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Born in 1915

948 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Frank Sinatra

    singer, film producer

    1915–1998 · aged 82

    December 12 · 1915

    Source: BnF authorities

  2. Orson Welles

    radio personality, playwright

    1915–1985 · aged 70

    May 6 · 1915

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  3. Ingrid Bergman

    autobiographer, stage actor

    1915–1982 · aged 67

    August 29 · 1915

    Source: SNAC

  4. Augusto Pinochet

    politician, military personnel

    1915–2006 · aged 91

    November 25 · 1915

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  5. Arthur Miller

    playwright, prose writer

    1915–2005 · aged 89

    October 17 · 1915

    Source: Babelio

  6. Édith Piaf

    lyricist, songwriter

    1915–1963

    December 19 · 1915

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  7. Billie Holiday

    singer, actor

    1915–1959 · aged 44

    April 7 · 1915

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  8. Anthony Quinn

    sculptor, television actor

    1915–2001 · aged 86

    April 21 · 1915

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  9. Eli Wallach

    producer, film producer

    1915–2014 · aged 98

    December 7 · 1915

    Source: Discogs

  10. Alan Watts

    videographer, theologian

    1915–1973 · aged 58

    January 6 · 1915

    Source: SNAC

  11. Israel Epstein

    politician, journalist

    1915–2005 · aged 90

    April 20 · 1915

    Source: BnF authorities

  12. Paddy Mayne

    rugby union player, military personnel

    1915–1955 · aged 40

    January 11 · 1915

    No external source identified

  13. David Stirling

    mountaineer, military officer

    1915–1990 · aged 74

    November 15 · 1915

    Source: The Peerage

  14. David Rockefeller

    financier, commissioned armed forces officers

    1915–2017 · aged 101

    June 12 · 1915

    Source: nytimes.com

  15. Paul Castellano*

    godfather, criminal

    Date disputed

    June 26 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  16. Moshe Dayan

    minister, archaeologist

    1915–1981 · aged 66

    May 20 · 1915

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  17. Joachim Peiper

    military personnel

    1915–1976

    January 30 · 1915

    Source: SNAC

  18. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.

    aircraft pilot, military officer

    1915–1944 · aged 29

    July 25 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  19. Hu Yaobang

    politician

    1915–1989 · aged 73

    November 20 · 1915

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  20. Harry Morgan

    director, actor

    1915–2011 · aged 96

    April 10 · 1915

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  21. Lorne Greene

    singer, film actor

    1915–1987 · aged 72

    February 12 · 1915

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  22. Les Paul

    jazz guitarist, musician

    1915–2009

    June 9 · 1915

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  23. Stanley Matthews

    association football coach, association football player

    1915–2000 · aged 85

    February 1 · 1915

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  24. Sargent Shriver

    jurist, military officer

    1915–2011 · aged 95

    November 9 · 1915

    Source: Discogs

  25. Saul Bellow*

    anthropologist, author

    Date disputed

    June 10 · 1915

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  26. Vasily Zaytsev

    autobiographer, sniper

    1915–1991 · aged 76

    March 23 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  27. Paul Tibbets

    aircraft pilot, military officer

    1915–2007 · aged 92

    February 23 · 1915

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  28. Thomas Merton*

    poet, autobiographer

    Date disputed

    January 31 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  29. Isaac Shamir

    politician, diplomat

    1915–2012 · aged 96

    October 22 · 1915

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  30. Barbara Billingsley

    film actor, stage actor

    1915–2010 · aged 94

    December 22 · 1915

    Source: GeneaStar

  31. Roland Barthes

    writer, mythographer

    1915–1980 · aged 64

    November 12 · 1915

    Source: AlKindi

  32. Sister Rosetta Tharpe

    guitarist, gospel singer

    1915–1973 · aged 58

    March 20 · 1915

    Source: BnF authorities

  33. Zero Mostel

    stage actor, voice actor

    1915–1977 · aged 62

    February 28 · 1915

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  34. Princess Alexandrine of Prussia

    philanthropist

    1915–1980 · aged 65

    April 7 · 1915

    Source: The Peerage

  35. William Hopper

    actor, stage actor

    1915–1970 · aged 55

    January 26 · 1915

    Source: GeneaStar

  36. Ann Sheridan

    television actor, actor

    1915–1967 · aged 51

    February 21 · 1915

    Source: Discogs

  37. Barbara Cushing

    journalist, editing staff

    1915–1978 · aged 63

    July 5 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  38. Denis Thatcher

    businessperson, entrepreneur

    1915–2003 · aged 88

    May 10 · 1915

    Source: SNAC

  39. Edmond O'Brien

    director, film director

    1915–1985 · aged 69

    September 10 · 1915

    Source: BnF authorities

  40. Bob Kane

    writer, penciller

    1915–1998 · aged 83

    October 24 · 1915

    Source: Babelio

  41. Aung San

    politician, national hero

    1915–1947 · aged 32

    February 13 · 1915

    Source: SNAC

  42. Eddie Bracken

    voice actor, comedian

    1915–2002 · aged 87

    February 7 · 1915

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  43. John Profumo

    politician

    1915–2006 · aged 91

    January 30 · 1915

    Source: The Peerage

  44. Magda Gabor

    socialite, television actor

    1915–1997 · aged 81

    June 11 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  45. Gretl Braun

    homemaker, secretary

    1915–1987 · aged 72

    August 31 · 1915

    Source: BnF authorities

  46. Khushwant Singh

    lawyer, poet lawyer

    1915–2014 · aged 99

    February 2 · 1915

    Source: IMDb

  47. Stu Hart

    professional wrestling promoter, professional wrestler

    1915–2003 · aged 88

    May 3 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  48. Fernando Lamas

    television director, television actor

    1915–1982 · aged 67

    January 9 · 1915

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  49. Paul Samuelson

    university teacher, writer

    1915–2009 · aged 94

    May 15 · 1915

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  50. Ewan MacColl

    musician, composer

    1915–1989 · aged 74

    January 25 · 1915

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  51. John Randolph

    film actor, stage actor

    1915–2004 · aged 88

    June 1 · 1915

    Source: Discogs

  52. Norman Wisdom

    singer, actor

    1915–2010 · aged 95

    February 4 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  53. Gary Merrill

    voice actor, actor

    1915–1990 · aged 74

    August 2 · 1915

    Source: Discogs

  54. Curd Jürgens

    bass singer, film director

    1915–1982 · aged 66

    December 13 · 1915

    Source: Salzburgwiki

  55. M. F. Husain

    photographer, screenwriter

    1915–2011 · aged 95

    September 17 · 1915

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  56. John C. Lilly

    psychotherapist, cetologist

    1915–2001 · aged 86

    January 6 · 1915

    Source: BnF authorities

  57. Khadijeh Saqafi*

    revolutionary

    Date disputed

    1915

    No external source identified

  58. Joy Davidman

    film critic, writer

    1915–1960 · aged 45

    April 18 · 1915

    Source: SNAC

  59. Jeong Ju-yung

    autobiographer, entrepreneur

    1915–2001 · aged 85

    November 25 · 1915

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  60. Shoichi Yokoi

    critic, military personnel

    1915–1997 · aged 82

    March 31 · 1915

    No external source identified

  61. Barnard Hughes

    actor, stage actor

    1915–2006 · aged 90

    July 16 · 1915

    Source: filmportal.de

  62. Robert Monroe

    businessperson, writer

    1915–1995 · aged 79

    October 30 · 1915

    Source: SNAC

  63. Arthur Lowe

    stage actor, actor

    1915–1982 · aged 66

    September 22 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  64. Walter Stanley Keane

    con artist

    1915–2000 · aged 85

    October 7 · 1915

    Source: SNAC

  65. Alice Faye

    stage actor, voice actor

    1915–1998 · aged 83

    May 5 · 1915

    Source: Roglo

  66. Fred Hoyle

    writer, physicist

    1915–2001 · aged 86

    June 24 · 1915

    Source: Vegetti Catalog of Fantastic Literature

  67. Herman Wouk

    screenwriter, diarist

    1915–2019 · aged 103

    May 27 · 1915

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  68. Willie Dixon

    record producer, blues musician

    1915–1992 · aged 76

    July 1 · 1915

    Source: SNAC

  69. Pat Buttram

    dub actor, television actor

    1915–1994 · aged 78

    June 19 · 1915

    Source: GeneaStar

  70. Bill Williams

    actor, television actor

    1915–1992

    May 15 · 1915

    No external source identified

  71. John Dehner

    actor, pianist

    1915–1992 · aged 76

    November 23 · 1915

    Source: SNAC

  72. B. J. Vorster

    minister, politician

    1915–1983 · aged 67

    December 13 · 1915

    Source: Discogs

  73. Terence Young

    military personnel, film director

    1915–1994 · aged 79

    June 20 · 1915

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  74. Alan Lomax

    journalist, music historian

    1915–2002 · aged 87

    January 31 · 1915

    Source: loc.gov

  75. Dorothy Bridges

    poet, stage actor

    1915–2009 · aged 93

    September 19 · 1915

    Source: IMDb

  76. Brenda Marshall

    actor, film actor

    1915–1992 · aged 76

    September 29 · 1915

    Source: SNAC

  77. A. K. Hangal

    television actor, film actor

    1915–2012 · aged 97

    August 15 · 1915

    No external source identified

  78. Takahito, Prince Mikasa

    archaeologist, military personnel

    1915–2016 · aged 100

    December 2 · 1915

    Source: La France savante

  79. Tikka Khan

    military personnel

    1915–2002 · aged 86

    July 7 · 1915

    No external source identified

  80. Ran Laurie*

    physician, rower

    Date disputed

    May 4 · 1915

    Source: World Rowing athlete database

  81. Joe Arridy

    1915–1939 · aged 23

    April 15 · 1915

    No external source identified

  82. Simon Oakland

    film actor, television actor

    1915–1983 · aged 68

    August 28 · 1915

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  83. Billy Strayhorn

    jazz musician, bandleader

    1915–1967 · aged 51

    November 29 · 1915

    Source: BnF authorities

  84. William Talman

    television actor, film actor

    1915–1968 · aged 53

    February 4 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  85. Red Adair

    businessperson, engineer

    1915–2004

    June 18 · 1915

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  86. Patrick Leigh Fermor

    military personnel, writer

    1915–2011 · aged 96

    February 11 · 1915

    Source: BnF authorities

  87. Peter Butterworth

    stage actor, film actor

    1915–1979

    February 4 · 1915

    Source: BnF authorities

  88. Nanabhai Bhatt

    film director, film producer

    1915–1999 · aged 83

    June 12 · 1915

    No external source identified

  89. Ghulam Ishaq Khan

    botanist, financier

    1915–2006 · aged 91

    January 20 · 1915

    No external source identified

  90. Sviatoslav Richter

    painter, composer

    1915–1997 · aged 82

    March 20 · 1915

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  91. Derek Prince

    philosopher, theologian

    1915–2003 · aged 88

    August 14 · 1915

    Source: BnF authorities

  92. Chetan Anand*

    film producer, screenwriter

    Date disputed

    January 3 · 1915

    Source: Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze

  93. Mildred Burke

    professional wrestler, actor

    1915–1989 · aged 73

    August 5 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  94. Lester Maddox

    politician, restaurateur

    1915–2003 · aged 87

    September 30 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  95. Victor Sen Yung

    film actor, television actor

    1915–1980

    October 18 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  96. Gorgeous George

    professional wrestler, actor

    1915–1963 · aged 48

    March 24 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  97. Leigh Brackett

    screenwriter, writer

    1915–1978

    December 7 · 1915

    Source: SNAC

  98. Peter Medawar

    physician, immunologist

    1915–1987 · aged 72

    February 28 · 1915

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  99. Priscilla Lane

    film actor, actor

    1915–1995 · aged 79

    June 12 · 1915

    Source: Discogs

  100. Dan Dailey*

    film actor, dancer

    Date disputed

    December 14 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  101. Ismat Chughtai*

    screenwriter, film director

    Date disputed

    August 15 · 1915

    Source: urdustudies.com

  102. Abba Eban

    politician, writer

    1915–2002 · aged 87

    February 2 · 1915

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  103. Helmut Schön

    association football coach, association football player

    1915–1996 · aged 80

    September 15 · 1915

    Source: Discogs

  104. Franz Josef Strauß

    politician

    1915–1988 · aged 73

    September 6 · 1915

    Source: Discogs

  105. Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi

    military personnel

    1915–2004

    1915

    No external source identified

  106. Jerome Bruner

    psychologist, university teacher

    1915–2016 · aged 100

    October 1 · 1915

    Source: SNAC

  107. Frank Cady

    television actor, actor

    1915–2012 · aged 96

    September 8 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  108. Potter Stewart

    politician, judge

    1915–1985 · aged 70

    January 23 · 1915

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  109. Ross Macdonald

    architect, writer

    1915–1983 · aged 67

    December 13 · 1915

    Source: NooSFere

  110. Prince Georg Wilhelm of Hanover

    diplomat

    1915–2006 · aged 90

    March 25 · 1915

    Source: The Peerage

  111. Dennis Price

    television actor, film actor

    1915–1973 · aged 58

    June 23 · 1915

    Source: filmportal.de

  112. Don Budge

    tennis player

    1915–2000 · aged 84

    June 13 · 1915

    Source: Association of Tennis Professionals website

  113. David Dellinger

    pacifist, peace activist

    1915–2004 · aged 88

    August 22 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  114. Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington

    businessperson, entrepreneur

    1915–2014 · aged 99

    July 2 · 1915

    Source: The Peerage

  115. Dorothy Fay

    actor, film actor

    1915–2003 · aged 88

    April 4 · 1915

    Source: GeneaStar

  116. Jeevan

    actor

    1915–1987 · aged 71

    October 24 · 1915

    No external source identified

  117. Albert O. Hirschman

    university teacher, writer

    1915–2012 · aged 97

    April 7 · 1915

    Source: Babelio

  118. Ben Wright

    television actor, actor

    1915–1989 · aged 74

    May 5 · 1915

    Source: Discogs

  119. Harry Saltzman

    producer, film producer

    1915–1994 · aged 78

    October 27 · 1915

    Source: SNAC

  120. Bhisham Sahni

    children's writer, playwright

    1915–2003 · aged 87

    August 8 · 1915

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  121. Hanns Martin Schleyer

    politician, military officer

    1915–1977 · aged 62

    May 1 · 1915

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  122. John Tukey

    computer scientist, statistician

    1915–2000 · aged 85

    June 16 · 1915

    Source: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

  123. Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este

    banker

    1915–1996 · aged 80

    February 8 · 1915

    Source: The Peerage

  124. D. Devaraj Urs

    politician

    1915–1982 · aged 66

    August 20 · 1915

    No external source identified

  125. Isabel Crook

    ethnologist, social anthropologist

    1915–2023 · aged 107

    December 15 · 1915

    Source: VIAF ID

  126. Richard Hamming

    engineer, computer scientist

    1915–1998 · aged 82

    February 11 · 1915

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  127. Marie-Louise von Franz

    psychiatrist, psychologist

    1915–1998 · aged 83

    January 4 · 1915

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  128. Elizabeth Catlett

    printmaker, art educator

    1915–2012 · aged 96

    April 15 · 1915

    Source: philamuseum.libguides.com

  129. Wee Kim Wee

    sports executive, politician

    1915–2005 · aged 89

    November 4 · 1915

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  130. John Archer*

    television actor, stage actor

    Date disputed

    May 8 · 1915

    Source: IMDb

  131. Germán Valdés

    actor, singer

    1915–1973 · aged 57

    September 19 · 1915

    Source: BnF authorities

  132. Alice Bradley Sheldon*

    writer, spy

    Date disputed

    August 24 · 1915

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  133. Buddy Baer

    television actor, boxer

    1915–1986 · aged 71

    June 11 · 1915

    Source: BnF authorities

  134. S. Rajaratnam

    writer, journalist

    1915–2006 · aged 90

    February 25 · 1915

    Source: SNAC

  135. Claudia Jones

    communist, political activist

    1915–1964

    February 15 · 1915

    Source: britannica.com

  136. Charles Hard Townes

    physicist, nuclear physicist

    1915–2015 · aged 99

    July 28 · 1915

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  137. Robert A. Dahl

    sociologist, political scientist

    1915–2014 · aged 98

    December 17 · 1915

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  138. William H. Masters

    physician, author

    1915–2001 · aged 85

    December 27 · 1915

    Source: BnF authorities

  139. Rajinder Singh Bedi

    playwright, screenwriter

    1915–1984 · aged 69

    September 1 · 1915

    Source: BnF authorities

  140. Jean Parker*

    actor, stage actor

    Date disputed

    August 11 · 1915

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  141. Arthur Lewis

    university teacher, researcher

    1915–1991 · aged 76

    January 23 · 1915

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  142. Stanley Adams

    actor, stage actor

    1915–1977 · aged 62

    April 7 · 1915

    Source: SNAC

  143. Barbara Pepper

    film actor, television actor

    1915–1969 · aged 54

    May 31 · 1915

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  144. Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland

    model

    1915–2013 · aged 97

    August 30 · 1915

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  145. Garry Moore

    radio personality, comedian

    1915–1993 · aged 78

    January 31 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  146. Queen Geraldine of Albania

    consort

    1915–2002 · aged 87

    August 6 · 1915

    Source: The Peerage

  147. J. C. R. Licklider

    scientist, university teacher

    1915–1990 · aged 75

    March 11 · 1915

    Source: nasonline.org

  148. Vijay Hazare

    cricketer

    1915–2004 · aged 89

    March 11 · 1915

    No external source identified

  149. Marais Viljoen

    politician, minister

    1915–2007 · aged 91

    December 2 · 1915

    Source: Find a Grave

  150. Sławomir Rawicz

    writer, architect

    1915–2004 · aged 88

    September 1 · 1915

    Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

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