The 105th day of the year, the 106th in a leap year
Born on 15 April
Every 15 April birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aries, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AriesFire, cardinal, ruled by Mars.
- Birthstone
- DiamondThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Daisy, Sweet peaUsually taken today to mean innocence and blissful pleasure.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Wednesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 15 April in any year.
Which weekday 15 April falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 15 April falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.
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How common a birthday 15 April is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,770 babies were born on 15 April in each year of the twenty, making it the 313th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 15 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Leonardo da Vinci | 1452–1519 | Italian Renaissance polymath |
| Leonhard Euler | 1707–1783 | Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer |
| Nikita Khrushchev | 1894–1971 | leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 |
| Kim Il Sung | 1912–1994 | Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994 |
| Emma Watson | 1990– | English actress |
| Émile Durkheim | 1858–1917 | French sociologist |
| Alla Pugacheva | 1949– | Soviet-Russian singer, composer, and actress |
| Guru Nanak | 1469–1539 | First Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism |
| Tomas Tranströmer | 1931–2015 | Swedish poet, psychologist and translator |
| Henry James | 1843–1916 | American and British writer |
| Claudia Cardinale | 1938–2025 | Italian actress |
| Emma Thompson | 1959– | English actress and screenwriter |
| Johannes Stark | 1874–1957 | German physicist |
| Richard von Weizsäcker | 1920–2015 | President of Germany from 1984 to 1994 |
| Carol W. Greider | 1961– | American molecular biologist |
| Catherine I of Russia | 1684–1727 | Empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727 |
| Vigdís Finnbogadóttir | 1930– | Icelandic politician, President of Iceland from 1980 to 1996 |
| Suleiman II | 1642–1691 | 20th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1687–1691) |
Died on 15 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Abraham Lincoln | 1809–1865 | president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | 1905–1980 | French existentialist philosopher |
| Pol Pot | 1925–1998 | Cambodian politician, leader of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979 |
| Greta Garbo | 1905–1990 | Swedish-American actress |
| Mikhail Lomonosov | 1711–1765 | Russian polymath |
| Hürrem Sultan | 1505–1558 | Wife of Suleiman the Magnificent |
| Robert Musil | 1880–1942 | Austrian philosophical writer |
| Matthew Arnold | 1822–1888 | British poet and cultural critic |
| Filippo Brunelleschi | 1377–1446 | Italian architect, sculptor and engineer |
| Madame de Pompadour | 1721–1764 | chief mistress of Louis XV of France |
| César Vallejo | 1892–1938 | Peruvian writer |
| Jean Genet | 1910–1986 | French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist |
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