What happened on March 15 ?

1455 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1532)

1591 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1660)

1638 - Shunzhi Emperor of China

1666 - George Bähr, German architect (d. 1738)

1684 - Francesco Durante, Italian composer (d. 1755)

1713 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762)

1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845)

1779 - Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (d. 1848)

1813 - John Snow, English physician (d. 1858)

1830 - Paul Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)

1830 - ÿlisée Reclus, French geographer and anarchist (d. 1905)

1835 - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (d. 1916)

1854 - Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1917)

1865 - Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (d. 1935)

1882 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (d. 1953)

1890 - Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)

1897 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (d. 1986)

1905 - Berthold Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, German lawyer and Nazi opponent (d. 1944)

1907 - Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)

1912 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (d. 1982)

1913 - MacDonald Carey, American actor (d. 1994)

1913 - Lew Wasserman, American Hollywood agent and studio executive (d. 2002)

1914 - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (d. 1985)

1915 - Joe E. Ross, American actor and comedian (d. 1982)

1916 - Harry James, American musician and band leader (d. 1983)

1918 - Richard Ellmann, American biographer (d. 1987)

1919 - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (d. 2002)

1920 - Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998)

1920 - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1924 - Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997)

1926 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (d. 1983)

1927 - Stanis?aw Kania, Polish politician

1927 - Carl Smith, American singer

1930 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1932 - Alan Bean, American astronaut

1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

1934 - Aldo Giorgini, Italian artist

1935 - Judd Hirsch, American actor

1935 - Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist

1936 - Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (d. 1986)

1940 - Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead)

1941 - Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys)

1943 - David Cronenberg, Canadian film director

1944 - Sly Stone, American musician

1945 - Mark J. Green, American lawyer, author, and public official

1946 - Bobby Bonds, American baseball player (d. 2003)

1947 - Ry Cooder, American guitarist

1948 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)

1948 - Kate Bornstein (born Albert Bornstein), American transgender author and gender theorist

1950 - Jørgen Olsen, Danish singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner

1954 - Craig Wasson, American actor

1955 - Dee Snider, American singer

1956 - Clay Matthews, American football player

1957 - Park Overall, American actress

1957 - David Silverman, American animator (The Simpsons)

1959 - Harold Baines, American baseball player

1959 - Fabio Lanzoni, Italian model

1961 - Ervin Nemeth, Hungarian educator, author, and translator

1962 - Sananda Maitreya (formerly Terence Trent D'Arby), American-born singer

1963 - Bret Michaels, American musician (Poison)

1967 - Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist

1968 - Mark McGrath, American musician (Sugar Ray)

1968 - Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer

1971 - Penny Lancaster, English model and celebrity

1972 - Mark Hoppus, American musician ((+44), blink-182)

1974 - Robert Fick, American baseball player

1975 - Eva Longoria, American actress

1975 - Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player

1975 - Darcy Tucker, Canadian Hockey Player

1976 - Jennifer 8. Lee, American journalist

1977 - Joe Hahn, American musician (Linkin Park)

1978 - Sid Wilson, American musician (Slipknot)

1981 - Mikael Forssell, Finnish footballer

1982 - Emily Kennard, American actress

1983 - Sean Biggerstaff, Scottish actor

1985 - Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder

1989 - Caitlin Wachs, American actress

1992 - Sosie Bacon, American actress