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Famous people born on April 15
Short answer
Well-known people born on April 15 include Leonhard Euler (1707), Kim Il-sung (1912), Emma Watson (1990) and Émile Durkheim (1858). Our list below has 105 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives April 15 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1642 (Suleiman II) and the most recent is 2009 (Julia Butters). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.
Who was born on April 15?
- Leonhard Euler 1707 Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer
- Kim Il-sung 1912 Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994
- Emma Watson 1990 English actress
- Émile Durkheim 1858 French sociologist
- Alla Pugacheva 1949 Soviet-Russian singer, composer, and actress
- Tomas Tranströmer 1931 Swedish poet, psychologist and translator
- Henry James 1843 American and British writer
- Philippe of Belgium 1960 King of the Belgians since 2013
- Emma Thompson 1959 English actress and screenwriter
- Claudia Cardinale 1938 Italian actress
- Johannes Stark 1874 German physicist
- Richard von Weizsäcker 1920 President of Germany from 1984 to 1994
- Carol Greider 1961 American molecular biologist
- Vigdís Finnbogadóttir 1930 Icelandic politician, 4th President of Iceland
- Suleiman II 1642 20th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Beata Szydło 1963 Polish politician, former Prime Minister of Poland, member of European Parliament
- Wilhelm Busch 1832 German painter, poet and cartoonist
- Kunishige Kamamoto 1944 Japanese association football player and manager
- Robert Lefkowitz 1943 American physician and biochemist
- Nikolaas Tinbergen 1907 Dutch Zoologist, ethologist
- Maisie Williams 1997 British actress
- Seth Rogen 1982 Canadian actor, comedian, and filmmaker
- Seigō Narazaki 1976 Japanese association football player
- Bessie Smith 1894 American blues singer
- James Clark Ross 1800 British explorer and naval officer
- Luis Fonsi 1978 Puerto Rican singer
- Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve 1793 Baltic German astronomer
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1772 French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition"
- Luke Evans 1979 Welsh actor and singer
- Robert Walser 1878 Swiss writer
- Hwang Kyo-ahn 1957 Acting president of South Korea from 2016 to 2017
- Dudu Cearense 1983 Brazilian association football player
- Théodore Rousseau 1812 French painter
- Choei Sato 1951 Japanese association football player
- Thomas Szasz 1920 Hungarian psychiatrist
- Remo Freuler 1992 Swiss association football player
- Tom Heaton 1986 English association football player
- Hermann Grassmann 1809 German polymath, linguist and mathematician
- Arshile Gorky 1904 Armenian-American painter
- Nawal El Moutawakel 1962 Moroccan hurdler and IOC member
- Albert Riera 1982 Spanish association football player
- Michael Kamen 1948 American composer
- Michael Ansara 1922 American stage, screen, and voice actor
- Felipe Anderson 1993 Brazilian association football player
- Georgy Beregovoy 1921 Soviet cosmonaut
- John Guidetti 1992 Swedish association football player
- S. M. Bruce 1883 Australian politician, eighth Prime Minister of Australia
- Max Wertheimer 1880 Austro-Hungarian psychologist
- Leander Dendoncker 1995 Belgian association football player
- Susanne Bier 1960 Danish film director
- Miguel Najdorf 1910 Polish-Argentine chess player
- Carlo Ginzburg 1939 Italian historian
- Sōichi Noguchi 1965 Japanese astronaut
- Evelyn Ashford 1957 American sprinter
- Alice Braga 1983 Brazilian actress and producer (b. 1983)
- Ed O'Brien 1968 English guitarist and member of Radiohead
- Lita Grey 1908 American actress
- Thomas Hart Benton 1889 American painter
- Thomas F. Wilson 1959 American actor
- Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg 1771 Austrian field marshal
- Shaunae Miller 1994 Bahamian sprinter
- Steven Defour 1988 Belgian association football player
- Vano Merabishvili 1968 Prime Minister of Georgia July–October 2012
- Elizabeth Montgomery 1933 American actress
- Marsha Ivins 1951 American astronaut
- Neville Marriner 1924 British conductor and violinist
- Josiane Balasko 1950 French actress, film director, writer and screenwriter
- Corrado Alvaro 1895 Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays, and plays
- Joe Davis 1901 English snooker and billiards player
- Fränk Schleck 1980 Luxembourgish cyclist
- Finidi George 1971 Nigerian footballer and manager
- Dara Torres 1967 American swimmer
- Andrés D'Alessandro 1981 Argentine footballer
- René Pleven 1901 French politician
- Javier Fernández 1991 Spanish figure skater
- Amy Deasismont 1992 Swedish singer and actress
- Corrie ten Boom 1892 Dutch resistance hero and writer
- Raymond Poulidor 1936 French cyclist
- Edimilson Fernandes 1996 Swiss association football player
- Cody Christian 1995 American actor
- Julia Butters 2009 American actress
- Benjamin Zephaniah 1958 British poet
- Fernando Filoni 1946 Catholic cardinal
- Jaime Paz Zamora 1939 President of Bolivia from 1989 to 1993
- Talat Xhaferi 1962 Prime Minister of North Macedonia in 2024
- Lois Chiles 1947 American actress and model
- Linda Perry 1965 American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer
- Quincy Owusu-Abeyie 1986 Ghanaian footballer
- Mandira Bedi 1972 Indian actress
- Denis Shapovalov 1999 Israeli-born Canadian tennis player
- Ilya Kovalchuk 1983 Russian professional ice hockey player
- Pedro Delgado 1960 Spanish racing cyclist
- Teddy Lučić 1973 Swedish footballer
- Hugh Thompson Jr. 1943 United States Army officer
- Giorgi Latsabidze 1978 Georgian classical pianist
- Sergei Monia 1983 Russian basketball player
- Mikhail Korniyenko 1960 Russian cosmonaut
- William Cullen 1710 Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist
- Josep Maria Fusté 1941 Spanish footballer
- John L. Phillips 1951 American astronaut
- Chris Stapleton 1978 American country musician
- Tom Kane 1962 American voice actor
- Bruno Le Maire 1969 Diplomat and former Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs of France
- Hassan Ali Khayre 1968 Prime Minister of Somalia
- Raül López 1980 Spanish basketball player
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on April 15 share the 15th of April as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.