August 15th All Events |
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| August 15th, 2007 (August 15 2007) | Event | An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090. | |
| August 15th, 2007 (August 15 2007) | Death | John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (born in 1918) | |
| August 15th, 2007 (August 15 2007) | Death | Geoffrey Orbell, New Zealand bush walker (born in 1908) | |
| August 15th, 2006 (August 15 2006) | Death | Te Atairangi Kaahu, Maori queen (born in 1931) | |
| August 15th, 2004 (August 15 2004) | Death | Semiha Berksoy, first Turkish opera singer (born in 1910) | |
| August 15th, 2004 (August 15 2004) | Death | Sune Bergstrom, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1916) | |
| August 15th, 2004 (August 15 2004) | Death | Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (born in 1941) | |
| August 15th, 2003 (August 15 2003) | Death | Gosta Sundqvist, Finnish songwriter and singer (heart attack) (born in 1957) | |
| August 15th, 2001 (August 15 2001) | Death | Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (born in 1972) | |
| August 15th, 1999 (August 15 1999) | Event | Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco. | |
| August 15th, 1999 (August 15 1999) | Death | Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and artist (born in 1910) | |
| August 15th, 1998 (August 15 1998) | Event | Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, becoming the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles | |
| August 15th, 1995 (August 15 1995) | Event | In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel, but drops out in less than a week. | |
| August 15th, 1995 (August 15 1995) | Death | John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (born in 1906) | |
| August 15th, 1990 (August 15 1990) | Death | Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician (born in 1962) | |
| August 15th, 1989 (August 15 1989) | Birth | Belinda, Mexican singer | |
| August 15th, 1989 (August 15 1989) | Birth | Tiffanie Anderson, American singer, dancer | |
| August 15th, 1989 (August 15 1989) | Birth | Joe Jonas, American singer | |
| August 15th, 1984 (August 15 1984) | Event | PKK, Kurdish people in Turkey gain arms and start a Guerrilla warfare campaign against the Turkish military | |
| August 15th, 1982 (August 15 1982) | Birth | Casey Burgener, American weightlifter | |
| August 15th, 1982 (August 15 1982) | Death | Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1903) | |
| August 15th, 1981 (August 15 1981) | Birth | Brendan Hansen, American swimmer | |
| August 15th, 1981 (August 15 1981) | Birth | Oliver Perez, American baseball player | |
| August 15th, 1981 (August 15 1981) | Birth | Song Ji-hyo, South Korean actress | |
| August 15th, 1980 (August 15 1980) | Birth | Nathalie Press, English actress | |
| August 15th, 1979 (August 15 1979) | Birth | Carl Edwards, American NASCAR driver | |
| August 15th, 1978 (August 15 1978) | Birth | Tim Foreman, American bassist (Switchfoot) | |
| August 15th, 1978 (August 15 1978) | Birth | Lilia Podkopayeva, Ukrainian gymnast | |
| August 15th, 1978 (August 15 1978) | Birth | Stavros Tziortziopoulos, Greek footballer | |
| August 15th, 1977 (August 15 1977) | Event | The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" for notation made by a volunteer on the project. | |
| August 15th, 1977 (August 15 1977) | Birth | Nicole Paggi, American actress | |
| August 15th, 1977 (August 15 1977) | Birth | Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast | |
| August 15th, 1977 (August 15 1977) | Birth | Martin Biron, Canadian ice hockey goaltender | |
| August 15th, 1976 (August 15 1976) | Birth | Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch football player | |
| August 15th, 1975 (August 15 1975) | Event | Military coup in Bangladesh. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman killed along with all family members, except Haseena Wajid. | |
| August 15th, 1975 (August 15 1975) | Event | Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by a sitting prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II. | |
| August 15th, 1975 (August 15 1975) | Birth | Kara Wolters, American basketball player | |
| August 15th, 1975 (August 15 1975) | Birth | Bertrand Berry, American football player | |
| August 15th, 1975 (August 15 1975) | Birth | Brendan Morrison, Canadian hockey player | |
| August 15th, 1975 (August 15 1975) | Death | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (born in 1920) | |
| August 15th, 1975 (August 15 1975) | Death | Clay Shaw, alleged John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracist & businessman (born in 1913) | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| August 15th, 1974 (August 15 1974) | Event | Seoul Subway Line 1 opened, between Seoul Station and Cheongnyangni Station | |
| August 15th, 1974 (August 15 1974) | Event | Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea is killed amid an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, during the anniversarial ceremony of the Liberation day. | |
| August 15th, 1974 (August 15 1974) | Event | Turkish invasion of Cyprus continues, and the 37% of the island is now under Turkish control. | |
| August 15th, 1974 (August 15 1974) | Birth | Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress | |
| August 15th, 1973 (August 15 1973) | Event | Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends. | |
| August 15th, 1972 (August 15 1972) | Birth | Ben Affleck, American actor | Ben Affleck Quotes |
| August 15th, 1972 (August 15 1972) | Birth | Chris Morrissey, American film director/actor | Morrissey Quotes |
| August 15th, 1971 (August 15 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. | |
| August 15th, 1971 (August 15 1971) | Death | Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (born in 1887) | |
| August 15th, 1970 (August 15 1970) | Birth | Anthony Anderson, American comedian and actor | |
| August 15th, 1970 (August 15 1970) | Birth | Maddie Corman, American actress | |
| August 15th, 1970 (August 15 1970) | Birth | Ben Silverman, American TV executive | |
| August 15th, 1969 (August 15 1969) | Event | The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens. | |
| August 15th, 1969 (August 15 1969) | Birth | Kevin Cheng, Hong Kong actor and singer | |
| August 15th, 1968 (August 15 1968) | Birth | Debra Messing, American actress | |
| August 15th, 1967 (August 15 1967) | Birth | Peter Hermann American actor | |
| August 15th, 1967 (August 15 1967) | Death | Rene Magritte, Belgian painter (born in 1898) | |
| August 15th, 1966 (August 15 1966) | Birth | Scott Brosius, American baseball player | |
| August 15th, 1966 (August 15 1966) | Birth | Shirley Kwan, Hong Kong singer | |
| August 15th, 1965 (August 15 1965) | Event | The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, marking the birth of stadium rock. | |
| August 15th, 1965 (August 15 1965) | Birth | Rob Thomas, American writer | |
| August 15th, 1964 (August 15 1964) | Birth | Melinda French Gates, American wife of Bill Gates | Bill Gates Quotes |
| August 15th, 1964 (August 15 1964) | Birth | Debi Mazar, American actress | |
| August 15th, 1963 (August 15 1963) | Birth | Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Mexican film director | |
| August 15th, 1962 (August 15 1962) | Event | James Joseph Dresnok defected to the Democratic People s Republic of Korea, running across the Korean DMZ. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang. | |
| August 15th, 1962 (August 15 1962) | Birth | Tom Colicchio, American chef | |
| August 15th, 1962 (August 15 1962) | Death | Lei Feng, Chinese revolutionary (born in 1940) | |
| August 15th, 1961 (August 15 1961) | Event | Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall. | |
| August 15th, 1961 (August 15 1961) | Event | Keiyo Road is specified to be the first driveway in Japan. | |
| August 15th, 1961 (August 15 1961) | Birth | Ed Gillespie, American White House counsel to George W. Bush | George W. Bush Quotes |
| August 15th, 1960 (August 15 1960) | Event | Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) declares its independence from France. | |
| August 15th, 1959 (August 15 1959) | Death | Blind Willie McTell, American singer (born in 1901) | |
| August 15th, 1958 (August 15 1958) | Birth | Victor Shenderovich, Russian satirist | |
| August 15th, 1958 (August 15 1958) | Birth | Craig MacTavish, Canadian ice hockey player/coach | |
| August 15th, 1958 (August 15 1958) | Birth | Rondell Sheridan, American actor and comedian | |
| August 15th, 1957 (August 15 1957) | Birth | Zeljko Ivanek, Slovenian-American actor | |
| August 15th, 1956 (August 15 1956) | Birth | Lorraine Desmarais, French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer | |
| August 15th, 1954 (August 15 1954) | Birth | Mary Jo Salter, American poet | |
| August 15th, 1953 (August 15 1953) | Death | Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (born in 1875) | |
| August 15th, 1952 (August 15 1952) | Event | Devon, United Kingdom A flashflood drenches the town of Lynmouth, killing 34 people. | Devo Quotes |
| August 15th, 1951 (August 15 1951) | Birth | Daba Diawara, Malian politician | |
| August 15th, 1951 (August 15 1951) | Birth | Bobby Caldwell, American singer and musician | |
| August 15th, 1951 (August 15 1951) | Birth | Ann Biderman, American film and television writer | |
| August 15th, 1951 (August 15 1951) | Death | Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (born in 1882) | Artur Schnabel Quotes |
| August 15th, 1950 (August 15 1950) | Event | Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India. | |
| August 15th, 1950 (August 15 1950) | Birth | Tommy Aldridge, American musician | |
| August 15th, 1950 (August 15 1950) | Birth | The Princess Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom | Princess Royal of the United Kingdom Anne Quotes |
| August 15th, 1950 (August 15 1950) | Birth | Tom Kelly, American baseball manager | |
| August 15th, 1949 (August 15 1949) | Birth | Richard Deacon, Welsh sculptor | |
| August 15th, 1948 (August 15 1948) | Event | The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north. | |
| August 15th, 1948 (August 15 1948) | Birth | Uschi Digard, American pornographic actress and model | |
| August 15th, 1948 (August 15 1948) | Birth | Patsy Gallant, Canadian pop singer | |
| August 15th, 1948 (August 15 1948) | Birth | George Ryton, British engineer | |
| August 15th, 1947 (August 15 1947) | Event | India gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth , Jawaharlal Nehru addresses the nation with the Indian Declaration of Independence and takes office as the first Prime Minister of India. | |
| August 15th, 1947 (August 15 1947) | Event | Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan at Karachi. | Muhammad Ali Quotes |
| August 15th, 1947 (August 15 1947) | Birth | Raakhee Gulzar, Indian actress | |
| August 15th, 1947 (August 15 1947) | Birth | Jenny Hanley, British TV presenter | |
| August 15th, 1946 (August 15 1946) | Birth | Tony Robinson, English actor and television presenter | |
| August 15th, 1946 (August 15 1946) | Birth | Jimmy Webb, American musician and composer | |
| August 15th, 1945 (August 15 1945) | Event | World War II: Victory over Japan DayJapan surrenders. | |
| August 15th, 1945 (August 15 1945) | Event | World War II: Korean Liberation Day. | |
| August 15th, 1945 (August 15 1945) | Birth | Begum Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician | |
| August 15th, 1945 (August 15 1945) | Birth | Gene Upshaw, American NFL executive | |
| August 15th, 1945 (August 15 1945) | Death | Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (born in 1887) | |
| August 15th, 1944 (August 15 1944) | Event | World War II: Operation DragoonAllied forces land in southern France. | |
| August 15th, 1944 (August 15 1944) | Birth | Linda Ellerbee, American journalist | |
| August 15th, 1944 (August 15 1944) | Birth | Tom Murphy, American politician | |
| August 15th, 1944 (August 15 1944) | Birth | Dimitris Sioufas, Greek lawyer and politician | |
| August 15th, 1944 (August 15 1944) | Birth | Sylvie Vartan, Bulgarian pop singer | |
| August 15th, 1943 (August 15 1943) | Birth | Maria Rojo, Mexican actress and politician | |
| August 15th, 1942 (August 15 1942) | Event | World War II: Operation PedestalThe SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island defenses. | |
| August 15th, 1942 (August 15 1942) | Birth | Larry Hartsell, American martial arts instructor (died in 2007) | Martial Quotes |
| August 15th, 1940 (August 15 1940) | Birth | Gudrun Ensslin, German terrorist | |
| August 15th, 1940 (August 15 1940) | Birth | Rita Shane, American soprano | |
| August 15th, 1939 (August 15 1939) | Event | 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. No survivors. | |
| August 15th, 1938 (August 15 1938) | Birth | Maxine Waters, American politician | |
| August 15th, 1938 (August 15 1938) | Birth | Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer | |
| August 15th, 1936 (August 15 1936) | Death | Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1871) | |
| August 15th, 1935 (August 15 1935) | Event | Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska. | Will Rogers Quotes |
| August 15th, 1935 (August 15 1935) | Birth | Jim Dale, English actor | |
| August 15th, 1935 (August 15 1935) | Birth | Vernon Jordan Jr., American presidential advisor | |
| August 15th, 1935 (August 15 1935) | Birth | Lionel Taylor, American football player | |
| August 15th, 1935 (August 15 1935) | Death | Wiley Post, American pilot (airplane crash) (born in 1898) | |
| August 15th, 1935 (August 15 1935) | Death | Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (airplane crash) (born in 1879) | Will Rogers Quotes |
| August 15th, 1934 (August 15 1934) | Birth | Bobby Byrd, American soul/funk singer (died in 2007) | |
| August 15th, 1934 (August 15 1934) | Birth | Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer (died in 1998) | |
| August 15th, 1933 (August 15 1933) | Birth | Bobby Helms, American pop singer (died in 1997) | |
| August 15th, 1933 (August 15 1933) | Birth | Jim Lange, American game show host | |
| August 15th, 1930 (August 15 1930) | Birth | Ageeda Paavel, Estonian freedom fighter | |
| August 15th, 1928 (August 15 1928) | Birth | Nicolas Roeg, English film director | |
| August 15th, 1926 (August 15 1926) | Birth | Costis Stephanopoulos, Greek politician | |
| August 15th, 1925 (August 15 1925) | Birth | Mike Connors, American actor | |
| August 15th, 1925 (August 15 1925) | Birth | Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (died in 2007) | |
| August 15th, 1925 (August 15 1925) | Birth | Bill Pinkney, baritone singer (died in 2007) | |
| August 15th, 1925 (August 15 1925) | Death | Konrad Magi, Estonian artist (born in 1878) | |
| August 15th, 1924 (August 15 1924) | Birth | Robert Bolt, English playwright and screenwriter (died in 1995) | |
| August 15th, 1923 (August 15 1923) | Birth | Rose Marie, American actress | |
| August 15th, 1922 (August 15 1922) | Birth | Lukas Foss, German-born composer | |
| August 15th, 1920 (August 15 1920) | Event | Polish-Soviet War: Battle of WarsawPoles defeat the Red Army. | |
| August 15th, 1919 (August 15 1919) | Birth | Huntz Hall, American actor (died in 1999) | |
| August 15th, 1919 (August 15 1919) | Birth | Benedict Kiely, Irish author | |
| August 15th, 1917 (August 15 1917) | Birth | Jack Lynch, fourth Taoiseach (died in 1999) | |
| August 15th, 1917 (August 15 1917) | Birth | Oscar Romero, El Salvador Roman catholic priest (died in 1980) | |
| August 15th, 1917 (August 15 1917) | Death | Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (born in 1831) | |
| August 15th, 1916 (August 15 1916) | Birth | Aleks Caci, Albanian writer | |
| August 15th, 1914 (August 15 1914) | Event | A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright set fire to the living quarters of the architect s Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murdered seven people, and burned the living quarters to the groundied in It is unknown if the servant was arrested or not. | Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes |
| August 15th, 1914 (August 15 1914) | Event | The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship Ancon. | |
| August 15th, 1914 (August 15 1914) | Birth | Paul Rand, American graphic designer (died in 1996) | |
| August 15th, 1912 (August 15 1912) | Birth | Julia Child, American cook (died in 2004) | Julia Child Quotes |
| August 15th, 1912 (August 15 1912) | Birth | Dame Wendy Hiller, English actress (died in 2003) | |
| August 15th, 1910 (August 15 1910) | Birth | Signe Hasso, Swedish actress (died in 2002) | |
| August 15th, 1909 (August 15 1909) | Birth | Hugo Winterhalter, American composer and bandleader (died in 1973) | |
| August 15th, 1909 (August 15 1909) | Death | Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (born in 1866) | |
| August 15th, 1907 (August 15 1907) | Death | Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (born in 1831) | |
| August 15th, 1901 (August 15 1901) | Birth | Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (died in 1975) | |
| August 15th, 1898 (August 15 1898) | Birth | Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (died in 1966) | |
| August 15th, 1896 (August 15 1896) | Birth | Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (died in 1957) | |
| August 15th, 1896 (August 15 1896) | Birth | Catherine Doherty, Russian-born Canadian activist (died in 1985) | |
| August 15th, 1896 (August 15 1896) | Birth | Paul Outerbridge, American photographer (died in 1958) | |
| August 15th, 1896 (August 15 1896) | Birth | Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (died in 1993) | |
| August 15th, 1893 (August 15 1893) | Birth | Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (died in 1950) | |
| August 15th, 1892 (August 15 1892) | Birth | Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (died in 1987) | |
| August 15th, 1891 (August 15 1891) | Event | San Sebastian Church in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed. | |
| August 15th, 1890 (August 15 1890) | Birth | Elizabeth Bolden, American Supercentenarian (died in 2006) | |
| August 15th, 1890 (August 15 1890) | Birth | Jacques Ibert, French composer (died in 1962) | |
| August 15th, 1885 (August 15 1885) | Birth | Edna Ferber, American novelist (died in 1968) | |
| August 15th, 1883 (August 15 1883) | Birth | Ivan Mestrovic, Croatian sculptor (died in 1962) | |
| August 15th, 1881 (August 15 1881) | Birth | Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (died in 1956) | |
| August 15th, 1880 (August 15 1880) | Death | Adelaide Neilson, English Actress (born in 1848) | |
| August 15th, 1879 (August 15 1879) | Birth | Ethel Barrymore, American actress (died in 1959) | |
| August 15th, 1878 (August 15 1878) | Birth | Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (died in 1928) | |
| August 15th, 1875 (August 15 1875) | Birth | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer (died in 1912) | |
| August 15th, 1872 (August 15 1872) | Birth | Sri Aurobindo, Indian writer and philosopher (died in 1950) | Philo Quotes |
| August 15th, 1869 (August 15 1869) | Event | Meiji government establishes six ministries below Pardication (ja:???) in the bottom of Cabinet, officer-of-Shinto-Worship, and jurisdiction of Cabinet. | |
| August 15th, 1865 (August 15 1865) | Birth | Usui Mikao, founder of Reiki (died in 1926) | |
| August 15th, 1863 (August 15 1863) | Event | The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863). | |
| August 15th, 1863 (August 15 1863) | Birth | Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (died in 1945) | |
| August 15th, 1860 (August 15 1860) | Birth | Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist (died in 1941) | |
| August 15th, 1860 (August 15 1860) | Birth | Florence Harding, American First Lady (died in 1924) | |
| August 15th, 1859 (August 15 1859) | Birth | Charles Comiskey, American baseball owner (died in 1931) | |
| August 15th, 1858 (August 15 1858) | Birth | E. Nesbit, English author (died in 1924) | |
| August 15th, 1857 (August 15 1857) | Birth | Albert Ballin, German shipping tycoon (died in 1918) | |
| August 15th, 1856 (August 15 1856) | Birth | Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (died in 1916) | |
| August 15th, 1852 (August 15 1852) | Death | Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (born in 1760) | |
| August 15th, 1844 (August 15 1844) | Birth | Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist and politician (died in 1908) | |
| August 15th, 1843 (August 15 1843) | Event | The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicatedied in Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States. | |
| August 15th, 1843 (August 15 1843) | Event | Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark. | |
| August 15th, 1824 (August 15 1824) | Event | Freed American slaves form Liberia. | |
| August 15th, 1813 (August 15 1813) | Birth | Jules Grevy, 2nd President of the French Third Republic (died in 1891) | |
| August 15th, 1799 (August 15 1799) | Death | Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (born in 1729) | |
| August 15th, 1785 (August 15 1785) | Birth | Thomas De Quincey, English author (died in 1859) | Thomas De Quincey Quotes |
| August 15th, 1771 (August 15 1771) | Birth | Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (died in 1832) | |
| August 15th, 1769 (August 15 1769) | Birth | Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French (died in 1821) | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| August 15th, 1760 (August 15 1760) | Event | Seven Years War: Battle of LiegnitzFrederick the Great s victory over the Austrians under Ernst von Laudon. | |
| August 15th, 1758 (August 15 1758) | Death | Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (born in 1698) | |
| August 15th, 1740 (August 15 1740) | Birth | Matthias Claudius, German poet (died in 1815) | |
| August 15th, 1728 (August 15 1728) | Death | Marin Marais, French composer and viol player (born in 1656) | |
| August 15th, 1717 (August 15 1717) | Birth | Blind Jack, English roadbuilder (died in 1810) | |
| August 15th, 1714 (August 15 1714) | Death | Constantin Brancoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (born in 1654) | |
| August 15th, 1666 (August 15 1666) | Death | Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary (born in 1591) | |
| August 15th, 1621 (August 15 1621) | Death | John Barclay, Scottish writer (born in 1582) | John Scott Quotes |
| August 15th, 1613 (August 15 1613) | Birth | Gilles Menage, French scholar (died in 1692) | |
| August 15th, 1599 (August 15 1599) | Event | Nine Years War: Battle of Curlew PassIrish forces led by Hugh Roe O Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, were sent to relieve Collooney Castle. | |
| August 15th, 1575 (August 15 1575) | Birth | Bartol Kasic, Croatian writer and linguist (died in 1650) | |
| August 15th, 1552 (August 15 1552) | Death | Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (born in 1477) | |
| August 15th, 1549 (August 15 1549) | Event | Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549). | |
| August 15th, 1540 (August 15 1540) | Event | Arequipa, Peru, is founded. | |
| August 15th, 1537 (August 15 1537) | Event | Asuncion, Paraguay, is founded. | |
| August 15th, 1534 (August 15 1534) | Event | Saint Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates took initial vows that would lead to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September of 1540. | Ignatius of Loyola Quotes |
| August 15th, 1528 (August 15 1528) | Death | Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (born in 1485) | |
| August 15th, 1519 (August 15 1519) | Event | Panama City, Panama, is founded. | |
| August 15th, 1517 (August 15 1517) | Event | Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernao Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary. | |
| August 15th, 1461 (August 15 1461) | Event | The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmet II. This is the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered. | |
| August 15th, 1432 (August 15 1432) | Birth | Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (died in 1484) | |
| August 15th, 1369 (August 15 1369) | Death | Philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of Edward III of England | |
| August 15th, 1309 (August 15 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 as the Knights of Rhodes. | |
| August 15th, 1274 (August 15 1274) | Death | Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (born in 1201) | |
| August 15th, 1261 (August 15 1261) | Event | Michael VIII Palaeologus is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople. | |
| August 15th, 1248 (August 15 1248) | Event | The foundation stone of the Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, was laidied in Construction eventually completed in 1880. | |
| August 15th, 1196 (August 15 1196) | Death | Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (born in 1173) | |
| August 15th, 1195 (August 15 1195) | Birth | Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (died in 1231) | |
| August 15th, 1185 (August 15 1185) | Event | The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia. | |
| August 15th, 1171 (August 15 1171) | Birth | King Alfonso IX of Leon (died in 1230) | |
| August 15th, 1118 (August 15 1118) | Death | Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (born in 1048) | |
| August 15th, 1057 (August 15 1057) | Event | King Mac Bethad is killed in the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Mael Coluim mac Donnchada. | |
| August 15th, 1057 (August 15 1057) | Death | King Macbeth of Scotland | |
| August 15th, 1040 (August 15 1040) | Event | King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland. | |
| August 15th, 1040 (August 15 1040) | Death | King Duncan I of Scotland | |
| August 15th, 1038 (August 15 1038) | Death | King Stephen I of Hungary | Stephen King Quotes |
| August 15th, 0927 (August 15 0927) | Event | The Saracens are conquered and destroyed Taranto. | |
| August 15th, 0778 (August 15 0778) | Event | The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, in which Roland is killed. | |
| August 15th, 0778 (August 15 0778) | Death | Roland, Frankish commander | |
| August 15th, 0423 (August 15 0423) | Death | Flavius Honorius, Western Roman Emperor (born in 384) | |
