October 15

October 15 is the 288th day of the Gregorian Calendar ( 289th in leap years), thus 77 days remain until the end of the year.

  • 2.1 Before the 19th century
  • 2.2 19th century
  • 2.3 20th century 2.3.1 1901-1950
  • 2.3.2 1951-2000
  • 3.1 Before the 20th century
  • 3.2 20th century
  • 3.3 21st century

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Economy

Science and Technology

Culture

Religion

Disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub- items of disaster.

Nature and Environment

Sports

  • 2006: With the closing ceremony the Jogos end there Lusofonia 2006, the first games of the Portuguese-speaking countries in the Chinese Macao. The most successful country in the games is Brazil.

Entries of Athletics world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics.

Born

Before the 19th century

  • 70 BCE: Virgil, Roman poet
  • 1290: Anna of Bohemia, Queen of Bohemia
  • 1537: John Posthius, German physician and poet
  • 1542: Akbar, Humayun's son, Mughal emperor of India
  • 1564: Heinrich Julius of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel, Duke of Brunswick, playwright
  • 1571: Jacob Matham, Dutch engraver
  • 1607: Madeleine de Scudéry, French salon lady
  • 1608: Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician
  • 1665: Franz Joachim Beich, German painter ( baptism date )
  • 1686: Alessandro Galli da Bibbiena, Italian architect
  • 1745: Alexander Abercromby, Scottish lawyer and essayist
  • 1761: Benedict Arnstein, writer
  • 1763: Johann Georg Tralles, mathematician and physicist
  • 1771: Heinrich von Porbeck, Baden -General and military writer
  • 1784: Thomas -Robert Bugeaud, French general and Marshal of France
  • 1785: José Miguel Carrera, Chilean politician
  • 1795: Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia
  • 1796: Carl Wilhelm Traugott von Mayer, German lawyer and member of the Saxon parliament
  • 1797: Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse, German philologist and linguist

19th century

20th century

1901-1950

1951-2000

Died

Before the 20th century

  • 0961: . Abd ar -Rahman III, Emir eighth and the first Caliph of Cordoba Andreas Vesalius († 1564)
  • 1539: Jost III. Rosenberg, nobleman from the House of Rosenberg
  • 1542: William Fitzwilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton, confidant of King Henry VIII
  • 1564: Andreas Vesalius, a Belgian anatomist
  • 1678: Abraham Heidanus, German Reformed theologian
  • 1680: Bedřich Bridel, Bohemian writer and Jesuit missionary Society of Jesus
  • 1688: Anna Salome von Salm - Reifferscheidt, Abbess of Essen
  • 1745: Johann Maximilian von Welsch, a German architect, chief architect and military engineer
  • 1761: Johann Georg Walther, German educator, orator and ethnologist
  • 1804: Antoine Baume, French chemist and pharmacist
  • 1805: Johann Georg Bechtold, German philosopher, literary critic, a rhetorician, and Protestant theologian
  • 1808: James Anderson of Hermiston, Scottish writer
  • 1817: Jean Louis Burckhardt, Swiss researchers
  • 1817: Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Polish nobleman, general and national hero
  • 1820: Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian general
  • 1852: Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German Turnvater
  • 1855: Désiré -Alexandre Batton, French composer
  • 1858: Carl Gustav Mosander, Swedish chemist
  • 1872: Handrij Zejler, Sorbian poet and publisher
  • 1877: Amalie Baader, German writer
  • 1890: Christian Wilhelm Ludwig von Abeken, German politicians
  • 1891: Friedrich Zarncke, German German literature

20th century

21st Century

  • 2001: Jean Laurent, Belgian violinist and music teacher
  • 2003: Robert Müller, Swiss sculptor
  • 2004: Per Højholt, Danish writer
  • 2004: Helmut Simon, German amateur mountaineer, explorer of the glacier mummy "Ötzi"
  • 2005: Giuseppe Cardinal Caprio, an Italian priest, Vatican diplomat and cardinal
  • 2006: Eddy Blay, Ghanaian boxer
  • 2008: Edie Adams, American film actress
  • 2009: Alfred Aichinger, Austrian social worker and politician
  • 2011: Ueli Prager, Swiss gastronomy entrepreneurs
  • 2012: Askold Baschanow, Russian Sami writer
  • 2012: Claude Cheysson, French diplomat and politician
  • 2012: Patrick Ronald Cooney, American bishop
  • 2012: Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian King
  • 2012: Fritz Haller, Swiss architect and furniture designer
  • 2013: Hans Riegel Jr., German entrepreneurs

Holidays and observances

  • Religious observances St. Teresa of Avila, Spanish church teacher, mystic and theologian ( Anglican, Protestant, Catholic)
  • St. Hedwig of Andechs, Duchess of Silesia (Protestant, Catholic feast day is October 16 )
  • Name Days Aurelia Therese
  • Anniversaries of international organizations International White Cane Day (UN ) (since 1969)

More entries contains the list of commemorative and action days.

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