs) (d. 1642) |
| 15th of May 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1792) |
| 15th of May 1749 | BIRTHDAY | Levi Lincoln, Sr., American statesman (d. 1820) |
| 15th of May 1767 | BIRTHDAY | Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur and politician (d. 1843) |
| 15th of May 1773 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (d. 1859) |
| 15th of May 1786 | BIRTHDAY | General Dimitris Plapoutas, Greek War of Independence figure (d. 1864) |
| 15th of May 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Michael William Balfe, Irish composer of the opera The Bohemian Girl (d. 1870) |
| 15th of May 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer (d. 1905) |
| 15th of May 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (d. 1926) |
| 15th of May 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Ioannis Psycharis, Greek author and linguist (d. 1929) |
| 15th of May 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer and guide (d. 1917) |
| 15th of May 1856 | BIRTHDAY | L. Frank Baum, American author (d. 1919) |
| 15th of May 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Williamina Fleming, British-born astronomer (d. 1911) |
| 15th of May 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906) |
| 15th of May 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist (d. 1931) |
| 15th of May 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Katherine Anne Porter, American author (d. 1980) |
| 15th of May 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (d. 1940) |
| 15th of May 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (d. 1971) |
| 15th of May 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Wilde, Welsh boxer (d. 1969) |
| 15th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Astrid Zachrison, Swedish supercentenarian (d. 2008) |
| 15th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | William D. Byron, American politician (d. 1941) |
| 15th of May 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Arletty, French model and actress (d. 1992) |
| 15th of May 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970) |
| 15th of May 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Xavier Herbert, Australian author (d. 1984) |
| 15th of May 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983) |
| 15th of May 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Richard J. Daley, American politician (d. 1976) |
| 15th of May 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (d. 1998) |
| 15th of May 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Cotten, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 15th of May 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Zapruder, American businessman and John F. Kennedy assassination figure (d. 1970) |
| 15th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Sukhdev Thapar, Indian revolutionary figure who fought for independence against the British colonialists (d. 1931) |
| 15th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | James Mason, British actor (d. 1984) |
| 15th of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Clara Solovera, Chilean folk musician (d. 1992) |
| 15th of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Constance Cummings, British actress (d. 2005) |
| 15th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Max Frisch, Swiss author (d. 1991) |
| 15th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Herta Oberheuser, Nazi doctor (d. 1978) |
| 15th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Berger, American composer (d. 2003) |
| 15th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Turk Broda, Canadian hockey goaltender (d. 1972) |
| 15th of May 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Gus Viseur, French button accordionist (d. 1974) |
| 15th of May 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Hilda Bernstein, British-born South African author (d. 2006) |
| 15th of May 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Samuelson, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009) |
| 15th of May 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2010) |
| 15th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Vera Gebuhr, Danish actress |
| 15th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (d. 2009) |
| 15th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Eddy Arnold, American country music singer (d. 2008) |
| 15th of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Nasrallah Sfeir, Lebanese cardinal |
| 15th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun |
| 15th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004) |
| 15th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | John Lanchbery, British composer (d. 2003) |
| 15th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Walker, Indian actor (d. 2003) |
| 15th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist (d. 1971) |
| 15th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Stewart, Jamacian-born British actor and fitness industry figure (d. 2008) |
| 15th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Shaffer, British playwright (d. 2001) |
| 15th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Shaffer, British playwright |
| 15th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jasper Johns, American painter |
| 15th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Venturi, American golfer |
| 15th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Utah Phillips, American labor organizer and folk singer (d. 2008) |
| 15th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist |
| 15th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Wavy Gravy, American clown and activist |
| 15th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-born actress |
| 15th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Zindel, American writer (d. 2003) |
| 15th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Madeleine Albright, American Secretary of State |
| 15th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Trini Lopez, American musician |
| 15th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Tait, American broadcaster |
| 15th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Diane Nash, American Civil Rights Movement figure |
| 15th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Mireille Darc, French actress |
| 15th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Lenny Welch, American singer |
| 15th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Shirley, British athlete |
| 15th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Ailes, American businessman |
| 15th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Lainie Kazan, American actress and singer |
| 15th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Don Nelson, American professional basketball coach |
| 15th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | K.T. Oslin, American musician |
| 15th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jusuf Kalla, Indonesian politician |
| 15th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Lowe, Tasmanian politician |
| 15th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | David Cronenberg, Canadian screenwriter and film director |
| 15th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Alter, American politician |
| 15th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Ulrich Beck, German sociologist |
| 15th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, Portuguese noble |
| 15th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer |
| 15th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Graeham Goble, Australian musician and record producer (Little River Band) |
| 15th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese professional baseball pitcher |
| 15th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Eno, British musician and record producer |
| 15th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Sebelius, American politician and Obama Administration figure |
| 15th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Hammond, American actor |
| 15th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Wilczek, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 15th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Chazz Palminteri, American actor, writer and director |
| 15th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Oldfield, British composer |
| 15th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | George Brett, American baseball player |
| 15th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Robert P. Harrison, American thinker |
| 15th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Horsley, American actor |
| 15th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Patrick, American sportscaster |
| 15th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Loverdos, Greek lawyer and politician |
| 15th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Jose Ibarretxe, Basque statesman |
| 15th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Von Erich, American professional wrestler |
| 15th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Simmons, American professional wrestler |
| 15th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Eldritch, British singer and songwriter |
| 15th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Kaokor Galaxy, Thai boxer |
| 15th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Perez-Sala, Spanish racing driver |
| 15th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Bowman, American film director |
| 15th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Rhonda Burchmore, Australian Entertainer |
| 15th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (d. 2002) |
| 15th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Melle Mel, American musician |
| 15th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Curry-Kenny, Australian Ironwoman |
| 15th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Digna Ochoa, Mexican politician |
| 15th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Lars L?kke Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark |
| 15th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Abujamra, Brazilian film score composer |
| 15th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Rai, Brazilian footballer |
| 15th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Wiggs, British musician (Saint Etienne) |
| 15th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress |
| 15th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Hillenbrand, American author |
| 15th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | John Smoltz, baseball player |
| 15th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Cecilia Malmstrom, Swedish politician |
| 15th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Seth Putnam, American musician |
| 15th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Asalah Nasri, Syrian singer |
| 15th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Hideki Irabu, Japanese baseball player |
| 15th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Emmitt Smith, American football player |
| 15th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Frank de Boer, Dutch football player |
| 15th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald de Boer, Dutch football player |
| 15th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Desmond Howard, American football player |
| 15th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Rod Smith, American football player |
| 15th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Rossiter, British Musician |
| 15th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Pfister, American strength athlete |
| 15th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | David Charvet, French actor |
| 15th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Emilia Tsoulfa, Greek sailing champion |
| 15th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Vassilis Kikilias, Greek basketball player |
| 15th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Shiney Ahuja, Indian actor |
| 15th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmet Zappa, American musician |
| 15th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Iwers, Swedish Musician |
| 15th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Lewis, American football player |
| 15th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Adolfo Bautista, Mexican footballer |
| 15th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Torraye Braggs, American basketball player |
| 15th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Leaf, American football player |
| 15th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler Walker, American baseball player |
| 15th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jacek Krzynowek, Polish footballer |
| 15th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Chow, American gymnast |
| 15th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Dwayne DeRosario, Canadian footballer |
| 15th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Dhavernas, Canadian actress |
| 15th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Edu, Brazilian footballer |
| 15th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Royal, American football player |
| 15th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Krissy Taylor, American model (d. 1995) |
| 15th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | David Krumholtz, American actor |
| 15th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Masoe, New Zealander rugby player |
| 15th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Beckett, American baseball player |
| 15th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Rocky Marquette, American actor |
| 15th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Patrice Evra, French footballer |
| 15th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Zara Phillips, British royal and eventer |
| 15th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Morneau, Canadian baseball player |
| 15th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress |
| 15th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Breckenridge, American actress |
| 15th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican athlete |
| 15th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Segundo Castillo, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 15th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Sutta, American dancer, singer and actress (Pussycat Dolls) |
| 15th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor |
| 15th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Jimenez, Brazilian racing driver |
| 15th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Tania Cagnotto, Italian diver |
| 15th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Cristiane, Brazilian footballer |
| 15th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Brown, American football player |
| 15th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Moffat, British football player |
| 15th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Matias Fernandez, Chilean footballer |
| 15th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ersan Ilyasova, Turkish basketball player |
| 15th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jennylyn Mercado, Filipina actress and singer |
| 15th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player |
| 15th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Sunny (Lee Soon-kyu), South Korean singer (Girls' Generation) |
| 15th of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jordan Eberle, Canadian hockey player |
| 15th of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Mattock, English footballer |
| 15th of May 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Ksenia Sitnik, Belarusian singer |
| 15th of May 0913 | DEATH | Hatto I, Archbishop of Mainz |
| 15th of May 1036 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Ichijo of Japan (Born 1008) |
| 15th of May 1157 | DEATH | Yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince |
| 15th of May 1174 | DEATH | Nur ad-Din Zangi, ruler of Syria (Born 1118) |
| 15th of May 1381 | DEATH | Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron |
| 15th of May 1470 | DEATH | Charles VIII of Sweden (Born 1409) |
| 15th of May 1585 | DEATH | Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (Born 1535) |
| 15th of May 1591 | DEATH | Dmitry Ivanovich, Tsarevich (Born 1582) |
| 15th of May 1609 | DEATH | Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (Born 1557) |
| 15th of May 1634 | DEATH | Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (Born 1585) |
| 15th of May 1698 | DEATH | Marie Champmesle, French actress (Born 1642) |
| 15th of May 1699 | DEATH | Edward Petre, British Jesuit and privy councilor (Born 1631) |
| 15th of May 1700 | DEATH | John Hale, pastor during the Salem witch hunt (Born1636) |
| 15th of May 1703 | DEATH | Charles Perrault, French writer (Born 1628) |
| 15th of May 1714 | DEATH | Roger Elliott, British general and Governor of Gibraltar |
| 15th of May 1740 | DEATH | Ephraim Chambers, British encyclopaedist (Born 1680) |
| 15th of May 1760 | DEATH | Alaungpaya, King of Burma (Born 1711) |
| 15th of May 1773 | DEATH | Alban Butler, British Catholic priest and writer (Born 1710) |
| 15th of May 1782 | DEATH | Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (Born 1699) |
| 15th of May 1845 | DEATH | Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican Head of State (Born 1800) |
| 15th of May 1879 | DEATH | Gottfried Semper, German architect (Born 1803) |
| 15th of May 1886 | DEATH | Emily Dickinson, American poet (Born 1830) |
| 15th of May 1924 | DEATH | Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1852) |
| 15th of May 1928 | DEATH | Umegatani Totaro I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (Born 1845) |
| 15th of May 1935 | DEATH | Kazimir Malevich, Polish/Ukrainian artist (Born 1878) |
| 15th of May 1937 | DEATH | Phillip Snowden, British politician (Born 1864) |
| 15th of May 1940 | DEATH | Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (Born 1902) |
| 15th of May 1945 | DEATH | Charles Williams, British writer (Born 1886) |
| 15th of May 1948 | DEATH | Edward Flanagan, American priest and founder of Boys Town (Born 1886) |
| 15th of May 1954 | DEATH | William March, American writer (Born 1893) |
| 15th of May 1956 | DEATH | Austin Osman Spare, British artist and magician (Born 1886) |
| 15th of May 1964 | DEATH | Vladko Macek, Kingdom of Yugoslavia deputy prime minister (Born 1879) |
| 15th of May 1967 | DEATH | Edward Hopper, American painter (Born 1882) |
| 15th of May 1971 | DEATH | Tyrone Guthrie, British director, producer, and writer (Born 1900) |
| 15th of May 1978 | DEATH | Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (Born 1894) |
| 15th of May 1982 | DEATH | Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (Born 1946) |
| 15th of May 1984 | DEATH | Francis Schaeffer, American theologian, philosopher, and pastor (Born 1912) |
| 15th of May 1986 | DEATH | Theodore White, American writer (Born 1915) |
| 15th of May 1986 | DEATH | Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (Born 1958) |
| 15th of May 1989 | DEATH | Johnny Green, American songwriter (Born 1908) |
| 15th of May 1991 | DEATH | Andreas Floer, German mathematician (Born 1956) |
| 15th of May 1991 | DEATH | Amadou Hampate Ba, Malian writer (Born c. 1900) |
| 15th of May 1991 | DEATH | Ronald Lacey, British actor (Born 1935) |
| 15th of May 1992 | DEATH | Jovy Marcelo, Filipino race car driver (Born 1965) |
| 15th of May 1993 | DEATH | Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese writer, poet, and diplomat (Born 1933) |
| 15th of May 1994 | DEATH | Gilbert Roland, Mexican actor (Born 1905) |
| 15th of May 1995 | DEATH | Eric Porter, British actor (Born 1928) |
| 15th of May 1996 | DEATH | Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (Born 1910) |
| 15th of May 1998 | DEATH | Earl "the Goat" Manigault, American basketball player (Born 1944) |
| 15th of May 2003 | DEATH | June Carter Cash, American musician and singer (Born 1929) |
| 15th of May 2003 | DEATH | George Francis, British gangster (Born 1940) |
| 15th of May 2005 | DEATH | Alan B. Gold, Quebec Chief Justice (Born 1917) |
| 15th of May 2007 | DEATH | Jerry Falwell, Pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church and Founder of Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA (Born 1933) |
| 15th of May 2007 | DEATH | Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Born 1955) |
| 15th of May 2008 | DEATH | Alexander Courage, composer of original Star Trek theme (Born 1919) |
| 15th of May 2008 | DEATH | Robert Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, younger brother of Joey Dunlop (Born 1960) |
| 15th of May 2008 | DEATH | Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer (Born 1956) |
| 15th of May 2008 | DEATH | Astrid Zachrison, Swedish supercentenarian (Born 1895) |
| 15th of May 2009 | DEATH | Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player (Born 1964) |
| 15th of May 2009 | DEATH | Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Australian actor (Born 1923) |
| 15th of May 2010 | DEATH | Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer (Born 1987) |
| 15th of May 2010 | DEATH | Loris Kessel, Swiss racing driver (Born 1950) |