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.
Where the sun stands on 15 April. The marked arc is every position it has held on 15 April, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

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

18 people born on 15 April, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519Italian Renaissance polymath
Leonhard Euler1707–1783Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer
Nikita Khrushchev1894–1971leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
Kim Il Sung1912–1994Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994
Emma Watson1990–English actress
Émile Durkheim1858–1917French sociologist
Alla Pugacheva1949–Soviet-Russian singer, composer, and actress
Guru Nanak1469–1539First Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism
Tomas Tranströmer1931–2015Swedish poet, psychologist and translator
Henry James1843–1916American and British writer
Claudia Cardinale1938–2025Italian actress
Emma Thompson1959–English actress and screenwriter
Johannes Stark1874–1957German physicist
Richard von Weizsäcker1920–2015President of Germany from 1984 to 1994
Carol W. Greider1961–American molecular biologist
Catherine I of Russia1684–1727Empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir1930–Icelandic politician, President of Iceland from 1980 to 1996
Suleiman II1642–169120th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1687–1691)

Died on 15 April

12 people who died on 15 April, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865president of the United States from 1861 to 1865
Jean-Paul Sartre1905–1980French existentialist philosopher
Pol Pot1925–1998Cambodian politician, leader of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979
Greta Garbo1905–1990Swedish-American actress
Mikhail Lomonosov1711–1765Russian polymath
Hürrem Sultan1505–1558Wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
Robert Musil1880–1942Austrian philosophical writer
Matthew Arnold1822–1888British poet and cultural critic
Filippo Brunelleschi1377–1446Italian architect, sculptor and engineer
Madame de Pompadour1721–1764chief mistress of Louis XV of France
César Vallejo1892–1938Peruvian writer
Jean Genet1910–1986French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist

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