Birthdates Which Occur on January 15:
1432 Afonso V "the African" king of Portugal (1438-1481)
1507 Johann Oporinus [Herbster] Swiss book publisher (Koran)
1709 Nicolaas van der Veken Flemish sculptor
1715 Georg C Wagenzeil Austria (court)composer/pianist
1716 Philip Livingston merchant (signed Declaration of Independence)
1730 John Malchair composer
1733 Joseph Lederer composer
1742 Eugene Godecharle composer
1779 Jean Coralli Paris, ballet producer/choreographer
1791 Franz Gillparzer Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece)
1793 Ferdinand G Waldmller Austrian painter
1795 Willem de Clerq Dutch merchant/man of letters
1798 Thomas Croker Irish antiquary, collector of songs & legends
1809 Cornelia Connelly Phila, founder (Society of the Holy Child Jesus)
and Pierre Joseph Proudhon France, politician (libertarian socialist)
1812 Peter C Asbjírnsen Norwegian fairy tale writer
1813 James Marion Sims SC, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation)
1815 Henry Morris Naglee Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1817 Lewis Golding Arnold Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1871
1821 Lafayette McLaws Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1826 Mikhail Saltykov Spas-Ugol Russia, satirist (Family of Noblemen)
1841 Lord Frederick Stanley presenter of hockey's Stanley Cup
1845 Ella Flagg Young 1st woman pres (National Educational Association)
and Heinrich Vogl composer
1850 Mihail Eminesco [Eminovici], Romanian poet (Samanul Dionis)
and Sofya Kovalevskaya Russia, mathematician [or 1919]
1858 Giovanni Segantini Italy, painter
1863 Adolph Goldschmidt German historian
and Wilhelm Marx premier (Prussia)
1866 Nathan S”derblom Lutheran archbishop, internationalist (Nobel '30)
1868 Noach Zjordanija Georgian veterinarian/premier (1918-21)
1871 Bertram Shapleigh composer
1873 Max Adler Austria sociologist/socialist theorist
1877 Lewis M Terman Ind, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test)
1878 Johanna Muller-Hermann composer
1879 Ernest Thesiger London England, actor (Brdie of Frankenstein, Ghoul)
1882 Florian Znaniecki Polish/US sociologist (Polish Peasant in Europe)
1888 Joseph Henabery Omaha NE, director (Cobra)
1891 Osip Mandelstam Warsaw, Russian poet (Noise of Time)
1892 Frank Hutchens composer
and Rex Ingram [Reginald IM Hitchcock], dir (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
1893 D Ivor D Novello British composer/writer (Truth Game)
and Dragisa Cvetkovic Serbian premier of Yugoslavia (1939-40)
and Ivor Novello Cardiff Wales, actor (Lodger, Phantom Fiend)
1894 Edmond Rubbens Belgian attorney/minister of colonization
1896 Jacobo Ficher composer
1899 Goodman Ace radio/TV actor/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman)
19-- Charles Brown Talladega Ala, actor (Dwayne Thompson-Today's FBI)
and Count Stovall Calif, actor (Cal-All My Children, As the World Turns)
and Victor Campos NYC, actor (Cade's County, Doctor's Hospital)
1900 C‚sar Domela Dutch painter (Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis son)
and William Heinesen F„ro‰s Island, writer (Noatun)
1902 Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud king (Saudi Arabia)
1906 Aristotle Onassis Greece, rich shipping magnate
and Rezso Kokai composer
1908 Edward Teller Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project)
and Roberta Bitgood composer
1909 Elie Siegmeister NYC, composer (Plough & the Stars)
and Enrique Sasal y Chapi composer
and Gene Krupa Benny Goodman's drummer (Sing Sing Sing)
1911 Cy Feuer NYC, Bdwy producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line)
and Wim Kan Dutch cabaretier
1912 Michel J-P Debr‚ premier of France (1959-62)
1913 Lloyd Bridges San Leandro Calif, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane)
1918 Andreas M Donner Dutch jurist (constitutional law)
and Gamal Abdel Nasser President of Egypt (1954-1971)
1920 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor Phila, Roman Catholic Archbishop of NY
1923 Lee Teng-hui president of ROC (Taiwan), head of KMT (1988- )
1925 Ruth Slenczynska Sacramento, California, pianist
1926 Maria Schell Vienna Austria, actress (Space 1999)
1927 Francis Routh composer
and Norm Crosby Boston MA, comedian (Young at Heart Comedians)
1929 "Queen Ida" Guillory Ziadaco music
and Eva Badura-Skoda composer
and Martin Luther King Jr Atlanta, dreamer (Nobel 1964)
1931 Murad Kazhlayev composer
and Thomas Hoving NYC, news correspondent (20/20)
1932 Dean Smith US actor/relay runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
and Enrique Raxach composer
and Louis Woodard Jones New Rochelle NY, 4X400m relayer (Oly-gold-56)
1935 Malcolm Frager St Louis, Missouri, pianist
and Robert Silverberg US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan's Planet)
1937 Margaret O'Brien San Diego, actress (Jane Eyre, Meet Me in St Louis)
1939 Charles Christopher Steel composer
1941 Captain Beefheart [Don Van Vliet], rocker (Bongo Fury, Shiny Beast)
1942 Edward "Sonny" Bivins rocker
and Edward Bivins US singer (Manhattans-Kiss & Say Goodbye)
1945 Marie-Christine AHI von Leibnitz (German?)/British princess
1947 Andrea Martin Portland ME, comediene (SCTV, Club Paradise)
and Pete Waterman rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
1948 Dini Petty Canadian talk show host (CITY-TV)
and Ronnie Van Zant rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
and Tommy Nolan Montreal Canada, actor (Jody-Buckskin)
1950 David Lynn Jones Bexar Ark, country singer (Bonnie Jean)
1951 Charo Murcia Spain, actress/singer (Chico & the Man, Love Boat)
and Martha David Berkeley Ca, rock vocalist (Motels)
1952 Melvyn Gale rocker
1953 Randy White NFLer (Dallas Cowboys)
1955 Enrico Mentana
1956 Vera Sosulya USSR, toboggan (Olympic-gold-1980)
1957 Mario Van Peebles Mexico, actor (South Bronx Heroes)
1959 Pete Trewavas Middlesbrough, bassist, (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
1961 Iris DeMent Paragould Ar, country singer (Our Town)
1963 Erling Kagge Norway, explorer (South Pole)
1964 Cees van der de Linden soccer player (NEC)
1965 Derek B rocker (Bullet from a Gun)
1967 Lisa Lisa [Velez], rock vocalist (& Cult Jam)
1968 Chad Lowe Dayton Ohio, actor (Spencer, Apprentice to Murder)
1969 Demetra Hampton actress (Valentina)
and Rob van Dike soccer player (Feyenoord)
1970 Elroy Kromheer soccer player (FC Volendam)
1971 Regina King LA Calif, actress (Brenda-227)
1972 Ernie Reyes Jr San Jose Calif, actor (Ernie-Sidekicks)
1973 Daniel N˜hof soccer player (FC Twente)
1975 Mary Pierce Montreal Canada, tennis star
Deaths Which Occured January 15:
69 Servius Sulpicius Galba 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), lynched at 70
1208 Peter van Castelnau French nobleman, murdered
1684 Caspar Netscher portrait painter, dies at about 48
1705 Walraad the Young, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nijmegen, dies
1744 Charles-Hubert Gervais composer, dies at 72
1755 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia composer, dies at 83
1765 Carlmann Kolb composer, dies at 61
1788 Gaetano Latilla composer, dies at 77
1812 Johannes Herbst composer, dies at 76
1816 Henry Harington composer, dies at 88
1844 Joseph Mazzinghi composer, dies at 78
1896 Matthew B Brady US photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72
1904 Eduard Lassen composer, dies at 73
1909 Ernest Reyer composer, dies at 85
1911 Wilhelm Berger composer, dies at 49
1915 Guillaume Couture composer, dies at 63
1919 Karl Liebknecht Marxist revolutionary, murdered
Rosa Luxemburg Marxist revolutionary, murdered
1924 Geza Zichy composer, dies at 74
1926 Enrico Toselli composer, dies at 42
1932 Georg Kerschensteiner German theorist, dies at 77
1934 Hermann Bahr Austrian writer (Tie Konzert), dies
Patrick O'Malley US policeman, killed by John Dillinger
1942 Melvin Winfield Sheppard runner (Olympic-gold-08, 12), dies at 58
1949 Black Dahlia murder victim found in LA (basis of the movie)
Pompeo Aloisi Italian baron/diplomat/senator, dies at 63
1953 Viktor Patrick Vretblad composer, dies at 76
1955 Yves Tanguy French/Americans sailor/surrealistic painter, dies
1961 Francesco Maria Saraceni composer, dies at 49
1962 Kenneth MacKenna actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62
1964 Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden US jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58
1965 Pierre Ngendandumwe premier of Burundi, murdered
1967 Albert Szirmai composer, dies at 86
1968 John Davidson actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc), dies at 80
Leopold Infeld nuclear physcist (Motion-relativity), dies at 69
1971 John Dall actor (Corn is Green, Rope), dies of heart attack at 50
1973 Jef Alpaerts Flemish pianist/conductor, dies at 68
1974 Karel Salmon composer, dies at 76
1978 Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy
1981 Emanuel Celler (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73), dies at 92
1982 Red Smith sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76
1983 Meyer Lansky reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach, Fla, at 81
Shepperd Strudwick actor (Psychomania), dies of cancer at 75
1986 James H "Jim" Crowley US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83
1987 Dolores Hawkins singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58
Gerrit Borgers literary, dies at 69
Ray Bolger actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), dies at 82
1988 Sean MacBride Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83
1990 Gordon Jackson actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66
1993 Henry Iba basketball coach, dies at 88
Huub H Jacobse Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD), dies
Ken Cory dies of AIDS at 51
Sammy Cahn [Cohen], US songwriter (Bei mir bist du sch”n), dies at 79
1994 Gy”rgy Cziffra Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72
Harry Nilsson rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52
Holidays Which Occur January 15:
Guatemala Esquipulas
Japan Adults Day/Seijin-No-Hi
Jordan Arbor Day
Venezuela Teachers' Day/Dia Del Maestro
Religious Observances on January 15:
RC Macarius the Egyptenaar, hermit
RC Remedius/Romedius, hermit of Nonsberg
341 RC Commemoration of St Paul of Thebes, the 1st hermit
580 RC Commemoration of St Maurus, Roman senator/apprentice of Benedict
Things to Remember for January 15:
Flowers-carnation & snowdrop Gem-garnet
National Soup-National Egg Month-National Hobby Month
5 Days Astrological sign: Capricorn
5 Days Delta Cancrid meteor shower, radiant in Cancer, west of Praesepe
7 Days Coma-Berenicid meteor shower, radiant in Coma Berenices
Islamic dates depend on sighting the new moon & may vary ñ 2 days
[Chicago] Humanitarian Day
[ancient Rome] Carmentalia (a d xvij Kal Feb)
Highlights in History Which Occur January 15:
708 Sisinnius begins his reign as Pope (dies 20 days later)
946 Kalief al-Mustaqfi flees
1346 Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand
1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
1552 France signs secret treaty with German Protestants
1562 3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens
1582 Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to Baltic
1586 Battle at Boxum: Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army
1752 Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism
1754 Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam
1759 British Museum opens
1762 Fraunces Tavern opens in NYC
1777 People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England
1785 Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres
1831 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, SC
1833 HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree, Vuurland
1847 1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in NYC
1851 Gen Arista replaces Mexican Pres Herrera
1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
1863 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
1865 Ft Fisher, NC falls to Union troops
1866 Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori v Cechach," premieres in Prague
1870 Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly
1877 US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens
1882 1st US ski club formed, Berlin, NH
1886 Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue
1892 Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass
1895 French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar
and Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg (1/27 NS)
1896 Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael & his Lost Angel," premieres in London
1900 SCNEC soccer team forms
1905 Coen de King becomes world champion all-round skater
1906 A Kopff discovers asteroid #584 Semiramis
1907 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee de Forest
and Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them
1915 Japan claims economic control of China
and Sydney, Kern & Smith's musical "Love o' Mike," premieres in NYC
1919 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21
and Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit," premieres
and Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland
and Semana tragedy: bloodbath in Buenos Aires
and W Collison & O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room," premieres in NYC
1922 Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier
1924 3rd govt Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
1925 Hans Luther forms German govt, with DNVP
1934 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die
1935 300 Dutch ice fishers protest against Italian competition
and Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty," premieres in NYC
1936 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio
and Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates
1939 1st NFL pro bowl, NY Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field
and Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
1942 FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II
1943 1,000 workers complete air conditioning system for Pentagon
and 1st Jewish transport from Amsterdam to camp Vught
and Vught Concentration Camp (Neth) opens
and World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
1944 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany
and General Eisenhower arrives in England
and Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell
1945 Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets
and Red army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
1949 Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin
1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Wash DC
1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000
1953 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Wash DC station
and DDR Min of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage"
1955 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum
and D Sjostakovitsj' "Out jews volkspo‰zie", premieres in Leningrad
and USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
1956 D Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Academia Santa Cecilia Rome
and KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea
1964 Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract
1965 Rock group Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain"
and Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich forms
1967 Super Bowl I: Green Bay Packers-35, KC Chiefs-10 in LA
1968 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
and Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union
1970 Republic Biafra separates from Nigeria
1971 Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt
and George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"
1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels
1973 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court
and Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel
and Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
and Pres Nixon suspends all US offensive action in N Vietnam
1974 "Happy Days" premieres on ABC
and Expert panel reports 18«-m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures
1975 Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence
and Space Mountain opens (Disneyland)
1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot Pres Ford
and US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit
and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 Super Bowl XII: Dallas Cowboys-27, Denver Broncos-10 in New Orleans
and Theodore Bundy kills Fla State U coeds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman
1980 Pam Gems' "Piaf!," premieres in London
1981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV
1982 "Forbidden Broadway" with Gerard Alessandrini premieres in NYC
1983 Dutch political party REV'70 disbands
and Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard
1984 Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak
and Sch”nbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44)
1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery
and Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president
and K Suzuki & T Urata discovers asteroid #3733
and Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years
1986 Living Seas opens (Disneyland)
1989 Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble
1990 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds
and AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
and NY Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106
1991 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't)
1992 Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia
and Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man
and Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum
1993 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die
and Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV
and Top mafia leader Salvatore "Tot•" Riina arrested in Palermo
1994 Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)
1995 SD Chargers beat Pitt Steelers 17-13 for AFC championship
and SF 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship
and Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334
and Western Washington begins using new area code 360
1919 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston, MA. drowning 21.
1951 'Cloud of Death', similar to Pelee rolled down the slope of Mount
Lamington, New Guinea killing 3-5,000.
1953 'Federal Express' train crashed into Washington, D.C.'s
Union station injuring 87 when brakes failed. No one killed.
Your Special Reminders for January 15:
15th day of year with 350 remaining (Numerology = 7)
and 1932 67øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1957 0øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
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